2016Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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JohanBos: /* Past and Future Elections */

2016Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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JohanBos: /* The SIGSEM board */

2016Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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* [[2014Q1 Reports]]
* [[2013Q3 Reports]]
* [[2013Q1 Reports]]

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2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2014-06-06T09:23:41Z

JohanBos: /* Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM */

2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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JohanBos: /* Endorsed events in 2012 */

2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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JohanBos: /* Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM */

2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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JohanBos: /* Past Elections */

== The [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM] board ==

The current board is composed of:
* '''Johan Bos''' (President);
* '''Katrin Erk''' (Secretary);
* '''Marco Baroni''' (Information Officer);
* '''Gemma Boleda''' (Information Officer);
* '''Alexander Koller''' (Information Officer);
* '''Matthew Purver''' (Information Officer).

Some of contact addresses have changed -- please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here] for the latest updates.

== Past Elections ==

Elections were held in October 2013, as planned. Three new information officiers joined the board.

== Members ==

The current SIGSEM membership counts 876 members.
We have started cleaning up the database with members, by removing registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore after a couple of email bounces, of people who we can't reach otherwise.
There is a reasonably active, moderated mailinglist. See [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM].

== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM ==

The major SIGSEM event of 2013 was [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/iwcs2013/index.html IWCS-2013], which took place in Potsdam, Germany. This was a four-day conference (including five workshops and an open-space afternoon) attracting over a 100 computational semanticists. IWCS-2013 received 60 long submissions and 22 short submissions (plus 3 long submissions that were accepted as short). Accepted were 25 long and 16 short papers, resulting in an acceptance rate of 41.7% for long papers and 64% for short papers.
Two SIGSEM board members took care of the organisation: Alexander Koller (local matters) and Katrin Erk (programme matters). There are three bids to organize IWCS-2015.

Last year (2012), SIGSEM and SIGLEX co-organised the start of new conference, *SEM, which took place in Montreal at NAACL. We see this as a very positive move towards collaboration of the SIGLEX and SIGSEM communities, which have a large overlap in research interests, but historically originated from different angles. See [[2012Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX]] for a more detailed report on *SEM. The second edition of *SEM is collocated with NAACL in Atlanta this year. Plans for *SEM-2014 are currently discussed between the SIGLEX and SIGSEM boards.

== Endorsed events in 2012 ==

* [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/ *SEM-2012]: First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Montreal, 7-8 June 2012.
* [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/ WASSA-2012]: 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. Jeju, Korea, 12-13 Jul, 2012. Held in conjunction with the [http://www.acl2012.org/ ACL 2012] Conference

2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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JohanBos: /* Members */

2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2013-07-09T08:07:00Z

JohanBos: /* Call and selection procedure */

== CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report ==
Prepared July 8, 2013 
Keith Hall (Google Research) 
Johan Bos (University of Groningen) 

=== General Schedule ===
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013 
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013 
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013 
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013 
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013 
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers. 

=== Call and selection procedure ===
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics
mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members).
Additionally, the chairs have approached experts in the field and contacted researchers who expressed an
interest in giving a tutorial and provided the details of the submission and reviewing process.
We received 25 proposals and
accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and
one as a full-day tutorial.
Submissions
were handled through the start system
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials).
iWe used the following criteria for evaluation:
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was
uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).

=== Selected tutorials ===
'''DECIPHERMENT''' 
Kevin Knight

'''EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS''' 
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski

'''ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS''' 
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg

'''SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS''' 
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

'''THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING''' 
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä

'''VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS''' 
David Burkett and Dan Klein

'''VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS''' 
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni

=== Proceedings ===
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a
description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START
system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently
in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the
presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this
material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides
for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to
have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this
clear to the authors from the start.

=== Acknowledgements ===
We am grateful to Michael Strube, the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and
Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the
Tutorials program.

2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2013-07-09T08:05:49Z

JohanBos: /* Call and selection procedure */

== CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report ==
Prepared July 8, 2013 
Keith Hall (Google Research) 
Johan Bos (University of Groningen) 

=== General Schedule ===
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013 
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013 
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013 
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013 
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013 
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers. 

=== Call and selection procedure ===
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics
mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members).
Additionally, the chairs have approached experts in the field and contacted researchers who expressed an
interest in giving a tutorial and provided the details of the submission and reviewing process.

We received 25 proposals and
accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and
one as a full-day tutorial.
Submissions
were handled through the start system
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials).

We used the following criteria for evaluation:
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was
uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).

=== Selected tutorials ===
'''DECIPHERMENT''' 
Kevin Knight

'''EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS''' 
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski

'''ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS''' 
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg

'''SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS''' 
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

'''THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING''' 
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä

'''VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS''' 
David Burkett and Dan Klein

'''VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS''' 
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni

=== Proceedings ===
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a
description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START
system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently
in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the
presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this
material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides
for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to
have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this
clear to the authors from the start.

=== Acknowledgements ===
We am grateful to Michael Strube, the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and
Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the
Tutorials program.

2013Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs

2013-07-09T08:01:50Z

JohanBos: /* Acknowledgements */

== CL 2013 Tutorial Chairs Report ==
Prepared July 8, 2013 
Keith Hall (Google Research) 
Johan Bos (University of Groningen) 

=== General Schedule ===
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013 
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013 
Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013 
Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013 
Tutorial date: August 4, 2013 
We coordinated the deadlines with Publication Chairs and Local Organizers. 

=== Call and selection procedure ===
The call for proposals (CFP) was first posted at the ACL website in December
2012 and a final call was also sent to high-volume NLP/computational linguistics
mailing lists (e.g., CORPORA list, linguist list, SIGSEM members). Submissions
were handled through the start system
(https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/tutorials). We received 25 proposals and
accepted seven tutorials; six of these were accepted as half-day tutorials and
one as a full-day tutorial. We used the following criteria for evaluation:
appropriateness, technical fit, novelty, potential interest, presenters, and
experience. All proposals were evaluated by both chairs; the final selection
was based on the scores we assigned through start. The final selection was
uncontroversial (we agreed on the best of the submissions).

=== Selected tutorials ===
'''DECIPHERMENT''' 
Kevin Knight

'''EXPLOITING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LANGUAGE-CENTRIC AND REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS''' 
Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Andrea Zielinski

'''ROBUST AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS AND COLLOCATIONS''' 
Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg

'''SEMANTIC PARSING WITH COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS''' 
Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer

'''THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING''' 
Andras Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers and Anssi Yli-Jyrä

'''VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR STRUCTURED NLP MODELS''' 
David Burkett and Dan Klein

'''VISUAL FEATURES FOR LINGUISTS: BASIC IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODALLY-CURIOUS NLPERS''' 
Elia Bruni and Marco Baroni

=== Proceedings ===
We have received the final abstracts for the tutorials (which include a
description as well as a schedule). These were submitted through the START
system and have been passed along to the publications chair. We are currently
in the process of collecting all of the course materials from each of the
presenters. There has been some confusion as to what will be done with this
material and what form it should take. Many presenters have hundreds of slides
for their courses and no other course information. In the future, if we wish to
have separate course-notes in addition to the slides, we recommend making this
clear to the authors from the start.

=== Acknowledgements ===
We am grateful to Michael Strube, the ACL 2012 General Chair, the Local/Publications Chairs, and
Priscilla Rasmussen for their help and advice in the organization of the
Tutorials program.

2013Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2013-06-10T11:20:12Z

JohanBos:

== The [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM] board ==

The current board is composed of:
* '''Johan Bos''' (President);
* '''Katrin Erk''' (Secretary);
* '''Luciana Benotti''' (Information Officer);
* '''Paul Buitelaar''' (Information Officer);
* '''Alexander Koller''' (Information Officer);
* '''Christian Pietsch''' (Information Officer).

Some of contact addresses might have changed -- please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here] for the latest updates.

== Upcoming Elections ==

The next elections were planned for March 2013, but haven't been held yet. We will plan to have the elections after the summer break.

== Members ==

The current SIGSEM membership counts 841 members. We have started cleaning up the database with members, by removing registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore after a couple of email bounces, of people who we can't reach otherwise. There is a reasonably active, moderated mailinglist. See [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM].

== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM ==

The major SIGSEM event of 2013 was [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/iwcs2013/index.html IWCS-2013], which took place in Potsdam, Germany. This was a four-day conference (including five workshops and an open-space afternoon) attracting over a 100 computational semanticists. IWCS-2013 received 60 long submissions and 22 short submissions (plus 3 long submissions that were accepted as short). Accepted were 25 long and 16 short papers, resulting in an acceptance rate of 41.7% for long papers and 64% for short papers.
Two SIGSEM board members took care of the organisation: Alexander Koller (local matters) and Katrin Erk (programme matters). There are three bids to organize IWCS-2015.

Last year (2012), SIGSEM and SIGLEX co-organised the start of new conference, *SEM, which took place in Montreal at NAACL. We see this as a very positive move towards collaboration of the SIGLEX and SIGSEM communities, which have a large overlap in research interests, but historically originated from different angles. See [[2012Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX]] for a more detailed report on *SEM. The second edition of *SEM is collocated with NAACL in Atlanta this year. Plans for *SEM-2014 are currently discussed between the SIGLEX and SIGSEM boards.

== Endorsed events in 2012 ==

* [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/ *SEM-2012]: First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Montreal, 7-8 June 2012.
* [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/ WASSA-2012]: 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. Jeju, Korea, 12-13 Jul, 2012. Held in conjunction with the [http://www.acl2012.org/ ACL 2012] Conference

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JohanBos: /* Report on SIGSEM by Johan Bos (June 2011) */

=== Report on [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM] by Johan Bos (June 2011) ===

The current SIGSEM membership counts 728 members. The database needs to be cleaned up as there is a relatively large number of registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore. This was planned for the past term but hasn't been executed yet. We will put this on our priority list.

The current board is composed of: Johan Bos (President); Katrin Erk (Secretary); Luciana Benotti (Information Officer); Paul Buitelaar (Information Officer); Alexander Koller; (Information Officer); Christian Pietsch (Information Officer). Some of contact addresses have changed, please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here] for the latest updates.

The major event since the last report co-organised by SIGSEM was [http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ IWCS-2011], the ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics. IWCS-2011 took place in Oxford, UK, on 12-14 January 2011. A [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/IWCS-9_Conference_Report conference report] was written for SIGSEM by Elena Cabrio. IWCS was a succesful event, with 110 submissions and 50 accepted papers (30 long, 20 short). The next IWCS is tentativily planned for January 2013 in Potsdam, Germany.

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2010 were:

* [http://art.uniroma2.it/gems010/ GEMS 2010]: Uppsala, Sweden, 15-16 July 2010
* [http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/ Negation and speculation in natural language processing]: Uppsala, Sweden, 10 July 2010
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/textworkshop.html NASSLLI 2010 WORKSHOP on Inference from Text]: Bloomington, IN, USA, 21-25 June 2010
* [http://www.semdial2010.amu.edu.pl/ SemDial 2010]: Poznań, Poland, 16-18 June 2010
* [http://www.give-challenge.org/research/page.php?id=give-2-index GIVE-2]: The Second GIVE Challenge