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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). | ||
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== Information on Individual SIGs == | == Information on Individual SIGs == |
Latest revision as of 22:40, 29 July 2017
Summary
- 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.
- The latest available information 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: 575 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 Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca) members: 167 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
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 Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu), secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it) members: 800 elections (last): Spring 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)
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: 110 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)
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