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2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2015-07-03T14:41:55Z

EnekoAgirre:

== ACL 2014 Tutorial Chairs Report ==
Prepared June 30, 2015 
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country) 
Kevin Duh (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) 

== General Schedule ==

This year we had a joint call-for-tutorials, coordinated with the NAACL and EMNLP co-chairs (6 co-chairs in total). 
In addition we coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers. 

Shared dates:
* Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: January 9, 2015
* Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2015
* Tutorial descriptions due: March 6, 2015

NAACL:
* NAACL Tutorial course material due: April 10, 2015
* NAACL Tutorial date: May 31, 2015

ACL:
* ACL Tutorial course material due: June 26, 2015
* ACL Tutorial date: July 26, 2015

EMNLP:
* EMNLP Tutorial course material due: August 14, 2015
* EMNLP Tutorial dates: September 17, 2015

== Call and selection procedure ==
The call for proposals (CFP) was posted the 31st of August, both at the ACL website and sent to high-volume NLP/CL mailing lists.

Tutorial co-chairs discussed interesting topics, and approached some experts to suggest they could submit proposals.

Softconf was used for proposal submission. We received 32 proposals which were reviewed by the 6 co-chairs according to the following criteria:

* relevance to ACL community (1=irrelevant, 5=great fit) (1-5)
* quality of instructor (1=poor, 5=great) (1-5)
* quality of proposal i.e. outline and whether depth/breadth is adequate (1-5)
* our estimate of potential attendance (not from proposal)
* newly emerging area not previously covered in an ACL related tutorial (yes or no)
* tutorials which provide introductions into related fields (yes or no)
* overall score (1=bad, 5=great) (1-5)
* 1st preference for venue as indicated in proposal
* comments

The procedure for selecting and assigning the tutorials to the three venues was the following:

* we ordered proposals by the venue preference expressed by proposers
* each subcommittee makes a tentative decision for the venue they're assigned to
* we discuss the remaining/conflicting/redundant proposals
* at the same time we try to balance topics across venues

ACL selected 8 half-day proposals, NAACL 6 and EMNLP 8. The decision process was uncontroversial.

Acceptance letters were personalised by venue, then sent via softconf. We did not send feedback to proposers.

== Selected tutorials ==

Morning: 
Successful Data Mining Methods for NLP 
Jiawei Han, Heng Ji and Yizhou Sun 

Structured Belief Propagation for NLP 
Matthew R. Gormley and Jason Eisner 

Sentiment and Belief: How to Think about, Represent, and Annotate Private States 
Owen Rambow and Janyce Wiebe 

Corpus Patterns for Semantic Processing 
Octavian Popescu, Patrick Hanks, Elisabetta Jezek and Daisuke Kawahara 

Afternoon: 
Matrix and Tensor Factorization Methods for Natural Language Processing 
Guillaume Bouchard, Jason Naradowsky, Sebastian Riedel, Tim Rocktaschel and Andreas Vlachos 

Scalable Large-Margin Structured Learning: Theory and Algorithms 
Liang Huang and James Cross 

Detecting Deceptive Opinion Spam using Linguistics, Behavioral and Statistical Modeling 
Arjun Mukherjee 

What You Need to Know about Chinese for Chinese Language Processing 
Chu-Ren Huang 

== Proceedings ==
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a description as well as an outline). These were submitted through the START system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the presenters. If tutorial presenters cannot match the deadline, they have to print out the handouts themselves and bring them to the conference before the registration starts.

== Acknowledgements ==

We are very grateful to Yang Liu and Thamar Solorio (NAACL tutorial chairs), Maggie Li and Khalil Sima'an (EMNLP tutorial chairs), Le Sun and Yang Liu (local chairs), Wanxiang Che and Guodong Zhou (publication
chairs), Yuji Matsumoto (general chair), and of
course Priscilla Rasmussen, for various kinds of help, advice and assistance offered during the process
of putting the tutorial programme and materials together. Most importantly, we would like to thank the
tutorial presenters for the time and effort in preparing and presenting the tutorials.

2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

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2013Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2013-07-05T10:49:35Z

EnekoAgirre: /* *SEM */

The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until summer of 2013:

* President: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
* Secretary: Mona Diab, Columbia University

Information Officers:

* Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
* Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
* Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
* Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield

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

Elections are on its way, and planned to finish by the end of August.

We currently have 550 members (59 new members in the last 12 months) and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

SIGLEX has one Section on Multiword Entities, which has currently 113 members.

The shadow account has $8700, but his does not include the expenses in 2013, nor the potential surpluses from *SEM and SemEval in 2012 and 2013.

= *SEM =

In the summer of 2011, the idea of having a joint conference covering two ACL Special Interest Groups,
namely SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was born. The need for an umbrella conference to fight fragmentation on semantics was growing
not only because of the many recent exciting developments in the ﬁeld of computational linguistics,
but also because of the growing number of shared tasks and workshops, of which many show points of
contact with semantics in its various forms.

In 2013 we had the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2013), collocated with NAACL HLT 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It took two days.

* Mona Diab (The George Washington University, General Chair)
* Timothy Baldwin (The University of Mebourne, Program Committee Co-Chair)
* Marco Baroni (University of Trento, Program Committee Co-Chair)
* See [http://clic2.cimec.unitn.it/starsem2013/] for more details.

* *SEM received 45 submissions. 14 papers (11 long and 3 short) were accepted (31% acceptance rate).
* The registration included both *SEM and SemEval, getting 150+ registered participants overall.
* *SEM hosts a shared task selected by a program committee. This year the task was on Semantic Textual Similarity, with 34 teams
participating, submitting a total of 103 system runs.

'''Outlook''': details for *SEM 2014 are being finalized, but the idea would be to collocate it with a major ACL or ICCL conference.

= SemEval =

We also had SemEval-2013 : Semantic Evaluation Exercises (International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation), collocated with NAACL HLT 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It took two days, one of them overlapped with *SEM.
* Suresh Manandhar (York University, co-organizer)
* Deniz Yuret (Koc University, co-organizer)
* See [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/] for more details.

* About 100 teams submitted more than 300 systems for the 12 tasks of SemEval-2013. A total of 12 task description
papers and 101 system description papers are included in the procceedings.

'''Outlook''': A poll on future configurations of Semeval is currently being hold. The SIGLEX board will decide accordingly about future SemEvals.

= Events =

SIGLEX organized and sponsored SemEval and, jointly with SIGSEM, *SEM (see above)

In addition SIGLEX endorsed the following events this year:

* The 1st Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation. Workshop at NAACL HLT 2013, 2013-06-14, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* The 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2013). Workshop at NAACL HLT 2013, 2013-06-13, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-7). Workshop at NAACL HLT 2013, 2013-06-13, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* Joint Symposium on Semantic Processing: Textual Inference and Structures in Corpora. At FBK, Trento (Italy), November 20-22, 2013. http://jssp2013.fbk.eu/

2012-06-18T16:03:49Z

EnekoAgirre:

The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until summer of 2013:

* President: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
* Secretary: Mona Diab, Columbia University

Information Officers:

* Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
* Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
* Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
* Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield

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

We currently have 491 members (46 new members in the last 12 months) and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

The shadow account has USD TO BE DETERMINED.

Suresh Manandhar and Deniz Yuret are organizing [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/ SemEval-2013], with a total number of 27 proposed tasks.

= New Constitution, Sections =

Following a request from the Multiword Expression community, SIGLEX changed its constitution to accommodate so-called Sections. Each Section will elect a representative in the SIGLEX board.

The change to the constitution was approved by the SIGLEX board, the ACL exec, and a poll among SIGLEX members (68 votes, incl. 4 no, 8 maybe and 54 yes). The new constitution is currently being implemented, with a new Section on MWE and a corresponding board member to be elected soon.

= *SEM and SemEval =

In the summer of 2011, the idea of having a joint conference covering two ACL Special Interest Groups,
namely SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was born. The need for an umbrella conference to fight fragmentation on semantics was growing
not only because of the many recent exciting developments in the ﬁeld of computational linguistics,
but also because of the growing number of shared tasks and workshops, of which many show points of
contact with semantics in its various forms.

General Chair: Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country)

Program Committee Chairs: Johan Bos (University of Groningen), Mona Diab (Columbia University)

For the first edition, NAACl in Montreal was chosen.

See [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/ website] and [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=63 proceedings] for more details.

*SEM received 79 long and 29 short papers. Three long papers were withdrawn leaving 76 long papers.
We accepted 21 long and 13 short papers. These numbers translate in acceptance rates of 27.6% (long)
and 44.8% (short papers).

*SEM is hosting a shared task on Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation, organized by Roser
Morante and Eduardo Blanco. 10 teams participated, together submitting 14 runs. See [http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/sem2012-st-neg/ website] and [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/proc/program.sharedtask.html proceedings] for more details.

In addition, *SEM is hosting the last edition of SemEval, including 8 tasks and 56 participants. See [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2012/ website] and [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/proc/program.semeval.html proceedings] for more details.

'''Outlook''': details for *SEM 2013 are being finalized, but the idea would be to collocate it with a major ACL conference. Given the overlap of interests with IWCS (March, Poland) we are considering a venue in the summer and outside Europe. *SEM 2013 will again include a shared task and several [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/ Semeval 2013] tasks.

= Events =

SIGLEX organized and sponsored jointly with SIGSEM a new conference, *SEM (see summary above).

In addition SIGLEX endorsed the following events this year:

* 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-07-12, Jeju, Korea.

* Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL 2012). Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-07-12, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

* Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6). Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-07-12, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

* Computational Linguistics Workshop on Austronesian Languages. Standalone workshop. 2012-07-02, Bali, Indonesia.

2012Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2012-06-18T15:49:44Z

2010Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2011-11-27T18:39:34Z

EnekoAgirre:

The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until 1st August 2010:

* President: Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd.
* Secretary: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

Information Officers:

* Mona Diab, Columbia University
* Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
* Roberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
* Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart
* Carlo Strapparava, ITC-IRST, Trento

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

In accordance with the SIGLEX constitution, we ran a nomination process for the 2010-2013 board in January this year and conducted an electronic ballot of our members to determine the incoming board. Voting closed 31st May, 112 members had voted and the incoming board with be:

* President: Eneko Agirre
* Secretary: Mona Diab
* Information officers: Tim Baldwin, Katrin Erk, Anna Korhonen, Mark Stevenson
* Web master: Ken Litkowski

We will pass to the new board 1st August 2010, with a business meeting at ACL 2010. We currently have 402 members and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

Katrin Erk and Carlo Strapparava served as SemEval-2010 co-chairs overseeing a total of 18 tasks. The SemEval workshop will be held at the ACL 2010 meeting.

= Events =
SIGLEX sponsored ''SemEval-2: Evaluation Exercises on Semantic Evaluation.'' Workshop at ACL, 2010-07-15, Uppsala.

SIGLEX additionally endorsed the following events this year:

* ''Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure and Lookup Mechanisms of Electronic Dictionaries.'' Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-22, Beijing, China.

* ''Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010).'' Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-21, Beijing, China.

* ''GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS).'' Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-10), 2010-07-15, Uppsala, Sweden.

* ''Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing.'' Workshop at Antwerp University - Saarland University, 2010-07-10, Uppsala, Sweden.

2011-06-14T02:42:46Z

EnekoAgirre: New page: The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until summer of 2012: * President: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country * Secretary: Mona Diab, Columbia University Informati...

The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until summer of 2012:

* President: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
* Secretary: Mona Diab, Columbia University

Information Officers:

* Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
* Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
* Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
* Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield

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

We currently have 445 members (43 new members in the last 12 months) and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

Suresh Manandhar and Deniz Yuret are organizing SemEval-2013, with a total number of 27 proposed tasks.

= Events =

SIGLEX endorsed the following events this year:

* Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE 2011).
Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011-06-23, Portland, Oregon, USA.

* Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5).
Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011-06-23, Portland, Oregon, USA.

* Relational Models of Semantics. Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011-06-23, Portland, Oregon, USA.

* GEMS 2011: GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics. Workshop at EMNLP, 2011-07-30, Edinburgh, UK.

* TextInfer 2011 Workshop on Textual Entailment. Workshop at EMNLP, 2011-07-31, Edinburgh.