Corpora: SIGLEX News

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

SIGLEX, being one of the first SIGs has been operating without a
constitution or slate of officers for several years.  That is finally being
rectified, and there is a new constitution that was proposed at SIGLEX'99
and is posted on the web page.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/siglex2.html

The plan is to adopt both the new constitution and the proposed slate of
officers at SIGLEX'00.  http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/wsml.html

The nominees were proposed by an ad hoc nominating committee consisting of:
Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa),
Marc Light (MITRE Corporation),
Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania), and
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)

The proposed officers are:

President: Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton
Secretary: Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University

Information Officers:
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Martha Evens, Northwestern University
Boyan Onyshkevych, Department of Defense
Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley


Persons interested in joining SIGLEX should e-mail
fellbaum at clarity.princeton.edu


Other news:

GLOBAL WORDNET ASSOCIATION

The Global WordNet Association (GWA) has just been founded. Its goals are
to provide a forum for the dissemination and sharing of information about
the construction and uses of WordNet and wordnets; working towards the
standardization of wordnets, and building professional ties among researchers
in linguistics, computational linguistics, and the larger NLP community.

For membership information, see

http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/gwa.htm

Piek Vossen, Sail Labs, Antwerp (Belgium)
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University

ISLE: International Standards for Language Engineering

There is a new joint NSF/EU project for forming a consensus on Language
Engineering Standards for language resources, tools and products.  The
current project is focusing on Multilingual Lexicons, Evaluation of Human
Language Technology systems, and various aspects of Natural Interaction and
Multi-modality.  It builds on previous results from the LRE/LE and EAGLES
European projects.

http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/isle/ISLE_Home_Page.htm