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2021Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2021-07-13T17:16:41Z

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== Membership ==

SIGANN membership is approximately about 270.

== Officers ==

Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2017. New elections will be held prior to LAW XV (November 2021); the results will be announced at the workshop.

== Committee ==

The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Claire Bonial, Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich, Chu-Ren Huang, Jena DC Hwang, Nancy Ide, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Ines Rehbein, Nathan Schneider, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek, Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, Amir Zeldes, Heike Zinsmeister.

== Workshop ==

The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2020 the Fourteenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held virtually in conjunction with COLING 2020, on 12 December 2020 (Barcelona). The workshop included an invited talk entitled "Beyond the Mold: New Paths for Annotation Science" by Nils Reiter, along with seven full length papers and ten posters.

== Website and mailing list ==

We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. We have a listserv list that is used for notices and discussion.

2021Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2021-07-13T17:15:48Z

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== Membership ==

SIGANN membership is approximately about 270.

== Officers ==

Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2017. New elections will be held this fall at LAW XV.

== Committee ==

The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Claire Bonial, Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich, Chu-Ren Huang, Jena DC Hwang, Nancy Ide, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Ines Rehbein, Nathan Schneider, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek, Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, Amir Zeldes, Heike Zinsmeister.

== Workshop ==

The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2020 the Fourteenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held virtually in conjunction with COLING 2020, on 12 December 2020 (Barcelona). The workshop included an invited talk entitled "Beyond the Mold: New Paths for Annotation Science" by Nils Reiter, along with seven full length papers and ten posters.

== Website and mailing list ==

We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. We have a listserv list that is used for notices and discussion.

2019Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2019-07-24T16:34:41Z

NancyIde: Created page with " == Membership == SIGANN membership remains at about 250. == Officers == Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2017. == C..."

== Membership ==

SIGANN membership remains at about 250.

== Officers ==

Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2017.

== Committee ==

The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich, Chu-Ren Huang, Jena DC Hwang, Nancy Ide, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Ines Rehbein, Nathan Schneider, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek, Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, Heike Zinsmeister.

== Workshop ==

The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2018 the Twelfth Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held jointly with the Fourteenth Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) COLING 2018 (Santa Fe, USA), August 25-26, 2018. The joint workshop was organized and sponsored by the Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN) and the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and endorsed by the Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM).

== Website and mailing list ==

We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. We have a listserv list that is used for notices and discussion.

2017Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2017-07-15T13:00:03Z

NancyIde:

== Membership ==

SIGANN membership remains at about 250.

== Officers ==

Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2014. Another election will be held later this year.

== Committee ==

The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich,
Chu-Ren Huang, Nancy Ide, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Ines Rehbein, Nathan Schneider, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek,
Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, and Heike Zinsmeister.

== Workshop ==

The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2016 the Tenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held in conjunction with ACL in Berlin, Germany. The 2016 workshop marked LAW's tenth anniversary. The Eleventh Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held in Valencia, Spain, in conjunction with EACL.

== Website and mailing list ==

We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. We have a listserv list that is used for notices and discussion; this will be moved to google groups later this year.

2017Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2017-07-15T12:58:43Z

NancyIde: Created page with "== Membership == SIGANN membership remains at about 250. == Officers == Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2014. Another..."

== Membership ==

SIGANN membership remains at about 250.

== Officers ==

Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2014. Another election will be held later this year.

== Committee ==

The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich,
Chu-Ren Huang, Nancy Ide, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Ines Rehbein, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek,
Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, and Heike Zinsmeister.

== Workshop ==

The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2016 the Tenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held in conjunction with ACL in Berlin, Germany. The 2016 workshop marked LAW's tenth anniversary. The Eleventh Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held in Valencia, Spain, in conjunction with EACL.

== Website and mailing list ==

We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. We have a listserv list that is used for notices and discussion; this will be moved to google groups later this year.

2016Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2016-08-01T12:54:10Z

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== Membership ==

SIGANN membership remains at about 250.

== Officers ==

Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers were re-elected to the President and Secretary positions in 2014. Another election will be held in 2017.

== Committee ==

The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich,
Chu-Ren Huang, Nancy Ide, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Ines Rehbein, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek,
Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, and Heike Zinsmeister.

== Workshop ==

The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2015 the Ninth Linguistic Annotation Workshop was held in conjunction with NAACL in Denver, Colorado. The 2016 workshop will mark LAW's tenth anniversary, and will be held in conjunction with ACL in Berlin.WEBSITE AND MAILING LIST[edit]

== Website and mailing list ==

We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. We have a listserv list that is used for notices and discussion; this will likely be moved to a more suitable venue this coming year.

2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2015-07-01T18:20:52Z

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SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 250 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

SIGANN Sponsors the annual Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), LAW IX was a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL in Denver in June 2015. The program committee co-chairs were Adam Meyers (New York University), Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University), and Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg). There were 35 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for oral presentation and 11 as posters. In addition, LAW IX included a panel on the Syntactic Analysis of Non-canonical Language. Thirty-three participants registered for the workshop.

LAW X will have a special theme of evaluation of human annotation, with Katrin Tomanek (VigLink Inc., San Francisco CA) and Annemarie Friedrichs (Saarland University, Germany) as program committee co-chairs.

SIGANN co-sponsored the 6th edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), a satellite event to EMNLP 2015.

SIGAN held elections in 2014, with Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers running uncontested for president and secretary, respectively.

SIGANN Officers:
President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University)

SIGANN Committee:
Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum)
Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Lori Levin (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC & ILSA, UCM / ATLAS, UNED)
Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)
Ines Rehbein (Universitat Potsdam)
Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)
Katrin Tomanek (VigLink Inc.)
Fei Xia (University of Washington)
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)
Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg)

2014Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2014-06-06T17:45:37Z

SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN maintains a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 230 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

The Seventh Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) was merged with Interoperability in Discourse. LAWVII & ID was a 1.5 day workshop held in conjunction with ACL 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Program Committee chairs were Stefanie Dipper and Antonio Pareja-Lora. LAW VII & ID’s call for papers was answered by 48 submissions, of which 18 long papers, together with 10 additional papers that were presented as short talks and/or posters, were accepted. The program featured Chris Manning as an invited speaker on "Putting the linguistics back into linguistic annotation". Fifty-one people attended the workshop.

SIGANN Officers: President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University) SIGANN Committee: Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica), Lori Levin (CMU), Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM), Massimo Poesio (University of Trento), Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies), Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam), Katrin Tomanek (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena), Fei Xia (University of Washington), Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University).

Elections for SIGANN officers will be announced this August at LAW VIII held in Dublin in conjunction with COLING, and elections will be held in September.

2013Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2013-07-09T15:38:10Z

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SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN maintains a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 230 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

The sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW,) a 1.5 day workshop held in conjunction with ACL in Jeju, Korea in conjunction with ACL 2012. Program Committee chairs were Fei Xia and Nancy Ide. The program included 14 full papers and nine posters. A special session featured two papers, the winner of the LAW Challenge ("Who Did What to Whom? A Contrastive Study of Syntacto-Semantic Dependencies", by Angelina Ivanova, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Ovrelid and Dan Flickinger) and a paper that received special recognition ("Prague Markup Language Framework" by Jirka Hana and Jan Stepanek).
The seventh LAW will be held in conjunction with ACL 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

SIGANN Officers: President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University) SIGANN Committee: Stefanie Dipper(Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica), Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM), Massimo Poesio (University of Trento), Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies), Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam), Katrin Tomanek (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena), Fei Xia (University of Washington), Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University).

2010Q3 Reports: SIG Convener

2010-06-20T17:46:20Z

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2010Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2010-06-20T17:46:05Z

SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 200 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

The third LAW, a 1.5 day workshop held in conjunction with ACL in Singapore, had approximately 55 participants. The fourth LAW will be held in Uppsala in conjunction with ACL 2010; at the end of early registration there were 56 registered. Nianwen Xue and Massimo Poesio served as Program Committee co-chairs. We received a record number of submissions (46 long papers, 8 demos and 6 posters), and accepted 20 papers and 22 posters.

In 2009-10 SIGANN co-sponsored the International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2010), Generative Lexicon 2009 (GL 2009), and the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010).

SIGANN Officers:
President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University)
SIGANN Committee:
Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)
Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)
Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)

2010Q3 Reports: SIG Convener

2010-06-20T17:45:03Z

NancyIde: SIGANN

SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 200 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

The third LAW, a 1.5 day workshop held in conjunction with ACL in Singapore, had approximately 55 participants. The fourth LAW will be held in Uppsala in conjunction with ACL 2010; at the end of early registration there were 56 registered. Nianwen Xue and Massimo Poesio served as Program Committee co-chairs. We received a record number of submissions (46 long papers, 8 demos and 6 posters), and accepted 20 papers and 22 posters.

In 2009-10 SIGANN co-sponsored the International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2010), Generative Lexicon 2009 (GL 2009), and the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010).

SIGANN Officers:
President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University)
SIGANN Committee:
Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)
Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)
Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)