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The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until summer of 2016:

President: Mona Diab (George Washington University, US)

Secretary: Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)

Information officers:

Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK)

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

We currently have 644 members and manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski and now transitioned to Preslav Nakov.

SIGLEX has one Section on Multiword Expressions, which has currently 113 members. The MWE Section representative on the board:

Valia Kordoni (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany)

SIGLEX together with SIGSEM is the co-organizing committee of *SEM

*SEM
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*SEM had its 4th edition this year co-located with NAACL 2015 in Denver Colorado

Here is a synopsis of *SEM
Organization
The overall organization is typically with one general chair and two program co-chairs plus two publication chairs along the way to help with the web and the proceedings.
We made efforts towards geographical + gender balance, with the following results:
area chairs: 1 female, 6 male; 1 America, 2 Asia, 4 Europe.
invited speakers: 0 female, 2 male; 1 Europe, 1 Asia.
session chairs (greatly overlapping with area chairs): 3 female, 4 male; 2 America, 1 Asia, 6 Europe.
program chairs and general chair: 2 female, 1 male

Submissions
We had about the same number submissions as last year, 98. Since the overall quality was quite high, we opted for a higher acceptance rate: oral presentation 29%, overall acceptance rate including posters 37% (last year the overall acceptance rate was 24%). We think that this is a good move to promote diversity and also contact/networking within our community
*SEM was coordinated with SemEval

Sponsorship: Martha Palmer, the Chair of *SEM was able to garner sponsorship of $750 from Google and Microsoft together with a contribution from SIGLEX of $250 for the poster banquet/event.

A prize and tribute in the name of the late Adam Kilgarriff was initiated as part of *SEM as a suggestion from SIGLEX and Martha Palmer.

SemEval: the SIGLEX flagship event took place also in coordination with NAACL 2015 and *SEM 2015
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Organizers
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen
Daniel Cer, Google
David Jurgens, McGill University

It was a very successful event over 2 days featuring 5 tracks and 18 tasks some of which had more than 40 teams participating. For more details about the event check out
http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/

2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX - Revision history

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