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2019-07-22T18:14:00Z

Annakorhonen:

2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2019-07-20T22:56:17Z

Annakorhonen:

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until autumn 2019:

'''President'''

Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)

'''Secretary"'

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)

'''Information officers'''

Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)

Daniel Cer (Google Inc., USA)

Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

'''SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board'''

MWE section: Agata Savary, University of Tours, France

SemEval section: Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA

We currently have 852 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.

'''SIGLEX has two sections:'''

Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 205 members.
SemEval with 982 members.

'''SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:'''

'''SEM 2019'''

The Eight Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL-HLT’2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and took place in June 2019.

Organizers:

General Chair - Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Programme Co-chairs - Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam and Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publication Chair - Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf

Publicity Chair - Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University

Area Chairs:

Lexical semantics and word representations: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University

Lexical semantics and word representations: Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Semantic composition and sentence representations: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge

Semantic composition and sentence representations: Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research

Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI

Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lu Wang, Northeastern University

Machine learning for semantic tasks: Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Machine learning for semantic tasks: Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam

Multidisciplinary & COI: Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU

Multilinguality: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS

Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast

Semantics in NLP applications: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University

Semantics in NLP applications: Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada

Semantics in NLP applications: Marek Rei, University of Cambridge

Resources and evaluation: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service

Theoretical and formal semantics: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London

Submissions: 96 papers were submitted. Out of these, 36 papers were accepted (19 long, 13 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 33%. The final number of papers in the program is 36 (19 long, 13 short).

'''SemEval 2019'''

The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2019 and *SEM 2019.

Organizers:

Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California

Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam

Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento

Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University

Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS

Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

SemEval 2019 included the following 11 shared tasks organized in five tracks:

''Frame semantics and semantic parsing''

Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA

Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction

''Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection''

Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text

Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection

Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter

Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

''Fact vs fiction''

Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours

Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums

''Information extraction and question answering''

Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums

Task 10: Math Question Answering

''NLP for scientific applications''

Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers

The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 223 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

'''SemEval 2020'''

32 task proposals were received and reviewed by 68 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2020. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/

'''MWE-WN 2019'''

The 15th edition of the yearly flagship event of the MWE Section, called Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), was co-located with the ACL 2019 conference in Florence, Italy. In a quest for synergies with related communities, the Section joined forces with the Global Wordnet Association (GWA). Thus, the event was called Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).

Invited talk:
"When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity", by Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Submissions: 37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%.

Proceedings: to appear in the ACL Anthology.

Community discussion: it will include feedback from this joint event, MWE-related announcements, announcements about the SIGLEX-MWE Steering Committee recruitment, plans for future shared task editions and for collaboration between the Universal Dependencies and the PARSEME communities.

'''SIGLEX Endorsed Events in 2019''':

EUROPHRAS'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

MUMTTT'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2019-07-20T22:53:36Z

Annakorhonen:

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until autumn 2019:

'''President'''

Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)

'''Secretary"

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)

'''Information officers'''

Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)

Daniel Cer (Google Inc., USA)

Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

'''SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board'''

MWE section: Agata Savary, University of Tours, France

SemEval section: Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA

We currently have 852 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.

'''SIGLEX has two sections:'''

Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 205 members.
SemEval with 982 members.

'''SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:'''

'''SEM 2019'''

The Eight Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL-HLT’2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and took place in June 2019.

Organizers:

General Chair - Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Programme Co-chairs - Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam and Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publication Chair - Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf

Publicity Chair - Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University

Area Chairs:

Lexical semantics and word representations: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University

Lexical semantics and word representations: Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Semantic composition and sentence representations: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge

Semantic composition and sentence representations: Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research

Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI

Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lu Wang, Northeastern University

Machine learning for semantic tasks: Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Machine learning for semantic tasks: Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam

Multidisciplinary & COI: Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU

Multilinguality: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS

Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast

Semantics in NLP applications: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University

Semantics in NLP applications: Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada

Semantics in NLP applications: Marek Rei, University of Cambridge

Resources and evaluation: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service

Theoretical and formal semantics: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London

Submissions: 96 papers were submitted. Out of these, 36 papers were accepted (19 long, 13 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 33%. The final number of papers in the program is 36 (19 long, 13 short).

'''SemEval 2019'''

The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2019 and *SEM 2019.

Organizers:

Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California

Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam

Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento

Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University

Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS

Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

SemEval 2019 included the following 11 shared tasks organized in five tracks:

''Frame semantics and semantic parsing''

Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA

Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction

''Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection''

Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text

Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection

Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter

Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

''Fact vs fiction''

Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours

Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums

''Information extraction and question answering''

Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums

Task 10: Math Question Answering

''NLP for scientific applications''

Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers

The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 223 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

'''SemEval 2020'''

32 task proposals were received and reviewed by 68 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2020. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/

'''MWE-WN 2019'''

The 15th edition of the yearly flagship event of the MWE Section, called Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), was co-located with the ACL 2019 conference in Florence, Italy. In a quest for synergies with related communities, the Section joined forces with the Global Wordnet Association (GWA). Thus, the event was called Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).

Invited talk:
"When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity", by Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Submissions: 37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%.

Proceedings: to appear in the ACL Anthology.

Community discussion: it will include feedback from this joint event, MWE-related announcements, announcements about the SIGLEX-MWE Steering Committee recruitment, plans for future shared task editions and for collaboration between the Universal Dependencies and the PARSEME communities.

'''SIGLEX Endorsed Events in 2019''':

EUROPHRAS'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

MUMTTT'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2019-07-20T22:47:34Z

Annakorhonen:

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until autumn 2019:

President:

Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)

Secretary:

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)

Information officers:

Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)

Daniel Cer (Google Inc., USA)

Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board:

MWE section: Agata Savary, University of Tours, France

SemEval section: Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA

We currently have 852 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.

SIGLEX has two sections:

Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 205 members.
SemEval with 982 members.

SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:

'''SEM 2019'''

The Eight Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL-HLT’2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and took place in June 2019.

Organizers:

General Chair
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Programme Co-chairs
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publication Chair
Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf

Publicity Chair
Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University

Area Chairs
Lexical semantics and word representations: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University
Lexical semantics and word representations: Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Semantic composition and sentence representations: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge
Semantic composition and sentence representations: Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research
Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI
Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lu Wang, Northeastern University
Machine learning for semantic tasks: Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Machine learning for semantic tasks: Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam
Multidisciplinary & COI: Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Multilinguality: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast
Semantics in NLP applications: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University
Semantics in NLP applications: Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada
Semantics in NLP applications: Marek Rei, University of Cambridge
Resources and evaluation: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service
Theoretical and formal semantics: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London

Submissions: 96 papers were submitted. Out of these, 36 papers were accepted (19 long, 13 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 33%. The final number of papers in the program is 36 (19 long, 13 short).

'''SemEval 2019'''

The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2019 and *SEM 2019.
Organizers:
Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento
Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University
Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

SemEval 2019 included the following 11 shared tasks organized in five tracks:

Frame semantics and semantic parsing

Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA
Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction

Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection

Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection
Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter
Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

Fact vs fiction

Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums

Information extraction and question answering

Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums
Task 10: Math Question Answering

NLP for scientific applications

Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers

The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 223 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

SemEval 2020
32 task proposals were received and reviewed by 68 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2020. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/

'''MWE-WN 2019'''

The 15th edition of the yearly flagship event of the MWE Section, called Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), was co-located with the ACL 2019 conference in Florence, Italy. In a quest for synergies with related communities, the Section joined forces with the Global Wordnet Association (GWA). Thus, the event was called Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).

Invited talk:
"When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity", by Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Submissions: 37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%.

Proceedings: to appear in the ACL Anthology.

Community discussion: it will include feedback from this joint event, MWE-related announcements, announcements about the SIGLEX-MWE Steering Committee recruitment, plans for future shared task editions and for collaboration between the Universal Dependencies and the PARSEME communities.

'''SIGLEX Endorsed Events in 2019''':
EUROPHRAS'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/
MUMTTT'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2019-07-20T22:45:34Z

Annakorhonen:

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until autumn 2019:

President: Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Secretary: Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)

Information officers:
Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)
Daniel Cer (Google Inc., USA)
Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board:
MWE section: Agata Savary, University of Tours, France
SemEval section: Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA

We currently have 852 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.

SIGLEX has two sections:

Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 205 members.
SemEval with 982 members.

SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:

'''SEM 2019'''

The Eight Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL-HLT’2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and took place in June 2019.

Organizers:

General Chair
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Programme Co-chairs
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publication Chair
Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf

Publicity Chair
Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University

Area Chairs
Lexical semantics and word representations: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University
Lexical semantics and word representations: Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Semantic composition and sentence representations: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge
Semantic composition and sentence representations: Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research
Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI
Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lu Wang, Northeastern University
Machine learning for semantic tasks: Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Machine learning for semantic tasks: Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam
Multidisciplinary & COI: Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Multilinguality: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast
Semantics in NLP applications: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University
Semantics in NLP applications: Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada
Semantics in NLP applications: Marek Rei, University of Cambridge
Resources and evaluation: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service
Theoretical and formal semantics: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London

Submissions: 96 papers were submitted. Out of these, 36 papers were accepted (19 long, 13 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 33%. The final number of papers in the program is 36 (19 long, 13 short).

'''SemEval 2019'''

The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2019 and *SEM 2019.
Organizers:
Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento
Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University
Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

SemEval 2019 included the following 11 shared tasks organized in five tracks:

Frame semantics and semantic parsing

Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA
Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction

Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection

Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection
Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter
Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

Fact vs fiction

Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums

Information extraction and question answering

Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums
Task 10: Math Question Answering

NLP for scientific applications

Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers

The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 223 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

SemEval 2020
32 task proposals were received and reviewed by 68 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2020. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/

'''MWE-WN 2019'''

The 15th edition of the yearly flagship event of the MWE Section, called Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), was co-located with the ACL 2019 conference in Florence, Italy. In a quest for synergies with related communities, the Section joined forces with the Global Wordnet Association (GWA). Thus, the event was called Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).

Invited talk:
"When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity", by Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Submissions: 37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%.

Proceedings: to appear in the ACL Anthology.

Community discussion: it will include feedback from this joint event, MWE-related announcements, announcements about the SIGLEX-MWE Steering Committee recruitment, plans for future shared task editions and for collaboration between the Universal Dependencies and the PARSEME communities.

'''SIGLEX Endorsed Events in 2019''':
EUROPHRAS'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/
MUMTTT'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2019-07-20T22:41:11Z

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'''2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX'''

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until the summer of 2019:
President: Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Secretary: Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)
Information officers:
Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)
Daniel Cer (Google Inc., USA)
Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board:
MWE section: Agata Savary, University of Tours, France
SemEval section: Steven Bethard, University of Arizona, USA
We currently have 852 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.

SIGLEX has two sections:
Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 205 members.
SemEval with 982 members.

SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE.
SEM 2019
The Eight Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL-HLT’2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and took place in June 2019.
People
General Chair
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Programme Co-chairs
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Publication Chair
Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf
Publicity Chair
Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University
Area Chairs
Lexical semantics and word representations: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University
Lexical semantics and word representations: Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Semantic composition and sentence representations: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge
Semantic composition and sentence representations: Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research
Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI
Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lu Wang, Northeastern University
Machine learning for semantic tasks: Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Machine learning for semantic tasks: Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam
Multidisciplinary & COI: Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Multilinguality: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast
Semantics in NLP applications: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University
Semantics in NLP applications: Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada
Semantics in NLP applications: Marek Rei, University of Cambridge
Resources and evaluation: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service
Theoretical and formal semantics: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London
Submissions: 96 papers were submitted. Out of these, 36 papers were accepted (19 long, 13 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 33%. The final number of papers in the program is 36 (19 long, 13 short).
SemEval 2019
The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2019 and *SEM 2019.
Organizers:
Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento
Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University
Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

SemEval 2019 included the following 11 shared tasks organized in five tracks:

Frame semantics and semantic parsing

Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA
Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction

Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection

Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection
Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter
Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

Fact vs fiction

Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums

Information extraction and question answering

Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums
Task 10: Math Question Answering

NLP for scientific applications

Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers

The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 223 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

SemEval 2020
32 task proposals were received and reviewed by 68 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2020. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/

MWE-WN 2019
The 15th edition of the yearly flagship event of the MWE Section, called Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), was co-located with the ACL 2019 conference in Florence, Italy. In a quest for synergies with related communities, the Section joined forces with the Global Wordnet Association (GWA). Thus, the event was called Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).
Invited talk:
"When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity", by Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Submissions: 37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%.
Proceedings: to appear in the ACL Anthology.
Community discussion: it will include feedback from this joint event, MWE-related announcements, announcements about the SIGLEX-MWE Steering Committee recruitment, plans for future shared task editions and for collaboration between the Universal Dependencies and the PARSEME communities.

SIGLEX Endorsed Events in 2019
EUROPHRAS'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/
MUMTTT'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:52:27Z

Annakorhonen:

Publicity Chairs Report

Anisava Miltenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge

After the first CFP appeared on the website, we advertised it on different mailing lists. The second CFP was circulated a couple of months later and also provided information about about tutorials, system demonstrations, and workshops. A newsletter was sent out in May that provided information about accommodation, the program including invited speakers, registration and other practical matters. Another newsletter was sent out in July that provided the same information and included reminders about registration and accommodation, instructions for presenters, information on internet access at the conference site, information about the conference organization and a list of sponsors.

Dissemination was done through mailing lists including

- Corpora

- Linguist List

- CLUK

- SIGANN

- ELSNET

- SIGIR

- SIG Semitic

- SIGSEM

- LR egroup

- NoDaLi

- Bio NLP

- SentProc

- AMLAP

- ISCA Speech

- Connectionists list announcer

- COGSCI discussion list

- Machine Learning News

and to the ACL membership via Priscilla.

The local publicity chairs also covered local mailing lists, including

- the linguistic community of the social network LiveJournal

- the Moscow linguistic mailing list

- the Saint Petersburg linguistic mailing list

- the mailing list of the Saint Petersburg NLP seminar

- the Saint Petersburg Google group for linguistics

- the site of the Institute of Philology of the Kiev National University

The local publicity chairs are currently working on press releases to be distributed to daily newspapers, radio, TV, and the local press. Press conference will be organized if we receive positive response from the press.

In addition, one of the local publicity chairs (Ivan Derzhanski) also assisted in the following activities:

- Setting up of the conference web site

- Participation in local organisation

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:43:32Z

Annakorhonen:

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:43:03Z

Annakorhonen:

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:42:30Z

Annakorhonen:

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:40:47Z

Annakorhonen:

Publicity Chairs Report

Anisava Miltenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge

After the first CFP appeared on the website, we advertised it on different mailing lists. The second CFP was circulated a couple of months later and also provided information about about tutorials, system demonstrations, and workshops. A newsletter was sent out in May that provided information about accommodation, the program including invited speakers, registration and other practical matters. Another newsletter was sent out in July that provided the same information and included reminders about registration and accommodation, instructions for presenters, information on internet access at the conference site, information about the conference organization and a list of sponsors.

Dissemination was done through mailing lists including

Corpora

Linguist List

CLUK

SIGANN

ELSNET

SIGIR

SIG Semitic

SIGSEM

LR egroup

NoDaLi

Bio NLP

SentProc

AMLAP

ISCA Speech

Connectionists list announcer

COGSCI discussion list

Machine Learning News

and to the ACL membership via Priscilla.

The local publicity chairs also covered local mailing lists, including

the linguistic community of the social network LiveJournal

the Moscow linguistic mailing list

the Saint Petersburg linguistic mailing list

the mailing list of the Saint Petersburg NLP seminar

the Saint Petersburg Google group for linguistics

the site of the Institute of Philology of the Kiev National University

The local publicity chairs are currently working on press releases to be distributed to daily newspapers, radio, TV, and the local press. Press conference will be organized if we receive positive response from the press.

In addition, one of the local publicity chairs (Ivan Derzhanski) also assisted in the following activities:

- Setting up of the conference web site

- Participation in local organisation

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:39:57Z

Annakorhonen:

Publicity Chairs Report

Anisava Miltenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge

After the first CFP appeared on the website, we advertised it on different mailing lists. The second CFP was circulated a couple of months later and also provided information about about tutorials, system demonstrations, and workshops. A newsletter was sent out in May that provided information about accommodation, the program including invited speakers, registration and other practical matters. Another newsletter was sent out in July that provided the same information and included reminders about registration and accommodation, instructions for presenters, information on internet access at the conference site, information about the conference organization and a list of sponsors.

Dissemination was done through mailing lists including

Corpora
Linguist List
CLUK
SIGANN
ELSNET
SIGIR
SIG Semitic
SIGSEM
LR egroup
NoDaLi
Bio NLP
SentProc
AMLAP
ISCA Speech
Connectionists list announcer
COGSCI discussion list
Machine Learning News

and to the ACL membership via Priscilla.

The local publicity chairs also covered local mailing lists, including

the linguistic community of the social network LiveJournal
the Moscow linguistic mailing list
the Saint Petersburg linguistic mailing list
the mailing list of the Saint Petersburg NLP seminar
the Saint Petersburg Google group for linguistics
the site of the Institute of Philology of the Kiev National University

The local publicity chairs are currently working on press releases to be distributed to daily newspapers, radio, TV, and the local press. Press conference will be organized if we receive positive response from the press.

In addition, one of the local publicity chairs (Ivan Derzhanski) also assisted in the following activities:

- Setting up of the conference web site
- Participation in local organisation

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:36:03Z

Annakorhonen:

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:33:24Z

Annakorhonen:

2013Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs

2013-07-10T09:30:14Z

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