Dear All,
First of all, we hope you are all safe in these difficult times.
As you may already know, the joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest
Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) has been created in
2017.
The first Board was elected in January 2018 (current Board members
are: Claudia Soria, Laurent Besacier and Sakriani Sakti) and
according to ELRA and ISCA by-laws is in charge for two years.
The end of the term being on January 2020, it is now time to
organize the elections to renew the Board members.
The elected members of the SIG shall consist of a chairperson, a
co-chair and a secretary. All elected members should commit
themselves to become individual members of either ISCA or ELRA
associations. The term of all elected board members of the SIG
shall be 2 years. They may be re-elected but consecutive
appointments are limited to four consecutive terms.
The schedule of the election can be found here: http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/
Currently, the Call for candidates is open (from
now to November 30th 2020) : if you want to be a candidate, please
send a message to choukri@elda.org before Nov
30th with a short bio and a statement/manifesto that explains why
you want to be an elected member of SIGUL board (please write or
keep ‘SIGUL election’ in the mail subject).
We hope you will take an active part to this election and we are
looking forward to seeing you during coming SIGUL events whether
virtual or onsite (ALPS virtual winter school in 2021, next joint
CCURL-SLTU workshop that will be organized in 2022).
Our mailing-list sigul@list.elra.info now
gathers 334 members and we have been organizing several events or
activities for the past 3 years. You can find the the last ISCA SIG
reports for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 in the SIGUL page (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/)
on the ELRA web site.
Best Regards
Khalid Choukri, in charge of supervising these elections for the
SIGUL committee