2025Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

Membership

SIGLEX currently has 467 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with [...] members, and SemEval with [...] members.

Officers

The current SIGLEX Executive Board includes the following officers:

President: Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Secretary: Tiago Torrent, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Vice-Secretary Elect: Steven Schockaert, University of Cardiff, UK

MWE section representative: Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romania

SemEval section representative: Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University, Canada

The Vice-President Elect, Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University, UK

Note: All officers are serving until Fall 2026 except from the Vice-President, Massimo Poesio, who announced that he would be stepping down in Summer 2025. We will hold new elections for this position in June 2025. The Vice-Secretary will automatically become the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2026, and thus this position requires a four-year commitment.

Elections

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect a new Vice-President in June 2025 who will replace Massimo Poesio. This position will require a three-year commitment. A call for nominations was sent out on 14 March 2025 and closed on 14 April 2025. The election is expected to begin on June 14.

Another SIGLEX election will be held in Spring-Summer 2026 to elect the board for the Fall 2026 - Summer 2028 term.

Events

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

• SEM 2025: The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics will be co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, in November 2025. It is organized by general chair Vered Schwartz (University of British Columbia, Canada) and program chairs Lea Frermann (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Mark Stevenson (Sheffield University, UK).

The proceedings of the conference will be made available on the ACL Anthology.

SemEval 2025: The 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation will be co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, and will take place from July, 31 to August, 1 2025. It is organized by Sara Rosenthal (IBM Research AI, USA), Aiala Rosá (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University, USA), and Debanjan Ghosh (Educational Testing Service). The evaluation features 11 tasks. The proceedings of the workshop will be made available on the ACL Anthology.

MWE 2025: The 21st edition of the MWE workshop was co-located with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA), and took place on 4 May 2025. It was organized as a hybrid event by A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Gražina Korvel, Mathieu Constant, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Voula Giouli. The workshop received [...] archival submissions, of which [...] were accepted after peer review. It featured oral, poster, and online presentations, one best paper award (?), and hosted one keynote by Nathan Schneider. It attracted [...] onsite and [...] online registered participants (figures provided by the Conference Organisers). The proceedings of the workshop are available on the ACL Anthology.

Websites and Mailing Lists

The SIGLEX website is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Marianna Apidianaki.

The website of the MWE section of SIGLEX is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com, are managed by the SemEval organizers.