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	President: Ekaterina Vylomova		President: Ekaterina Vylomova

	Secretary: Ryan Cotterell		Secretary: Ryan Cotterell

	At Large: Eitan Grossman, Edoardo M. Ponti, Alexis Palmer		At Large: Eitan Grossman, Edoardo M. Ponti, Alexis Palmer

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	= ~~2019 -- 2020 Annual Report~~ =		== Summary ==

	~~'''~~SIGTYP ~~(Typology)''~~'		SIGTYP is ACL's special interest group on linguistic typology.

	''Ekaterina Vylomova ~~and~~ Ryan Cotterell''		President: Ekaterina Vylomova
			Secretary: Ryan Cotterell
	~~SIGTYP is ACL's special interest group on linguistic typology~~.		At Large: Eitan Grossman, Edoardo M. Ponti, Alexis Palmer

	== Membership ==		== Membership ==
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	In summer 2019 we organized the first workshop on typology for polyglot NLP (co-located with ACL 2019). In total, 48 attendees registered for the workshop (excluding organizers and keynote speakers). The SIGTYP 2020 workshop will be co-located with (virtual) EMNLP 2020. We expect to have at least 70-80 participants.		In summer 2019 we organized the first workshop on typology for polyglot NLP (co-located with ACL 2019). In total, 48 attendees registered for the workshop (excluding organizers and keynote speakers). The SIGTYP 2020 workshop will be co-located with (virtual) EMNLP 2020. We expect to have at least 70-80 participants.

			Organizers:
			Haim Dubossarsky
			Arya D. McCarthy
			Edoardo M. Ponti
			Ivan Vulić
			Ekaterina Vylomova
			Yevgeni Berzak
			Ryan Cotterell
			Eitan Grossman
			Anna Korhonen
			Roi Reichart

			Keynote Speakers:
			Miriam Butt
			Yulia Tsvetkov
			Richard Sproat
			Bill Croft (Tent.)
			Harald Hammarström

	== Shared Tasks ==		== Shared Tasks ==

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= 2019 -- 2020 Annual Report =

'''SIGTYP (Typology)'''

''Ekaterina Vylomova and Ryan Cotterell''

SIGTYP is ACL's special interest group on linguistic typology.

== Membership ==

The SIG was officially approved on Dec, 28 2019. Over the last 6 months, the total number of members has reached 190. We are planning to hold a membership drive to further promote growth within the SIG.

== Workshop ==

In summer 2019 we organized the first workshop on typology for polyglot NLP (co-located with ACL 2019). In total, 48 attendees registered for the workshop (excluding organizers and keynote speakers). The SIGTYP 2020 workshop will be co-located with (virtual) EMNLP 2020. We expect to have at least 70-80 participants.

== Shared Tasks ==

In 2020, SIGTYP offered a shared task on the prediction of typological features using WALS data. In the task, we addressed one major issue with WALS: the sparsity and skewness of its feature annotations. We asked the participants to build systems that utilize correlations between features and similarity between languages to make predictions about which features held-out languages have. In total, 5 teams participated in the task. We are currently processing their results.

== Other Activities (Online) ==

'''SIGTYP website and logo'''

We developed SIG’s website ([https://sigtyp.github.io]). It is constantly being updated with new information on workshops, shared tasks, members, and other information. We also designed a group’s logo: [https://sigtyp.github.io/logo.html]

'''SIGTYP digest ([https://sigtyp.github.io/blog.html])'''

Each month we invite members of the community to submit short abstracts or summaries of their recent papers to our monthly newsletter. This allows keeping track of the progress in the field and promoting everyone’s work.

'''Twitter account ([https://twitter.com/sigtyp_acl])'''

We engage more members by keeping our Twitter account constantly updated with retweets of recent papers, talks, and other materials on linguistic typology, multilinguality, and low-resource NLP.

'''Mailing Lists'''

We created organizational structure for SIGTYP, e.g. Google groups for: 1) SIGTYP members; 2) SIGTYP Exec; 3) SIGTYP shared task organizers.

== Elections ==

As secretary, Ryan Cotterell will be organizing the elections over the coming months. He is going to follow Garrett Nicolai's procedure at SIGMORPHON for remote voting.