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SIG Compliance

2020-01-08T09:40:06Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 68
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2020-01-08T09:38:36Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 68
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing (Typ-NLP) at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2020-01-07T11:25:26Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology ===

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 68
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': Typ-NLP workshop at ACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2020-01-06T15:03:22Z

JenniferFoster: /* List of SIGs */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology ===

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 68
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': Typ-NLP workshop on Typology for Polyglot NLP at ACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-10-03T08:50:35Z

JenniferFoster:

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q3 Reports: SIG Officer

2019-07-27T13:55:08Z

JenniferFoster:

EquiCL, the Broad Interest Group for Equity in ACL, was unanimously approved by the ACL executive on 1st June 2019. EquiCL's goal is to promote inclusion and diversity within the ACL community. Interim officers are Marine Carpuat (president) and Aline Villavicencio (secretary).

Up-to-date information on our 21 SIGs can be found here: [[SIG_Compliance]]

2019Q3 Reports: SIG Officer

2019-07-08T12:38:57Z

JenniferFoster: Created page with "* EquiCL, the Broad Interest Group for Equity in ACL, was unanimously approved by the ACL executive on 1st June 2019. EquiCL's goal is to promote inclusion and diversity withi..."

* EquiCL, the Broad Interest Group for Equity in ACL, was unanimously approved by the ACL executive on 1st June 2019. EquiCL's goal is to promote inclusion and diversity within the ACL community. Interim officers are Marine Carpuat (president) and Aline Villavicencio (secretary).

* Up-to-date information on our 21 SIGs can be found here: [[SIG_Compliance]]

SIG Compliance

2019-07-08T12:17:51Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-07-08T12:15:42Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

2019-03-19T21:50:59Z

JenniferFoster:

* A new SIG for representation learning in NLP has been created.
* There are 21 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

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 2017, 2020
'''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

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

2019-03-19T21:50:06Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue */

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

2019-03-19T21:49:44Z

JenniferFoster:

* A new SIG for representation learning in NLP has been created.
* There are 21 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

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 2017, 2020
'''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

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

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== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2017, 2019
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

2019-03-19T21:39:30Z

JenniferFoster:

* A new SIG for representation learning in NLP has been created.
* There are 21 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

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 2017, 2020
'''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

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-19T21:38:10Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''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)

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-14T21:18:21Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

2019-03-14T21:17:12Z

JenniferFoster:

* A new SIG for representation learning in NLP has been created.
* There are 21 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

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 2017, 2020
'''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

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

2019-03-14T21:09:16Z

JenniferFoster:

* A new SIG for representation learning in NLP has been created.
* There are 21 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

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 2017, 2020
'''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

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

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== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 2017, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2019Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

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* A new SIG for representation learning in NLP has been created.
* There are 21 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

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 election Winter 2017
'''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

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-12T08:56:36Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-12T08:54:45Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-11T12:15:45Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-11T09:28:34Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 422
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-11T09:21:49Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-10T22:11:45Z

JenniferFoster: /* 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 ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-10T22:06:45Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-10T22:02:54Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-08T12:45:07Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-08T12:42:32Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-08T12:28:36Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGREP: SIG on representation learning */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-08T12:20:16Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 172
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-08T12:13:10Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T21:37:55Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T21:33:52Z

JenniferFoster: /* 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 ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T21:32:39Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T21:24:46Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T21:17:22Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2018, 2020
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T21:13:27Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

=== 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''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:46:26Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2018, July 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:44:35Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:43:54Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:41:43Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:40:24Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:38:56Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan 2019, Jan 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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:37:03Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2020
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Jan. 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:34:10Z

JenniferFoster: /* 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 ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Dec. 2018, Dec. 2020
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, August 2018
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Jan. 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:32:16Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2018, March 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Dec. 2018
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, August 2018
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Jan. 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

2019-03-07T20:30:06Z

JenniferFoster: /* SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2016, March 2018
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Dec. 2018
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, August 2018
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Jan. 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

SIG Compliance

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== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2019
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017; annual conference at ACL 2018; annual conference at Interspeech 2019;

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

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== 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@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 425
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017; INLG 2018; INLG 2019

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, April 2020
'''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/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2015, NAACL 2016, ACL 2017

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2016, March 2018
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

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

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Dec. 2018
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''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 Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, August 2018
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Jan. 2019
'''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;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== 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 election Winter 2017
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

=== 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''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017