2012Q3 Reports: SIG Convener

The ACL currently has 18 SIGs.

New SIGs are:

- 2012: SIGHUM, SIG on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities

- 2011: SIGSPLAT, SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

- 2009: SIGMT, SIG for Machine Translation

New structure proposed for SIG :

SIGLEX has created Sections as internal structures, each having an elected representative as an additional officer. The first Section will be on Multiword Expressions.

About compliance:

Two SIGs reported having their last election in 2008: SIGPARSE, SIGWAC. The others are are compliant with ACL's SIG Guidelines: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance).

Summary:

3 new SIGs – no elections (SGMT 2009, SIGSPLAT 2011, SIGHUM 2012);

2 SIGs held elections in 2008 (SIGPARSE, SIGWAC);

2 SIGs held elections in 2009 (SIGANN, SIGBIOMED);

6 SIGS held elections in 2010(SIGDIAL, SIGFSM, SIGGEN; SIGLEX, SIGMORPHON, SIGSEM);

4 SIGS held elections in 2011(SIGDAT , SIGHAN, SIGNLL, SIGSEMIT);

1 SIG held elections in 2012 (SIGMOL).

Number of reported members vary from 39 to 774. Two SIGs haven’t reported number of members: SIGDAT and SIGHAN.