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<p>New page: SIGDAT - 2008 Summer Report SIGDAT is ACL&#039;s special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP. In 2008, SIGDAT is organizing its annual Conference on Empirica...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>SIGDAT - 2008 Summer Report<br /> <br /> SIGDAT is ACL&#039;s special interest group for linguistic data and<br /> corpus-based approaches to NLP.<br /> <br /> In 2008, SIGDAT is organizing its annual Conference on Empirical<br /> Methods in Natural Language Processing in Honolulu, Hawaii,<br /> from October 25-27, at the Prince Kuhio Hotel, Waikiki,<br /> collocating with AMTA 2008 and the International Workshop on<br /> Spoken Language Translation. Mirella Lapata and Hwee Tou Ng<br /> are program co-chairs, Sebastian Pado is publications chair<br /> and Priscilla Rasmussen is handling local arrangements.<br /> Paper submissions are due July 3. The choice of date and<br /> location was based on several detailed surveys made<br /> at ACL 2007 and by email to the broader SIGDAT membership.<br /> These surveys indicated a strong preference for an off-season<br /> autumn meeting (with summer submission deadline) and also<br /> a preference for a western North-American meeting. Shared<br /> local arrangements with AMTA were also a significant plus.<br /> <br /> In 2007, SIGDAT organized a 3-day Joint Conference on Empirical<br /> Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on<br /> Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007)<br /> with our sister sig SIGNLL. The meeting was held immediately<br /> after ACL-07 in Prague on June 28-30. Jason Eisner was program<br /> chair, Jan Hajic was local arrangements chair, and Eric Ringger<br /> was publications chair. The conference was highly successful:<br /> Over 400 submissions were received, and 66 papers were accepted<br /> for oral presentation and 44 were accepted as posters, yielding a<br /> total acceptance rate of approximately 25% (and 15% acceptance for<br /> full oral presentation). The proceedings had 1200 pages(!),<br /> and essentially the entire conference was held in parallel sessions.<br /> In terms of scale on several dimensions, EMNLP is now regularly at<br /> a similar size to recent NAACL/HLT and EACL meetings.<br /> <br /> Following the new ACL major conference pre-approval protocols,<br /> SIGDAT submitted a bid to hold EMNLP 2009 in collocation with<br /> ACL 2009 in Singapore, and this proposal was approved.<br /> <br /> Also in January 2008, SIGDAT established an electronic membership<br /> enrollment process, which quickly achieved over 500 new members to<br /> the SIG and received their feedback regarding location/timing<br /> preferences for EMNLP 2008 and 2009. We have drafted a new SIG<br /> constitution and will be holding SIG elections immediately after<br /> its approval.<br /> <br /> SIGDAT remains sensitive to the question of scheduling EMNLP<br /> with respect to other events (including CoNLL and other workshops)<br /> and we believe that the new collocation pre-approval process<br /> and our memorandum of understanding with SIGNLL are effective<br /> vehicles to this end.<br /> <br /> - David Yarowsky<br /> Secretary-Treasurer</div>

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