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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2023 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 492 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2023 ===<br />
The 16th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters), held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial). The conference was located in Prague (URLs: https://inlg2023.github.io, https://2023.sigdial.org).<br />
<br />
As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from 13 to 15 September. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 4 ARR submissions, and 4 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 19 were accepted as long papers, 17 as short papers, and 4 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 20 papers in the Generation Challenges track.<br />
<br />
There were also separate proceedings for SIGDial with additional papers.<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN and SIGDIAL also supported the following workshops at the conference:<br />
* YRRSDS: 19th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems<br />
* The 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse<br />
* DSTC11: The 11th Dialog System Technology Challenge<br />
* PracticalD2T: 1st Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation<br />
* Taming Large Language Models: Controllability in the era of Interactive Assistants<br />
* Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge<br />
* Connecting multiple disciplines to AI techniques in interaction-centric autism research and diagnosis<br />
* Designing divergent agent tasks for SDS data collection<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also continued the webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html):<br />
* "7 Characteristics of Highly Effective Data-to-Text Systems" by Ross Turner, June 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4PVhfl3rE)<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2024 will take place in Tokyo on September 23-27 2024 (https://inlg2024.github.io/). This year the conference will not be held jointly with SIGDIAL, but instead, it follows SIGDIAL which is organized the week before in Kyoto.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The website continues to be hosted at: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=759592024Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2024-07-05T22:22:08Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2023 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 492 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2023 ===<br />
The 16th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters), held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial). The conference was located in Prague (URLs: https://inlg2023.github.io, https://2023.sigdial.org).<br />
<br />
As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from 13 to 15 September. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 4 ARR submissions, and 4 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 19 were accepted as long papers, 17 as short papers, and 4 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 20 papers in the Generation Challenges track.<br />
<br />
There were also separate proceedings for SIGDial with additional papers.<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN and SIGDIAL also supported the following workshops at the conference:<br />
* YRRSDS: 19th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems<br />
* The 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse<br />
* DSTC11: The 11th Dialog System Technology Challenge<br />
* PracticalD2T: 1st Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation<br />
* Taming Large Language Models: Controllability in the era of Interactive Assistants<br />
* Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge<br />
* Connecting multiple disciplines to AI techniques in interaction-centric autism research and diagnosis<br />
* Designing divergent agent tasks for SDS data collection<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also continued the webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html):<br />
:- "7 Characteristics of Highly Effective Data-to-Text Systems" by Ross Turner, June 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4PVhfl3rE)<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2024 will take place in Tokyo on September 23-27 2024 (https://inlg2024.github.io/). This year the conference will not be held jointly with SIGDIAL, but instead, it follows SIGDIAL which is organized the week before in Kyoto.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The website continues to be hosted at: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=759582024Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2024-07-05T22:17:10Z<p>Siggen-board: Created page with "'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2023 Report''' == Summary == SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the s..."</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2023 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 492 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2023 ===<br />
The 16th INLG was an in-person conference (with the possibility of hybrid attendance for non-presenters), held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial). The conference was located in Prague (URLs: https://inlg2023.github.io, https://2023.sigdial.org).<br />
<br />
As listed in the INLG proceedings: "The conference took place from 13 to 15 September. For the main track, we received a total of 98 conference submissions, 4 ARR submissions, and 4 demo paper submissions. After review by at least three program committee members and a meta review from the area chairs, 19 were accepted as long papers, 17 as short papers, and 4 as demo papers." Next to these papers, there were 20 papers in the Generation Challenges track.<br />
<br />
There were also separate proceedings for SIGDial with additional papers.<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN and SIGDIAL also endorsed and supported the following workshops at the conference:<br />
* YRRSDS: 19th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems<br />
* The 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse<br />
* DSTC11: The 11th Dialog System Technology Challenge<br />
* PracticalD2T: 1st Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation<br />
* Taming Large Language Models: Controllability in the era of Interactive Assistants<br />
* Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge<br />
* Connecting multiple disciplines to AI techniques in interaction-centric autism research and diagnosis<br />
* Designing divergent agent tasks for SDS data collection<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2024 will take place in Tokyo on September 23-27 2024 (https://inlg2024.github.io/). This year the conference will not be held jointly with SIGDIAL, but instead, it follows SIGDIAL which is organized the week before in Kyoto.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2024.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The website continues to be hosted at: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754912023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T16:37:13Z<p>Siggen-board: /* Activities */</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html):<br />
:- "Measuring the Quality of NLG Systems" by Sebastian Gehrmann, April 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuefO4CkHQ)<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). It will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The new website was released in 2022: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754902023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T16:32:56Z<p>Siggen-board: /* Activities */</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html):<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). It will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The new website was released in 2022: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754892023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T16:32:43Z<p>Siggen-board: /* Activities */</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html):<br />
<br />
- “Measuring the Quality of NLG Systems” by Sebastian Gehrmann, April 2022. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuefO4CkHQ]<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). It will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The new website was released in 2022: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754882023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T16:31:04Z<p>Siggen-board: /* Activities */</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html)<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). It will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The new website was released in 2022: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance&diff=75487SIG Compliance2023-06-19T14:46:53Z<p>Siggen-board: /* SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation */</p>
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<div>== Guidelines ==<br />
<br />
[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Creation_Guidelines ACL SIG Creation Guidelines]<br />
<br />
== List of SIGs ==<br />
<br />
=== SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/<br />
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb) <br />
'''members''': 427<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years<br />
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)<br />
<br />
=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sigann.github.io/ <br />
'''contacts''': president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de) <br />
'''members''': 150<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': Oct. 2021, 2024<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED<br />
'''contacts''': chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),<br />
secretary Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 224<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2022, June 2025<br />
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops<br />
<br />
=== SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/<br />
'''contacts''': president Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), secretary-treasurer Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@microsoft.com)<br />
'''members''': approx. 1200<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2021, December 2022<br />
'''events''': EMNLP every year<br />
<br />
=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),<br />
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)<br />
'''members''': 581<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023<br />
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL<br />
<br />
=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/<br />
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)<br />
'''members''': 240<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2021, March 2024<br />
'''events''': Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)<br />
<br />
=== SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://acl-sigel.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 116<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2025<br />
'''events''': ComputEL<br />
<br />
=== SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM<br />
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),<br />
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)<br />
'''members''': 129<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022 <br />
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)<br />
<br />
=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN<br />
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),<br />
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),<br />
'''members''': 490<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024 <br />
'''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; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022<br />
<br />
=== SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu <br />
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),<br />
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)<br />
'''members''': 210<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2021<br />
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017<br />
<br />
=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events<br />
'''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)<br />
'''members''': 168<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2022, July 2024<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 450<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024<br />
'''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)<br />
<br />
=== SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se), <br />
'''members''': 310<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022<br />
'''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)<br />
<br />
=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)<br />
'''members''': 175<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGMT: SIG on machine translation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),<br />
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)<br />
'''members''': 180<br />
'''elections (last)''': none in the past<br />
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year<br />
<br />
=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.signll.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 380<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021 <br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),<br />
'''members''': 266<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022 <br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGREP: SIG on representation learning ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com),<br />
secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 2000<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2022, October 2024 <br />
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023<br />
<br />
=== SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),<br />
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)<br />
'''members''': 880<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, summer 2021<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html<br />
'''contacts''': chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)<br />
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)<br />
'''members''': 110<br />
'''elections (first,last)''': Winter 2020, winter 2023<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org<br />
'''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)<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2020, Fall 2022<br />
'''members''': 160<br />
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022<br />
<br />
=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)<br />
'''members''': 144<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': First Oct 2022, every 2 years<br />
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2023;<br />
<br />
=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': sigsumm.org<br />
'''contacts''': Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu<br />
'''members''': 52<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': first Dec. 2023; every 2 years<br />
'''events''': NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023<br />
<br />
=== SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)<br />
'''members''': 94<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years<br />
'''events''': TBA;<br />
<br />
=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 380<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),<br />
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)<br />
'''members''': 60<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022<br />
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020<br />
<br />
=== SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk<br />
'''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)<br />
'''members''': 178<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': January 2022, 2024<br />
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754862023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T14:41:50Z<p>Siggen-board: /* Board */</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html)<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). For the first time it will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The new website was released in 2022: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754852023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T14:41:26Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series (https://siggen-acl.github.io/pages/webinar.html)<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). For the first time it will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
The new website was released in 2022: https://siggen-acl.github.io/.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754842023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T14:40:19Z<p>Siggen-board: /* Activities */</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 15th INLG was a hybrid conference, held for in person attendees at Colby College in Waterville, ME (USA) on 18-22 July 2022 (https://inlgmeeting.github.io/).<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2022 workshop, held at EMNLP 2022 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* NLG4Health - First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare (as part of the INLG 2022 conference) (https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/index.html).<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2023 will take place in Prague on September 11-15, 2023 (https://inlg2023.github.io/). For the first time it will be held jointly with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023).<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2023.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We hope to release a new website during summer 2022.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=754832023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2023-06-19T14:36:14Z<p>Siggen-board: Created page with "'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report''' == Summary == SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the s..."</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:<br />
<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)<br />
* David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), student representative (term expires in 2024)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2022 ===<br />
The 14th INLG conference was held in Aberdeen, UK, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* GEM 2021 workshop, held at ACL 2021 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2022 will take place in Waterville, Maiine, USA on 18-22 July 2022. It will be a hybrid conference.<br />
<br />
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at EMNLP 2022.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2022.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We hope to release a new website during summer 2022.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance&diff=74891SIG Compliance2021-09-22T17:35:42Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>== Guidelines ==<br />
<br />
[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Creation_Guidelines ACL SIG Creation Guidelines]<br />
<br />
== List of SIGs ==<br />
<br />
=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann <br />
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu) <br />
'''members''': 270<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2021<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED<br />
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),<br />
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 112<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2019, June 2022<br />
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops<br />
<br />
=== SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/<br />
'''contacts''': president Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), secretary-treasurer Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@microsoft.com)<br />
'''members''': approx. 1200<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2021, December 2022<br />
'''events''': EMNLP every year<br />
<br />
=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),<br />
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)<br />
'''members''': 581<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023<br />
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL<br />
<br />
=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/<br />
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)<br />
'''members''': 240<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2021, March 2024<br />
'''events''': Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)<br />
<br />
=== SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://acl-sigel.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu)<br />
'''members''': 116<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2023<br />
'''events''': ComputEL-4, 2-3 March 2021<br />
<br />
=== SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM<br />
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),<br />
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)<br />
'''members''': 129<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022 <br />
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)<br />
<br />
=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN<br />
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),<br />
secretary Raquel Hervas (raquelhb@fdi.ucm.es),<br />
'''members''': 450<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2020, December 2022 <br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu <br />
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),<br />
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)<br />
'''members''': 210<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2021<br />
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017<br />
<br />
=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events<br />
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),<br />
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)<br />
'''members''': 168<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa), secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk)<br />
'''members''': 875<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2020, June 2023<br />
'''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)<br />
<br />
=== SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se), vice president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), <br />
'''members''': 303<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, early 2022<br />
'''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)<br />
<br />
=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)<br />
'''members''': 175<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGMT: SIG on machine translation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),<br />
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)<br />
'''members''': 180<br />
'''elections (last)''': none in the past<br />
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year<br />
<br />
=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.signll.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 380<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021 <br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),<br />
'''members''': 266<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022 <br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGREP: SIG on representation learning ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),<br />
secretary Anna Rogers (arogers@sodas.ku.dk)<br />
'''members''': 1500<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2020, October 2022 <br />
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021<br />
<br />
=== SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),<br />
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)<br />
'''members''': 880<br />
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, summer 2021<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html<br />
'''contacts''': chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)<br />
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)<br />
'''members''': 110<br />
'''elections (first,last)''': Winter 2020, winter 2023<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org<br />
'''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)<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2020, Fall 2022<br />
'''members''': 150<br />
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;<br />
<br />
=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org<br />
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)<br />
'''members''': 60<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': Summer 2022<br />
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2021;<br />
<br />
=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)<br />
'''members''': 380<br />
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc<br />
'''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<br />
<br />
=== SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/<br />
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),<br />
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)<br />
'''members''': 60<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022<br />
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020<br />
<br />
=== SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus ===<br />
<br />
'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk<br />
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)<br />
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)<br />
'''members''': 178<br />
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021<br />
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=746572021Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2021-07-06T21:49:31Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:<br />
<br />
* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report for 2020, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2020 ===<br />
The 13th INLG conference was held in Dublin, Ireland, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br />
<br />
INLG 2020 included several workshops in addition to the main conference:<br />
<br />
* 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI)<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI)<br />
* 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* 1st Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation workshop (IntelLang 2020), held at ECAI 2020<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2020), held at COLING 2020 <br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2021 will happen in Aberdeen, UK, on 20-24 September 2021. Because of the Covid situation and likely restrictions on travel, INLG-2021 will primarily take place online. It is chaired by Anya Belz (University of Brighton), Angela Fan (Facebook), Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), and Yaji Sripada (University of Aberdeen).<br />
<br />
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at ACL 2021. It will be held online.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2021.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We have created a YouTube channel to publish the SIGGEN webinar series videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjwaouzGWy6Oktstkxzc3A).</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=746562021Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2021-07-06T21:47:38Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:<br />
<br />
* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report for 2020, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2020 ===<br />
The 13th INLG conference was held in Dublin, Ireland, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br />
<br />
INLG 2020 included several workshops in addition to the main conference:<br />
<br />
* 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI)<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI)<br />
* 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* 1st Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation workshop (IntelLang 2020), held at ECAI 2020<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2020), held at COLING 2020 <br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2021 will happen in Aberdeen, UK, on 20-24 September 2021. Because of the Covid situation and likely restrictions on travel, INLG-2021 will primarily take place online. It is chaired by Anya Belz (University of Brighton), Angela Fan (Facebook), Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), and Yaji Sripada (University of Aberdeen).<br />
<br />
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at ACL 2021. It will be held online.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2021.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We have created a YouTube channel to publish the SIGGEN webinar series videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjwaouzGWy6Oktstkxzc3A).</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=746552021Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2021-07-06T21:47:01Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:<br />
<br />
* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report for 2020, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2020 ===<br />
The 13th INLG conference was held in Dublin, Ireland, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br />
<br />
INLG 2020 included several workshops in addition to the main conference:<br />
<br />
* 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI)<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI)<br />
* 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* 1st Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation workshop (IntelLang 2020), held at ECAI 2020<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2020), held at COLING 2020 <br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2021 will happen in Aberdeen, UK, on 20-24 September 2021. Because of the Covid situation and likely restrictions on travel, INLG-2021 will primarily take place online. It is chaired by Anya Belz (University of Brighton), Angela Fan (Facebook), Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), and Yaji Sripada (University of Aberdeen).<br />
<br />
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at ACL 2021. It will be held online.<br />
<br />
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2021.<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We have created a YouTube channel to publish the SIGGEN webinar series videos.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=746542021Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2021-07-06T21:34:41Z<p>Siggen-board: </p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:<br />
<br />
* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report for 2020, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2020 ===<br />
The 13th INLG conference was held in Dublin, Ireland, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br />
<br />
INLG 2020 included several workshops in addition to the main conference:<br />
<br />
* 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI)<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI)<br />
* 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* 1st Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation workshop (IntelLang 2020), held at ECAI 2020.<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2020), held at COLING 2020. <br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2021 will happen in Aberdeen, UK, on 20-24 September 2021. Because of the Covid situation and likely restrictions on travel, INLG-2021 will primarily take place online. It is chaired by Anya Belz (University of Brighton), Angela Fan (Facebook), Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), and Yaji Sripada (University of Aberdeen)<br />
<br />
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at ACL 2021. It will be online.<br />
<br />
a workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation at ECAI-2020. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We have updated and expanded the resources and data set section of the SIGGEN web page.</div>Siggen-boardhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN&diff=746532021Q3 Reports: SIGGEN2021-07-06T21:25:38Z<p>Siggen-board: Created page with "'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report''' == Summary == SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the s..."</p>
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<div>'''ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report'''<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Membership ==<br />
Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.<br />
<br />
== Board ==<br />
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:<br />
<br />
* Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)<br />
* Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)<br />
* Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)<br />
<br />
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Since the period covered in the last report for 2020, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br />
<br />
=== INLG 2020 ===<br />
The 13th INLG conference was held in Dublin, Ireland, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br />
<br />
INLG 2020 included several workshops in addition to the main conference:<br />
<br />
* 1st Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI)<br />
* 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (NLG4HRI)<br />
* 1st Workshop on Evaluating NLG Evaluation<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Other Events ===<br />
<br />
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br />
<br />
* 1st Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation workshop (IntelLang 2020), held at ECAI 2020.<br />
* 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2020), held at COLING 2020. <br />
* SIGGEN webinar series<br />
<br />
=== upcoming events ===<br />
<br />
INLG-2021 will happen in Dublin. It was originally scheduled for Sep 2020, but was postponed to Dec 2020 because of the Covid lockdown. It is chaired by Brian Davis (Dublin City University), with support from the Adapt centre. It seems likely that INLG 2020 will be online at least in part.<br />
<br />
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting a workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation at ECAI-2020. It will be online.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Website ==<br />
We have updated and expanded the resources and data set section of the SIGGEN web page.</div>Siggen-board