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	Since the ~~2018 Q1 SIG~~ report, a proposal has been submitted for the creation of a Broad-Interest-Group to promote diversity within the CL community. Approval of this proposal is pending decisions on restructuring of the ACL executive committee which will affect how the BIG officers will work with the ACL exec on initiatives relating to diversity.		Since the [[2018Q1_Reports:_SIG_Compliance]] report, a proposal has been submitted for the creation of a Broad-Interest-Group to promote diversity within the CL community. Approval of this proposal is pending decisions on restructuring of the ACL executive committee which will affect how the BIG officers will work with the ACL exec on initiatives relating to diversity.

	Information on the existing SIGs is below~~, with only minor changes since the 2018 Q1 report~~.		Information on the existing SIGs is below.

	== Information on individual SIGs ==		== Information on individual SIGs ==

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	Since the 2018 Q3 SIG report, a proposal has been submitted for the creation of a Broad-Interest-Group to promote diversity within the CL community. Approval of this proposal is pending decisions on restructuring of the ACL executive committee which will affect how the BIG officers will work with the ACL exec on initiatives relating to diversity.		Since the 2018 Q1 SIG report, a proposal has been submitted for the creation of a Broad-Interest-Group to promote diversity within the CL community. Approval of this proposal is pending decisions on restructuring of the ACL executive committee which will affect how the BIG officers will work with the ACL exec on initiatives relating to diversity.

	Information on the existing SIGs is below, with only minor changes since the 2018 Q3 report.		Information on the existing SIGs is below, with only minor changes since the 2018 Q1 report.

	== Information on individual SIGs ==		== Information on individual SIGs ==

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Since the 2018 Q3 SIG report, a proposal has been submitted for the creation of a Broad-Interest-Group to promote diversity within the CL community. Approval of this proposal is pending decisions on restructuring of the ACL executive committee which will affect how the BIG officers will work with the ACL exec on initiatives relating to diversity.

Information on the existing SIGs is below, with only minor changes since the 2018 Q3 report.

== Information on individual SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on 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. 2017, 2019
'''events''': LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015; LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling;

=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/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 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018

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

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), vice-president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2017, December 2018
'''events''': EMNLP every year

=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''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; annual conference at ACL 2018;

=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===

'''web page''': https://ekaterinakochmar.wixsite.com/sig-edu
'''contacts''': president Joel Tetreault (bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com), secretary Helen Yannakoudakis (helen.yannakoudakis@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 109
'''elections (first)''': March 2018
'''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; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018;

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

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, Autumn 2018
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr),
secretary Dimitra Gkatzia (D.Gkatzia@napier.ac.uk)
'''members''': 425
'''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 (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/)

=== 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''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb. 2016, March 2018
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, date and location TBA

=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===

'''web page''': http://sigmorphon.org/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''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; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018;

=== SIGMT: SIG on 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''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, August 2018
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018

=== 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; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017;

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

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018

=== SIG SEMITIC: SIG on computational approaches to Semitic languages (inactive) ===

'''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 Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 110
'''elections''': ﬁrst election Winter 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); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language

=== 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://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 54
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, Jan 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2019

=== 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

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