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2023Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2023-07-02T13:15:01Z

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This SIG organized a workshop in May 2022 (http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022/).

The SIG also held elections for new officers in May 2023. The new board consists of:
* President: Stuart Cunningham (s.cunningham@sheffield.ac.uk)
* Vice president: Simone Graetzer (S.N.Graetzer@salford.ac.uk)
* Secretary/treasurer: Zhengjun Yue (Z.Yue@tudelft.nl)
* Student member: Alessia Battisti (battis@cl.uzh.ch)

The new board will be operational from August 2023 onwards.

2023Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2023-07-02T13:13:56Z

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This SIG organized a workshop in May 2022 (http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022/).

The SIG also held elections for new officers in May 2023. The new board consists of:
President: Stuart Cunningham (s.cunningham@sheffield.ac.uk)
Vice president: Simone Graetzer (S.N.Graetzer@salford.ac.uk)
Secretary/treasurer: Zhengjun Yue (Z.Yue@tudelft.nl)
Student member: Alessia Battisti (battis@cl.uzh.ch)

The new board will be operational from August 2023 onwards.

SIG Compliance

2022-07-19T09:10:02Z

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== 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 Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu)
'''members''': 116
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2023
'''events''': ComputEL-4, 2-3 March 2021

=== 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''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Raquel Hervas (raquelhb@fdi.ucm.es),
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2020, December 2022
'''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''': 875
'''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; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president 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;

=== 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''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020

2022Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2022-07-19T09:08:29Z

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'''ACL/ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG SLPAT): 2022Q3 Report'''

== Summary ==
SIG SLPAT is the Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies.

== Membership ==
Currently, SIG SLPAT has around 160 members.

== Board ==
The current SIG SLPAT board consists of:

* President: Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), University of Zurich, Department of Computational Linguistics
* Vice President: Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), Eyegaze Inc.
* Secretary-Treasurer: Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), Boston College, Computer Science
* Student Member: Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science

== Activities ==

=== SLPAT 2022 Workshop ===
The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) was held in conjunction with ACL on May 27, 2022 (http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022/). The workshop was held virtually.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2022-07-19T09:07:48Z

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2021Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2021-07-10T12:19:14Z

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This SIG held elections for new officers in August 2020. The new board consists of:

President: Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), University of Zurich, Department of Computational Linguistics [new]

Vice President: Heidi Christensen (heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science [previous]

Secretary-Treasurer: Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), Boston College, Computer Science [previous]

Student Member: Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science [new]

The board is looking to organize a workshop for 2022.

2021Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2021-07-09T12:37:01Z

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This SIG held elections for new officers in August 2020. The new board consists of:

President: Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), University of Zurich, Department of Computational Linguistics [new]

Vice President: Heidi Christensen (heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science [previous]

Secretary-Treasurer: Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu), Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts, Department of English [previous]

Student Member: Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science [new]

The board is looking to organize a workshop for 2022.

SIG Compliance

2021-07-09T12:33:41Z

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== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''events''': LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 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''': 594
'''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''': 164
'''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''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputEL-4, 2021

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

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Raquel Hervas (raquelhb@fdi.ucm.es),
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2020, December 2022
'''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, 2020
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

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

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa), secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2020, June 2023
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se), vice president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 303
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, early 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''': 145
'''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''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

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

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary 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''': 256
'''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

=== 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''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2021, 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 Heidi Christensen (heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk), 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''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== 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;

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

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 68
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing 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''': 57
'''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''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020

2021Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT

2021-07-09T12:30:00Z

Sebling: Created page with "This SIG held elections for new officers in August 2020. The new board consists of: President: Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), University of Zurich, Department of Computatio..."

This SIG held elections for new officers in August 2020. The new board consists of:

President: Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), University of Zurich, Department of Computational Linguistics [new]

Vice President: Heidi Christensen (heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science [previous]

Secretary-Treasurer: Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu), Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts, Department of English [previous]

Student Member: Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield, Computer Science [new]

The board is looking into organizing a workshop for 2022.