SIGLEX is the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon, providing an umbrella 
for research interests on lexical issues ranging from lexicography and the 
use of online dictionaries to computational lexical semantics. SIGLEX is 
also the umbrella organization for Senseval/Semeval - the evaluation exercise 
for systems for the semantic analysis of text.

The following ACL members are currently serving as SIGLEX officers:

President: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Secretary: Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Executive Board:
Francesca Bertagna, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR)
Stefan Evert, Universitat Stuttgart
Katrin Erk, Saarland University
Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Claudia Soria, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR)

Board Member with Special Portfolio/Webmaster:
Ken Litkowski, CL Research 

One of the main events for 2006 is the preparation of the next Senseval/Semeval 
evaluations. The name change (Senseval -> Semeval) is meant to reflect the wider 
range of semantic phenomena covered by these SIGLEX evaluations that take place 
every three years. The event preparations are led by the Senseval/Semeval co-chairs 
Richard Wicentowski (Swarthmore College), Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica 
de Catalunya), and Eneko Agirre (University of Basque Country). At the time of 
writing, the call for tasks has just closed, with 24 different tasks being submitted, 
reflecting the increased interest of the community in this event. 


During 2005-2006, SIGLEX has endorsed the following events:

* Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb 
Features and Verb Classes : Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, 
February 28 - March 1, 2005 

* Applications of GermaNet II: Workshop of the GLDV AK Lexikographie: 
held in conjunction with the Biennial Conference of the Society of Linguistics, 
University of Bonn, Germany, 30 March - 1 April, 2005
* Third International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Geneva, 
Switzerland, May 19-21, 2005
* Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition, ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 30 June 2005
* 3rd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, EACL 2006, Trento, Italy, April 3, 2006, 
* Multi-Word-Expressions in a Multilingual Context, EACL 2006, Trento, Italy, 
April 3, 2006
* Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics 
Together, EACL 2006, Trento, Italy, April 4, 2006
* Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties,  
COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, July 23, 2006
* Workshop on Linguistic Distances, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, July 23, 2006