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2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2024-07-08T16:41:24Z

StevenBethard: adds ACL Anthology links

=== Membership ===
SIGLEX currently has 496 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 384 members, and SemEval with 340 members.

=== Officers ===

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

'''President''': Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

'''Secretary''': Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'''Vice-President Elect''': Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

'''Vice-Secretary Elect''': Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

'''MWE section representative''': Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research Centre, Greece

'''SemEval section representative''': Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== Elections ===

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect the board for the Fall 2024 - Summer 2026 term. A call for nominations began on 11 Mar 2024 and closed on 1 May 2024. The election is expected to begin around 1 Jul 2024. Ivan Vulić announced that he would be stepping down, so in addition to the regular four positions (Vice-President Elect, Vice-Secretary Elect, MWE section representative, SemEval section representative), the election will additionally include a 2-year Secretary position.

=== Events ===

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

'''*SEM 2024''': The [https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2024 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by general chair Jose Camacho-Collados and program chairs Danushka Bollegala and Vered Shwartz. The conference received 65 submissions (6 from ARR and 59 direct), featured 35 talks and posters, hosted keynotes by Heng Ji and Greg Durrett, and had a panel discussion about "The Role of Semantics in the Age of LLMs" with Greg Durrett, Aline Villavicencio, Nanyun (Violet) Peng, and Yi Ren Fung. The proceedings of the conference are available on the [https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.starsem-1/ ACL Anthology].

'''SemEval 2024''': The [https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2024/ 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Sara Rosenthal, and Aiala Rosá. The evaluation included 10 tasks with 269 participating teams (teams that sent description papers), and the workshop featured 10 talks, 2 best system descriptions and 65 posters, and hosted two keynote talks by André Martins and Heng Ji (Heng Ji's talk was shared with *SEM). The proceedings of the workshop are available on the [https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.semeval-1/ ACL Anthology]

'''MWE 2024''': The 20th edition of the MWE workshop was organized as a joint event with the Universal Dependencies workshop. The [https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)] took place on 25 May 2024 and was co-located with the LREC-COLING 2024 Conference in Turin, Italy. It was organized as a hybrid event by Voula Giouli, Kilian Evang, Lifeng Han, Archna Bhatia, Marcos Garcia, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Gosse Bouma, and Joakim Nivre. The workshop received 44 archival submissions, of which 26 were accepted after peer review. It featured oral, poster, and (online) booster presentations, one best paper award, and hosted two keynotes by [https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/harish-tayyar-madabushi Dr. Tayyar Madabushi] and [https://www.ru.nl/personen/levshina-n Dr. Natalia Levshina]. Being the 3rd biggest satellite event of this conference, it attracted more than 70 onsite and 7 online registered participants (the final figures still to be provided by the Conference Organisers). The proceedings of the workshop are available on the [https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.mwe-1/ ACL Anthology]

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===

The [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX website] is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and [mailto:siglex-board@googlegroups.com siglex-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The [https://multiword.org/ website of the MWE section of SIGLEX] is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and [mailto:siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The [https://semeval.github.io/ website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX] and the mailing list, [mailto:semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com], are managed by the SemEval organizers.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2024-06-26T17:45:27Z

StevenBethard: updates SemEval 2024

=== Membership ===
SIGLEX currently has 496 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 384 members, and SemEval with 340 members.

=== Officers ===

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

'''President''': Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

'''Secretary''': Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'''Vice-President Elect''': Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

'''Vice-Secretary Elect''': Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

'''MWE section representative''': Voula Giouli, ATHENA Research Centre

'''SemEval section representative''': Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== Elections ===

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect the board for the Fall 2024 - Summer 2026 term. A call for nominations began on 11 Mar 2024 and closed on 1 May 2024. The election is expected to begin around 1 Jul 2024. Ivan Vulić announced that he would be stepping down, so in addition to the regular four positions (Vice-President Elect, Vice-Secretary Elect, MWE section representative, SemEval section representative), the election will additionally include a 2-year Secretary position.

=== Events ===

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

'''*SEM 2024''': The [https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2024 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by general chair Jose Camacho-Collados and program chairs Danushka Bollegala and Vered Shwartz. The conference received 65 submissions (6 from ARR and 59 direct), featured 35 talks and posters, hosted keynotes by Heng Ji and Greg Durrett, and had a panel discussion about "The Role of Semantics in the Age of LLMs" with Greg Durrett, Aline Villavicencio, Nanyun (Violet) Peng, and Yi Ren Fung.

'''SemEval 2024''': The [https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2024/ 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Sara Rosenthal, and Aiala Rosá. The evaluation included 10 tasks with 269 participating teams (teams that sent description papers), and the workshop featured 10 talks, 2 best system descriptions and 65 posters, and hosted two keynote talks by André Martins and Heng Ji (Heng Ji's talk was shared with *SEM).

'''MWE 2024''': The [https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)] was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by XX. The workshop received XX submissions, featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===

The [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX website] is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and [mailto:siglex-board@googlegroups.com siglex-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The [https://multiword.org/ website of the MWE section of SIGLEX] is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and [mailto:siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The [https://semeval.github.io/ website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX] and the mailing list, [mailto:semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com], are managed by the SemEval organizers.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2024-06-26T17:39:04Z

StevenBethard: updates *SEM 2024

=== Membership ===
SIGLEX currently has 496 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 384 members, and SemEval with 340 members.

=== Officers ===

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

'''President''': Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

'''Secretary''': Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'''Vice-President Elect''': Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

'''Vice-Secretary Elect''': Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

'''MWE section representative''': Voula Giouli, ATHENA Research Centre

'''SemEval section representative''': Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== Elections ===

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect the board for the Fall 2024 - Summer 2026 term. A call for nominations began on 11 Mar 2024 and closed on 1 May 2024. The election is expected to begin around 1 Jul 2024. Ivan Vulić announced that he would be stepping down, so in addition to the regular four positions (Vice-President Elect, Vice-Secretary Elect, MWE section representative, SemEval section representative), the election will additionally include a 2-year Secretary position.

=== Events ===

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

'''*SEM 2024''': The [https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2024 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by general chair Jose Camacho-Collados and program chairs Danushka Bollegala and Vered Shwartz. The conference received 65 submissions (6 from ARR and 59 direct), featured 35 talks and posters, hosted keynotes by Heng Ji and Greg Durrett, and had a panel discussion about "The Role of Semantics in the Age of LLMs" with Greg Durrett, Aline Villavicencio, Nanyun (Violet) Peng, and Yi Ren Fung.

'''SemEval 2024''': The [https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2024/ 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Sara Rosenthal, and Aiala Rosá. The evaluation included XX tasks with XX participating teams, and the workshop featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

'''MWE 2024''': The [https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)] was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by XX. The workshop received XX submissions, featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===

The [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX website] is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and [mailto:siglex-board@googlegroups.com siglex-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The [https://multiword.org/ website of the MWE section of SIGLEX] is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and [mailto:siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The [https://semeval.github.io/ website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX] and the mailing list, [mailto:semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com], are managed by the SemEval organizers.

2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2024-06-25T17:59:44Z

StevenBethard: updates SIGLEX entry for 2024Q3

=== Membership ===
SIGLEX currently has 496 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 384 members, and SemEval with 340 members.

=== Officers ===

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

'''President''': Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

'''Secretary''': Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'''Vice-President Elect''': Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

'''Vice-Secretary Elect''': Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

'''MWE section representative''': Voula Giouli, ATHENA Research Centre

'''SemEval section representative''': Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== Elections ===

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect the board for the Fall 2024 - Summer 2026 term. A call for nominations began on 11 Mar 2024 and closed on 1 May 2024. The election is expected to begin around 1 Jul 2024. Ivan Vulić announced that he would be stepping down, so in addition to the regular four positions (Vice-President Elect, Vice-Secretary Elect, MWE section representative, SemEval section representative), the election will additionally include a 2-year Secretary position.

=== Events ===

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

'''*SEM 2024''': The [https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2024 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by general chair Jose Camacho-Collados and program chairs Danushka Bollegala and Vered Shwartz. The conference received XX submissions, featured XX talks and posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

'''SemEval 2024''': The [https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2024/ 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation] was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Sara Rosenthal, and Aiala Rosá. The evaluation included XX tasks with XX participating teams, and the workshop featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

'''MWE 2024''': The [https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)] was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by XX. The workshop received XX submissions, featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===

The [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX website] is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and [mailto:siglex-board@googlegroups.com siglex-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The [https://multiword.org/ website of the MWE section of SIGLEX] is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and [mailto:siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The [https://semeval.github.io/ website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX] and the mailing list, [mailto:semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com], are managed by the SemEval organizers.

SIG Compliance

2024-06-16T23:44:56Z

StevenBethard: /* SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 490
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022

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

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

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

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/
'''contacts''': president 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, LaTeCH-CLfL 2022, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023.

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
'''members''': 485
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference at NAACL 2024; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2024; Annual MWE workshop at LREC-COLING 2024; Additional past sponsored and endorsed events are listed on the [https://aclanthology.org/sigs/siglex/ SIGLEX page of the ACL Anthology]

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Thomas Graf (mail@thomasgraf.net),
'''members''': 333
'''elections (last, next)''': May 2024, mid 2025
'''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''': https://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Alexandra Birch (a.birch@ed.ac.uk), Secretary: Antonis Anastasopoulos, North America: Marine Carpuat, Europe: Ondrej Bojar, Asia: Masao Utiyama
'''members''': 180
'''elections (last)''': September 2021
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

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

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

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 95
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every year
'''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 Mika Hämäläinen (mika.hamalainen@metropolia.fi),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': 2023, 2025
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2021, IWCLUL 2023

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

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

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

'''web page''':
'''contacts''': president (pro-temp): Richard Sproat (rws@xoba.com); vice-president (pro-temp): Emily Prud’hommeaux (emilytucker@gmail.com); Secretary-Treasurer (pro-temp): Kyle Gorman (kylebgorman@gmail.com); Student-member (pro-temp): Noah Hermalin (nmhermalin@berkeley.edu)
'''members''': 44 (indicated interest)
'''elections (last, next)''': -, January 2025
'''events''': CAWL at ACL 2023

2023Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2023-06-30T19:05:17Z

StevenBethard: updates SIGLEX events

=== Membership ===
SIGLEX currently has 450 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 352 members, and SemEval with 309 members.

=== Officers ===

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

'''President''': Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

'''Secretary''': Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'''Vice-President Elect''': Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

'''Vice-Secretary Elect''': Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

'''MWE section representative''': Voula Giouli, ATHENA Research Centre

'''SemEval section representative''': Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== Events ===

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

'''*SEM 2023''': The [https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics] will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada and will take place on 13-14 July 2023. It was organized by general chair Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and program chairs Jose Camacho-Collados and Alexis Palmer. The conference received 95 submissions, will feature 45 talks and posters, and will host keynotes by Jessy Li, Hinrich Schütze and Danushka Bollegala.

'''SemEval 2023''': The [https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2023/ 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation] will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada and will take place on 13-14 July 2023. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi and Ritesh Kumar. The evaluation included 12 tasks with 269 participating teams, and the workshop will feature 20 talks and 302 posters and host keynotes by Jessy Li and Siva Reddy.

'''MWE 2023''': The [https://multiword.org/mwe2023/ 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions] was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by program chairs Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Shiva Taslimipoor, and Lifeng Han. The workshop received 21 submissions, featured 9 talks and 5 posters, and hosted keynotes by Leo Wanner, Asma Ben Abacha, and Goran Nenadic.

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===

The [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX website] is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and [mailto:siglex-board@googlegroups.com siglex-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The [https://multiword.org/ website of the MWE section of SIGLEX] is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and [mailto:siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The [https://semeval.github.io/ website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX] and the mailing list, [mailto:semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com], are managed by the SemEval organizers.

SIG Compliance

2023-06-27T17:24:46Z

StevenBethard: /* SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon */

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president TO BE UPDATED
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2023, December 2024
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 490
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022

=== 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/
'''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, LaTeCH-CLfL 2022, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023.

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference at ACL 2023; Annual SemEval workshop at ACL 2023; Annual MWE workshop at EACL 2023; Additional past sponsored and endorsed events are listed on the [https://aclanthology.org/sigs/siglex/ SIGLEX page of the ACL Anthology]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

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

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

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 95
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every year
'''events''': TBA;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

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

2023Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2023-06-26T22:17:36Z

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=== Membership ===
SIGLEX currently has 450 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 352 members, and SemEval with 309 members.

=== Officers ===

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

'''President''': Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

'''Secretary''': Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'''Vice-President Elect''': Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

'''Vice-Secretary Elect''': Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

'''MWE section representative''': Voula Giouli, ATHENA Research Centre

'''SemEval section representative''': Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== Events ===

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

'''*SEM 2023''': The [https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics] will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada and will take place on 13-14 July 2023. It was organized by general chair Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and program chairs Jose Camacho-Collados and Alexis Palmer. The conference received XXX submissions, will feature XXX talks and posters, and will host keynotes by XXX.

'''SemEval 2023''': The [https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2023/ 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation] will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada and will take place on 13-14 July 2023. It was organized by Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Harish Tayyar Madabushi. The evaluation included XXX tasks, with XXX participating teams, and the workshop will feature XXX talks and posters, and will host keynotes by XXX.

'''MWE 2023''': The [https://multiword.org/mwe2023/ 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions] was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by program chairs Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Shiva Taslimipoor, and Lifeng Han. The workshop received 21 submissions, featured 9 talks and 5 posters, and hosted keynotes by Leo Wanner, Asma Ben Abacha, and Goran Nenadic.

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===

The [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX website] is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and [mailto:siglex-board@googlegroups.com siglex-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The [https://multiword.org/ website of the MWE section of SIGLEX] is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and [mailto:siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com]. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The [https://semeval.github.io/ website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX] and the mailing list, [mailto:semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com], are managed by the SemEval organizers.

SIG Compliance

2023-06-26T21:37:43Z

StevenBethard: updates SIGLEX events for 2023

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president TO BE UPDATED
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2023, December 2024
'''events''': EMNLP every year

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 490
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022

=== 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 Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference at ACL 2023, NAACL 2022, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, COLING 2020, NAACL 2019, NAACL 2018, ACL 2017, ACL 2016; Annual SemEval workshop at ACL 2023, NAACL 2022, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, COLING 2020, NAACL 2019, NAACL 2018, ACL 2017, NAACL 2016; Annual MWE workshop at EACL 2023, LREC 2022, ACL 2021, EACL 2017, ACL 2016, NAACL 2015, EACL 2014, NAACL 2013, ACL 2011, COLING 2010 (endorsed); MWE-LEX at COLING 2020; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; LAW-MWE-CxG at COLING 2018; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 310
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 180
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

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

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CoNLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 266
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

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

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

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 95
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every year
'''events''': TBA;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

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

SIG Compliance

2023-06-12T14:03:12Z

StevenBethard: updates contacts, members, and elections

== Guidelines ==

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

== List of SIGs ==

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

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

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

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 129
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

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

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019, INLG2020, INLG2021

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

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2021
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

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

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
'''contacts''': president Barbara McGillivray (barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk), secretary Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), liaison representative Sara Tonelli (satonelli@fbk.eu)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2022, July 2024
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021

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

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual MWE workshop at LREC 2022, ACL 2021, EACL 2017, ACL 2016, NAACL 2015, EACL 2014, NAACL 2013, ACL 2011, COLING 2010 (endorsed); MWE-LEX at COLING 2020; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; LAW-MWE-CxG at COLING 2018;; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

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

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 310
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 180
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

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

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CoNLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 266
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021

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

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

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, summer 2021
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

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

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

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

=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021

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

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

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

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

SIG Compliance

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StevenBethard: /* SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon */

== 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''': 400
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2020, August 2022
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; 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: SIGLEX

2022-07-19T15:45:47Z

StevenBethard:

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Spring 2022:

=== President ===
* Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE

=== Secretary ===
* Aline Villavicencio, The University of Sheffield, UK

=== Executive Board ===
* Vice-President Elect: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA
* Vice-Secretary Elect: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in 2022, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

=== SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board ===
* MWE section: Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France
* SemEval section: David Jurgens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

=== Members ===
SIGLEX currently has 400 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 311 members, and SemEval with 269 members.

=== Websites and Mailing Lists ===
The SIGLEX website https://siglex.org/ is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The website of the MWE section of SIGLEX https://multiword.org/ is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Carlos Ramisch.

The SemEval section of SIGLEX continues to be managed by the SemEval organizers (currently Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar) using the existing website, https://semeval.github.io/, and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com.

SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:

=== *SEM 2022 ===
The 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2022), organized by SIGLEX, was co-located with NAACL-HLT 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA and took place on July 14-15, 2022.

General Chair

* Vivi Nastase, University of Zurich

Program Chairs

* Ellie Pavlick, Brown University

* Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies

Publicity Chair

* Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University

Publication Chair

* Alessandro Raganato, University of Helsinki

Area Chairs

Lexical semantics and word representations

* Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania

* Vered Shwartz, University of British Columbia

Semantic composition and sentence-level semantics

* Allyson Ettinger, University of Chicago

Discourse, dialogue, and generation

* Nafise Sadat Moosavi, TU Darmstadt

* Malihe Alikhani, University of Pittsburgh

Multilinguality

* Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen

Psycholinguistics and semantic processing

* Najoung Kim, Johns Hopkins University

Resources and evaluation

* Daniel Khashabi, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Theoretical and formal semantics

* Gene Kim, University of Rochester

Commonsense reasoning and natural language understanding

* Keisuke Sakaguchi, Allen Institute for AI

Semantics in NLP applications

* Nazneen Rajani, Salesforce Research

===SemEval 2022===

The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2022), organized by SIGLEX, was co-located with NAACL-HLT 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA and took place on July 14-15, 2022.

Organizers:

* Guy Emerson, Cambridge University

* Natalie Schluter, IT University Copenhagen

* Gabriel Stanovsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

* Ritesh Kumar, Bhimrao Ambedkar University

* Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder

* Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University

SemEval 2022 included the following twelve shared tasks, organized into four tracks:

Lexical semantics

* Task 1: CODWOE - COmparing Dictionaries and WOrd Embeddings

* Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding

* Task 3: Presupposed Taxonomies - Evaluating Neural-network Semantics (PreTENS)

Social factors & attitudes

* Task 4: Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection

* Task 5: MAMI - Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification

* Task 6: iSarcasmEval - Intended Sarcasm Detection in English and Arabic

Discourse, documents, and multimodality

* Task 7: Identifying Plausible Clarifications of Implicit and Underspecified Phrases in Instructional Texts

* Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity

* Task 9: R2VQ - Competence-based Multimodal Question Answering

Information extraction

* Task 10: Structured Sentiment Analysis

* Task 11: MultiCoNER - Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition

* Task 12: Symlink - Linking Mathematical Symbols to their Descriptions

The proceedings contain both task description papers for each of the above tasks, and system description papers describing the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 12 task description papers and 221 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

===SemEval 2023===

A total of 13 tasks were selected for SemEval 2023. They were announced at the SemEval 2022 workshop. For more details about the event, check https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2023/

===MWE 2022===

The 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2022) was colocated with LREC 2022 in Marseille, France, and tool place on June 25, 2022.

Program Committee Chairs

* Archna Bhatia, IHMC Ocala (USA)

* Paul Cook, University of New Brunswick (Canada)

* Shiva Taslimipoor, University of Cambridge (UK)

Publication Chairs

* Marcos Garcia, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Communication Chair

* Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University (France)

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T06:01:50Z

StevenBethard: /* Problems */

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

* In the author instructions (which are also the paper templates), we changed the order of many sections so that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. We also made other improvements, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for mismatches between author lists in camera-ready PDFs and author lists in START.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for incomplete copyright forms in START.

* We performed a very thorough manual review of all camera-ready PDFs and asked more than 400 authors to fix the many margin and other formatting problems we discovered. We wrote scripts to take a manually-populated spreadsheet of these formatting problems and email the appropriate authors. (START's mail tool was insufficient for these purposes since it could not populate portions of an email from an external spreadsheet.)

* We wrote scripts to handle the custom program required by ACL 2020, including merging schedules from the main conference, demos, and student research workshop, prefixing papers with [Demo], [SRW], [Short], [Long], [TACL], [CL], etc., and working around an ACLPUB bug that includes a paper twice in the proceedings if it is in the schedule twice (which all ACL 2020 papers were).

* We gave the three main-conference volumes real names in the metadata (“main”, “demos”, and “tutorials”) since that was now possible with the new ACL Anthology format.

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6), again, long after it would have been useful.

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors begin writing their papers, they lose their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show style violations. The top priority should be flagging margin violations, but any other violations we can flag should be flagged in some bright color so that they can't be ignored, and will be caught long before the camera-ready.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T06:01:23Z

StevenBethard: /* Problems */

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

* In the author instructions (which are also the paper templates), we changed the order of many sections so that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. We also made other improvements, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for mismatches between author lists in camera-ready PDFs and author lists in START.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for incomplete copyright forms in START.

* We performed a very thorough manual review of all camera-ready PDFs and asked more than 400 authors to fix the many margin and other formatting problems we discovered. We wrote scripts to take a manually-populated spreadsheet of these formatting problems and email the appropriate authors. (START's mail tool was insufficient for these purposes since it could not populate portions of an email from an external spreadsheet.)

* We wrote scripts to handle the custom program required by ACL 2020, including merging schedules from the main conference, demos, and student research workshop, prefixing papers with [Demo], [SRW], [Short], [Long], [TACL], [CL], etc., and working around an ACLPUB bug that includes a paper twice in the proceedings if it is in the schedule twice (which all ACL 2020 papers were).

* We gave the three main-conference volumes real names in the metadata (“main”, “demos”, and “tutorials”) since that was now possible with the new ACL Anthology format.

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6), again, long after it would have been useful.

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors begin writing their papers, they lose their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the new guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show style violations. The top priority should be flagging margin violations, but any other violations we can flag should be flagged in some bright color so that they can't be ignored, and will be caught long before the camera-ready.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T06:00:50Z

StevenBethard: /* Problems */

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

* In the author instructions (which are also the paper templates), we changed the order of many sections so that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. We also made other improvements, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for mismatches between author lists in camera-ready PDFs and author lists in START.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for incomplete copyright forms in START.

* We performed a very thorough manual review of all camera-ready PDFs and asked more than 400 authors to fix the many margin and other formatting problems we discovered. We wrote scripts to take a manually-populated spreadsheet of these formatting problems and email the appropriate authors. (START's mail tool was insufficient for these purposes since it could not populate portions of an email from an external spreadsheet.)

* We wrote scripts to handle the custom program required by ACL 2020, including merging schedules from the main conference, demos, and student research workshop, prefixing papers with [Demo], [SRW], [Short], [Long], [TACL], [CL], etc., and working around an ACLPUB bug that includes a paper twice in the proceedings if it is in the schedule twice (which all ACL 2020 papers were).

* We gave the three main-conference volumes real names in the metadata (“main”, “demos”, and “tutorials”) since that was now possible with the new ACL Anthology format.

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6), again, long after it would have been useful.

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors being writing their papers, they have lost their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the new guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show style violations. The top priority should be flagging margin violations, but any other violations we can flag should be flagged in some bright color so that they can't be ignored, and will be caught long before the camera-ready.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T05:56:46Z

StevenBethard: /* Changes from last year */

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

* In the author instructions (which are also the paper templates), we changed the order of many sections so that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. We also made other improvements, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for mismatches between author lists in camera-ready PDFs and author lists in START.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for incomplete copyright forms in START.

* We performed a very thorough manual review of all camera-ready PDFs and asked more than 400 authors to fix the many margin and other formatting problems we discovered. We wrote scripts to take a manually-populated spreadsheet of these formatting problems and email the appropriate authors. (START's mail tool was insufficient for these purposes since it could not populate portions of an email from an external spreadsheet.)

* We wrote scripts to handle the custom program required by ACL 2020, including merging schedules from the main conference, demos, and student research workshop, prefixing papers with [Demo], [SRW], [Short], [Long], [TACL], [CL], etc., and working around an ACLPUB bug that includes a paper twice in the proceedings if it is in the schedule twice (which all ACL 2020 papers were).

* We gave the three main-conference volumes real names in the metadata (“main”, “demos”, and “tutorials”) since that was now possible with the new ACL Anthology format.

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6).

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors being writing their papers, they have lost their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the new guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show style violations. The top priority should be flagging margin violations, but any other violations we can flag should be flagged in some bright color so that they can't be ignored, and will be caught long before the camera-ready.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T05:55:38Z

StevenBethard: /* Recommendations */

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

* In the author instructions (which are also the paper templates), we changed the order of many sections so that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. We also made other improvements, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for mismatches between author lists in camera-ready PDFs and author lists in START.

* We performed a very thorough manual review of all camera-ready PDFs and asked more than 400 authors to fix the many margin and other formatting problems we discovered. We wrote scripts to take a manually-populated spreadsheet of these formatting problems and email the appropriate authors. (START's mail tool was insufficient for these purposes since it could not populate portions of an email from an external spreadsheet.)

* We wrote scripts to handle the custom program required by ACL 2020, including merging schedules from the main conference, demos, and student research workshop, prefixing papers with [Demo], [SRW], [Short], [Long], [TACL], [CL], etc., and working around an ACLPUB bug that includes a paper twice in the proceedings if it is in the schedule twice (which all ACL 2020 papers were).

* We gave the three main-conference volumes real names in the metadata (“main”, “demos”, and “tutorials”) since that was now possible with the new ACL Anthology format.

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6).

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors being writing their papers, they have lost their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the new guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show style violations. The top priority should be flagging margin violations, but any other violations we can flag should be flagged in some bright color so that they can't be ignored, and will be caught long before the camera-ready.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T05:51:27Z

StevenBethard: /* Changes from last year */

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

* In the author instructions (which are also the paper templates), we changed the order of many sections so that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. We also made other improvements, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections.

* We wrote scripts to help scan for mismatches between author lists in camera-ready PDFs and author lists in START.

* We performed a very thorough manual review of all camera-ready PDFs and asked more than 400 authors to fix the many margin and other formatting problems we discovered. We wrote scripts to take a manually-populated spreadsheet of these formatting problems and email the appropriate authors. (START's mail tool was insufficient for these purposes since it could not populate portions of an email from an external spreadsheet.)

* We wrote scripts to handle the custom program required by ACL 2020, including merging schedules from the main conference, demos, and student research workshop, prefixing papers with [Demo], [SRW], [Short], [Long], [TACL], [CL], etc., and working around an ACLPUB bug that includes a paper twice in the proceedings if it is in the schedule twice (which all ACL 2020 papers were).

* We gave the three main-conference volumes real names in the metadata (“main”, “demos”, and “tutorials”) since that was now possible with the new ACL Anthology format.

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6).

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors being writing their papers, they have lost their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the new guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show margin violations.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T05:42:39Z

StevenBethard:

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

== Problems ==

* We were not informed that https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/ is hosting the most recent paper styles until November 2019, long after we could have used that. We also found out about a FAQ in February 2020 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit#heading=h.nu0qu1d3gvr6).

* When the templates were posted to the Overleaf gallery, people saw them before the official announcement about templates went out.

* Since the author instructions are only in the LaTeX/Word templates, as soon as authors being writing their papers, they have lost their copy of the author instructions.

* Demos, SRW, and workshops wanted to use the main ACL 2020 camera ready submission pages, but no one had copied those over (and pub chairs did not have the power to do so).

* Many authors were confused about the new guidelines for supplementary material (i.e., that in the camera-ready any non-code, non-data supplementary material should now be an appendix instead of a separate upload).

* Many, many papers had text, figures, and tables in the margins. There was no easy way for the authors to see where the margin problems were because on START, only the publication chairs saw the draft proceedings with the margin lines.

* There is a wide variety of ways people format authors, several of which are not officially blessed by the style files. This makes it difficult to write a script that will automatically check that author lists on PDFs match author lists in START.

* A small but significant fraction of authors were not getting hyperlinked titles of *ACL publications in their reference sections, presumably because they hand-entered the references rather than taking advantage of the anthology.bib that we included.

* The default templates for building the proceedings (both main conference and workshop proceedings) include some confusing no-longer-used stuff like DOIs.

* ACLPUB deletes titles that start with # (e.g., that start with hashtags). We found no solution to this except to work around it by manually deleting the # and reintroducing it manually into the schedule.

* There was a last-minute need to delete a SRW paper from the proceedings that violated ACL ethics. We ended up having to use Adobe to just edit the proceedings directly, as re-generating anything so late would have likely introduced many new problems thanks to all the manual steps.

* Some data sets were not attached when the papers were uploaded to the ACL Anthology. We are still debugging that issue: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/860.

== Recommendations ==

* Merge all instructions for pub chairs into a single location, with https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publications_chair_duties just pointing to https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29). The FAQ at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D41tt7Zj0_xjbxEaNWT6Y9NUcoBu0Lkp08IwlwX155E/edit should be merged into that page. Revise the timeline in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/blob/gh-pages/conf-chair.md to be relative to anchor dates (e.g., "3 months before submission deadline" rather than being NAACL-2019 specific), similar to https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/info/contrib/.

* Point all pub chairs to the instructions from the previous point in the email in which they are invited to pub chair.

* Stop using the LaTeX/Word template as the instructions for authors. Instead, host the instructions for authors as a webpage. Probably on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub (or wherever that ends up after the reorganization proposed in https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/issues/29).

* Add explicit guidelines for what author name formats are allowed into the instructions for authors (there are no instructions on that topic now).

* Ask authors to include non-software, non-data supplementary material as an appendix even in the original submission, so that there is no difference in how this is included between original submission and camera-ready submission. Instruct reviewers that they do not need to read appendices (as we already do for supplementary material).

* Strongly recommend in the author instructions that authors use the anthology.bib from https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/anthology.bib.gz to ensure that they get papers hyperlinked correctly.

* Modify the submission templates so that they clearly show margin violations.

* Modify the book templates to remove unused things like DOIs and to use more modern approaches to formatting like the geometry package: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/36

* Synchronize the publicizing of the templates and the posting to the Overleaf Gallery. Be aware that it takes Overleaf a day or two to approve an addition to the gallery.

* Make copying the camera ready submission pages from the main conference to workshops part of the standard START setup that ?program chairs? do.

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes duplicate papers in the proceedings when a paper is in the schedule more than once: https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/issues/39

* Fix the bug in ACLPUB that causes papers that start with # to lose their titles in the schedule.

* Use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings (rather than Zoom) if one of the pub chairs is in China.

* Following previous years, we collected LaTeX source files from authors, but we don't do anything with those. Someone should decide whether we should continue doing this or not.

* Rather than generating an intermediate "cdrom" structure and having the ACL Anthology ingest that, modify ACLPUB to directly generate the ACL Anthology format.

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T03:54:33Z

StevenBethard:

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

== Problems ==

== Recommendations ==

2020Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs

2020-07-16T03:50:29Z

StevenBethard: Created page with "== Summary == == Changes from last year == == Problems/Observations/Suggestions =="

== Summary ==

== Changes from last year ==

== Problems/Observations/Suggestions ==

2020Q1 Reports: ACL 2020

2020-02-10T20:40:28Z

StevenBethard: Updates publication chairs work

== General Chair ==
Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University

The 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place in Seattle, Washington at the Hyatt Regency Seattle in downtown Seattle from July 5th through July 10th, 2020.

We have a great set of chairs! We are continuing 2019's new roles (Diversity and Inclusion chairs, Remote Presentation Chairs, AV Chairs) and adding new ones: (Sustainability chair), and we are doing well in demographic representation among our chairs (gender and region).

Following advice from last year, we have been using Slack for most intra-committee communication (and we put the Slack channel into the ACL pro space, so it can be preserved for future years), and using email only when absolutely necessary.

As usual, the growing size of the conference (both in papers and attendees) is a challenge, but both in papers and space we have been doing well (see the individual chair summaries below).

[this summary in progress]

== Program Chairs ==
Joyce Chai, University of Michigan

Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Joel Tetreault, Dataminr, USA

== Local Organisation Chairs ==
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

With advice from:

Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research

Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington

== Tutorial Chairs ==

Agata Savary, University of Tours, France

Yue Zhang, Westlake University

== Workshop Chairs ==

Milica Gašić, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI

Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

Ves Stoyanov, Facebook AI

== Student Research Workshop Chairs and Faculty Advisors==

Rotem Dror, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Jiangming Liu, The University of Edinburgh

Shruti Rijhwani, Carnegie Mellon University

Omri Abend, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sujian Li, Peking University

Zhou Yu, University of California, Davis

== Audio-Video Chairs ==

Hamid Palangi, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Lianhui Qin, University of Washington

== Conference Handbook Chair ==

Nanyun Peng, University of Southern California

== Demo Chairs ==

Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Shawn Wen, PolyAI

== Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Chairs ==

Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Rochester Institute of Technology

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Google

== Local Sponsorship Chairs ==

Hoifung Poon, Microsoft

Kristina Toutanova, Google

== Publication Chairs ==

Steven Bethard, University of Arizona

Ryan Cotterrell, University of Cambridge

Rui Yan, Peking University

Starting from the style files from ACL 2019, we have produced new LaTeX style files for ACL 2020. Most of the description was retained, but the order of sections was overhauled to make sure that important information wasn't scattered so haphazardly across the document. Other improvements were also made, like using the recommended citation style consistently throughout the LaTeX source, and separating out all the LaTeX-specific stuff into clearly marked sections. The MS Word version was derived from these LaTeX versions to match as closely as possible. The LaTeX version was also posted to the Overleaf gallery. The most recent .bib file for the entire ACL Anthology was included in the style file distribution to encourage authors to use the official citations for ACL Anthology publications. All style file changes were merged into https://github.com/acl-org/acl-pub/tree/gh-pages/paper_styles.

== Publicity Chair ==

Emily M. Bender, University of Washington

=== Dissemination ===

Durable accounts for the ACL meeting on Twitter and Facebook have been created:
* https://twitter.com/aclmeeting
* https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting/

These will be passed along to the ACL 2021 publicity chair(s) so that they don't have to build up followers separately. As of Feb 4, 2020 the Twitter account has 4,061 followers and the Facebook account has 181. We have not yet been making use of the Instagram account, but we have been using the Twitter and Facebook accounts to publicize important dates as well as blog posts. The Twitter account especially has been useful for fielding questions from the community. Calls for papers have also gone out over the ACL member portal and several mailing lists, as well as websites such as WikiCFP. (These are maintained in a spreadsheet which can be handed off to the ACL 2021 publicity chair(s)).

=== Next Steps ===

* Recruit co-chairs, especially to coordinate live-tweeting of the conference
* Contact local media for coverage
* Develop land acknowledgement in consultation with the Duwamish Tribe (on whose land the meeting will take place). The Duwamish publish this information about land acknowledgments: https://www.duwamishtribe.org/land-acknowledgement

== Remote Presentation Chairs ==

Hao Fang, Microsoft Semantic Machines

Yi Luan, Google AI Language

== Sustainability Chairs ==

Ananya Ganesh, Educational Testing Service

Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service

== Website & Conference App Chairs ==

Sudha Rao, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Yizhe Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond

== Business Office ==

Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL