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<p>New page: SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, was approved as a new SIG at last year’s ACL Executive meeting in Prague. The SIG is an umbrella for research and activiti...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, was approved as <br /> a new SIG at last year’s ACL Executive meeting in Prague. The SIG is <br /> an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of <br /> the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and <br /> is especially interested in fostering the identification of best <br /> practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.<br /> <br /> SIGANN was inaugurated at the first Linguistic Annotation Workshop <br /> (LAW), was held in conjuction with ACL 2008 in Prague. At that <br /> meeting, over 200 people signed up as members of the SIG. SIGANN now <br /> officially organizes the LAW, the second of which was held at LREC <br /> 2008 in Marrakech.<br /> <br /> SIGANN has established a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to <br /> communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/ <br /> sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg).<br /> <br /> Two working groups have so far been established:<br /> <br /> (1) Corpus Working Group: This group has identified and made available <br /> a small (40K) corpus representing several genres of written and spoken <br /> text, drawn from the Open American National Corpus (OANC) and <br /> therefore freely redistributable and reusable. The group is sponsoring <br /> a “shared corpus task†by calling for researchers to annotate the <br /> corpus for any phenomenon of interest, in any format, and to <br /> contribute the annotations to SIGANN. All of the annotations will be <br /> made freely available via the SIGANN site. The corpus was <br /> strategically identified so that it is part of the data being <br /> annotated by existing projects, including the ULA and ANC MASC, <br /> thereby ensuring that a base of annotations for the data exist.<br /> <br /> (2) Best Practices working group: This group was established to begin <br /> work on the identification of best practices for linguistic <br /> annotation. The group’s first (basic) report will be published this <br /> summer, after input is gathered at the annual SIGANN meeting at the <br /> LAW in May, 2008 in Marrakech.<br /> <br /> SIGANN Officers:<br /> <br /> President: Nancy Ide, Vassar College<br /> <br /> Secretary: Adam Meyers, New York University<br /> <br /> SIGANN Committee:<br /> <br /> Inderjeet Mani (MITRE Corporation)<br /> <br /> Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)<br /> <br /> Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)<br /> <br /> Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)<br /> <br /> Nianwen Xue (University of Colorado)<br /> <br /> The 2nd LAW was one of the most highly attended workshops at LREC. The <br /> 3rd LAW is currently planned to be held at ACL 2009 in Singapore, <br /> possibly in conjunction with CONLL.</div>

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