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2014Q3 Reports: SIGNLL

2014-06-03T12:24:24Z

AlexanderClark: SIGNLL activity report 2014

ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2013-2014)

The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational modeling of learning in natural language. These are served by (i) the maintenance of an informative and up-to-date website and associated mailing list, and (ii) the organization of annual events (the CoNLL conference and the CoNLL shared task), and support of other related activities.

The web-pages, located at URL http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and maintained by Ben
Verhoeven, remain an important source of information, complemented by an email list for announcements for SIGNLL-related events. On the web-site, links can be found to relevant associations, networks, research cooperations, research departments, groups, institutes, mailing lists, archives, journals, bulletins, conference reports, online papers (including all papers of all CoNLL proceedings), online courses and slides, bibliographies, software, corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.
On December 2013 SIGNLL bought two web domains for a 10 year period, for the SIGNLL and CoNLL websites, respectively: www.signll.org and www.conll.org.

The current president is Alexander Clark (King's College, London) and the secretary is Xavier Carreras (LIS, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya).
Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees. The SIGNLL Steering Committee, composed by all past SIGNLL officers: Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng, David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers, for a complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.

The current membership of SIGNLL is approximately 350 people.

CoNLL-2014

In 2014, the annual meeting of CoNLL is collocated with the ACL annual meeting in Baltimore, MA.
It will take place June 26-27, 2014. The conference chairs are Scott Wen-Tau Yih (Microsoft Research) and Roser Morante (Antwerp).
The conference received 90 submissions, of which 7 were eventually withdrawn, and accepted 20 of the remaining 83 papers.
The invited speakers were Morten Christiansen and Tom Mitchell.
More information can be found on the conference website: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/conll/

CoNLL-2014 Shared-task

As in previous years, CoNLL-2014 hosts a high-proﬁle NLP shared task, Grammatical Error Correction,
a continuation of the shared task in 2013. Papers of the shared task are collected in a companion volume
of the CoNLL-2014 proceedings.

2013Q3 Reports: SIGNLL

2013-07-04T11:06:16Z

AlexanderClark: New page: ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2012-2013) The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational modeling of...

ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2012-2013)

The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational modeling of learning in natural language. These are served by (i) the maintenance of an informative and up-to-date website and associated mailing list, and (ii) the organization of annual events (the CoNLL conference and the CoNLL shared task), and support of other related activities.

The web-pages, located at URL http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and maintained by Erik Tjong Kim Sang, remain an important source of information, complemented by an email list for announcements for SIGNLL-related events. On the web-site, links can be found to relevant associations, networks, research cooperations, research departments, groups, institutes, mailing lists, archives, journals, bulletins, conference reports, online papers (including all papers of all CoNLL proceedings), online courses and slides, bibliographies, software, corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.

The current president is Alexander Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the secretary is Xavier Carreras (LIS, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya).
Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees. The SIGNLL Steering Committee, composed by all past SIGNLL officers: Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng, David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers, for a complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.

The current membership of SIGNLL is approximately 350 people.

CoNLL-2013

In 2013, the annual meeting of CoNLL is collocated with the ACL annual meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria.
It will take place August 8th-9th 2013. The conference chairs are Julia Hockenmaier (UIUC) and Sebastian Riedel (UCL).
There were 100 submissions, excluding those which were automatically rejected or later withdrawn of which 25 papers were accepted.

More information can be found on the conference website: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/conll/

CoNLL-2013 Shared-task

As is usual, there is a shared task associated with CoNLL.

Information on the task can be found at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nlp/conll13st.html.

The task was entitled 'Grammatical Error Correction' and was organised by
Hwee Tou Ng (Chair), National University of Singapore
Joel Tetreault, Nuance Communications
Siew Mei Wu, National University of Singapore
Yuanbin Wu, National University of Singapore and
Christian Hadiwinoto, National University of Singapore.

2012Q3 Reports: SIGNLL

2012-06-19T08:34:18Z

AlexanderClark: Annual report for SIGNLL

ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2011-2012)

The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational modeling of learning in natural language. These are served by (i) the maintenance of an informative and up-to-date website and associated mailing list, and (ii) the organization of annual events (the CoNLL conference and the CoNLL shared task), and support of other related activities.

The web-pages, located at URL http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and maintained by Erik Tjong Kim Sang, remain an important source of information, complemented by an email list for announcements for SIGNLL-related events. On the web-site, links can be found to relevant associations, networks, research cooperations, research departments, groups, institutes, mailing lists, archives, journals, bulletins, conference reports, online papers (including all papers of all CoNLL proceedings), online courses and slides, bibliographies, software, corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.

An election was held to replace the outgoing president and secretary (Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden), secretary LluÌs M‡rquez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain). The steering committee nominated two candidates who were duly elected: as of the new president is Alexander Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the secretary is Xavier Carreras (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain).

Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees. The SIGNLL Steering Committee, composed by all past SIGNLL officers: Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng, David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers, for a complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.

The current membership of SIGNLL is approximately 350 people.

EMNLP-CoNLL-2012

In 2012, the annual meeting of CoNLL will be a joint conference with EMNLP, the SIGDAT annual meeting, which is collocated with the ACL annual meeting in Jeju, South Korea.
It will take place June 12-14, 2012.

There were 560 submissions of which 99 papers were accepted as talks and an additional 40 submissions were accepted as posters.

More information can be found on the conference website: http://emnlp-conll2012.unige.ch/

CoNLL-2012 Shared-task

As is usual, there is a shared task associated with CoNLL. The shared task was selected from a set of 4 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in September 2011. Information on the task can be found at http://conll.cemantix.org/2012/
The task was entitled 'Modeling Multilingual Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes' and was organised by Sameer Pradhan (Chair) Raytheon BBN Technologies,
Alessandro Moschitti University of Trento, and
Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University.

A total of 15 teams have participated in the shared task, which demonstrates its high interest in the community. As usual, the shared task papers will be collected into an accompanying volume of the EMNLP-CoNLL-2012 proceedings.

Other activities:

Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Subjecivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012), taking place at ACL 2012 is endorsed by SIGNLL.