Business Meeting Andreas Maletti FSMNLP 2017 Umeå, Sweden September 5, 2017 FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 1 / 9
Our Special Interest Group: SIGFSM Goals Foster collaboration and exchange Promote finite-state methods Organize meetings (and shared tasks?) Setup & Benefits Subgroup inside ACL (ACL membership not required) Access to publication platform (ACL Anthology) Workshops at major ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP , IJCNLP , . . . ) FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 2 / 9
Our Special Interest Group: SIGFSM Goals Foster collaboration and exchange Promote finite-state methods Organize meetings (and shared tasks?) Setup & Benefits Subgroup inside ACL (ACL membership not required) Access to publication platform (ACL Anthology) Workshops at major ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP , IJCNLP , . . . ) FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 2 / 9
The Team Officers: President: Andreas Maletti (Germany) Secretary: Måns Hulden (USA) Treasurer: Thomas Hanneforth (Germany) FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 3 / 9
The Team International Advisory Committee: Matthieu Constant (France) Laurette Pretorius (South Africa) Tim Fernando (Ireland) Heiko Vogler (Germany) Colin de la Higuera (France) Atro Voutilainen (Finland) Laura Kallmeyer (Germany) Bruce W. Watson (South Africa, The Netherlands) Lauri Karttunen (USA) Anssi Yli-Jyrä (Finland) Kevin Knight (USA) Menno van Zaanen András Kornai (USA, Hungary) (The Netherlands) Mark-Jan Nederhof (UK) Lynette van Zijl (South Africa) Jakub Piskorski (Poland) FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 4 / 9
ACL News ACL 2017 Photo by Matthew Field / CC BY-SA 3.0 Report by Liason Representative Anssi FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 5 / 9
ACL News ACL 2018: July 15–20, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia SIG liason opportunity FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 6 / 9
FSMNLP 2019 Enjoy the bid presentations and ask questions! FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 7 / 9
Initiatives Move of mailing list members@sigfsm.org : currently hosted at Stuttgart (I left last October; difficult to manage; access might “disappear”) Proposals: transition list to Leipzig (invisible to members) upgrade to GNU Mailman https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html (self-delisting, message control, public repository) Questions: Should postings be publicly visible forever? Shall foreign content be permitted? (level of moderation) FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 8 / 9
Initiatives Move of mailing list members@sigfsm.org : currently hosted at Stuttgart (I left last October; difficult to manage; access might “disappear”) Proposals: transition list to Leipzig (invisible to members) upgrade to GNU Mailman https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html (self-delisting, message control, public repository) Questions: Should postings be publicly visible forever? Shall foreign content be permitted? (level of moderation) FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 8 / 9
Open Topic Feedback Town Hall meeting Feel free to contact me directly anytime FSMNLP 2017 — Umeå Business Meeting September 5, 2017 9 / 9
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