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2025Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2025-06-30T15:51:48Z

SarahRM: updated attendance numbers

<em>Aditi Chaudhary, Sarah Moeller, Lane Schwartz</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 5.5 years, its membership is steady at just over 100. Members must actively renew membership yearly. After a recent renewal, membership is currently at 175.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-8)</h1>

Following up on seven preceding events, we organized the 8th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/)) on March 5-6, 2025, co-located with the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC9) at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

We received 45 submissions as papers or extended abstracts. The conference has continued to held over two days. After a thorough review process, 30 submissions were selected to be presented and 22 were selected to published in the ACL Anthology. As of yet, ACL has not yet released these proceedings.

We welcomed all the participants of the main co-located conference, in this case ICLDC9, to participate in a hybrid format. Co-locating every other year at a linguistics event encourages broad participation. Last year, at EACL, we had an audience of approx. 18 participants in person and another 20 participants online at any given time. This year, we maxed the room limit with 60 people in attendance and another 31 registered to attend online.

Repeating the success of the previous three years, we organized a Special Session, this year entitled "Building Tools Together" (https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-building-tools-together/). We received 11 extended abstracts, of which we accepted 3 presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-8 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists). :

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller University of Florida (chair)
<li>Godfred Agyapong, University of Florida (co-chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google DeepMind
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Google DeepMind
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta, Canada
<li>Olivia Waring, University of Hawai’i Mānoa
</ul>

We intend to submit a workshop proposal to ACL or ELRA to hold the 9th ComputEL in 2026. The program chair and additional co-organzers come from our membership. Two or three new SIGEL members volunteered to serve on the organizing committee.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL online, which was well attended. This activity continued with irregular events but seems to hold less interest as the pandemic fades in the past. In 2024, we had 5 speakers with an approx. attendance of 20-25 on-line (this event is hosted online and recorded). The events focus on developing orthographies, language documentation fieldwork, and new NLP systems for endangered languages.

We applied to Google for sponsorship and received a second award of $5,000 USD to support participation at our events. We did not receive National Science Foundation to organize a shared activity that would bring together our three communities to work on computational projects that would benefit all three.

This year we will consider submitting workshop proposals to the Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation (CoLANG) to offer NLP/AI training to non-computational and community linguists.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in spring 2025, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from March 2025 until March 2027.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (computer science)
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google (computer science)
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Inga Lill Sigga Mikkelsen, UiT - Arctic University of Norway (documentary linguist, indigenous community member)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (linguistics/anthropology)
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta (linguistics)
<li>Christopher Cox (computational linguistics)
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (Past President) (computational linguistics)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

We are considering moving our elections to spring instead of winter, because the winter holidays tend to delay the elections.

2025Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2025-06-13T20:41:53Z

SarahRM:

<em>Aditi Chaudhary, Sarah Moeller, Lane Schwartz</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 5.5 years, its membership is steady at just over 100. Members must actively renew membership yearly. After a recent renewal, membership is currently at XXXX.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-8)</h1>

Following up on seven preceding events, we organized the 8th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/)) on March 5-6, 2025, co-located with the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC9) at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

We received XXX submissions as papers or extended abstracts. The conference has continued to held over two days. After a thorough review process, XXXXX submissions were selected to be presented and XXXX were selected to published in the ACL Anthology. As of yet, ACL has not yet released these proceedings.

We welcomed all the participants of the main co-located conference, in this case ICLDC9, to participate in a hybrid format. Co-locating every other year at a linguistics event encourages broad participation. Last year, at EACL, we had an audience of approx. 18 participants in person and another 20 participants online at any given time. This year, we maxed the room limit with 60(or 50?) people registered in person and another 20-30???[ask Godfred] attending online.

Repeating the success of the previous three years, we organized a Special Session on "Creating Technology Together" (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/). We received XXXX extended abstracts, of which we accepted XXXXX presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-8 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists). :

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller University of Florida (chair)
<li>Godfred Agyapong, University of Florida (co-chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google DeepMind
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Google DeepMind
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
<li>
<li>
</ul>

We intend to submit a workshop proposal to ACL or ELRA to hold the 9th ComputEL in 2026. The program chair and additional co-organzers come from our membership. Two or three new SIGEL members volunteered to serve on the organizing committee.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL online, which was well attended. This activity continued with irregular events but seems to hold less interest as the pandemic fades in the past. In 2024, we had XXX speakers with an approx. attendance of 2-15(???). The events focus on developing orthographies, language documentation fieldwork, and new NLP systems for endangered languages.

We applied to Google for sponsorship and received a second award of $5,000 USD to support participation at our events. We did not receive National Science Foundation to organize a shared activity that would bring together our three communities to work on computational projects that would benefit all three.

This we will consider submitting workshop proposals to the Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation (CoLANG) to offer NLP/AI training to non-computational and community linguists.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in spring 2025, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from March 2025 until March 2027.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (computer science)
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google (computer science)
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Inge
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (linguistics/anthropology)
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta (linguistics)
<li>Christopher Cox (computational linguistics)
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (Past President) (computational linguistics)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

We are considering moving our elections to spring instead of winter, because the winter holidays tend to delay the elections.

2025Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2025-06-13T20:34:46Z

SarahRM: draft update

<em>Sarah Moeller, Lane Schwartz, and Aditi Chaudhary</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 5.5 years, its membership is steady at just over 100. Members must actively renew membership yearly. After a recent renewal, membership is currently at XXXX.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-8)</h1>

Following up on seven preceding events, we organized the 8th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/)) on March 5-6, 2025, co-located with the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC9) at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

We received XXX submissions as papers or extended abstracts. The conference has continued to held over two days. After a thorough review process, XXXXX submissions were selected to be presented and XXXX were selected to published in the ACL Anthology. As of yet, ACL has not yet released these proceedings.

We welcomed all the participants of the main co-located conference, in this case ICLDC9, to participate in a hybrid format. Co-locating every other year at a linguistics event encourages broad participation. Last year, at EACL, we had an audience of approx. 18 participants in person and another 20 participants online at any given time. This year, we maxed the room limit with 60(or 50?) people registered in person and another 20-30???[ask Godfred] attending online.

Repeating the success of the previous three years, we organized a Special Session on "Creating Technology Together" (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/). We received XXXX extended abstracts, of which we accepted XXXXX presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-8 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists). :

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller University of Florida (chair)
<li>Godfred Agyapong, University of Florida (co-chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google DeepMind
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Google DeepMind
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
<li>
<li>
</ul>

We intend to submit a workshop proposal to ACL or ELRA to hold the 9th ComputEL in 2026. The program chair and additional co-organzers come from our membership. Two or three new SIGEL members volunteered to serve on the organizing committee.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL online, which was well attended. This activity continued with irregular events but seems to hold less interest as the pandemic fades in the past. In 2024, we had XXX speakers with an approx. attendance of 2-15(???). The events focus on developing orthographies, language documentation fieldwork, and new NLP systems for endangered languages.

We applied to Google for sponsorship and received a second award of $5,000 USD to support participation at our events. We did not receive National Science Foundation to organize a shared activity that would bring together our three communities to work on computational projects that would benefit all three.

This we will consider submitting workshop proposals to the Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation (CoLANG) to offer NLP/AI training to non-computational and community linguists.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in spring 2025, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from March 2025 until March 2027.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (computer science)
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google (computer science)
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Inge
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (linguistics/anthropology)
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta (linguistics)
<li>Christopher Cox (computational linguistics)
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville (Past President) (computational linguistics)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

We are considering moving our elections to spring instead of winter, because the winter holidays tend to delay the elections.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2024-06-22T02:01:38Z

SarahRM: Created page with "<em>Sarah Moeller and Aditi Chaudhary</em> <b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>. <h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1> SIGEL was officially approved..."

<em>Sarah Moeller and Aditi Chaudhary</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 4.5 years, its membership has stayed around 100-115???. Members must actively renew membership yearly. After a recent renewal, membership is currently at 91?????.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-7)</h1>

Following up on six preceding events, we organized, in fully online format, the 7th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages ComputEL-7 (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-7/)) on March 21-22, 2024, "co-located" with the (EACL).

We received 24???? submissions as papers or extended abstracts for the online event. We were able to hold two days as last year. After a thorough review process, 19????? submissions were selected to be presented and 18???? were selected to published in the ACL Anthology.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case EACL, to take part in ComputEL-7 in a hybrid format encourage as broad participation as possible. We had an audience of approx. ???? participants in person and another 20 participants online at any given time.

Repeating the success of the previous two years, we organized a Special Session on Partnerships in Practice (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-7/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/). We received ???????? extended abstracts, of which we accepted 8 presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-7 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists):

<ul>
<li>Sarah Moeller University of Florida (chair)
<li>Godfred Agyapong, University of Florida (co-chair)
<li>Christopher Cox, Carleton University (co-chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>?????
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-7 can be found in the ACL published proceedings.

We intend to hold the 8th ComputEL col-located with the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation on March 3-4, 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The program chair and additional co-organzers come from our membership.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which was well attended. We have continued this activity with irregular events as frequently as once a month. The events focus on developing orthographies, language documentation fieldwork, and new NLP systems for endangered languages.

We applied to the National Science Foundation for sponsorship so that we could organize a shared activity that would bring together our three communities to work on computational projects that would benefit all three. This funding is pending.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in fall 2022, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2023 until January 2025.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Past President)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by winter 2024.

2023Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2023-06-21T16:00:26Z

SarahRM:

<em>Sarah Moeller and Aditi Chaudhary</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 3.5 years, its membership has stayed around 100-115. Members must actively renew membership yearly. After a recent renewal, membership is currently at 91.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-6)</h1>

Following up on five preceding events, we organized, in fully online format, the 6th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages ComputEL-6 (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/)) on March 5-6, 2023, "co-located" with the the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/) (ICLDC 8), a virtual conference.

We received 24 submissions as papers or extended abstracts for the online event. We expanded to two full days from last year. After a thorough review process, 19 submissions were selected to be presented and 18 were selected to published in the ACL Anthology.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ICLDC, to take part in ComputEL-6 virtually encourage as broad participation as possible. There was no fee for attendance to lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the online format, we had an audience of approx. X participants at any given time.

Repeating the success of the previous year, we organized a Special Session on Justice Through Technology (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/special-theme-justice/). This session matched the theme of ICLDC8 "Centering Justice in Language Work". We received X extended abstracts, of which we accepted 4 presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-6 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists):

<ul>
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Ryan Henke, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/scientific-committee/

We intend to hold the seventh ComputEL at an ACL event in 2024. We plan to recruit a program chair and additional co-organzers from our membership.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which was well attended. We have continued this activity with irregular events over the rest of this year. The next events will focus on developing orthographies, fonts, and keyboards for new writing systems.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in fall 2022, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2023 until January 2025.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Past President)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by winter 2024.

2023Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2023-06-20T18:50:27Z

SarahRM:

<em>Sarah Moeller and Aditi Chaudhary</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 3.5 years, its membership has stayed around 100-120. Membership is currently at XXX. Membership has to be actively renewed by members yearly.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-6)</h1>

Following up on five preceding events, we organized, in fully online format, the 6th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages ComputEL-6 (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/)) on March 5-6, 2023, "co-located" with the the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/) (ICLDC 8), a virtual conference.

We received XXX submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, 19 submissions were selected to be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a XX% acceptance rate.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ICLDC, to take part in ComputEL-6 virtually encourage as broad participation as possible. There was no fee for attendance to lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the online format, we had an audience of approx. X participants at any given time.

Repeating the success of the previous year, we organized a Special Session on Justice Through Technology (https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/special-theme-justice/). This session matched the theme of ICLDC8 "Centering Justice in Language Work". We received X extended abstracts, of which we accepted 4 presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-6 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists):

<ul>
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Ryan Henke, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/scientific-committee/

We intend to hold the seventh ComputEL at an ACL event in 2024. We plan to recruit a program chair and additional co-organzers from our membership.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which was well attended. We have continued this activity with irregular events over the rest of this year. The next events will focus on developing orthographies, fonts, and keyboards for new writing systems.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in fall 2022, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2023 until January 2025.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Past President)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by winter 2024.

2023Q3 Reports: SIGEL

2023-06-20T18:49:00Z

<em>Sarah Moeller and Aditi Chaudhary</em>

<b>SIGEL</b> is ACL's special interest group on <em>Endangered Languages</em>.

<h1>MEMBERSHIP</h1>

SIGEL was officially approved on Oct. 4, 2019. After 3.5 years, its membership has stayed around 100-120. Membership is currently at XXX. Membership has to be actively renewed by members yearly.

<h1>WORKSHOP (ComputEL-6)</h1>

Following up on five preceding events, we organized, in fully online format, the 6th instance of the Workshop on the Use of Computational in the Study of Endangered Languages [ComputEL-6](https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/)) on March 5-6, 2023, "co-located" with the the 8th [International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation](http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/) (ICLDC 8), a virtual conference.

We received XXX submissions as papers or extended abstracts. After a thorough review process, 19 submissions were selected to be published in the ACL Anthology, representing a XX% acceptance rate.

As we had done previously, we welcomed all the participants of the main conference, in this case ICLDC, to take part in ComputEL-6 virtually encourage as broad participation as possible. There was no fee for attendance to lower the threshold for participants from institutions with lesser resources or without an institutional affiliation, which is often the case with less-resourced language communities. Despite the online format, we had an audience of approx. X participants at any given time.

Repeating the success of the previous year, we organized a [Special Session on Justice Through Technology](https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/special-theme-justice/). This session matched the theme of ICLDC8 "Centering Justice in Language Work". We received X extended abstracts, of which we accepted 4 presentations. All presentations were by groups exhibiting collaboration between the three constituencies of SIGEL, namely computational linguists, documentary linguists, and members of endangered language communities.

The Organizing Committee for ComputEL-6 consisted of some members of the SIGEL Executive Board as well as other SIGEL members. The committee included representatives of our three constituencies (computational linguists, community members, documentary/descriptive linguists):

<ul>
<li>Atticus Harrigan, University of Alberta (chair)
<li>Daisy Rosenblum, The University of British Columbia (Special Session chair)
<li>Ryan Henke, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Special Session chair)
<li>Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
<li>Shruti Riwjani, Carnegie Mellon University
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta
</ul>

The Program Committee for ComputEL-5 can be found in: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-6/scientific-committee/

We intend to hold the seventh ComputEL at an ACL event in 2024. We plan to recruit a program chair and additional co-organzers from our membership.

<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES</h1>

In October 2022, we organized the first of the Speaker Series for SIGEL, which was well attended. We have continued this activity with irregular events over the rest of this year. The next events will focus on developing orthographies, fonts, and keyboards for new writing systems.

<h2>ENDORSEMENTS</h2>

During the last 12 months, we did not endorse any other events.

<h1>COMMUNICATIONS</h1>

<h2>SIGEL WEBSITE</h2>

We have set up SIGEL's website (https://acl-sigel.github.io/). Our website contains information about our previous and planned future activities, as well as our governance (Executive Board) and up-to-date membership.

<h2>TWITTER ACCOUNT</h2>

We have created a twitter account (@acl_sigel) for disseminating information relevant to SIGEL. It is maintained by a volunteer member.

<h2>MAILING LISTS</h2>

We have created a Google email for SIGEL: acl.sigel@gmail.com - and a Google Group for the entire SIGEL membership: sigel@googlegroups.com - and for the SIGEL Executive Committee: sigel-ec@googlegroups.com

<h1>GOVERNANCE</h1>

At the last election for SIGEL in fall 2022, the following persons had been elected for two-year terms, from January 2023 until January 2025.

<h2>EXECUTIVE Committee</h2>

<ul>
<li>President: Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville
<li>Secretary: Aditi Chaudhary, Google
<li>Members-At-Large:
<ul>
<li>Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder
<li>Hilaria Cruz, University of Louisville
<li>Jordan Lachler, University of Alberta
<li>Lane Schwartz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
<li>Antti Arppe, University of Alberta (Past President)
</ul>
</ul>

<h2>ELECTIONS</h2>

The next elections are due to take place by winter 2024.

SIG Compliance

2023-06-07T18:01:41Z

SarahRM: /* SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages */

== 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)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== 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)''': Oct. 2021, 2024
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),
secretary Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com)
'''members''': 224
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2022, June 2025
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), secretary-treasurer Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@microsoft.com)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2021, December 2022
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''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

=== 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''': 129
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''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, INLG2020, INLG2021

=== 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, 2021
'''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 Barbara McGillivray (barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk), secretary Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), liaison representative Sara Tonelli (satonelli@fbk.eu)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2022, July 2024
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Preslav Nakov (preslav.nakov@mbzuai.ac.ae), secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''members''': 400
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2020, August 2022
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual MWE workshop at LREC 2022, ACL 2021, EACL 2017, ACL 2016, NAACL 2015, EACL 2014, NAACL 2013, ACL 2011, COLING 2010 (endorsed); MWE-LEX at COLING 2020; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; LAW-MWE-CxG at COLING 2018;; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 310
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; 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)

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 175
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023
'''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

=== 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''': 180
'''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 Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
'''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

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 266
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 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; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Anna Rogers (arogers@sodas.ku.dk)
'''members''': 1500
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2020, October 2022
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021

=== 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''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, summer 2021
'''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''': sigsumm.org
'''contacts''': Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu
'''members''': 52
'''elections (first,next)''': first Dec. 2023; every 2 years
'''events''': NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023

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

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 94
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': TBA;

=== 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''': 380
'''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

=== 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''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

=== 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

SIG Compliance

2023-05-27T00:57:25Z

SarahRM: updated SIGEL officers

== 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)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== 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)''': Oct. 2021, 2024
'''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

=== 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 2019, June 2022
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), secretary-treasurer Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@microsoft.com)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2021, December 2022
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''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 2023, January 2025
'''events''': ComputEL

=== 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''': 129
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''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, INLG2020, INLG2021

=== 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, 2021
'''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 Barbara McGillivray (barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk), secretary Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), liaison representative Sara Tonelli (satonelli@fbk.eu)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2022, July 2024
'''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

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Preslav Nakov (preslav.nakov@mbzuai.ac.ae), secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''members''': 400
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2020, August 2022
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual MWE workshop at LREC 2022, ACL 2021, EACL 2017, ACL 2016, NAACL 2015, EACL 2014, NAACL 2013, ACL 2011, COLING 2010 (endorsed); MWE-LEX at COLING 2020; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; LAW-MWE-CxG at COLING 2018;; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 310
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; 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)

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

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 175
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023
'''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

=== 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''': 180
'''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 Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
'''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

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 266
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 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; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Anna Rogers (arogers@sodas.ku.dk)
'''members''': 1500
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2020, October 2022
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021

=== 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''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, summer 2021
'''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''': 60
'''elections (first,next)''': Summer 2022
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2021;

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

'''web page''': sigsumm.org
'''contacts''': Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu
'''members''': 52
'''elections (first,next)''': first Dec. 2023; every 2 years
'''events''': NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023

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

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 38
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': TBA;

=== 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''': 380
'''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

=== 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''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

=== 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