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SIGANN. ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation. Business meeting LAW VI Jeju , Korea 12 July 2012. About SIGANN. Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics for researchers concerned with all aspects of linguistic annotation of language resources

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  1. SIGANN ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation Business meeting LAW VI Jeju, Korea 12 July 2012

  2. About SIGANN • Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics for researchers concerned with all aspects of linguistic annotation of language resources • Established in 2007 • About 240 members

  3. Activities • The exchange and propagation of research results with respect to the annotation, manipulation and exploitation of annotated language resources, taking into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and research; • Working towards harmonization and interoperability of linguistic annotations from the perspective of the increasingly large number of tools and frameworks that support the creation, instantiation, manipulation, and exploitation of annotated resources; • Working towards consensus on all issues critical to the advancement of the field of language resource annotation; • sponsorship of the annual Linguistic Annotation Workshop.

  4. Officers • PRESIDENT: Nancy Ide, Vassar College • SECRETARY: Adam Meyers, New York University • COMMITTEE • Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University • Antonio Pareja-Lora, SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM • Massimo Poesio, University of Trento • Sameer Pradhan, BBN Technologies • Manfred Stede, UniversitatPotsdam • KatrinTomanek, Univeritat Jena • Fei Xia, University of Washginton • NianwenXue, University of Colorado

  5. SIGANN Mailing List and Website • Join SIGANN by signing up for mailing list • sigann-request@cs.vassar.edu • Low-volume list with information of direct interest to membership • SIGANN Website: • http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/index.html

  6. Major activities • 2011-2012 • Organization of LAW VI • The LAW Challenge

  7. Suggestions • Please suggest activities you would like to see SIGANN pursue • Suggestions for what you would like to see at LAW • More/fewer/no posters? • Brief poster presentations as well as poster session? • Thematic sessions on…? • Panels? Discussion sessions? • Other organizational suggestions?

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