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2025Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2025-06-18T16:33:17Z

GNicolai: Created page with "This is the 2024-2025 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. == Membership == The SIG membership..."

This is the 2024-2025 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

== Membership ==

The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 43% growth from 175 to 251 members in the past 5 years. Growth peaked in 2023, and was a bit slower in 2025.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 2025 || 251
|-
| 2024 || 239
|-
| 2023 || 218
|-
| 2022 || 196
|-
| 2021 || 175
|-
| 2020 || 176
|-
| 2019 || 176
|-
| 2018 || 157
|-
| 2017 || 167
|-
| 2016 || 157
|-
| 2015 || 150
|-
| 2014 || 144
|-
| 2013 || 142
|-
| 2012 || 137
|-
| 2011 || 120
|-
| 2010 || 105
|-
| 2009 || 96
|-
| 2008 || 90
|-
| 2007 || 73
|-
| 2006 || 55
|}

== Workshop ==

The 22nd SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2025, organized by Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Çağrı Çöltekin, and Fred Mailhot. Attendance was approximately 30 participants, in-person and online. Attendance has been slowly decreasing, and this year, we held a discussion with members to discuss ways to increase interest in the SIG.

In line with reduced attendance, there were only 4 papers submitted to the workshop; after careful review, all 4 were accepted. After polling the community in the summer of 2024, and receiving comments at the low quality of reviews in previous workshops, efforts were made to improve review quality. The organizing team reviewed the reviews, and noted an improvement in review quality; however, since reviewer load was quite low, this may have contributed to the improvement more than any other effort.

Kyle Gorman of CUNY was invited to give a shared talk, and was also invited to participate in a community panel on the state of the SIG with Kristine Yu (UMass - Amherst), Gaspar Begus (UC - Berkeley), and Connor Mayer (UC - Irvine)

== Shared Tasks ==

After poor participation in the previous year, there were no shared tasks this year. We are looking to reinvigorate the shared tasks in the next edition of the workshop.

== Elections ==

The officers of the SIG are listed on the website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/. Officers were re-elected in January 2025, and will serve for a 2-year term, with the next election to occur in late 2026.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2024-07-03T17:44:48Z

GNicolai:

This is the 2023-2024 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

== Membership ==
The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 36% growth from 176 to 239 members in the past 5 years. In particular, the last 3 years have seen significant growth in the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 2024 || 239
|-
| 2023 || 218
|-
| 2022 || 196
|-
| 2021 || 175
|-
| 2020 || 176
|-
| 2019 || 176
|-
| 2018 || 157
|-
| 2017 || 167
|-
| 2016 || 157
|-
| 2015 || 150
|-
| 2014 || 144
|-
| 2013 || 142
|-
| 2012 || 137
|-
| 2011 || 120
|-
| 2010 || 105
|-
| 2009 || 96
|-
| 2008 || 90
|-
| 2007 || 73
|-
| 2006 || 55
|}

== Workshop ==

The 21st SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2024, organized by Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Çağrı Çöltekin, and Fred Mailhot. Attendance was approximately 30 participants, in-person and online. This is a decrease in attendance, and we will be investigating ways that we can increase participation.

The 2023 Workshop had 15 submissions (a decrease of 33% over the previous year) from which the program committee selected 9 for publication (60% acceptance rate). There were two invited talks: Naomi Feldman, and Jian Zhu. The workshop was held in a hybrid format, with both live attendees at NAACL, and virtual attendees via Zoom.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2024, SIGMORPHON held an open solicitation for shared tasks, selecting 3. Each task was separately proposed by an organizing committee, and separately approved by the SIG Executive Committee, who worked with the organizing committee in some cases. This structure was inspired by other groups (SIGSEM and SIGNLL) that run multiple shared tasks, and we expect to keep it in future years. For the first time, the shared tasks were separated from the main workshop, with a separate volume of the proceedings devoted to the shared tasks, and a virtual event for participants.

=== Shared Tasks ===

SIGMORPHON's Ninth installment of its inflection generation shared task concentrated on the efficient generation of morphological paradigms, simulating the work done in field linguistics.

The second installment of its subword tokenization shared task concentrated on the segmentation of words into subword units using small language models.

The third installment of its G2P shared task concentrated on multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme prediction, but unfortunately, did not receive any submissions.

== Elections ==

The officers of the SIG are listed on the website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/. Officers are serving a 2-year term, and the next election cycle will begin at the end of 2024.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2024-07-02T19:13:50Z

GNicolai: Created page with "This is the 2023-2024 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. == Membership == The SIG membership..."

This is the 2023-2024 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

== Membership ==
The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 36% growth from 176 to 239 members in the past 5 years. In particular, the last 2 years have seen significant growth in the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 2024 || 239
|-
| 2023 || 218
|-
| 2022 || 196
|-
| 2021 || 175
|-
| 2020 || 176
|-
| 2019 || 176
|-
| 2018 || 157
|-
| 2017 || 167
|-
| 2016 || 157
|-
| 2015 || 150
|-
| 2014 || 144
|-
| 2013 || 142
|-
| 2012 || 137
|-
| 2011 || 120
|-
| 2010 || 105
|-
| 2009 || 96
|-
| 2008 || 90
|-
| 2007 || 73
|-
| 2006 || 55
|}

== Workshop ==

The 21st SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2024, organized by Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Çağrı Çöltekin, and Fred Mailhot. Attendance was approximately X participants in person, with another Y participating online. This is especially important now as our community is undergoing rapid growth.

The 2023 Workshop had 15 submissions (a increase of 33% over the previous year) from which the program committee selected 9 for publication (60% acceptance rate). There were two invited talks: Naomi Feldman, and Jian Zhu. The workshop was held in a hybrid format, with both live attendees at NAACL, and virtual attendees via Zoom.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2024, SIGMORPHON held an open solicitation for shared tasks, selecting 3. Each task was separately proposed by an organizing committee, and separately approved by the SIG Executive Committee, who worked with the organizing committee in some cases. This structure was inspired by other groups (SIGSEM and SIGNLL) that run multiple shared tasks, and we expect to keep it in future years. For the first time, the shared tasks were separated from the main workshop, with a separate volume of the proceedings devoted to the shared tasks, and a virtual event for participants.

=== Shared Tasks ===

SIGMORPHON's Ninth installment of its inflection generation shared task concentrated on the efficient generation of morphological paradigms, simulating the work done in field linguistics.

The second installment of its subword tokenization shared task concentrated on the segmentation of words into subword units using small language models.

The third installment of its G2P shared task concentrated on multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme prediction, but unfortunately, did not receive any submissions.

== Elections ==

The officers of the SIG are listed on the website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/. Officers are serving a 2-year term, and the next election cycle will begin at the end of 2024.

SIG Compliance

2024-06-18T15:55:55Z

GNicolai: /* SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb), Mona Diab treasurer (mdiab@andrew.cmu.edu)
'''members''': 841
'''elections (last,next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': [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]

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': https://sigann.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de)
'''members''': 150
'''elections (last,next)''': Oct. 2021, 2024
'''events''': LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;, LAW XIV at Coling 2020, LAW XV-DMR III at EMNLP 2021, LAW XVI at LREC 2022

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),
secretary Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com)
'''members''': 224
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2022, June 2025
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mona Diab; Vice President: Isabelle Augenstein; Secretary: Chin-Yew Lin
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2023, December 2024
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

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

'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 240
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2021, March 2024
'''events''': Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigel.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com)
'''members''': 116
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2025
'''events''': ComputEL

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

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@uni-leipzig.de),
secretary Bruce Watson (bruce@bruce-watson.com)
'''members''': 131
'''elections (last, next)''': Summer 2020, Summer 2023
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled), FSMNLP 2023 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled)

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 490
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.ling.washington.edu
'''contacts''': chair Nianwen Xue (xuen@brandeis.edu),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

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

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/
'''contacts''': president Barbara McGillivray (barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk), secretary Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), liaison representative Sara Tonelli (satonelli@fbk.eu)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2022, July 2024
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021, LaTeCH-CLfL 2022, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023.

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
'''members''': 485
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference at NAACL 2024; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2024; Annual MWE workshop at LREC-COLING 2024; Additional past sponsored and endorsed events are listed on the [https://aclanthology.org/sigs/siglex/ SIGLEX page of the ACL Anthology]

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Thomas Graf (mail@thomasgraf.net),
'''members''': 333
'''elections (last, next)''': May 2024, mid 2025
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (garrett.nicolai@ubc.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 175
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2023, Feb 2025
'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task, SIGMORPHON 2020, SIGMORPHON 2021, SIGMORPHON 2022, SIGMORPHON 2023, SIGMORPHON 2024

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

'''web page''': https://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Alexandra Birch (a.birch@ed.ac.uk), Secretary: Antonis Anastasopoulos, North America: Marine Carpuat, Europe: Ondrej Bojar, Asia: Masao Utiyama
'''members''': 180
'''elections (last)''': September 2021
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

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

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

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 266
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com),
secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com)
'''members''': 2000
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2022, October 2024
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023

=== SIGSEC: SIG on NLP security ===

'''web page''': https://sig.llmsecurity.net
'''contacts''': President: Leon Derczynski ld@itu.dk, Secretary: Muhao Chen, Jekaterina Novikova
'''members''': 124
'''elections (last,next)''': -, 2024
'''events''': fortnightly talks - https://sig.llmsecurity.net/talks/

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Sina Zarrieß (Sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de),
secretary Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (stergios.chatzikyriakidis@uoc.gr)
'''members''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': summer 2021, 2025
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2020, Fall 2022
'''members''': 160
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022

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

'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)
'''members''': 144
'''elections (first,next)''': First Oct 2022, every 2 years
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2023;

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigsumm.org/
'''contacts''': Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu
'''members''': 52
'''elections (first,next)''': first Dec. 2023; every 2 years
'''events''': NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023

=== SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages ===

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 95
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every year
'''events''': TBA;

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

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 420
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021, SIGTYP 2022 (NAACL 2022), SIGTYP 2023 (EACL 2023), SIGTYP 2024 (EACL 2024)

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Mika Hämäläinen (mika.hamalainen@metropolia.fi),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': 2023, 2025
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2021, IWCLUL 2023

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': 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)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': January 2022, 2024
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020

=== SIGWrit: SIG on writing systems and written language ===

'''web page''':
'''contacts''': 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)
'''members''': 44 (indicated interest)
'''elections (last, next)''': -, January 2025
'''events''': CAWL at ACL 2023

2022Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2023-08-03T18:43:45Z

GNicolai:

This is the 2021-2022 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

== Membership ==
The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 25% growth from 157 to 196 members in the past 5 years. We are planning to hold a membership drive to further promote growth of the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 2022 || 196
|-
| 2021 || 175
|-
| 2020 || 176
|-
| 2019 || 176
|-
| 2018 || 157
|-
| 2017 || 167
|-
| 2016 || 157
|-
| 2015 || 150
|-
| 2014 || 144
|-
| 2013 || 142
|-
| 2012 || 137
|-
| 2011 || 120
|-
| 2010 || 105
|-
| 2009 || 96
|-
| 2008 || 90
|-
| 2007 || 73
|-
| 2006 || 55
|}

== Workshop ==

The 19th SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2022, organized by Garrett Nicolai and Eleanor Chodroff. The workshop has successfully converted from a biennial workshop to an annual one. This is especially important now as our community is undergoing rapid growth.

The 2022 Workshop had 18 submissions from which the program committee selected 10 for publication (56% acceptance rate). There were two invited talks: Laura Gwilliams, and Gasper Begus. The workshop was held in a hybrid format, with both live attendees at NAACL, and virtual attendees via Zoom.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2022, SIGMORPHON held an open solicitation for shared tasks, selecting 3. Each task was separately proposed by an organizing committee, and separately approved by the SIG Executive Committee, who worked with the organizing committee in some cases. This structure was inspired by other groups (SIGSEM and SIGNLL) that run multiple shared tasks, and we expect to keep it in future years.

=== Task 0 ===

SIGMORPHON's seventh installment of its inflection generation shared task is divided
into two parts: Re-inflection, and acquisition trajectories.

In the first part, participants designed a model that learned to generate morphological inflections from a lemma and a set of morphosyntactic features of the target form.

In the second part, instead of predicting well-formedness of nonce word forms, systems were instead evaluated on their ability to generalize over naturalistic low-resource inputs. The organizers prepared data to determine systems' learning trajectories and compare them against the wealth of data that has been collected about human learning trajectories for three famous problems: English past tense, German noun plurals, and Arabic noun plurals.

=== Task 1 ===

The SIGMORPHON shared task on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion expanded on the task from last year, with new languages and data.

=== Task 2 ===
Task 2 was new to this year’s workshop, and involved the segmentation of words into morphemes in both contextual and context-free scenarios.

=== Membership drive ===
A bug in the Google group was discovered, which was automatically rejecting new members; once this bug was fixed, we saw membership increase by more than 10%. We are now expecting to conduct a membership drive in the coming year.

== Elections ==

The elected officers of the SIG are listed at [https://sigmorphon.github.io/], and are serving a 2-year term. The next elections are scheduled to take place in January, 2023.

2023Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2023-08-03T18:43:18Z

GNicolai: Created page with "This is the 2022-2023 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. == Membership == The SIG membership..."

This is the 2022-2023 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

== Membership ==
The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 24% growth from 176 to 218 members in the past 5 years. In particular, the last 2 years have seen significant growth in the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 2023 || 218
|-
| 2022 || 196
|-
| 2021 || 175
|-
| 2020 || 176
|-
| 2019 || 176
|-
| 2018 || 157
|-
| 2017 || 167
|-
| 2016 || 157
|-
| 2015 || 150
|-
| 2014 || 144
|-
| 2013 || 142
|-
| 2012 || 137
|-
| 2011 || 120
|-
| 2010 || 105
|-
| 2009 || 96
|-
| 2008 || 90
|-
| 2007 || 73
|-
| 2006 || 55
|}

== Workshop ==

The 20th SIG workshop was held at ACL 2023, organized by Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Çağrı Çöltekin, and Fred Mailhot. Attendance was approximately 30 participants in person, with another 30 participating online. This is especially important now as our community is undergoing rapid growth.

The 2023 Workshop had 22 submissions (an increase of 22% over the previous year) from which the program committee selected 12 for publication (55% acceptance rate). There were two invited talks: Carmen Saldana, and Kyle Gorman. The workshop was held in a hybrid format, with both live attendees at NAACL, and virtual attendees via Zoom.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2023, SIGMORPHON held an open solicitation for shared tasks, selecting 3, with one eventually retracting due to time constraints. Each task was separately proposed by an organizing committee, and separately approved by the SIG Executive Committee, who worked with the organizing committee in some cases. This structure was inspired by other groups (SIGSEM and SIGNLL) that run multiple shared tasks, and we expect to keep it in future years.

=== Task 0 ===

SIGMORPHON's eighth installment of its inflection generation shared task was divided
into three parts.

In the first part, participants designed a model that learned to generate morphological inflections from a lemma and a set of morphosyntactic features of the target form.

In the second part, participants were tasked with generating reasonable inflectional responses to a Wug task in Korean.

In the third part, participants produce models that fail in ways similar to children - ie, the aim was to imitate child learning of morphology.

=== Task 1 ===

For the first time, we presented a shared task on interlinear glossing, with two sub-tracks:

In the first, participants must automatically gloss lower-resource data using only the source sentence and potentially a matrix translation (ie, English or Spanish).

In the second, the participants also have access to a morphological segmentation of the source text.

== Elections ==

2023 represented an election of new officers to the SIG, who are listed on the website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/. Officers are serving a 2-year term, with the next election cycle to begin at the end of 2024.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2023-08-03T18:29:10Z

GNicolai:

This is the 2021-2022 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

== Membership ==
The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 25% growth from 157 to 196 members in the past 5 years. We are planning to hold a membership drive to further promote growth of the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 2022 || 196
|-
| 2021 || 175
|-
| 2020 || 176
|-
| 2019 || 176
|-
| 2018 || 157
|-
| 2017 || 167
|-
| 2016 || 157
|-
| 2015 || 150
|-
| 2014 || 144
|-
| 2013 || 142
|-
| 2012 || 137
|-
| 2011 || 120
|-
| 2010 || 105
|-
| 2009 || 96
|-
| 2008 || 90
|-
| 2007 || 73
|-
| 2006 || 55
|}

== Workshop ==

The 19th SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2022, organized by Garrett Nicolai and Eleanor Chodroffl. The workshop has successfully converted from a biennial workshop to an annual one. This is especially important now as our community is undergoing rapid growth.

The 2022 Workshop had 18 submissions from which the program committee selected 10 for publication (56% acceptance rate). There were two invited talks: Laura Gwilliams, and Gasper Begus. The workshop was held in a hybrid format, with both live attendees at NAACL, and virtual attendees via Zoom.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2022, SIGMORPHON held an open solicitation for shared tasks, selecting 3. Each task was separately proposed by an organizing committee, and separately approved by the SIG Executive Committee, who worked with the organizing committee in some cases. This structure was inspired by other groups (SIGSEM and SIGNLL) that run multiple shared tasks, and we expect to keep it in future years.

=== Task 0 ===

SIGMORPHON's seventh installment of its inflection generation shared task is divided
into two parts: Re-inflection, and acquisition trajectories.

In the first part, participants designed a model that learned to generate morphological inflections from a lemma and a set of morphosyntactic features of the target form.

In the second part, instead of predicting well-formedness of nonce word forms, systems were instead evaluated on their ability to generalize over naturalistic low-resource inputs. The organizers prepared data to determine systems' learning trajectories and compare them against the wealth of data that has been collected about human learning trajectories for three famous problems: English past tense, German noun plurals, and Arabic noun plurals.

=== Task 1 ===

The SIGMORPHON shared task on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion expanded on the task from last year, with new languages and data.

=== Task 2 ===
Task 2 was new to this year’s workshop, and involved the segmentation of words into morphemes in both contextual and context-free scenarios.

=== Membership drive ===
A bug in the Google group was discovered, which was automatically rejecting new members; once this bug was fixed, we saw membership increase by more than 10%. We are now expecting to conduct a membership drive in the coming year.

== Elections ==

The elected officers of the SIG are listed at [https://sigmorphon.github.io/], and are serving a 2-year term. The next elections are scheduled to take place in January, 2023.