2025Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON
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 |
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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)
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.