2025Q3 Reports: SIGLEX
Membership
SIGLEX currently has 467 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) and SemEval. The MWE section has 361 members.
Officers
The current SIGLEX Executive Board includes the following officers:
President: Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Secretary: Tiago Torrent, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Vice-President: Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University, UK
Vice-Secretary: Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK
MWE section representative: Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romania
SemEval section representative: Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University, Canada
Note: All officers are serving until Fall 2026 except from Massimo Poesio who announced that he would be stepping down in Summer 2025. We will hold new elections for this position in June 2025. The Vice-President who will be elected will serve for three years and will become President of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2026. The current Vice-Secretary will automatically become the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board and thus this position requires a four-year commitment.
Elections
An exceptional SIGLEX election will be held in June 2025 to elect a new Vice-President since the current Vice-President is stepping down. This position will require a three-year commitment. A call for nominations was sent out on 14 March 2025 and closed on 14 April 2025. The election is expected to begin on June 14.
Another SIGLEX election will be held in Spring-Summer 2026 to elect the board for the Fall 2026 - Summer 2028 term.
Events
SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:
- *SEM 2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, in November 2025. It is organized by general chair Vered Schwartz and program chairs Lea Frermann and Mark Stevenson. *SEM 2025 will be a hybrid event and there will be two keynote speakers. The proceedings of the conference will be made available in the ACL Anthology.
- SemEval 2025: The 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation will be co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, and will take place from July, 31 to August, 1 2025. It will be organized as a hybrid event by Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Marcos Zampieri, and Debanjan Ghosh. The evaluation features 11 tasks with approximately 1400 participants for all tasks combined. The proceedings of the workshop will be made available in the ACL Anthology.
- MWE 2025: The 21st edition of the MWE workshop was co-located with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA), and took place on 4 May 2025. It was organized as a hybrid event by A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Gražina Korvel, Mathieu Constant, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Voula Giouli. The workshop received 12 submissions, of which 9 were accepted after peer review. It featured oral and online presentations, one best paper award, hosted one keynote by Nathan Schneider and a panel on the topic of Tokenization in the era of LLMs, featuring as panelists Agata Savary, Elizabeth Salesky, Jindřich Libovický, John P. McCrae and Yuval Pinter, under the coordination of Nathan Schneider. It attracted 7 onsite and 20 online registered participants. The proceedings of the workshop are available in the ACL Anthology.
Websites and Mailing Lists
The 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 siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Marianna Apidianaki.
The 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 siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by the MWE workshop organizers.
The website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com, are managed by the SemEval organizers.