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2022Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2022-07-18T06:12:55Z

Aarppe: Added numbers and other details.

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 2.5 years, its membership has reached 131.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-5)</h1>

Following up on four preceding events, we organized, in hybrid format, the 5th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-5: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/) on 26-27 May 2022, co-located with the 60th ACL Conference (ACL-2022: https://www.2022.aclweb.org/) in Dublin, Ireland.

We received 37 submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, 24 of the submissions were selected to be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a 68% acceptance rate.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ACL, to take part in ComputEL-5, as well as we welcomed virtual participation by people who could not make it in person to Dublin, for whom we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible and lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the hybrid format, we had an audience of approx. 25 participants in the room another 25 or so observing remotely from around the world.

As a new workshop event, we organized a Special Session on Partnerships in Practice (https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/), for which we received 8 extended abstracts, of which we accepted 7 presentations by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities. This first instance was well received, with an audience of 26 people in the room and over 30 people following remotely, and we are planning on turning the contents into a joint publication.

We intend to hold the sixth ComputEL back at a documentary linguistic event in 2023, and have been in initial contact with the organizers of the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-8) in Hawai'i (who are planning an entirely virtual conference this next time).

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-5 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (general review chair)
<li>Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University (computational track chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Josh Holden, University of Alberta
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/scientific-committee/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which consisted of a Panel on <em>ASR for North American languages</em>. This was well attended, and we plan to continue with this activity, over the rest of this year.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2021 until January 2023.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by January 2023.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2022-07-15T04:56:20Z

Aarppe:

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 2.5 years, its membership has reached <b>X</b>.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-5)</h1>

Following up on four preceding events, we organized, in hybrid format, the 5th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-5: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/) on 26-27 May 2022, co-located with the 60th ACL Conference (ACL-2022: https://www.2022.aclweb.org/) in Dublin, Ireland.

We received <b>X</b> submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, <b>X</b> of the submissions were selected ato be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a <b>X</b>% acceptance rate.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ACL, to take part in ComputEL-5, as well as we welcomed virtual participation by people who could not make it in person to Dublin, for whom we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible and lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the hybrid format, we had 50'ish participants from around the world.

As a new workshop event, we organized a Special Session on Partnerships in Practice (https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/), for which we accepted 7 presentations by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities. This first instance was well received, and we are planning on turning the contents into a joint publication

We intend to hold the sixth ComputEL back at a documentary linguistic event in 2023, and have been in initial contact with the organizers of the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-8) in Hawai'i (who are planning an entirely virtual conference this next time).

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-5 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (general review chair)
<li>Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University (computational track chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Josh Holden, University of Alberta
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/scientific-committee/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which consisted of a Panel. This was well attended, and we plan to continue with this activity, over the rest of this year.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2021 until January 2023.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by January 2023.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2022-07-15T04:54:29Z

Aarppe: ACL-SIGEL Annual Report 2021-2022

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 2.5 years, its membership has reached <b>X</b>.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-5)</h1>

Following up on four preceding events, we organized, in hybrid format, the 5th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (<a href="https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/">ComputEL-5</a>) on 26-27 May 2022, co-located with the <a href="https://www.2022.aclweb.org/">60th ACL Conference</a< (ACL-2022) in Dublin, Ireland.

We received <b>X</b> submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, <b>X</b> of the submissions were selected ato be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a <b>X</b>% acceptance rate.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ACL, to take part in ComputEL-5, as well as we welcomed virtual participation by people who could not make it in person to Dublin, for whom we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible and lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the hybrid format, we had 50'ish participants from around the world.

As a new workshop event, we organized a <a href="https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/">Special Session on Partnerships in Practice</a>, for which we accepted 7 presentations by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities. This first instance was well received, and we are planning on turning the contents into a joint publication

We intend to hold the sixth ComputEL back at a documentary linguistic event in 2023, and have been in initial contact with the organizers of the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-8) in Hawai'i (who are planning an entirely virtual conference this next time).

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-5 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (general review chair)
<li>Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University (computational track chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Josh Holden, University of Alberta
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/scientific-committee/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which consisted of a Panel. This was well attended, and we plan to continue with this activity, over the rest of this year.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2021 until January 2023.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by January 2023.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2022-07-15T04:52:21Z

Aarppe: ACL-SIGEL Annual Report 2021-2022

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 2.5 years, its membership has reached <b>X</b>.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-5)</h1>

Following up on four preceding events, we organized, in hybrid format, the 5th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (<a href="https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/">ComputEL-5</a>) on 26-27 May 2022, co-located with the <a href="https://www.2022.aclweb.org/">60th ACL Conference</a< (ACL-2022) in Dublin, Ireland.

We received <b>X<b> submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, X of the submissions were selected ato be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a X% acceptance rate.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ACL, to take part in ComputEL-5, as well as we welcomed virtual participation by people who could not make it in person to Dublin, for whom we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible and lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the hybrid format, we had 50'ish participants from around the world.

As a new workshop event, we organized a <a href="https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/">Special Session on Partnerships in Practice</a>, for which we accepted 7 presentations by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities. This first instance was well received, and we are planning on turning the contents into a joint publication

We intend to hold the sixth ComputEL back at a documentary linguistic event in 2023, and have been in initial contact with the organizers of the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-8) in Hawai'i (who are planning an entirely virtual conference this next time).

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-5 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (general review chair)
<li>Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University (computational track chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Josh Holden, University of Alberta
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-5/scientific-committee/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which consisted of a Panel. This was well attended, and we plan to continue with this activity, over the rest of this year.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2021 until January 2023.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by January 2023.

SIG Compliance

2021-07-14T05:50:55Z

Aarppe: /* SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages */

== Guidelines ==

[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Creation_Guidelines ACL SIG Creation Guidelines]

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''events''': LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;

=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2019, June 2022
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops

=== SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP ===

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), secretary-treasurer Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@microsoft.com)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2021, December 2022
'''events''': EMNLP every year

=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===

'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2021, March 2024
'''events''': Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

=== SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages ===

'''web page''': https://acl-sigel.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu)
'''members''': 116
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2023
'''events''': ComputEL-4, 2-3 March 2021

=== SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Raquel Hervas (raquelhb@fdi.ucm.es),
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2020, December 2022
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019, INLG2020, INLG2021

=== SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language ===

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021

=== SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon ===

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa), secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2020, June 2023
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

=== SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language ===

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se), vice president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 303
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, early 2022
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)

=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023
'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task, SIGMORPHON 2020, SIGMORPHON 2021

=== SIGMT: SIG on machine translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CoNLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020

=== SIGREP: SIG on representation learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Anna Rogers (arogers@sodas.ku.dk)
'''members''': 1500
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2020, October 2022
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021

=== SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, summer 2021
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021

=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
'''contacts''': chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 110
'''elections (first,last)''': Winter 2020, winter 2023
'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages, BSNLP 2020

=== SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies ===

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Heidi Christensen (heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2020, Fall 2022
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (first,next)''': Summer 2022
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2021;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021

=== SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages ===

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

=== SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020

2021Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2021-07-14T05:48:12Z

Aarppe:

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 1.5 years, its membership has reached 116.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-4)</h1>

Following up on three preceding events, we organized, in virtual format, the 4th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-4: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-4/) on 2-3 March 2021, co-timed and co-ordinated with the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-7).

We received 24 submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, 8 of the submissions were selected as long papers and 4 as as short papers, to be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a 50% acceptance rate. In addition, an additional 2 long papers and 1 short paper were accepted as resource oriented papers, alongside 5 extended abstracts (1 as a resource presentation), to be published in CU Scholar.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of ICLDC-7 to take part in ComputEL-4, and we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the virtual format, we had 50'ish participants from around the world.

As a new workshop event, we organized a Special Panel on the ICLDC-7 theme, Recognizing Relationships, with the panelists Hilaria Cruz, Christopher Cox (Carleton University), and Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois), chaired by Antti Arppe (University of Alberta).

We intend to hold the fifth ComputEL at an ACL-cycle event in 2022, potentially in collaboration with another ACL-SIG.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-4 consisted of the interim SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Jeff Good, Buffalo University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Colorado, Boulder (review & computational track chair)
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-4 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/committees/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

None to report yet.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

The original proposers of SIGEL, Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden, acted as the interim President and Secretary, respectively, until the election of a new Executive Committee in January 2021. In addition, we had designated the Organizing Committee of ComputEL-3 as the interim Executive Committee for SIGEL.
As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons were elected by acclamation for two-year terms, from January 2021 until January 2023.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by January 2023.

2021Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2021-07-14T05:47:41Z

Aarppe:

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 1.5 years, its membership has reached 116.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-4)</h1>

Following up on three preceding events, we organized, in virtual format, the 4th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-4: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-4/) on 2-3 March 2021, co-timed and co-ordinated with the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-7).

We received 24 submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, 8 of the submissions were selected as long papers and 4 as as short papers, to be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a 50% acceptance rate. In addition, an additional 2 long papers and 1 short paper were accepted as resource oriented papers, alongside 5 extended abstracts (1 as a resource presentation), to be published in CU Scholar.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of ICLDC-7 to take part in ComputEL-4, and we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the virtual format, we had 50'ish participants from around the world.

As a new workshop event, we organized a Special Panel on the ICLDC-7 theme, Recognizing Relationships, with the panelists Hilaria Cruz, Christopher Cox (Carleton University), and Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois), chaired by Antti Arppe (University of Alberta).

We intend to hold the fifth ComputEL at an ACL-cycle event in 2022, potentially in collaboration with another ACL-SIG.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-4 consisted of the interim SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Jeff Good, Buffalo University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Colorado, Boulder (review & computational track chair)
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-4 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/committees/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

None to report yet.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

The original proposers of SIGEL, Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden, acted as the interim President and Secretary, respectively, until the election of a new Executive Committee in January 2021. In addition, we had designated the Organizing Committee of ComputEL-3 as the interim Executive Committee for SIGEL.
As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons were elected by acclamation for two-year terms, from January 2021 until January 2023.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place in January 2023.

2021Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2021-07-14T05:37:46Z

Aarppe: Created page with "<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em> <b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>. <h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1> SIGEL was officially approved on O..."

<em>Antti Arppe and Sarah Moeller</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 1.5 years, its membership has reached 116.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-4)</h1>

Following up on three preceding events, we organized, in virtual format, the 4th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-4: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-4/) in 2-3 March 2021, co-timed and co-ordinated with the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-7). We got somewhat less submissions as earlier, X in all, of which we accepted X as full papers, to be published in ACL Anthology, and X a resource papers or extended abstracts, to be published in CU Boulder Scholar. As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of ICLDC-7 to take part in ComputEL-4, and we did not have any registration fee to encourage as broad participation as possible. Despite the pandemic and thanks to the virtual format, we had 50'ish participants from around the world. As a special event

We intend to hold the fifth ComputEL at an ACL-cycle event in 2022, potentially in collaboration with another ACL-SIG.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-4 consisted of the interim SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Jeff Good, Buffalo University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Colorado, Boulder (review & computational track chair)
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-4 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/committees/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

None to report yet.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

The original proposers of SIGEL, Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden, acted as the interim President and Secretary, respectively, until the election of a new Executive Committee in January 2021. In addition, we had designated the Organizing Committee of ComputEL-3 as the interim Executive Committee for SIGEL.
As the first Executive Committee for SIGEL, the following persons were elected by acclamation for two-year terms.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Secretary: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place in January 2023.

2020Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2020-07-17T05:23:43Z

Aarppe:

<em>Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. During the first nine months, the membership has reached 85. We will be undertaking a second membership drive in conjunction with the forthcoming first elections as well as publicity concerning our next workshop (ComputEL-4).

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-4)</h1>

Following up on three preceding events, we will be organizing, in virtual format, the 4th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-4: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-4/) in March 2021, in association with the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-7). We are anticipating 40-50 participants. We intend to hold the fifth ComputEL at an ACL-cycle event, potentially in collaboration with another ACL-SIG.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-4 consists of the Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Jeff Good, Buffalo University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Colorado, Boulder (review & computational track chair)
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-4 has also been recruited, and can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/committees/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

SIGEL endorsed the 1st SLTU-CCURL2020 (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages + Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages: http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it/), which took place virtually at LREC 2020 (May 2020)

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

The original proposers of SIGEL, Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden, have acted as the interim President and Secretary, respectively.

In addition, we have designated the Organizing Committee of ComputEL-3 as the interim Executive Committee for SIGEL.

<h2>(INTERIM) EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>(Interim) President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>(Interim) Secretary: Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>(Interim) Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Jeff Good, University of Buffalo
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of Northern Texas
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

As secretary, Mans Hulden will be organizing the elections, to take place around the beginning of Fall 2020.

2020Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2020-07-17T05:19:46Z

Aarppe: Created page with "<em>Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden</em> <b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>. <h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1> SIGEL was officially approved on Oct..."

<em>Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. During the first nine months, the membership has reached 85. We will be undertaking a second membership drive in conjunction with the forthcoming first elections as well as publicity concerning our next workshop (ComputEL-4).

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-4)</h1>

Following up on three preceding events, we will be organizing, in virtual format, the 4th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-4: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-4/) in March 2021, in association with the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC-7). We are anticipating 40-50 participants. We intend to hold the fifth ComputEL at an ACL-cycle event, potentially in collaboration with another ACL-SIG.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-4 consists of the Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members:

<ul>
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>Jeff Good, Buffalo University
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (community track chair)
<li>Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Colorado, Boulder (review & computational track chair)
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-4 has also been recruited, and can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/committees/

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

SIGEL endorsed the 1st SLTU-CCURL2020 (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages + Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages: http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it/), which took place virtually at LREC 2020 (May 2020)

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL.

<h2>MAILING LIST</h2>

We have created a Google Group for the SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

The original proposers of SIGEL, Antti Arppe and Mans Hulden, have acted as the interim President and Secretary, respectively.

In addition, we have designated the Organizing Committee of ComputEL-3 as the interim Executive Committee for SIGEL.

<h2>(INTERIM) EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>(Interim) President: Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
<li>(Interim) Secretary: Mans Hulden, University of Colorado, Boulder
<li>(Interim) Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Jeff Good, University of Buffalo
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of Northern Texas
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<li>Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

As secretary, Mans Hulden will be organizing the elections, to take place around the beginning of Fall 2020.