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New page: SIG Convener's Report Recent Activities In the last 12 months, SIGANN has been formed (approved at the July 2007 meeting), and SIGMEDIA has been dissolved. The following SIGs have held ...

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SIG Convener's Report

Recent Activities

In the last 12 months, SIGANN has been formed (approved at the July
2007 meeting), and SIGMEDIA has been dissolved. The following SIGs
have held workshops: SIGANN, SIGDAT, SIGdial, SIGGEN, SIGHAN, SIGMOL,
SIGMORPHON, SIGNLL, SIGPARSE, SIGSemitic, SIGWAC. The following SIGs
have held elections: SIGdial, SIGLEX, SIGMOL, SIGMORPHON, SIGNLL,
SIGPARSE, SIGWAC.

Compliance

In 2007 the executive initiated a process of checking compliance with
the ACL's guidelines for SIGs, posted on the ACL website at
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt]. In brief, all
SIGs must have: at least two elected officers; a statement of purpose;
a constitution; a membership of at least 25 people; the name and email
addresses of officers displayed prominently on the SIG's web page;
responsiveness to requests from ACL officers (including requests for
reports).

Bonnie Dorr (then VP) identified non-compliant SIGs and by December
31, 2007, eleven SIGs were compliant. The remaining non-compliant SIGs
at that time were SIGDAT, SIGMOL, and SIGMEDIA. SIGMOL has held
elections and is finalizing its constitution. SIGMEDIA has been
dissolved. This leaves SIGDAT, with no elected officers, no statement
of purpose, and no constitution. Many requests to the SIG organizers
concerning these issues have been ignored.

A relatively minor issue is that SIGSEM and SIGLEX have elections on a
3-year cycle, not 2 years as stipulated in the guidelines. This is in
accordance with their constitutions that were approved by the ACL. I
recommend that we update clause 4 of the guidelines to permit
elections to be held at least every three years.

Steven Bird (SIG Convener)

2008Q3 Reports: SIG Convener - Revision history

StevenBird: 2008 Summer Reports: SIG Convener moved to 2008Q3 Reports: SIG Convener

StevenBird: New page: SIG Convener's Report Recent Activities In the last 12 months, SIGANN has been formed (approved at the July 2007 meeting), and SIGMEDIA has been dissolved. The following SIGs have held ...