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SIGHAN Home Page |
SIGHAN, a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics, provides an umbrella for researchers in industry and academia working in various aspects of Chinese Language Processing.
| 2023-02-01 | The SIGHAN election had now closed and the slate of candidates has been overwhelmingly approved. Thanks all who participated. | |
| 2017-12-02 | The 9th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-9) was successfully held at IJCNLP 2017, December 01, 2017, in Taipei, Taiwan. | |
| 2013-10-18 | The 7th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-7) was held in conjunction with IJCNLP2013 on October 14 in Nagoya, Japan. The program and other information may be found at here or Chinese Spelling Check Bakeoff was also held with more than 10 papers presenting results. | |
| 2005-11-18 | The data and results for the 2nd International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff are available for non-commercial use. | |
| 2005-06-02 | Subscribe to the low-volume sighan-announce mailing list to keep up-to-date on SIGHAN related news. | |
| 2005-06-02 | A open mailing list, SIGHAN-discussion, has been created to foster discussion of CLP issues. |
| Current Officers | |||
| Officers | |||
| Chair | Nianwen XUE | Brandeis University | xuen at brandeis dot edu |
| Vice-Chair/Chair-elect | Vincent NG | University of Texas at Dallas | vince at hlt dot utdallas dot edu |
| Secretary/Web Master | Gina-Anne LEVOW | University of Washington | levow at uw dot edu |
| Treasurer | Junhui LI | Soochow University | |
| Information Officers | |||
| China | Jiajun ZHANG | Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Ruifeng XU | Harbin Institute of TechnologyTsinghua University | ||
| Hong Kong SAR | Chun Yu KIT | City University of Hong Kong | |
| Singapore | Wei LU | Singapore University of Technology and Design | |
| Taiwan | Lung-hao LEE | National Central University | |
| Kuan-Yu (Menphis) CHEN | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | ||
| United States | Fei LIU | Emory University | |
The roles of the officers are laid out in the SIGHAN Constitution.