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2020Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2020-07-11T17:35:55Z

JasonEisner: /* Membership */ wording

This is the 2019-2020 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 15% growth from 150 to 176 members in the past 5 years. We are planning to hold a membership drive to further promote growth of the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 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 17th SIG workshop will be held at ACL 2020, chaired by Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman and Ryan Cotterell. There is a push now to hold the workshop every year to increase interest in the SIG’s target areas among the wider ACL community. This is especially important now as our community is undergoing rapid growth.

The 2020 Workshop had 14 submissions from which the program committee selected 8 for publication (57% acceptance rate). There will also be invited talks. This will be the first SIGMORPHON workshop to be held entirely online.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2020, SIGMORPHON looked to build off the success of its previous shared tasks, and expanded its shared task offerings to three. 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 fifth installment of its inflection generation shared task focuses on languages that are typologically diverse from languages in our previous tasks. Many of these languages are extremely low-resource. This edition of the task is particularly interested in inflection generation systems' ability to generalize to new languages, including languages that are typologically distinct. 10 teams submitted 22 systems, of which 19 were neural. Data hallucination proved to be a popular tactic this year, following the methods of the best system from last year’s task.

=== Task 1 ===
This new task, the first of its kind at SIGMORPHON, focuses on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. This technology is a key component of speech recognition and synthesis engines, but much of the existing published research is either limited to a small number of closely related languages/scripts, or uses proprietary data sets, limiting replicability. The training and development data consists of words and corresponding IPA pronunciations extracted from Wiktionary, a free online encyclopedia, in 15 languages and scripts. 9 teams submitted a total of 23 different systems.

=== Task 2 ===
Task 2 fills the gap between recent SIGMORPHON shared tasks on morphological inflection learned from limited training data and completely unsupervised morphological generation by proposing the task of unsupervised morphological paradigm completion. The goal was to generate complete inflection tables exclusively from raw text and a lemma list for a known part of speech. 3 teams submitted a total of 7 different systems to tackle this new task.

== Other Activities (Online) ==

=== Migration of group mailing list ===
This year saw the migration of the SIG’s mailing list from an internal server at Johns Hopkins University to a Google Group. This migration serves to facilitate coordination between the group and several other SIG functions, such as elections which were conducted through Google in 2019. The SIG also created a similar Google Group to replace the Exec mailing list.

=== Mentorship program ===
This year saw the initiation of a mentorship program, which will take place at ACL. Due to the fact that ACL 2020 will be held online, the mentorship program is virtual; if they take place, future iterations should also be in person. The program was spearheaded by Ryan Cotterell, but at the suggestion of Kyle Gorman who forwarded a request from a SIGMOPHON member inquiring if such a program is possible to the SIGMORPHON Exec. Interested mentees were advised to sign up online on a Google form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjEixHNavRJKr2pY-dkq3Y1ZR70OvwbMs6sYmoNgF5zb4pAg/viewform?usp=send_form], and were paired with more senior researchers who will serve as mentors to them. At the time of writing, 10 people have signed up; all who signed up were either graduate students or prospective graduate students; some did not have papers at the conference. One mentee who signed up early has been paired so far; we are working on pairing the rest. The success of the program will not be known until after the workshop in July, but this early success suggests that we should run the program again next year.

=== Membership drive ===
With the successful migration of the mailing list to Google groups, we are expecting to conduct the planned membership drive in the coming year.

== Elections ==

An election of the executive committee of the SIG was held in January, 2019. 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, 2021.

2020Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2020-07-11T17:24:34Z

JasonEisner: new annual report

This is the 2019-2020 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 15% growth from 150 to 176 members in the past 5 years. We are planning to hold a membership drive to further promote growth within the SIG.

{|
! Year !! Membership
|-
| 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 17th SIG workshop will be held at ACL 2020, chaired by Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman and Ryan Cotterell. There is a push now to hold the workshop every year to increase interest in the SIG’s target areas among the wider ACL community. This is especially important now as our community is undergoing rapid growth.

The 2020 Workshop had 14 submissions from which the program committee selected 8 for publication (57% acceptance rate). There will also be invited talks. This will be the first SIGMORPHON workshop to be held entirely online.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2020, SIGMORPHON looked to build off the success of its previous shared tasks, and expanded its shared task offerings to three. 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 fifth installment of its inflection generation shared task focuses on languages that are typologically diverse from languages in our previous tasks. Many of these languages are extremely low-resource. This edition of the task is particularly interested in inflection generation systems' ability to generalize to new languages, including languages that are typologically distinct. 10 teams submitted 22 systems, of which 19 were neural. Data hallucination proved to be a popular tactic this year, following the methods of the best system from last year’s task.

=== Task 1 ===
This new task, the first of its kind at SIGMORPHON, focuses on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. This technology is a key component of speech recognition and synthesis engines, but much of the existing published research is either limited to a small number of closely related languages/scripts, or uses proprietary data sets, limiting replicability. The training and development data consists of words and corresponding IPA pronunciations extracted from Wiktionary, a free online encyclopedia, in 15 languages and scripts. 9 teams submitted a total of 23 different systems.

=== Task 2 ===
Task 2 fills the gap between recent SIGMORPHON shared tasks on morphological inflection learned from limited training data and completely unsupervised morphological generation by proposing the task of unsupervised morphological paradigm completion. The goal was to generate complete inflection tables exclusively from raw text and a lemma list for a known part of speech. 3 teams submitted a total of 7 different systems to tackle this new task.

== Other Activities (Online) ==

=== Migration of group mailing list ===
This year saw the migration of the SIG’s mailing list from an internal server at Johns Hopkins University to a Google Group. This migration serves to facilitate coordination between the group and several other SIG functions, such as elections which were conducted through Google in 2019. The SIG also created a similar Google Group to replace the Exec mailing list.

=== Mentorship program ===
This year saw the initiation of a mentorship program, which will take place at ACL. Due to the fact that ACL 2020 will be held online, the mentorship program is virtual; if they take place, future iterations should also be in person. The program was spearheaded by Ryan Cotterell, but at the suggestion of Kyle Gorman who forwarded a request from a SIGMOPHON member inquiring if such a program is possible to the SIGMORPHON Exec. Interested mentees were advised to sign up online on a Google form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjEixHNavRJKr2pY-dkq3Y1ZR70OvwbMs6sYmoNgF5zb4pAg/viewform?usp=send_form], and were paired with more senior researchers who will serve as mentors to them. At the time of writing, 10 people have signed up; all who signed up were either graduate students or prospective graduate students; some did not have papers at the conference. One mentee who signed up early has been paired so far; we are working on pairing the rest. The success of the program will not be known until after the workshop in July, but this early success suggests that we should run the program again next year.

=== Membership drive ===
With the successful migration of the mailing list to Google groups, we are expecting to conduct the planned membership drive in the coming year.

== Elections ==

An election of the executive committee of the SIG was held in January, 2019. 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, 2021.

2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2015-06-30T21:58:57Z

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2014-2015 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
150, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137/142/144 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013/2014
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held a full-day joint workshop with SIGFSM at ACL 2014 ([https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/ website], [http://acl2014.org/acl2014/W14-28/index.html proceedings]).

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 15th SIG workshop at
one of the 2016 conferences.

=== Shared Task ===

We plan to offer the first SIGMORPHON shared task in conjunction with our 2016 workshop. The topic is morphological reinflection. A meeting about this was held at NAACL 2015, and we will soon solicit feedback from SIG members. Thanks to Ryan Cotterell for taking lead. A draft website is at [http://ryancotterell.github.io/sigmorphon2016/].

=== Online Activities ===

We discovered recently that several current authors publishing on SIGMORPHON topics are not on the SIG's mailing list. To update the mailing list, we plan to harvest a list of recent papers and contact the authors. We will also encourage people to join the mailing list when we advertise the shared task via ACL.

Our secretary, Greg Kondrak, has recently transitioned [http://sigmorphon.org the SIGMORPHON website] to a new host, but it does not have much up-to-date content other than the executive committee and the membership list.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

As we noted in last year's SIG report, we would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2016. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following schedule:

* Friday, November 6, 2015 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Friday, December 4, 2015 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Thursday, February 4, 2016: Voting closes

2014Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2014-06-08T05:44:54Z

JasonEisner: /* Online Activities */

2013-2014 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
144, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137/142 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We will hold our [https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/ 13th SIG workshop] at ACL 2014. This will be a joint meeting with SIGFSM, recognizing shared problems and techniques between these two communities. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of presentations of 8 peer-reviewed papers, a keynote talk, and a special panel session on open problems.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 14th SIG workshop at
one of the 2016 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its website. Our new secretary, Greg Kondrak, is in the process of transitioning the website to a new host and revamping it. Thanks to Rich Wicentowski for his help with this and for serving as SIG secretary for a decade.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

We would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

We are pleased to have fresh blood on the executive committee, with Sharon Goldwater, Ben Snyder, and Andrea Sims joining as at-large members alongside Jeff Heinz. The old exec encouraged new people to run, with the result that we had a competitive election -- the two candidates who lost would also have been strong and may serve in future.

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2016. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following schedule:

* Friday, November 6, 2015 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Friday, December 4, 2015 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Thursday, February 4, 2016: Voting closes

2014Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2014-06-08T05:41:11Z

JasonEisner: /* Elections */

2013-2014 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
144, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137/142 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We will hold our [https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/ 13th SIG workshop] at ACL 2014. This will be a joint meeting with SIGFSM, recognizing shared problems and techniques between these two communities. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of presentations of 8 peer-reviewed papers, a keynote talk, and a special panel session on open problems.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 14th SIG workshop at
one of the 2016 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its website. Our new secretary, Greg Kondrak, is in the process of transitioning the website to a new host and revamping it.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

We would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

We are pleased to have fresh blood on the executive committee, with Sharon Goldwater, Ben Snyder, and Andrea Sims joining as at-large members alongside Jeff Heinz. The old exec encouraged new people to run, with the result that we had a competitive election -- the two candidates who lost would also have been strong and may serve in future.

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2016. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following schedule:

* Friday, November 6, 2015 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Friday, December 4, 2015 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Thursday, February 4, 2016: Voting closes

2014Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2014-06-08T05:37:53Z

JasonEisner:

2013-2014 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
144, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137/142 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We will hold our [https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/ 13th SIG workshop] at ACL 2014. This will be a joint meeting with SIGFSM, recognizing shared problems and techniques between these two communities. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of presentations of 8 peer-reviewed papers, a keynote talk, and a special panel session on open problems.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 14th SIG workshop at
one of the 2016 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its website. Our new secretary, Greg Kondrak, is in the process of transitioning the website to a new host and revamping it.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

We would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

We are pleased to have fresh blood on the executive committee, with Sharon Goldwater, Ben Snyder, and Andrea Sims joining as at-large members alongside Jeff Heinz.

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2016. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following schedule:

* Friday, November 6, 2015 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Friday, December 4, 2015 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Thursday, February 4, 2016: Voting closes

2014Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2014-06-08T05:37:22Z

JasonEisner: /* Elections */ fresh blood

2013-2014 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
???, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137/142 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We will hold our [https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/ 13th SIG workshop] at ACL 2014. This will be a joint meeting with SIGFSM, recognizing shared problems and techniques between these two communities. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of presentations of 8 peer-reviewed papers, a keynote talk, and a special panel session on open problems.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 14th SIG workshop at
one of the 2016 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its website. Our new secretary, Greg Kondrak, is in the process of transitioning the website to a new host and revamping it.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

We would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

We are pleased to have fresh blood on the executive committee, with Sharon Goldwater, Ben Snyder, and Andrea Sims joining as at-large members alongside Jeff Heinz.

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2016. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following schedule:

* Friday, November 6, 2015 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Friday, December 4, 2015 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Thursday, February 4, 2016: Voting closes

2014Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2014-06-08T05:33:42Z

JasonEisner: new version

2013-2014 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
???, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137/142 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We will hold our [https://sites.google.com/site/morphfsm2014/ 13th SIG workshop] at ACL 2014. This will be a joint meeting with SIGFSM, recognizing shared problems and techniques between these two communities. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of presentations of 8 peer-reviewed papers, a keynote talk, and a special panel session on open problems.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 14th SIG workshop at
one of the 2016 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its website. Our new secretary, Greg Kondrak, is in the process of transitioning the website to a new host and revamping it.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

We would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2016. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Friday, November 6, 2015 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Friday, December 4, 2015 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Thursday, February 4, 2016: Voting closes

2013Q3 Reports

2013-07-23T07:35:03Z

JasonEisner:

ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JULY 10, 2013

'''Reports from ACL Management'''

* [[2013Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: EACL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Nominating Committee]] (SUBMITTED)

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* [[2013Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
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* [[2013Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]

'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''

* [[2013Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Squibs and Comments]] (to be discontinued ?)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL Anthology]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL Web Site]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL Portal]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Recent Conferences'''

* [[2013Q3 Reports: EMNLP-CONLL 2012]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: COLING 2012]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: NAACL 2013]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Future Conferences'''

* [[2013Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2013]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2013]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: EACL 2014]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL 2014]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL-IJCNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]

'''Other Reports'''

* [[2013Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads 2012]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Special Interest Groups'''

* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2013Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)

2013Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2013-07-23T07:34:28Z

JasonEisner: new report

2012-2013 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
142, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120/137 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our [http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/sigmorphon2012/ 12th SIG workshop] at NAACL 2012, with 9 of 15 submissions accepted, and 20+ people in attendance. The [http://aclweb.org/anthology/sigmorphon.html#2012_0 papers presented] were of high quality, and generated a lot of interesting discussion. There was a fair spread of topic areas, although the phonetics/phonology end of the spectrum was not very well represented.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 13th SIG workshop at
one of the 2014 conferences. We are specifically discussing a joint
workshop with SIGFSM at ACL 2014 in Baltimore.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its website.

We believe that it might be useful for SIGs in general to maintain annotated or unannotated guides to the literature, if these can be made sufficiently accurate and prominent that they would be used. In 2011, SIGMORPHON experimented with producing [http://sigmorphon.org/venues highlighted versions] of the ACL and EMNLP conference programs, which marked the papers relevant to our SIG. We emailed these to the SIG members in advance of the conference and archived them on the SIG website. Unfortunately, this was labor-intensive and required idiosyncratically hacking the HTML program for each conference. In addition, resources that are hosted only at the SIG website may be overlooked.

We would welcome some guidance and technical support for such endeavors. The ACL Anthology editor (Min-Yen Kan) has proposed in the past that each SIG could maintain a bibliography that linked into the Anthology. Alternatively, the SIGs might assist efforts such as Searchbench @ DFKI, AAN @ UMich, and Saffron @ Deri in identifying topical papers. In principle, topic identifiers for each paper could be produced as part of the conference workflow, especially as related information is already generated at several points in the conference process (authors select keywords, and then program chairs assign submitted papers to tracks and accepted oral papers to sessions). Thus, the final topic IDs might be produced by the program chairs, area chairs, and/or publication chairs. An alternative would be to use automated methods across the Anthology, such as topic modeling, semi-supervised learning, or simple keyword lists that could be matched against the paper abstracts.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2014. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Wednesday, November 6, 2013 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Wednesday, December 4, 2013 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Tuesday, February 4, 2014: Voting closes

2012Q3 Reports

2013-07-23T06:52:39Z

JasonEisner:

'''Reports from ACL Management'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Office Manager]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Treasurer]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: EACL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIG Convener]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Nominating Committee]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)

'''ACL 2012'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Final Report on ACL special session]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Exhibits]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor|2012Q3 Reports: Book Reviews for CL Journal]] (LINKED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Squibs and Comments]] (TO BE DISCONTINUED??)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL Anthology]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL Web Site]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL Portal]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Recent Conferences'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2011]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2011]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: NAACL 2012]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Future Conferences'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: EMNLP-CONLL 2012]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: COLING 2012]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL 2013]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL 2013 Local Arrangements]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: NAACL 2013]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2013]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL 2014]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: ACL-IJCNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Other Reports'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads 2012]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Special Interest Groups'''

* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGSPLAT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2012Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)

2012Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2012-06-25T14:33:53Z

JasonEisner: /* Online Activities */

2011-2012 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
137, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 12th SIG workshop at NAACL 2012, with 9 of 15 submissions
accepted, and 20+ people in attendance. The papers presented were of high quality, and generated a lot of interesting discussion. There was a fair spread of topic areas, although the phonetics/phonology end of the spectrum was not very well represented.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 13th SIG workshop at
one of the 2014 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We have begun emailing our membership to notify them of relevant new papers -- highlighted versions of recent *ACL programs can be found at [http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org]. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field.

2012Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2012-06-25T14:07:12Z

JasonEisner: New page: 2011-2012 Annual Report SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) Jason Eisner === Membership === SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computatio...

2011-2012 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
137, up from 55/73/90/96/105/120 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 12th SIG workshop at NAACL 2012, with 9 of 15 submissions
accepted, and 20+ people in attendance. The papers presented were of high quality, and generated a lot of interesting discussion. There was a fair spread of topic areas, although the phonetics/phonology end of the spectrum was not very well represented.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 13th SIG workshop at
one of the 2014 conferences.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We have begun emailing our membership to notify them of relevant new papers -- highlighted versions of recent *ACL programs can be found at [http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org].

2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2011-06-22T12:15:29Z

JasonEisner: /* Online Activities */

2010-2011 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
120, up from 55/73/90/96/105 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 11th SIG workshop at ACL 2010, with 12 of 26 submissions
accepted, and 20-25 people in attendance. Interestingly, several of
the submissions focused on orthographic systems, which is not part of
the SIG's charter but fits well since it considers other sub-word
phenomena that interact with morphology, phonology, and phonetics.
The workshop also included a good discussion of directions in the field
and future SIG activities.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 12th SIG workshop at
one of the 2012 conferences. We are currently discussing possible
special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the
SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and
increase discussion on its mailing list. We have begun emailing our
membership to notify them of relevant new papers,
starting with [http://sigmorphon.org/biblio/venues/ACL2011.php this highlighted ACL 2011 program].

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2012. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Sunday, November 6, 2011 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Sunday, December 4, 2011 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Saturday, February 4, 2012: Voting closes

2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2011-06-14T14:14:39Z

JasonEisner:

2010-2011 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
120, up from 55/73/90/96/105 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 11th SIG workshop at ACL 2010, with 12 of 26 submissions
accepted, and 20-25 people in attendance. Interestingly, several of
the submissions focused on orthographic systems, which is not part of
the SIG's charter but fits well since it considers other sub-word
phenomena that interact with morphology, phonology, and phonetics.
The workshop also included a good discussion of directions in the field
and future SIG activities.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 12th SIG workshop at
one of the 2012 conferences. We are currently discussing possible
special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the
SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and
increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2012. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Sunday, November 6, 2011 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Sunday, December 4, 2011 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Saturday, February 4, 2012: Voting closes

2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2011-06-14T14:13:54Z

JasonEisner:

2010-2011 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
120, up from 55/73/90/96/105 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 11th SIG workshop at ACL 2010, with 12 of 26 submissions
accepted, and 20-25 people in attendance. Interestingly, several of
the submissions focused on orthographic systems, which is not part of
the SIG's charter but fits well since it considers other sub-word
phenomena that interact with morphology, phonology, and phonetics.
The workshop also included a good discussion of directions in the field
and future SIG activities.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 12th SIG workshop at
one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible
special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the
SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and
increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2012. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Sunday, November 6, 2011 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Sunday, December 4, 2011 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Saturday, February 4, 2012: Voting closes

2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2011-06-14T14:07:27Z

JasonEisner: /* Workshop */

2010-2011 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
120, up from 55/73/90/96/105 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 11th SIG workshop at ACL 2010, with 12 of 26 submissions
accepted, and 20-25 people in attendance. Interestingly, several of
the submissions focused on orthographic systems, which is not part of
the SIG's charter but fits well with morphology, phonology, and phonetics
since it also addresses sub-word phenomena. The workshop also included
a good discussion of directions in the field and future SIG activities.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 12th SIG workshop at
one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible
special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the
SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and
increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2012. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Sunday, November 6, 2011 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Sunday, December 4, 2011 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Saturday, February 4, 2012: Voting closes

2011Q3 Reports

2011-06-14T02:30:16Z

JasonEisner: sigmorphon

'''Reports from ACL Management'''

* [[2011Q3 Reports: Secretary]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Treasurer]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[Media:2011Q3 Reports: EACL.pdf]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIG Convener]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Nominating Committee]] (SUBMITTED)

'''ACL 2011'''

* [[2011Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''

* [[2011Q3 Reports: Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Book Reviews for CL Journal]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: Squibs and Comments]] (TO BE DISCONTINUED??)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ACL Anthology]] (WE NEED UPDATES SINCE LAST YEAR)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ACL Web Site]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Recent Conferences'''

* n/a

'''Future Conferences'''

* [[2011Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2011]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2011]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ACL 2012]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ACL 2013]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ACL 2014]] (SUBMITTED)

'''Other Reports'''

* [[2011Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: ELCLO 2011]]

'''Special Interest Groups'''

* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]
* [[2011Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)

2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2011-06-14T02:29:34Z

JasonEisner: linebreaks

2010-2011 Annual Report 
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) 
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
120, up from 55/73/90/96/105 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 11th SIG workshop at ACL 2010, with 12 of 26 submissions
accepted, and 20-25 people in attendance. The workshop also included
a good discussion of directions in the field and future SIG
activities.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 12th SIG workshop at
one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible
special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the
SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and
increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2012. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Sunday, November 6, 2011 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Sunday, December 4, 2011 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Saturday, February 4, 2012: Voting closes

2011Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2011-06-14T02:28:33Z

JasonEisner: New page: 2010-2011 Annual Report SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) Jason Eisner === Membership === SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morp...

2010-2011 Annual Report
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics)
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational
morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at
120, up from 55/73/90/96/105 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010
respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We held our 11th SIG workshop at ACL 2010, with 12 of 26 submissions
accepted, and 20-25 people in attendance. The workshop also included
a good discussion of directions in the field and future SIG
activities.

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping
with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 12th SIG workshop at
one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible
special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by
maintaining a mailing list and (outdated) online bibliographies at its
website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for
newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the
SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and
increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2012. In keeping
with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Sunday, November 6, 2011 (or sooner): Nominations solicited
* Sunday, December 4, 2011 (or sooner): Voting opens (for any contested positions)
* Saturday, February 4, 2012: Voting closes

2010Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2010-06-21T16:12:08Z

JasonEisner: New page: 2009-2010 Annual Report SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) Jason Eisner === Membership === SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morp...

2009-2010 Annual Report
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics)
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at 105, up from 55/73/90/96 in July 2006/2007/2008/2009 respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. Our 11th SIGMORPHON Workshop will be held at ACL 2010. The program committee accepted 12 of 26 submissions, including a paper analyzing 5 years of the "Morpho Challenge" shared task.

=== Online Activities ===

[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and
(outdated) online bibliographies at its website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Elections ===

Elections for the new executive committee are currently in progress. Most of the existing officers agreed to stand again, and the nomination period is open.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2009-07-10T00:50:54Z

JasonEisner: /* Online Activities */

2008-2009 Annual Report
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics)
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at 96, up from 55/73/90 in July 2006/2007/2008 respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 11th SIG workshop at one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===
[http://sigmorphon.org sigmorphon.org] serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and
(outdated) online bibliographies at its website. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Upcoming Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2010. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Monday October 12, 2009: Nomination period begins
* Monday November 30, 2009: Nomination period ends
* Friday December 4, 2009: Voting period begins (for any contested positions)
* Thursday February 4, 2010: Voting period closes

2009Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

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JasonEisner: corrected formatting

2008-2009 Annual Report
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics)
Jason Eisner

=== Membership ===

SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at 96, up from 55/73/90 in July 2006/2007/2008 respectively.

=== Workshop ===

We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 11th SIG workshop at one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible special themes and shared tasks.

=== Online Activities ===

sigmorphon.org serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and
(outdated) online bibliographies at its web site. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and increase discussion on its mailing list.

=== Upcoming Elections ===

Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2010. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

* Monday October 12, 2009: Nomination period begins
* Monday November 30, 2009: Nomination period ends
* Friday December 4, 2009: Voting period begins (for any contested positions)
* Thursday February 4, 2010: Voting period closes