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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.
| 2013-4-18 | The 7th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-7) will be held in conjunction with IJCNLP2013 on October 14 in Nagoya, Japan. The detailed Call for Papers may be found here. |
| 2013-1-1 | The Second CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing was held December 20-21, 2012 in Tianjin, China. Results for the Chinese Language Processing Bakeoffs in Micro-blog word segmentation, Chinese personal name disambiguation, and parsing were presented. |
| 2011-12-14 | The SIGHAN elections have finished, and the new slate of officers (listed below) has been overwhelmingly approved. |
| 2010-9-14 | The First CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing was held August 28-29, 2010 in Beijing, China. Results for the Fifth Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff were presented. |
| 2007-8-9 | The Fourth SIGHAN bakeoff has been completed. Information is available at the bakeoff site. Results have been reported at the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop. |
| 2005-11-18 | The data and results for the 2nd International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff are now 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 new open mailing list, SIGHAN-discussion, has been created to foster discussion of CLP issues. |
| Current Officers | |||
| Officers | |||
| Chair | Hsin-hsi CHEN | National Taiwan University | hh_chen at csie dot ntu dot edu dot tw |
| Vice-Chair/Chair-elect | ZONG Chengqing | Chinese Academy of Sciences | cqzong at nlpr dot ia dot ac dot cn |
| Secretary/Web Master | Gina-Anne LEVOW | University of Washington | levow at uw dot edu |
| Treasurer | Ming ZHOU | Microsoft Research | mingzhou at microsoft dot com |
| Information Officers | |||
| China | SUI Zhifang | Peking University | |
| Qun Liu | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
| Hong Kong SAR | Olivia KWONG | City University of Hong Kong | |
| LU Qin | the Hong Kong Polytechnic University | ||
| Singapore | Min ZHANG | Institute for Infocomm Research | |
| Taiwan | Shu-Kai HSIEH | NTU | |
| Fei XIA | University of Washington | ||
The roles of the officers are laid out in the SIGHAN Constitution.