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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.

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.
2016-05-15	The SIGHAN election had now closed and the slate of candidates has been overwhelmingly approved. Thanks all who participated.
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 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	Min ZHANG	Suzhou University	zhangminmt at hotmail dot com
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect	Nianwen XUE	Brandeis University	xuen at brandeis dot edu
Secretary/Web Master	Gina-Anne LEVOW	University of Washington	levow at uw dot edu
Treasurer	Le SUN	Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences	lesunle at 163 dot com
Information Officers
China	Wanxiang Che	Harbin Institute of Technology
China	Yang Liu	Tsinghua University
Hong Kong SAR	Wenjie LI	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Singapore	Yue ZHANG	Singapore University of Technology and Design
Taiwan	Lun-Wei KU	Academia Sinica
Taiwan	Liang-Chih YU	Yuan Ze University
United States	Vincent NG	University of Texas at Dallas

The roles of the officers are laid out in the SIGHAN Constitution.

levow at uw dot edu
Last edited: May 15, 201 10:00:00.