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<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report&#039;&#039;&#039; == Summary == SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the s...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2020 Report&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> == Summary ==<br /> SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> Currently, SIGGEN has around 450 members.<br /> <br /> == Board ==<br /> The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2020, is:<br /> <br /> * Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen University, UK), Chair (term expires in 2022)<br /> * Jose M. Alonso (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Member (term expires in 2022)<br /> * Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Treasurer (term expires in 2024)<br /> * Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Secretary (term expires in 2024)<br /> * Miruna-Adriana Clinciu (Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, UK), student representative (term expires in 2022)<br /> <br /> The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2022, and new board members will be elected to replace Reiter, Alonso, and Clinciu.<br /> <br /> == Activities ==<br /> Since the period covered in the last report for 2021, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.<br /> <br /> === INLG 2021 ===<br /> The 14th INLG conference was held in Aberdeen, UK, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.<br /> <br /> === Other Events ===<br /> <br /> SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:<br /> <br /> * GEM 2021 workshop, held at ACL 2021 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)<br /> * SIGGEN webinar series<br /> <br /> === Upcoming events ===<br /> <br /> INLG-2022 will take place in Waterville, Maiine, USA on 18-22 July 2022. It will be a hybrid conference.<br /> <br /> SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at EMNLP 2022.<br /> <br /> In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2022.<br /> <br /> == Website ==<br /> We hope to release a new website during summer 2022.</div>

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