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2025Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2025-07-22T05:36:12Z

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SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:
• Chair -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Vincent NG (The University of Texas at Dallas)
• Treasurer -- Junhui LI (Soochow University)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washington)

Activities and Plans

The current board took office in January 2023 following the election in 2022. Per the SIGHAN constitution, a new board election should be held soon.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2024-07-17T20:02:28Z

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2024 Report: SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:

• Chair -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Vincent NG (The University of Texas at Dallas)
• Treasurer -- Junhui LI (Soochow University)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washington)

Activities and Plans

The 10th SIGHAN workshop will take place at ACL 2024 in Bangkok. The workshop received 29 submissions this year, including 20 research articles and 8 technical reports in the dimABSA Shared Task. All the technical reports and 12 research papers were accepted for the workshop, resulting in an acceptance rate of 60%.

The board took office in January 2023. Per our constitution, the board term is two years. We anticipate holding the next board election in Fall 2024.

SIG Compliance

2023-12-07T19:32:05Z

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== 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)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== 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''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference at ACL 2023; Annual SemEval workshop at ACL 2023; Annual MWE workshop at EACL 2023; 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 Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 310
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022
'''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 (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 175
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023
'''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

=== 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''': Leon Derczynski ld@itu.dk, 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''': 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''': 380
'''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

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

=== 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

2023Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2023-06-18T21:47:45Z

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2023 Report:
SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:
• Chair -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Vincent NG (The University of Texas at Dallas)
• Treasurer -- Junhui LI (Soochow University)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washington)

Activities and Plans

We held the election for the SIGHAN board at the end of 2022. The slate of officers, was identified by the nominating committee of Prof. Min Zhang, Prof. Chengqing Zong, and Prof. Nianwen Xue. Per the SIGHAN constitution, the slate was announced, and the floor opened for additional nominations. After the designated period, no additional nominations were received. The election closed at the end of December. The slate of candidates was overwhelmingly approved by the membership. The new board took office in January 2023.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2022-07-15T13:34:37Z

Ginalevow:

2022 Report:
SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:
• Chair -- Min ZHANG (Soochow University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Treasurer -- SUN Le (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washington)

Activities and Plans

We will soon be conducting a new election for SIGHAN board, since the
members have come to the end of their term. The current Chair and
Vice-Chair are convening a nominating committee to identify a slate of
candidates.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2022-07-15T13:34:06Z

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2022 Report:
SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:
• Chair -- Min ZHANG (Soochow University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Treasurer -- SUN Le (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of S\
ciences)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washingt\
on)

Activities and Plans

We will soon be conducting a new election for SIGHAN board, since the
members have come to the end of their term. The current Chair and
Vice-Chair are convening a nominating committee to identify a slate of
candidates.

2021Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2021-07-12T19:51:11Z

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SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:
• Chair -- Min ZHANG (Soochow University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Treasurer -- SUN Le (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washington)

Activities and Plans

We held the ninth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language
Processing in conjunction with IJCNLP 2017 on December 1, 2017.
The workshop featured high quality papers in all aspects of Chinese
language processing. The workshop organizing committee included Yue
Zhang (Singapore University of Technology and Design) and Zhifang Sui
(Peking University).

We will soon be conducting a new election for SIGHAN board, since the
members have come to the end of their term. The current Chair and
Vice-Chair are convening a nominating committee to identify a slate of
candidates.

2020Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2020-06-28T05:24:51Z

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2019Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2019-07-27T15:04:49Z

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2019 Report

SIGHAN Officers

The current board of SIGHAN officers is:
• Chair -- Min ZHANG (Soochow University)
• Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect -- Nianwen XUE (Brandeis University)
• Treasurer -- SUN Le (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Secretary/Web Master -- Gina-Anne LEVOW (University of Washington)

Activities and Plans

We held the ninth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language
Processing in conjunction with IJCNLP 2017 on December 1, 2017.
The workshop featured high quality papers in all aspects of Chinese
language processing. The workshop organizing committee included Yue
Zhang (Singapore University of Technology and Design) and Zhifang Sui
(Peking University).

We will soon be conducting a new election for SIGHAN board, as specified
in the constitution.