2017Q3 Reports: SIG Officer - Revision history

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	* The SIG creation guidelines were modified to allow SIGs to hold elections at least every three years (rather than every two years as was previously the case).		* The SIG creation guidelines were modified to allow SIGs to hold elections at least every three years (rather than every two years as was previously the case).
	* There are now 21 SIGs.		* There are now 21 SIGs.
	* The latest available information about each SIG is provided below~~. Information on SIG SEMITIC and SIGHUM is still pending~~.		* The latest available information about each SIG is provided below.

	== Information on Individual SIGs ==		== Information on Individual SIGs ==

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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	* A new SIG for educational applications (SIGEDU) ~~has been~~ established.		* A new SIG for educational applications (SIGEDU) was established in April.
			* The SIG creation guidelines were modified to allow SIGs to hold elections at least every three years (rather than every two years as was previously the case).
	* There are now 21 SIGs.		* There are now 21 SIGs.
	* The latest information ~~(July 2017)~~ about each SIG is provided below.		* The latest available information about each SIG is provided below. Information on SIG SEMITIC and SIGHUM is still pending.

	== Information on Individual SIGs ==		== Information on Individual SIGs ==

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	SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics		SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

	''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org		'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
	'''contacts''': president ~~Johan Bos~~ (~~johan~~.~~bos~~@~~rug~~.nl),		'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
	secretary ~~Katrin Erk~~ (~~katrin~~.~~erk~~@~~mail.utexas~~.~~edu~~)		secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
	'''members''': 800		'''members''': 800
	'''elections (last)''': Spring 2017		'''elections (last)''': Spring 2017

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	SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing		SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing

	'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html		'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
	'''contacts''': chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com)		'''contacts''': chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com)
	secretary Jan Šnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr)		secretary Jan Šnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr)
	'''members''': ~~107~~		'''members''': 110
	'''elections''': ﬁrst election ~~March~~ 2017		'''elections''': ﬁrst election September/October 2017
	'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017)		'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017)


	SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies		SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

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	SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics		SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

	'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org		''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
	'''contacts''': president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl),		'''contacts''': president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl),
	secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu)		secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu)
	'''members''': ~~877~~		'''members''': 800
	'''elections (last~~, next~~)''': ~~Oct. 2013,~~ 2017		'''elections (last)''': Spring 2017
	'''events''': IWCS 2015; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017		'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017

	SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)		SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)

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	'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/		'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
	'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),		'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
	secretary ~~Greg Kondrak~~ (~~gkondrak~~@ualberta.ca)		secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
	'''members''': ~~161~~		'''members''': 167
	'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, ~~Feb~~. ~~2019~~		'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Dec. 2018
	'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017		'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017

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	'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jawillia@microsoft.com),		'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jawillia@microsoft.com),
	secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi)		secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi)
	'''members''': ~~565~~		'''members''': 575
	'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019		'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
	'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2015; annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017		'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2015; annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017

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== Summary ==
* A new SIG for educational applications (SIGEDU) has been established.
* There are now 21 SIGs.
* The latest information (July 2017) about each SIG is provided below.

== Information on Individual SIGs ==

SIGANN: SIG for annotation
'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last, next)''': Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017
'''events''': LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015; LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017

SIGBioMed: SIG for biomedical natural language processing

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2015, ACL 2016 and ACL 2017

SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk), vice president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), VP elect Jian Su <sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg>, secretary-treasurer Chris Callison-Burch (ccb@upenn.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2016, December 2017
'''events''': EMNLP every year

SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jawillia@microsoft.com),
secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 565
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': annual conference at Interspeech 2015; annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017

SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications

'''web page''': TBA
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (first)''': Dec. 2017
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 10th BEA at NAACL 2015; 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017

SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 105
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2015; StatFSM workshop at ACL 2016; FSMNLP 2017

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr),
secretary Dimitra Gkatzia (D.Gkatzia@napier.ac.uk)
'''members''': 423
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2016, December 2018
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; INLG 2017

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, April 2018
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (csporled@coli.uni-sb.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 132
'''elections (last, next)''': Oct. 2015, Oct. 2017
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2015, ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 727
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June 2019
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2015, NAACL 2016, ACL 2017

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp),
'''members''': 274
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2016, early 2018
'''events''': meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL) 2015, co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago; MOL 2017, co-located with the 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation at University College, London

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 161
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017

SIGMT: SIG for machine translation

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 364
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, August 2018
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Jan. 2019
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl),
secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu)
'''members''': 877
'''elections (last, next)''': Oct. 2013, 2017
'''events''': IWCS 2015; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017

SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)

'''web page''': http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/index.shtml
'''contacts''': chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu),
secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com)
'''members''': 245
'''elections (last)''': Dec. 2014
'''events''': shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages at SPMRL 2013 (co-located with EMNLP 2013) and SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (co-located with COLING 2014)

SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing

'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
'''contacts''': chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com)
secretary Jan Šnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr)
'''members''': 107
'''elections''': ﬁrst election March 2017
'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017)

SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2016, Fall 2018
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016

SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages

'''web page''': https://github.com/acl-sigur
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 45
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2016, Jan. 2018
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2015, July 2018
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017