Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia, with 1,308 indigenous languages, is highly diverse but remains underrepresented in NLP, vision-language, and speech processing. Advancing these fields can boost research, enhance technological inclusion, and preserve cultural heritage, benefiting both the region and the world.

Our MISSION

SIGSEA is the Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics for researchers concerned with all aspects of NLP in Southeast Asia.

SIGSEA aims to:

SIGSEA Officers & Advisory Board

Founding Officers


Advisory Board

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As a member of SIGSEA, you will receive regular updates on the latest Southeast Asian NLP research and developments through the mailing list, which includes the latest research papers, workshops, shared tasks, conferences, and job vacancies in the Southeast Asia region.


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