SIGSOFT

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ACM Special Interest Group professional association

SIGSOFT is the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, focusing on advancing research, education, and practice in software engineering.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
ACM SIGSOFT	19
SIGSOFT canonical	3
ACM SIGSOFT conference program committees	1
ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T122392 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: SIGSOFT
Context triple: [Special Interest Groups, hasExample, SIGSOFT]

A. International Conference on Software Engineering
The International Conference on Software Engineering is a premier annual academic and industry forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research, practices, and innovations in software engineering.
B. SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, focusing on research, development, and education in programming language design and implementation.
C. IEEE Software
IEEE Software is a bimonthly peer-reviewed magazine that focuses on software engineering practice, bridging academic research and industry application for software professionals.
D. SIGOPS
SIGOPS is the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, a professional community focused on research and innovation in operating systems and related software systems.
E. ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Computing Surveys is a leading peer-reviewed journal that publishes comprehensive, in-depth survey articles covering major areas of computer science and computing research.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: SIGSOFT
Target entity description: SIGSOFT is the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, focusing on advancing research, education, and practice in software engineering.

A. International Conference on Software Engineering
The International Conference on Software Engineering is a premier annual academic and industry forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research, practices, and innovations in software engineering.
B. SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, focusing on research, development, and education in programming language design and implementation.
C. IEEE Software
IEEE Software is a bimonthly peer-reviewed magazine that focuses on software engineering practice, bridging academic research and industry application for software professionals.
D. SIGOPS
SIGOPS is the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, a professional community focused on research and innovation in operating systems and related software systems.
E. ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Computing Surveys is a leading peer-reviewed journal that publishes comprehensive, in-depth survey articles covering major areas of computer science and computing research.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ACM Special Interest Group ⓘ professional association ⓘ
abbreviation	SIGSOFT self-link ⓘ
activity	organizing symposia ⓘ organizing workshops ⓘ publishing conference proceedings ⓘ sponsoring summer schools ⓘ
affiliation	Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ surface form: ACM
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
field	computer science ⓘ software engineering ⓘ
focus	empirical software engineering ⓘ software architecture ⓘ software design ⓘ software engineering education ⓘ software engineering methods ⓘ software engineering processes ⓘ software engineering tools ⓘ software maintenance ⓘ software project management ⓘ software quality ⓘ software reliability ⓘ software requirements ⓘ software testing ⓘ
fullName	SIGSOFT self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
hasAward	ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards ⓘ surface form: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
organizesConference	ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering ⓘ International Conference on Software Engineering ⓘ International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering ⓘ surface form: Joint European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
parentOrganization	Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ
purpose	advance education in software engineering ⓘ advance practice of software engineering ⓘ advance research in software engineering ⓘ
scope	international ⓘ
sponsorsEvent	ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ⓘ
supports	software engineering educators ⓘ software engineering practitioners ⓘ software engineering research community ⓘ
website	https://www.sigsoft.org/ ⓘ

How these facts were elicited