2026Q3 Reports: SIGREP

Summary

SIGREP is the ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning. It seeks to promote research on representation learning in Natural Language Processing, specifically methods for inferring representations from data, as well as studying evaluation and transferability of representations, and organises the annual ACL workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (Repl4NLP).

Membership

Currently, SIGREP has 2000 members.

Board

SIGREP currently has the following officers:

President: Abhilasha Ravichander

Secretary: Pepa Atanasova

In addition, there is a Senior Organising Committee (SOC), which is responsible for recruiting and selecting organising committee members for SIG events such as RepL4NLP, and advising them during the organisation of the event.

Laura Rimell

Edward Grefenstette

Kyunghyun Cho

Isabelle Augenstein

Anna Rogers

Nora Kassner

Lena Voita

The next SIGREP board election is due to take place in October 2027.

Repl4NLP 2025

The 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) was co-located with NAACL 2025 and held on May 4, 2025. The workshop is organised by:

Vaibhav Adlakha

Alexandra Chronopoulou

Xiang Lorraine Li

Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Freda Shi

Giorgos Vernikos

and advised by the SOC.

Keynote speakers were:

Yoav Artzi, Cornell University

Akari Asai, University of Washington

Najoung Kim, Boston University

Ana Marasovic, University of Utah

More details on the workshop can be found under https://sites.google.com/view/repl4nlp2025

Website

The SIGREP website with all information about the SIG and co-located events can be found under http://www.sigrep.org/