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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Alex pap: /* SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Guidelines ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Creation_Guidelines ACL SIG Creation Guidelines]&lt;br /&gt;
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== List of SIGs ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.sigarab.org/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb), Mona Diab treasurer (mdiab@andrew.cmu.edu)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 841&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: December 2022, December 2024&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;:  [https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/ ArabicNLP 2024], [https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/ ArabicNLP 2023], [http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net WANLP 2022], [https://osact5-lrec.github.io/ OSACT 2024], [https://osact-lrec.github.io/ OSACT 2022], [https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home IWABigDAI 2022]; [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LGzh8jYAAAAJ ArabicNLP Scholar], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YmKaJR4AAAAJ OSACT Scholar], [https://www.sigarab.org/arabic-nlp-archives Arabic NLP Archives]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sigann.github.io/ &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de) &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 150&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: 2024, 2027&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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;, LAW XIV at Coling 2020, LAW XV-DMR III at EMNLP 2021, LAW XVI at LREC 2022, LAW XVII at ACL 2023, LAW XVIII at EACL 2024, LAW XIX at ACL 2025&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Kirk Roberts (kirkroberts@gmail.com)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 238&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: June 2022, June 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: Yearly BioNLP workshops, CL4Health workshop&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://emnlp.org/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Mona Diab; Vice President: Isabelle Augenstein; Secretary: Chin-Yew Lin&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: approx. 1200&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: December 2023, December 2024&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: EMNLP every year&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.sigdial.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Alexandros Papangelis (al3x.papangelis@gmail.com),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Koichiro Yoshino (koichiro@is.naist.jp)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 417&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: June 2025, 2027&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers&#039; Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sig-edu.org/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 240&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: March 2021, March 2024&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://acl-sigel.github.io/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 116&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (first,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: January 2021, January 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: ComputEL&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGFinTech: SIG on Economic and Financial Natural Language Processing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sigfintech.github.io/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: Founder Chung-Chi Chen (c.c.chen@acm.org)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 140&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: Summer 2025 &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@uni-leipzig.de),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Bruce Watson (bruce@bruce-watson.com)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 131&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: Summer 2020, Summer 2023 &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled), FSMNLP 2023 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary  Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 490&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: December 2022, December 2024 &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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&amp;amp;NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://sighan.ling.washington.edu &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: chair Nianwen Xue (xuen@brandeis.edu),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 210&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: December  2022, December 2024&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sighum.wordpress.com/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), secretary Lorella Viola (l.viola@vu.nl), liaison representative Craig Messner (cmessne4@jhu.edu)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 489&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: June 2024, June 2026&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;:  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, LaTeCH-CLfL 2022, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024, LaTeCH-CLfL 2025.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.siglex.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Marianna Apidianaki (marapi@seas.upenn.edu), secretary Tiago Torrent (tiago.torrent@ufjf.br)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 467&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: July 2024, June 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: Annual *SEM conference at EMNLP 2025; Annual SemEval workshop at ACL 2025; Annual MWE workshop at NAACL 2025; Additional past sponsored and endorsed events are listed on the [https://aclanthology.org/sigs/siglex/ SIGLEX page of the ACL Anthology]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.molweb.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Thomas Graf (mail@thomasgraf.net), &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 333&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: May 2024, mid 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
         &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sigmorphon.github.io/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Garett Nicolai (garrett.nicolai@ubc.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 175&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: Feb 2023, Feb 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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, SIGMORPHON 2022, SIGMORPHON 2023, SIGMORPHON 2024&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGMT: SIG on machine translation ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://www.sigmt.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Alexandra Birch (a.birch@ed.ac.uk), Secretary: Antonis Anastasopoulos, North America: Marine Carpuat, Europe: Ondrej Bojar, Asia: Masao Utiyama&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 180&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last)&#039;&#039;&#039;: September 2021&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.signll.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;:  president Omri Abend (omri.abend@mail.huji.ac.il), secretary Antske Fokkens (antske.fokkens@vu.nl)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 380&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: August 2018, August 2021 &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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, CoNLL 2022 co-located with EMNLP 2022, CoNLL 2023 co-located with EMNLP 2023, CoNLL 2024 co-located with EMNLP 2024&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://www.sigparse.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 266&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: April 2019, April 2022 &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: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, IWPT 2021&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGREP: SIG on representation learning ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.sigrep.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 2000&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: October 2022, October 2024 &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSEA: SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://www.sigsea.org/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Holy Lovenia (holy.lovenia@gmail.com), secretary Fajri Koto (fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 227&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: - (founded in November 2024), November 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;:  [https://sealp-workshop.github.io/ SEALP 2024]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSEC: SIG on NLP security ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sig.llmsecurity.net&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: President: Leon Derczynski ld@itu.dk, Secretary: Muhao Chen, Jekaterina Novikova&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 124&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: -, 2024&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: fortnightly talks - https://sig.llmsecurity.net/talks/&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.sigsem.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Sina Zarrieß (Sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (stergios.chatzikyriakidis@uoc.gr)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 880&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: summer 2021, 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 110&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (first,last)&#039;&#039;&#039;: Winter 2020, winter 2023&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.slpat.org&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud&#039;hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: Fall 2020, Fall 2022&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 160&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.iwslt.org&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;:  president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;:  144&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (first,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: First Oct 2022, every 2 years&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: IWSLT 2004-2023;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://www.sigsumm.org/&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;:  82&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (first,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: first Aug. 2024; every 2 years&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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=== SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages ===&lt;br /&gt;
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       &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sigturk.com&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;:  president Kemal Oflazer (ko@andrew.cmu.edu), secretary Gözde Gül Şahin (gosahin@ku.edu.tr)&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;:  136&lt;br /&gt;
       &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (first,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: Founded in 2022, elections every year&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: The First Workshop on Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2024);&lt;br /&gt;
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=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===&lt;br /&gt;
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        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://sigtyp.github.io/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 420&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (first,next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: tbc&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: 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, SIGTYP 2022 (NAACL 2022), SIGTYP 2023 (EACL 2023), SIGTYP 2024 (EACL 2024)&lt;br /&gt;
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=== SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages ===&lt;br /&gt;
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        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: https://acl-sigur.github.io/&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: chair  Mika Hämäläinen (mika.hamalainen@metropolia.fi),&lt;br /&gt;
                  secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 60&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: 2023, 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2021, IWCLUL 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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=== SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus ===&lt;br /&gt;
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        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: http://www.sigwac.org.uk&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: presidents: Nikola Ljubešić (nljubesi@gmail.com, Jožef Stefan Institute) and Benoît Sagot (benoit.sagot@inria.fr, INRIA); secretaries: Veronika Laippala (mavela@utu.fi, University of Turku) and Pedro Ortiz Suarez (pedro.ortiz@uni-mannheim.de, Mannheim University)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 178&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: January 2022, 2024&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020&lt;br /&gt;
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=== SIGWrit: SIG on writing systems and written language ===&lt;br /&gt;
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        &#039;&#039;&#039;web page&#039;&#039;&#039;: &lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;contacts&#039;&#039;&#039;: president (pro-temp): Richard Sproat (rws@xoba.com); vice-president (pro-temp): Emily Prud’hommeaux (emilytucker@gmail.com); Secretary-Treasurer (pro-temp): Kyle Gorman (kylebgorman@gmail.com); Student-member (pro-temp): Noah Hermalin (nmhermalin@berkeley.edu)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;members&#039;&#039;&#039;: 44 (indicated interest)&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;elections (last, next)&#039;&#039;&#039;: -, January 2025&lt;br /&gt;
        &#039;&#039;&#039;events&#039;&#039;&#039;: CAWL at ACL 2023&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Alex pap</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL&amp;diff=76475</id>
		<title>2025Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL</title>
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		<updated>2025-06-25T13:54:43Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Alex pap: SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2024-2025&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2024-2025&lt;br /&gt;
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Dilek Hakkani-Tür, SIGdial President&lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 417 members. You can find the membership information here: https://www.sigdial.org/membership/. In addition to the mailing list, SIGdial X account has more than 500 followers. We have also initiated SIGdial accounts on LinkedIn and BlueSky recently, in order to extend our outreach. Our most recent regular election was held in 2025, and the upcoming SIGdial officers are: Alexandros Papangelis (President), Stefan Ultes (Vice President), Koichiro Yoshino (Secretary) and Casey Kennington (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, A. Seza Dogruoz, Guiseppe Riccardi, and Svetlana Stoyanchev were elected. Three other members for the board will be selected by the President. Dilek Hakkani-Tur will be our President Emeritus. The next election is planned for the first half of 2027. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGdial 2024 was held in Kyoto, Japan, between September 18-21. The main conference was preceded by two days of the YRRSDS workshop (September 16-17). The organizers of SIGdial 2024 were: Tatsuya Kawahara (General chair), Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes (Program co-chairs), Shikib Mehri and David Howcroft (Mentoring chairs), Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Sponsorships chair), Kazunori Komatani (Publications chair), Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Publicity chair), Angus Addlesee (Social media chair), Koji Inoue (Local arrangements chair), Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, and Mikey Elmers (Local arrangements team). &lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial 2024 received a total of 164 submissions this year, comprising 122 long papers, 56 short papers, and 7 demo descriptions. 65 papers were accepted in total: 44 long papers (36%), 17 short papers (30%), and 4 demo descriptions, for an overall acceptance rate of 39.6%. In addition, 3 articles from the Dialogue and Discourse journal were selected by the program committee for poster presentations. We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors: Apple (Gold), SB Intuitions (Gold), Cyber Agent (Gold), Equmenopolis (Gold), PKSH Technology (Gold), Google (Silver), and Fairy Devices (Bronze).&lt;br /&gt;
Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial.&lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial 2025 will take place in Avignon, France, between August 25-27. The organizers of SIGdial 2024 are: Frederic Bechet and Fabrice Lefevre (General chairs), Nicholas Asher and Seokhwan Kim (Program co-chairs), A. Seza Dogruoz (Mentoring chair), Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Sponsorships chair), Teva Merlin (Publication chair), Tania Jimenez (Publicity chair), Angus Addlesee (Social media chair), Yannick Esteve (Local arrangements chair), Nathalie Camelin, Corinne Fredouille, and Salima Mdaffar (Local arrangements team). &lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial 2026 is planned to be located at Emory University, in July or August, with Jinho Choi as the General Chair. SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community, such as the Dialogue &amp;amp; Discourse journal.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Alex pap</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL&amp;diff=76017</id>
		<title>2024Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL</title>
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		<updated>2024-07-23T14:40:13Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Alex pap: SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2023-2024&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2023-2024&lt;br /&gt;
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Dilek Hakkani-Tür, SIGdial President&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 421 members. You can find the membership information here: https://www.sigdial.org/membership/. In addition to the mailing list, SIGdial X account has more than 500 followers.&lt;br /&gt;
Our most recent regular election was held in early 2023, and the current SIGdial officers are: Dilek Hakkani-Tur (President), Milica Gašić (Vice President), Alexandros Papangelis (Secretary) and Casey Kennington (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, Stefan Ultes, Kotaro Funakoshi, and Deyi Xiong were elected. Three other members for the board elected by the President are: Asli Celikyilmaz, Jessy Li, and Koichiro Yoshino. Gabriel Skantze is our President Emeritus. The next election is planned in the first half of 2024. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGdial 2023 was co-organized with INLG, in Prague, between September 11-15.  For the first time, the main conference (September 13-15) was preceded by two days of workshops (September 11-12). The organizers of SIGdial 2023 were: David Schlangen (General chair), Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Joty (Program co-chairs), Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Sponsorship chair), Malihe Alikhani (Publication chair), Ondřej Dušek (local chair), and Casey Kennington (Mentoring chair). &lt;br /&gt;
The keynote speakers were Barbara Di Eugenio (University of Illinois Chicago), Emmanuel Dupoux (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Meta AI Labs), Elena Simperl (King’s College London) and Ryan Lowe (OpenAI). &lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial 2023 received a total of 136 submissions this year, comprising 87 long papers, 42 short papers, and 7 demo descriptions. 61 papers were accepted in total: 41 long papers (47%), 16 short papers (38%), and 4 demo descriptions, for an overall acceptance rate of 45.5%. In addition, 3 articles from the Dialogue and Discourse journal were selected by the program committee for poster presentations.&lt;br /&gt;
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors: LivePerson (Platinum), LuxAI (Platinum) Apple (Gold), Furhat Robotics (Silver), AX Semantics (Bronze), and Bloomberg (Bronze).&lt;br /&gt;
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Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial.&lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial 2024 will take place in Kyoto, between September 18-20. The organizers of SIGdial 2024 are: Tatsuya Kawahara (General chair), Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes (Program co-chairs), Shikib Mehri and David Howcroft (Mentoring chairs), Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Sponsorships chair), Kazunori Komatani (Publications chair), Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Publicity chair), Angus Addlesee (Social media chair), Koji Inoue (Local arrangements chair), Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, and Mikey Elmers (Local arrangements team). &lt;br /&gt;
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SIGdial 2025 is planned to be located at Avignon University, August 25-27, with Frederic Bechet and Fabrice Lefevre as the general co-chairs. SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community, such as the Dialogue &amp;amp; Discourse journal.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Alex pap</name></author>
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