2021Q3 Reports: SIGSLAV - Revision history

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	The purpose of SIGSLAV ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing, established in 2014, is to stimulate research in NLP and creation of linguistic resources for Slavic languages. The SIGSLAV web page is located at http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi. SIGSLAV has over a hundred members, who are notified about the activities of the SIG through its mailing list sigslav@googlegroups.com.		The purpose of SIGSLAV ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing, established in 2014, is to stimulate research in NLP and creation of linguistic resources for Slavic languages. The SIGSLAV web page is located at http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi. SIGSLAV has over a hundred members, who are notified about the activities of the SIG through its mailing list sigslav@googlegroups.com.

	The ~~regular BSNLP~~ Workshop (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/) ~~took place~~ with ACL 2021, and was accompanied with the 3rd ~~multilingual named entity recognition~~ shared task (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html).		The 2021 flagship event of SIGSLAV was the 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/), collocated with ACL 2021, and was accompanied with the 3rd BSNLP NER shared task "Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-lingual linking of Named Entities in Slavic Languages" (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html). The proceedings are avaialable via the
			ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/2021.bsnlp-1.0/).

	=== Officers ===		=== Officers ===

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	The purpose of SIGSLAV ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing, established in 2014, is to stimulate research in NLP and creation of linguistic resources for Slavic languages. The SIGSLAV web page is located at http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi. SIGSLAV has over a hundred members, who are notified about the activities of the SIG through its mailing list sigslav@googlegroups.com.		The purpose of SIGSLAV ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing, established in 2014, is to stimulate research in NLP and creation of linguistic resources for Slavic languages. The SIGSLAV web page is located at http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi. SIGSLAV has over a hundred members, who are notified about the activities of the SIG through its mailing list sigslav@googlegroups.com.

			The regular BSNLP Workshop (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/) took place with ACL 2021, and was accompanied with the 3rd multilingual named entity recognition shared task (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html).

	=== Officers ===		=== Officers ===
	The last SIGSLAV elections were held in October 2017 and the following officers were elected by the SIGSLAV members ~~to serve on the SIGSLAV board~~:		The last SIGSLAV elections were held in October 2017 and the following officers were elected by the SIGSLAV members:

	* Chair: Tomaž Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia		* Chair: Tomaž Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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	* Interim Resource Manager: Michał Marcińczuk (michal.marcinczuk@pwr.edu.pl), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.		* Interim Resource Manager: Michał Marcińczuk (michal.marcinczuk@pwr.edu.pl), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.

	The Interim Resource Manager, Michał Marcińczuk, was elected by the other officers of SIGLSLAV, also to help with the preparation of the SIGSLAV shared NER ~~task~~.		The Interim Resource Manager, Michał Marcińczuk, was elected by the other officers of SIGLSLAV, also to help with the preparation of the SIGSLAV shared NER tasks.

	=== Advisory Board ===		=== Advisory Board ===
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	* Katerina Zdravkova (katerina.zdravkova@finki.ukim.mk), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Republic of Macedonia		* Katerina Zdravkova (katerina.zdravkova@finki.ukim.mk), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

	The next BSNLP Workshop will take place in 2021 and a call for organizing it will go out in due time. Based on the success of the 2019 shared task we also plan to organise the third edition of the multilingual named entity recognition shared task in conjunction with BSNLP’2021.

	SIGSLAV would also like to suggest that in the process of evaluation of Workshop proposals for ACL conferences, an important criterion should be not to co-locate workshops with similar topics, as each individually gets less publications than they would have otherwise.

	=== SIGSLAV Business Meetings ===		=== SIGSLAV Business Meetings ===
	The last SIGSLAV business meeting was held on April 5, 2017 in Valencia (Spain).		The last SIGSLAV business meeting was held on April 5, 2017 in Valencia (Spain).

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The purpose of SIGSLAV ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing, established in 2014, is to stimulate research in NLP and creation of linguistic resources for Slavic languages. The SIGSLAV web page is located at http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi. SIGSLAV has over a hundred members, who are notified about the activities of the SIG through its mailing list sigslav@googlegroups.com.

=== Officers ===
The last SIGSLAV elections were held in October 2017 and the following officers were elected by the SIGSLAV members to serve on the SIGSLAV board:

* Chair: Tomaž Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Vice-Chair: Roman Yangarber (roman.yangarber@cs.helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Finland
* Secretary: Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa), Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
* Resource Manager: Lidia Pivovarova (pivovaro@cs.helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Finland
* Resource Manager: Josef Steinberger (jstein@kiv.zcu.cz), University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
* Interim Resource Manager: Michał Marcińczuk (michal.marcinczuk@pwr.edu.pl), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.

The Interim Resource Manager, Michał Marcińczuk, was elected by the other officers of SIGLSLAV, also to help with the preparation of the SIGSLAV shared NER task.

=== Advisory Board ===

* Natalia Grabar (natalia.grabar@univ-lille3.fr) , Université Lille 3, France
* Cvetana Krstev (cvetana@poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs), University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Vladislav Kuboň (vk@ufal.mff.cuni.cz), Charles University, Czech Republic
* Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@gmail.com), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw & Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
* Adam Przepiórkowski (adamp@ipipan.waw.pl), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
* Serge Sharoff (s.sharoff@leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, United Kingdom
* Kiril Simov (kivs@bultreebank.org), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
* Marko Tadić (marko.tadic@ffzg.hr), University of Zagreb, Croatia
* Jan Šnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr), University of Zagreb, Croatia
* Katerina Zdravkova (katerina.zdravkova@finki.ukim.mk), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

The next BSNLP Workshop will take place in 2021 and a call for organizing it will go out in due time. Based on the success of the 2019 shared task we also plan to organise the third edition of the multilingual named entity recognition shared task in conjunction with BSNLP’2021.

SIGSLAV would also like to suggest that in the process of evaluation of Workshop proposals for ACL conferences, an important criterion should be not to co-locate workshops with similar topics, as each individually gets less publications than they would have otherwise.

=== SIGSLAV Business Meetings ===
The last SIGSLAV business meeting was held on April 5, 2017 in Valencia (Spain).