2011Q3 Reports: SIGNLL - Revision history

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	The Fifteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language		The Fifteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language
	Learning, CoNLL-2011, will be held in Portland, Oregon, 23-~~124~~ June		Learning, CoNLL-2011, will be held in Portland, Oregon, 23-24 June
	2011, in conjunction with ACL 2011. Program co-chairs are Sharon		2011, in conjunction with ACL HLT 2011. Program co-chairs are Sharon
	Goldwater and Chris Manning. The special topic of interest of the		Goldwater and Chris Manning. The special topic of interest of the
	2011 edition is Massive, Linked Text Data.		2011 edition is Massive, Linked Text Data.
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	CoNLL 2011 received 82 submissions, of which 4 were eventually		CoNLL 2011 received 82 submissions, of which 4 were eventually
	withdrawn. Of the remaining 78 papers, 27 were selected to appear in		withdrawn. Of the remaining 78 papers, 27 were selected to appear in
	the conference program for an acceptance rate of 35%. The invited		the conference program (13 with oral presentations and 14 as posters)
			for an acceptance rate of 35%. The invited
	speakers are Bruce Hayes (UCLA) and Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)		speakers are Bruce Hayes (UCLA) and Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)
	and their talks will cover computational linguistics for studying		and their talks will cover computational linguistics for studying
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	=== Other Activities ===		=== Other Activities ===

	* SIGNLL is also endorsing the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, to be held in conjunction with ACL 2011 in Portland, Oregon. Workshop website: http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2011/.		* SIGNLL is also endorsing the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, to be held in conjunction with ACL HLT 2011 in Portland, Oregon. Workshop website: http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2011/.

	* In July-August 2011, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2012. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2011.		* In July-August 2011, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2012. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2011.

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	Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected		Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected
	from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in		from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in
	September 2010. A total of 22 teams have participated in the shared task,		September 2010. A total of 23 teams have participated in the shared task,
	which demonstrates its high interest in the community. As usual, the shared		which demonstrates its high interest in the community. As usual, the shared
	task papers will be collected into an accompanying volume of the CoNLL-2011		task papers will be collected into an accompanying volume of the CoNLL-2011

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	As in previous years, the CoNLL-2011 best paper award is sponsored by		As in previous years, the CoNLL-2011 best paper award is sponsored by
	Google. More information can be found at the conference website:		Google. A novelty this year is that there will also be an award for
			best student paper. More information can be found at the conference website:
	http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2011/.		http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2011/.

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	Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected		Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected
	from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in		from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in
	September 2010. A total of ? teams have participated in the shared task,		September 2010. A total of 22 teams have participated in the shared task,
	which demonstrates its high interest in the community. As usual, the shared		which demonstrates its high interest in the community. As usual, the shared
	task papers will be collected into an accompanying volume of the CoNLL-2011		task papers will be collected into an accompanying volume of the CoNLL-2011

JoakimNivre at 16:22, 4 June 2011

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	corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.		corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.

	Currently, SIGNLL has ? members~~, with ? new registrations in 2010~~.		Currently, SIGNLL has 339 members.
	The SIGNLL officers are president Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University,		The SIGNLL officers are president Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University,
	Sweden), secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia,		Sweden), secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia,
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	=== CoNLL-2011 Shared Task ===		=== CoNLL-2011 Shared Task ===

	As in previous years, CoNLL-~~2010~~ has a shared task, "Modeling Unrestricted		As in previous years, CoNLL-2011 has a shared task, "Modeling Unrestricted
	Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected		Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected
	from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in		from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in
	September 2010. ~~CONTINUE HERE It addresses the detection of uncertainty in two~~		September 2010. A total of ? teams have participated in the shared task,
	~~domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles)~~		which demonstrates its high interest in the community. As usual, the shared
	~~and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty~~		task papers will be collected into an accompanying volume of the CoNLL-2011
	~~detection tasks were proposed: 1) detecting sentences containing~~		proceedings.
	~~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		The task maintains its own website where all the details (including
	datasets and results) can be found at: http://~~www~~.~~inf~~.~~u-szeged.hu/rgai~~/~~conll2010st~~.		datasets and results) can be found at: http://conll.bbn.com/.

	=== Other Activities ===		=== 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~~.		* SIGNLL is also endorsing the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, to be held in conjunction with ACL 2011 in Portland, Oregon. Workshop website: http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2011/.

	* 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 2011, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2012. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2011.

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	= ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (~~2009~~-~~2010~~)=		= ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2010-2011)=

	'''by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez'''		'''by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez'''
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	corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.		corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.

	Currently, SIGNLL has ~~326~~ members, with ~~~22~~ new registrations in ~~2009~~.		Currently, SIGNLL has ? members, with ? new registrations in 2010.
	~~An election for~~ SIGNLL officers ~~was organized after the summer of~~		The SIGNLL officers are president Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University,
	~~2009. New~~ president is Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) ~~and~~		Sweden), secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia,
	secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia,		Spain), and information officer Erik Tjong Kim Sang. The current
	Spain). The current office period runs from November 1, 2009 to		office period for president and secretary runs from November 1, 2009
	October 31, 2011~~. Our Information Officer remains Erik Tjong Kim~~		to October 31, 2011, so new elections will be held after the summer
	~~Sang~~.		of 2011.

	Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees.		Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees.
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	acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.		acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.

	=== CoNLL-~~2010~~ ===		=== CoNLL-2011 ===

	The ~~Fourteenth~~ SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language		The Fifteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language
	Learning, CoNLL-~~2010~~, will be held in ~~Uppsala~~, ~~Sweden~~, 15-~~16 July~~		Learning, CoNLL-2011, will be held in Portland, Oregon, 23-124 June
	~~2010~~, in conjunction with ACL ~~2010~~. Program co-chairs are ~~Anoop~~		2011, in conjunction with ACL 2011. Program co-chairs are Sharon
	~~Sarkar~~ and ~~Mirella Lapata~~. The special topic of interest of the ~~2010~~		Goldwater and Chris Manning. The special topic of interest of the
	edition is ~~Grammar Induction~~, ~~including varied perspectives (machine~~		2011 edition is Massive, Linked Text Data.
	~~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		CoNLL 2011 received 82 submissions, of which 4 were eventually
	withdrawn. Of the remaining 81 papers, 12 were selected to appear in		withdrawn. Of the remaining 78 papers, 27 were selected to appear in
	the conference ~~programme as oral presentations, and 13 were chosen~~		the conference program for an acceptance rate of 35%. The invited
	~~as posters~~. The invited speakers are ~~Lillian Lee~~ (~~Cornell~~		speakers are Bruce Hayes (UCLA) and Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)
	~~University~~) and ~~Zoubin Gharamani~~ (~~University of Cambridge~~) and their		and their talks will cover computational linguistics for studying
	talks will cover ~~knowledge-lean information extraction~~ and ~~Bayesian~~		language in people and bayesian tools for natural language learning,
	~~HMMs,~~ respectively.		respectively.

	As in ~~2009~~, the CoNLL-~~2010~~ best paper award is sponsored by		As in previous years, the CoNLL-2011 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/conll2011/.

	=== CoNLL-~~2010~~ Shared Task ===		=== CoNLL-2011 Shared Task ===

	As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared		As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared task, "Modeling Unrestricted
	task, "~~Learning to detect hedges and their scope~~ in ~~natural language~~		Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected
	~~text~~". The shared task is completely new and was selected from a set		from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in
	of 4 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in		September 2010. CONTINUE HERE It addresses the detection of uncertainty in two
	September ~~2009~~. It addresses the detection of uncertainty in two
	domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles)		domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles)
	and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty		and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty

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= ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2009-2010)=

'''by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez'''

The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language
learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational
modeling of learning in natural language. These are served by (i) the
maintenance of an informative and up-to-date website and associated
mailing list, and (ii) the organization of annual events (the CoNLL
conference and the CoNLL shared task), and support of other related
activities.

The web-pages, located at URL http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and
maintained by Erik Tjong Kim Sang, remain an important source of
information, complemented by an email list for announcements for
SIGNLL-related events. On the web-site, links can be found to relevant
associations, networks, research cooperations, research departments,
groups, institutes, mailing lists, archives, journals, bulletins,
conference reports, online papers (including all papers of all CoNLL
proceedings), online courses and slides, bibliographies, software,
corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.

Currently, SIGNLL has 326 members, with ~22 new registrations in 2009.
An election for SIGNLL officers was organized after the summer of
2009. New president is Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) and
secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia,
Spain). The current office period runs from November 1, 2009 to
October 31, 2011. Our Information Officer remains Erik Tjong Kim
Sang.

Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees.
The SIGNLL Steering Committee, composed by all past SIGNLL officers:
Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng,
David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International
Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers, for a
complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky
acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.

=== 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
withdrawn. Of the remaining 81 papers, 12 were selected to appear in
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.

As in 2009, the CoNLL-2010 best paper award is sponsored by
Google. More information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2010/.

=== CoNLL-2010 Shared Task ===

As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared
task, "Learning to detect hedges and their scope in natural language
text". The shared task is completely new and was selected from a set
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
datasets and results) can be found at: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st.

=== 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.