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JoakimNivre: /* ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010) */

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ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)

JoakimNivre: /* ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010) */

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ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)

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 = ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)=
 The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language
 learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational
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 * In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.

JoakimNivre: /* Main Activities 2009-2010 */

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Main Activities 2009-2010

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	complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky		complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky
	acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.		acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.

	~~== Main Activities 2009-2010 ==~~

	=== CoNLL-2010 ===		=== CoNLL-2010 ===
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	* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.		* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.

	'''Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010		'''Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010'''

	Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President		'''Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President'''

	Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary'''		'''Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary'''

JoakimNivre: /* Other Activities */

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Other Activities

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	* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.		* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.

	Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010		'''Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010

	Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President		Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President
	Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary
			Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary'''

JoakimNivre: /* Other Activities */

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Other Activities

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	=== Other Activities ===		=== Other Activities ===

	* SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "Negation and Speculation in		* SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)", organized by Roser Morante and Caroline Sporleder. The workshop will be held next July in Uppsala, just before the ACL 2010 events. Workshop website: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/index.html.
	Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)", organized by Roser
	Morante and Caroline Sporleder. The workshop will be held next July
	in Uppsala, just before the ACL 2010 events. Workshop website
	http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/index.html

	* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task		* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.
	proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated
	committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the
	selected task no later than October 2010.

	Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010		Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010
	Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President		Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President
	Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary		Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary

JoakimNivre: /* Other Activities */

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Other Activities

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	=== Other Activities ===		=== Other Activities ===

	SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "Negation and Speculation in		* SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "Negation and Speculation in
	Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)", organized by Roser		Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)", organized by Roser
	Morante and Caroline Sporleder. The workshop will be held next July		Morante and Caroline Sporleder. The workshop will be held next July
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	http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/index.html		http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/index.html

	In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task		* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task
	proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated		proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated
	committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the		committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the

JoakimNivre: /* CoNLL 2010 */

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CoNLL 2010

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	== Main Activities 2009-2010 ==		== Main Activities 2009-2010 ==

	= ~~CoNLL 2010~~ =		=== CoNLL-2010 ===
	~~The Fourteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language~~
	~~Learning,~~ CoNLL-2010~~, will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, 15-16 July~~
	~~2010, in conjunction with ACL 2010. Program co-chairs are Anoop~~
	~~Sarkar and Mirella Lapata. The special topic of interest of the 2010~~
	~~edition is Grammar Induction, including varied perspectives (machine~~
	~~learning, natural language engineering and cognitive approaches) and~~
	~~aiming at integrating works form several areas of research~~
	~~(statistical methods, pattern recognition, neural networks,~~
	~~computational linguistics, computational learning theory, automata~~
	~~theory, and language acquisition).~~

	CoNLL 2010 ~~received 99 submissions~~, ~~of which 18 were eventually~~		The Fourteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language
	~~withdrawn. Of the remaining 81 papers~~, ~~12 were selected to appear~~ in		Learning, CoNLL-2010, will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, 15-16 July
	~~the conference programme as oral presentations,~~ and ~~13 were chosen~~		2010, in conjunction with ACL 2010. Program co-chairs are Anoop
	~~as posters~~. The ~~invited speakers are Lillian Lee~~ (~~Cornell~~		Sarkar and Mirella Lapata. The special topic of interest of the 2010
	~~University~~) and ~~Zoubin Gharamani~~ (~~University of Cambridge) and their~~		edition is Grammar Induction, including varied perspectives (machine
	~~talks will cover knowledge-lean information extraction and Bayesian~~		learning, natural language engineering and cognitive approaches) and
	~~HMMs~~, ~~respectively~~.		aiming at integrating works form several areas of research
			(statistical methods, pattern recognition, neural networks,
			computational linguistics, computational learning theory, automata
			theory, and language acquisition).

	~~As in 2009, the~~ CoNLL-2010 ~~best paper award is sponsored by~~		CoNLL 2010 received 99 submissions, of which 18 were eventually
	~~Google~~. ~~More information can be found at~~ the conference ~~website~~		withdrawn. Of the remaining 81 papers, 12 were selected to appear in
	~~http://www~~.~~cnts.ua.ac~~.~~be/conll2010/~~		the conference programme as oral presentations, and 13 were chosen
			as posters. The invited speakers are Lillian Lee (Cornell
			University) and Zoubin Gharamani (University of Cambridge) and their
			talks will cover knowledge-lean information extraction and Bayesian
			HMMs, respectively.

	* CoNLL-2010 Shared Task As in ~~previous years~~, CoNLL-2010 ~~has a shared~~		As in 2009, the CoNLL-2010 best paper award is sponsored by
	~~task, "Learning to detect hedges and their scope in natural language~~		Google. More information can be found at the conference website
	~~text". The shared task~~ is ~~completely new and was selected from a set~~		http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2010/
	~~of 4 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in~~
	~~September 2009~~. ~~It addresses~~ the ~~detection of uncertainty in two~~
	~~domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles)~~
	~~and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty~~
	~~detection tasks were proposed~~: ~~1) detecting sentences containing~~
	~~uncertainty, and 2) resolving the in-sentence scope of hedge cues.~~
	~~A total of 23 teams have participated in the shared task, which can~~
	~~be considered a real success, given the novelty of the topic~~. ~~Those~~
	~~who participated in both tasks were invited to write a 8 page~~
	~~paper~~. ~~The page limit for those who participated only in the first~~
	~~task was 6 pages~~. ~~The Shared Task papers are collected into an~~
	~~accompanying volume of CoNLL- 2010~~.

	~~The task maintains its own website where all the details (including~~		=== CoNLL-2010 Shared Task ===
	~~datasets and results) can be found:~~
	~~http://www.inf.u~~-~~szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st~~

	* SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "~~Negation~~ and ~~Speculation~~ in		As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared
	~~Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)~~"~~, organized by Roser~~		task, "Learning to detect hedges and their scope in natural language
	~~Morante and Caroline Sporleder~~. The ~~workshop will be held next July~~		text". The shared task is completely new and was selected from a set
	in ~~Uppsala~~, ~~just before~~ the ~~ACL 2010 events~~. ~~Workshop website~~		of 4 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in
	~~http~~:~~//www~~.~~clips~~.ua.ac.~~be/NeSpNLP2010/index~~.~~html~~		September 2009. It addresses the detection of uncertainty in two
			domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles)
			and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty
			detection tasks were proposed: 1) detecting sentences containing
			uncertainty, and 2) resolving the in-sentence scope of hedge cues.
			A total of 23 teams have participated in the shared task, which can
			be considered a real success, given the novelty of the topic. Those
			who participated in both tasks were invited to write a 8 page
			paper. The page limit for those who participated only in the first
			task was 6 pages. The Shared Task papers are collected into an
			accompanying volume of CoNLL-2010.

	* In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task		The task maintains its own website where all the details (including
	~~proposals to select the task to~~ be ~~run in CoNLL~~-~~2011. A designated~~		datasets and results) can be found: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st
	~~committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the~~
	~~selected task no later than October 2010~~.

			=== Other Activities ===

			SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "Negation and Speculation in
			Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)", organized by Roser
			Morante and Caroline Sporleder. The workshop will be held next July
			in Uppsala, just before the ACL 2010 events. Workshop website
			http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/index.html

			In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task
			proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated
			committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the
			selected task no later than October 2010.

			Uppsala and Barcelona, June 2010
	Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President		Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President
	Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary		Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary
	~~June 15, 2010~~

JoakimNivre: /* by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez */

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by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez

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	= ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)=		= ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)=
	~~=== by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez ===~~

	The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language		The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language
	learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational		learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational

JoakimNivre: /* CoNLL 2010 */

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CoNLL 2010

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	committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the		committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the
	selected task no later than October 2010.		selected task no later than October 2010.

			Joakim Nivre, SIGNLL President
			Lluís Màrquez, SIGNLL Secretary
			June 15, 2010

JoakimNivre: /* ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010) by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez */

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ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010) by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez

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	=== ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010) by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez ===		= ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)=
			=== by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez ===

	The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language		The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language

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	Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng,		Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng,
	David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International		David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International
	Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers for a		Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers, for a
	complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky		complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky
	acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.		acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.
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	As in 2009, the CoNLL-2010 best paper award is sponsored by		As in 2009, the CoNLL-2010 best paper award is sponsored by
	Google. More information can be found at the conference website		Google. More information can be found at the conference website:
	http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2010/		http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2010/.

	=== CoNLL-2010 Shared Task ===		=== CoNLL-2010 Shared Task ===
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	The task maintains its own website where all the details (including		The task maintains its own website where all the details (including
	datasets and results) can be found: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st		datasets and results) can be found at: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st.

	=== Other Activities ===		=== Other Activities ===