2025Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

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This is the 2024-2025 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

Membership

The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 43% growth from 175 to 251 members in the past 5 years. Growth peaked in 2023, and was a bit slower in 2025.


Year Membership
2025 251
2024 239
2023 218
2022 196
2021 175
2020 176
2019 176
2018 157
2017 167
2016 157
2015 150
2014 144
2013 142
2012 137
2011 120
2010 105
2009 96
2008 90
2007 73
2006 55

Workshop

The 22nd SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2025, organized by Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Çağrı Çöltekin, and Fred Mailhot. Attendance was approximately 30 participants, in-person and online. Attendance has been slowly decreasing, and this year, we held a discussion with members to discuss ways to increase interest in the SIG.

In line with reduced attendance, there were only 4 papers submitted to the workshop; after careful review, all 4 were accepted. After polling the community in the summer of 2024, and receiving comments at the low quality of reviews in previous workshops, efforts were made to improve review quality. The organizing team reviewed the reviews, and noted an improvement in review quality; however, since reviewer load was quite low, this may have contributed to the improvement more than any other effort.

Kyle Gorman of CUNY was invited to give a shared talk, and was also invited to participate in a community panel on the state of the SIG with Kristine Yu (UMass - Amherst), Gaspar Begus (UC - Berkeley), and Connor Mayer (UC - Irvine)

Shared Tasks

After poor participation in the previous year, there were no shared tasks this year. We are looking to reinvigorate the shared tasks in the next edition of the workshop.

Elections

The officers of the SIG are listed on the website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/. Officers were re-elected in January 2025, and will serve for a 2-year term, with the next election to occur in late 2026.