2026Q3 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA

The number of SIG is stable (32 as in 2025). We have conducted a survey to receive feedback.

The increase interest on LLMs and AI is seen by some SIGs has causing changes. It seems there is less interest on linguistic-oriented work, and some SIGs are discussing how to move forward.

SIGs that consider themselves as (28.6%), besides organizing yearly event, have e.g. active mailing lis, the SIG leadership meets every two weeks, are trying to have stronger online/social media presence, are actively engaged with industry partner and run biweekly online seminar series, are planning new awards to highlight very promising researchers and/or impactful work in the field.

SIGs appreciate the event support they receive by ACL, the autonomy and ACL's hands-off approach, the ACL Anthology, and the financial and accounting services.

The amazing grow of *ACL conferences call for some reflection and improvement. Below some of the suggested proposals:

- Through ACL, SIG could receive more *visibilities outside the SIG circle*: + ACL could provide regular communication channels that highlight SIG activities. For example, ACL could periodically invite SIGs to contribute short reports, newsletters, blog-style articles, or community updates describing their ongoing initiatives, emerging research directions, and upcoming events. This would increase awareness of SIG activities, facilitate cross-community engagement, and help members discover SIGs that match their interests. + It might also be good to do a showcase of SIGs or some kind of SIG panel at ACL sometimes to introduce new ACL members to the existence of the SIGs and what they cover. + Some SIGs also have sections/areas during the main conferences (e.g. computational social science). It would be nice to get to know, how these sections/areas are defined

- Better information sharing and faster responses with ACL: + organize sharing session provided by any long-standing SIG once in a while so that all other SIGs can learn from their experiences. + provide documentation about some SIG-ACL processes + have a ticketing system

- *BIG SIGs* manage conferences rather than workshop. They would like this to be reflected + in the name of their event, + in being indexed in Scopus and other major bibliographic databases + easier procedure for a long-standing collocated conference

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