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:
Spark interest in Southeast Asian NLP;
Encourage collaboration between academia and industry globally;
Facilitate the exchange of research developments in Southeast Asian NLP;
Organize meetings, shared tasks, and workshops in line with ACL's guidelines.
SIGSEA Officers & Advisory Board
Founding Officers
Holy Lovenia (President). SEACrowd, Indonesia. Email: holy.lovenia@gmail.com.
Fajri Koto (Secretary). MBZUAI, UAE. Email: fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae.
Advisory Board
Alham Fikri Aji. MBZUAI, UAE. Email: alham.fikri@mbzuai.ac.ae.
Chee Seng Chan. Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Email: cs.chan@um.edu.my.
Ekapol Chuangsuwanich. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Email: ekapolc@cp.eng.chula.ac.th.
Gabriel de Jesus. INESC TEC, Portugal. Email: gabriel.jesus@inesctec.pt.
Genta Indra Winata. Capital One, US. Email: gentaindrawinata@gmail.com.
Joseph Marvin Imperial. University of Bath, UK and National University, Philippines. Email: jmri20@bath.ac.uk.
Muhammad Reza Qorib. National University of Singapore, Singapore. Email: mrqorib@nus.edu.sg.
Peerat Limkontichotiwat. AI Singapore, Singapore. Email: peerat.limkonchotiwat@gmail.com.
Onno Kampman. MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, Singapore. Email: onno.kampman@moht.com.sg.
Ruochen Zhang. Brown University, US. Email: ruochen_zhang@brown.edu.
Samuel Cahyawijaya. Cohere, UK. Email: samuel.cahyawijaya@gmail.com.
William Tjhi. AI Singapore, Singapore. Email: wtjhi:@aisingapore.org.
Ye Kyaw Thu. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand. Email: yekyaw.thu@nectec.or.th.
Join SIGSEA
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.
Please fill in this form to join SIGSEA.