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2026-02-01T15:54:48Z

Saad: Updated SIGGEN SIG details

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb), Mona Diab treasurer (mdiab@andrew.cmu.edu)
'''members''': 841
'''elections (last,next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': [https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/ ArabicNLP 2024], [https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/ ArabicNLP 2023], [http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net WANLP 2022], [https://osact5-lrec.github.io/ OSACT 2024], [https://osact-lrec.github.io/ OSACT 2022], [https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home IWABigDAI 2022]; [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LGzh8jYAAAAJ ArabicNLP Scholar], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YmKaJR4AAAAJ OSACT Scholar], [https://www.sigarab.org/arabic-nlp-archives Arabic NLP Archives]

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': https://sigann.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de)
'''members''': 150
'''elections (last,next)''': 2024, 2027
'''events''': LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;, LAW XIV at Coling 2020, LAW XV-DMR III at EMNLP 2021, LAW XVI at LREC 2022, LAW XVII at ACL 2023, LAW XVIII at EACL 2024, LAW XIX at ACL 2025

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),
secretary Kirk Roberts (kirkroberts@gmail.com)
'''members''': 238
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2022, June 2025
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops, CL4Health workshop

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mona Diab; Vice President: Isabelle Augenstein; Secretary: Chin-Yew Lin
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2023, December 2024
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Alexandros Papangelis (al3x.papangelis@gmail.com),
secretary Koichiro Yoshino (koichiro@is.naist.jp)
'''members''': 417
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2025, 2027
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===

'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 240
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2021, March 2024
'''events''': Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigel.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com)
'''members''': 116
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2025
'''events''': ComputEL

=== SIGFinTech: SIG on Economic and Financial Natural Language Processing ===

'''web page''': https://sigfintech.github.io/
'''contacts''': Founder Chung-Chi Chen (c.c.chen@acm.org)
'''members''': 140
'''elections (next)''': Summer 2025
'''events''': Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)

=== SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@uni-leipzig.de),
secretary Bruce Watson (bruce@bruce-watson.com)
'''members''': 131
'''elections (last, next)''': Summer 2020, Summer 2023
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled), FSMNLP 2023 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled)

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
secretary Saad Mahamood (saad@saad.me.uk),
'''members''': 470
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2024, December 2026
'''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); INLG 2018; INLG 2019; INLG 2020; INLG 2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG 2022; INLG 2023; INLG 2024; INLG 2025

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.ling.washington.edu
'''contacts''': chair Nianwen Xue (xuen@brandeis.edu),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/
'''contacts''': president Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), secretary Lorella Viola (l.viola@vu.nl), liaison representative Craig Messner (cmessne4@jhu.edu)
'''members''': 489
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2024, June 2026
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021, LaTeCH-CLfL 2022, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024, LaTeCH-CLfL 2025.

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Marianna Apidianaki (marapi@seas.upenn.edu), secretary Tiago Torrent (tiago.torrent@ufjf.br)
'''members''': 467
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2024, June 2025
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference at EMNLP 2025; Annual SemEval workshop at ACL 2025; Annual MWE workshop at NAACL 2025; Additional past sponsored and endorsed events are listed on the [https://aclanthology.org/sigs/siglex/ SIGLEX page of the ACL Anthology]

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.xyz
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Thomas Graf (mail@thomasgraf.net),
'''members''': 333
'''elections (last, next)''': May 2024, July 2025
'''events''': MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online); MOL 2025, August 16 & 17 2025 at Stony Brook University

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (garrett.nicolai@ubc.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 175
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2023, Feb 2025
'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task, SIGMORPHON 2020, SIGMORPHON 2021, SIGMORPHON 2022, SIGMORPHON 2023, SIGMORPHON 2024

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

'''web page''': https://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Alexandra Birch (a.birch@ed.ac.uk), Secretary: Antonis Anastasopoulos, North America: Marine Carpuat, Europe: Ondrej Bojar, Asia: Masao Utiyama
'''members''': 180
'''elections (last)''': September 2021
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Omri Abend (omri.abend@mail.huji.ac.il), secretary Antske Fokkens (antske.fokkens@vu.nl)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CoNLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021, CoNLL 2022 co-located with EMNLP 2022, CoNLL 2023 co-located with EMNLP 2023, CoNLL 2024 co-located with EMNLP 2024

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu), secretary Miryam de Lhoneux (miryam.delhoneux@kuleuven.be)
'''members''': 161
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, June 2025
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021, SyntaxFest 2021 (endorsed), SyntaxFest 2023 (endorsed), SyntaxFest 2025 (endorsed), IWPT 2025

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com),
secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com)
'''members''': 2000
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2022, October 2024
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023

=== SIGSEA: SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigsea.org/
'''contacts''': president Holy Lovenia (holy.lovenia@gmail.com), secretary Fajri Koto (fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae)
'''members''': 227
'''elections (last,next)''': - (founded in November 2024), November 2025
'''events''': [https://sealp-workshop.github.io/ SEALP 2024]

=== SIGSEC: SIG on NLP security ===

'''web page''': https://sig.llmsecurity.net
'''contacts''': President: Leon Derczynski ld@itu.dk, Secretary: Muhao Chen, Jekaterina Novikova
'''members''': 124
'''elections (last,next)''': -, 2024
'''events''': fortnightly talks - https://sig.llmsecurity.net/talks/

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Sina Zarrieß (Sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de),
secretary Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (stergios.chatzikyriakidis@uoc.gr)
'''members''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': summer 2021, 2025
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021

=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
'''contacts''': chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 110
'''elections (first,last)''': Winter 2020, winter 2023
'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages, BSNLP 2020

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

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2020, Fall 2022
'''members''': 160
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022

=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)
'''members''': 144
'''elections (first,next)''': First Oct 2022, every 2 years
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2023;

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigsumm.org/
'''contacts''': Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu
'''members''': 82
'''elections (first,next)''': first Aug. 2024; every 2 years
'''events''': NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023

=== SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages ===

'''web page''': https://sigturk.com
'''contacts''': president Kemal Oflazer (ko@andrew.cmu.edu), secretary Gözde Gül Şahin (gosahin@ku.edu.tr)
'''members''': 136
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every year
'''events''': The First Workshop on Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2024);

=== 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''': 420
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021, SIGTYP 2022 (NAACL 2022), SIGTYP 2023 (EACL 2023), SIGTYP 2024 (EACL 2024)

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Jack Rueter (jack.rueter@helsinki.fi),
secretary Mika Hämäläinen (mika.hamalainen@metropolia.fi)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': 2025, 2027
'''events''': IWCLUL 2023, IWCLUL 2024, IWCLUL 2025

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': presidents: Nikola Ljubešić (nljubesi@gmail.com, Jožef Stefan Institute) and Benoît Sagot (benoit.sagot@inria.fr, INRIA); secretaries: Veronika Laippala (mavela@utu.fi, University of Turku) and Pedro Ortiz Suarez (pedro.ortiz@uni-mannheim.de, Mannheim University)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': January 2022, 2024
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020

=== SIGWrit: SIG on writing systems and written language ===

'''web page''': https://sigwrit.org/
'''contacts''': president: Kyle Gorman (kylebgorman@gmail.com); vice-president: Constantine Lignos (lignos@brandeis.edu); Secretary-Treasurer: Zoey Liu (liu.ying@ufl.edu); Student-member: Claytone Sikasote (claytonsikasote@gmail.com)
'''members''': 52
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2024, December 2026
'''events''': CAWL at ACL 2023 and LREC 2024

2025Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2025-06-24T21:05:57Z

Saad:

'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2024 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 484 members.

== Board ==
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2024, is the following:

* Chenghua Lin (University of Manchester, UK), Chair (term expires in 2026)
* Saad Mahamood (trivago N.V. [until 30.09.2025] / Shopware AG [from 01.10.2025], Germany), Secretary (term expires in 2028)
* Simon Mille (Dublin City University, Ireland), Treasurer (term expires in 2028)
* David Howcroft (Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK), Member (term expires in 2026)
* Patrícia Schmidtová (Charles University, Czechia), Student representative (term expires in 2026)

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2026, and new board members will be elected to replace Lin, Howcroft, and Schmidtová.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2024 ===
The 17th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters) held in Tokyo, Japan (https://2024.inlgmeeting.org). Unlike last year, this conference was not jointly held with SIGDIAL, which was organised the week prior in Kyoto.

As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from the 23rd to 27th of September, 2024. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 2 ARR submissions, and 7 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 38 were accepted as long papers, 19 as short papers, and 6 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 15 papers in the Generation Challenges track.

=== Other Events ===

SIGGEN also supported the following workshops at the conference:
* PracticalD2T: 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
* Tutorial on: Human Evaluation of NLP System Quality
* The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System

=== Upcoming events ===

INLG 2025 will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam between the 29th of October to the 2nd of November (https://2025.inlgmeeting.org). This year the conference will take place before EMNLP 2025 which is organised the week after in Suzhou, China.

In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.

== Website ==
The website continues to be hosted at: https://inlgmeeting.org.

== Mailing List ==
SIGGEN maintains an active mailing list located at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=SIGGEN

2025Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2025-06-16T17:27:29Z

Saad:

'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2024 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 484 members.

== Board ==
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2024, is the following:

* Chenghua Lin (University of Manchester, UK), Chair (term expires in 2026)
* Saad Mahamood (trivago N.V. [until 30.09.2025] / Shopware AG [from 01.10.2025], Germany), Secretary (term expires in 2028)
* Simon Mille (Dublin City University, Ireland), Treasurer (term expires in 2028)
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Member (term expires in 2026)
* Patrícia Schmidtová (Charles University, Czechia), Student representative (term expires in 2026)

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2026, and new board members will be elected to replace Lin, Howcroft, and Schmidtová.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2024 ===
The 17th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters) held in Tokyo, Japan (https://2024.inlgmeeting.org). Unlike last year, this conference was not jointly held with SIGDIAL, which was organised the week prior in Kyoto.

As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from the 23rd to 27th of September, 2024. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 2 ARR submissions, and 7 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 38 were accepted as long papers, 19 as short papers, and 6 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 15 papers in the Generation Challenges track.

=== Other Events ===

SIGGEN also supported the following workshops at the conference:
* PracticalD2T: 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
* Tutorial on: Human Evaluation of NLP System Quality
* The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System

=== Upcoming events ===

INLG 2025 will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam between the 29th of October to the 2nd of November (https://2025.inlgmeeting.org). This year the conference will take place before EMNLP 2025 which is organised the week after in Suzhou, China.

In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.

== Website ==
The website continues to be hosted at: https://inlgmeeting.org.

== Mailing List ==
SIGGEN maintains an active mailing list located at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=SIGGEN

2025Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2025-06-16T03:56:15Z

Saad:

'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2024 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 484 members.

== Board ==
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2024, is the following:

* Chenghua Lin (University of Manchester, UK), Chair (term expires in 2026)
* Saad Mahamood (trivago N.V. [until 30.09.2025] / Shopware AG [from 01.10.2025], Germany), Secretary (term expires in 2028)
* Simon Mille (Dublin City University, Ireland), Treasurer (term expires in 2028)
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Member (term expires in 2026)
* Patrícia Schmidtová (Charles University, Czechia), Student representative (term expires in 2026)

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2026, and new board members will be elected to replace Lin, Howcroft, and Schmidtová.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2024 ===
The 17th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters) held in Tokyo, Japan (https://2024.inlgmeeting.org). Unlike last year, this conference was not jointly held with SIGDIAL, which was organised the week prior in Kyoto.

As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from the 23rd to 27th of September, 2024. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 2 ARR submissions, and 7 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 38 were accepted as long papers, 19 as short papers, and 6 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 15 papers in the Generation Challenges track.

=== Other Events ===

SIGGEN also supported the following workshops at the conference:
* PracticalD2T: 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
* Tutorial on: Human Evaluation of NLP System Quality
* The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System

=== Upcoming events ===

INLG 2025 will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam between the 29th of October to the 2nd of November (https://2025.inlgmeeting.org). This year the conference will take place before EMNLP 2025 which is organised the week after in Suzhou, China.

In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.

== Website ==
The website continues to be hosted at: https://inlgmeeting.org.

2025Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2025-06-16T03:53:41Z

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'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2025 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIGGEN has around 484 members.

== Board ==
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2024, is the following:

* Chenghua Lin (University of Manchester, UK), Chair (term expires in 2026)
* Saad Mahamood (trivago N.V. [until 30.09.2025] / Shopware AG [from 01.10.2025], Germany), Secretary (term expires in 2028)
* Simon Mille (Dublin City University, Ireland), Treasurer (term expires in 2028)
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Member (term expires in 2026)
* Patrícia Schmidtová (Charles University, Czechia), Student representative (term expires in 2026)

The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2026, and new board members will be elected to replace Lin, Howcroft, and Schmidtová.

== Activities ==
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.

=== INLG 2024 ===
The 17th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters) held in Tokyo, Japan (https://2024.inlgmeeting.org). Unlike last year, this conference was not jointly held with SIGDIAL, which was organised the week prior in Kyoto.

As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from the 23rd to 27th of September, 2024. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 2 ARR submissions, and 7 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 38 were accepted as long papers, 19 as short papers, and 6 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 15 papers in the Generation Challenges track.

=== Other Events ===

SIGGEN also supported the following workshops at the conference:
* PracticalD2T: 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
* Tutorial on: Human Evaluation of NLP System Quality
* The 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System

=== Upcoming events ===

INLG 2025 will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam between the 29th of October to the 2nd of November (https://2025.inlgmeeting.org). This year the conference will take place before EMNLP 2025 which is organised the week after in Suzhou, China.

In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.

== Website ==
The website continues to be hosted at: https://inlgmeeting.org.