2014Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

= ACL SIGs: Report on Year 2013 (Feb. 9, 2014)

Hermann Ney

last update: 10-Mar-2014

= Summary

• There is a total of 18 SIGs.
• The number of members reported below refers to the year 2013 in most cases.
• Elections: Most of the SIGs had elections in the years 2012/13. The exceptions are:
  • SIGANN and SIGMT: no information given;
  • SIGNLL: last election in Nov. 2011; next election in June 2014;
  • SIG SEMITIC: last election in 2011; next election in May 2014.

= List of SIGs

1. SIGANN: SIG for annotation
2. - web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann

– contacts: president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu) – members: 220 – elections (last, next): ?? – events: LAW VII at ACL 2013; LAW VIII at COLING 2014 2. 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: 107 – elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016 – events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2013 and ACL 2014 3. SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP – web page: http://www.sigdat.org/ – contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phkoehn@gmail.com), vice president Mark Johnson (mark.johnson@mq.edu.au) – members: approx. 1000 – elections (last, next): fall 2013, 2014 – events: EMNLP Oct. 2013, EMNLP Oct. 2014 4. SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue – web page: http://www.sigdial.org – contacts: president Amanda Stent, vice president Jason Williams, secretary Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi) – members: 400 – elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Feb. 2015 – events: annual conference August 2013, annual conference June 2014 1 5. 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: 93 – elections (last, next): 2012, 2015 – events: FSMNLP 2013; ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014 6. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation – web page: http://www.siggen.org – contacts: chair Ielka van der Sluis (i.f.van.der.sluis@rug.nl), secretary Verena Rieser (v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk) – members: 309 – elections (last, next): Dec 2012, end of 2014 – events: ENLG 2013 (endorsed), INLG 2014 7. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language – web page: http://www.sighan.org – contacts: chair Zong Chengqing (cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn), secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) – members: 210 – elections (last, next): Dec. 2013, Dec. 2015 – events: SIGHAN Workshop Oct. 2013, CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014 8. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities – web page: http://sighum.science.ru.nl – contacts: president Antal van den Bosch (a.vandenbosch@let.ru.nl), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) – members: 103 – elections (last, next): Dec. 2013; Oct. 2015 – events: LaTeCH 2013 at ACL, LaTeCH 2014 at EACL 9. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon – web page: http://www.siglex.org – contacts: president Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk) – members: 649 – elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016 – events: SEMEVAL and SIGLEX in 2013; planed for 2014/5 10. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematical linguistics – web page: http://www.molweb.org – contacts: president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se), vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp) – members: 252 – elections (last, next): May 2013, early 2016 – events: meeting on Mathematics of Language, co-located with ACL 2013; Int. Symposium on Art. Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM), special session on Mathematical Theories of Natural Language Processing, Jan. 2014 2 11. SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics – web page: http://sigmorphon.org/ – contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu), secretary Greg Kondrak (kondrak@cs.ualberta.edu) – members: 143 – elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, Feb. 2016 – events: no event in 2013, 2014 joint meeting of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM co-located with ACL 12. SIGMT: SIG for machine translation – web page: http://www.sigmt.org – contacts: president Philipp Koehn (pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (chiang@isi.edu) – members: 131 – elections (last, next): none in the past; none planned (??) – events: workshop on MT and workshop on SSST, each year 13. SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning – web page: http://www.signll.org – contacts: president Alex Clark (alexc@cs.rhul.ac.uk), secretary Xavier Carreras (carreras@lsi.upc.edu) – members: 350 – elections (last, next): Nov. 2011, June 2014 – events: CoNLL-2013, co-located with ACL-2013; CoNLL-2014, co-located with ACL-2014 14. SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing – web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ ̃sigparse – contacts: president John Carroll (J.A.Carroll@sussex.ac.uk), secretary Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr) – members: 219 – elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Dec. 2015 – events: IWPT 2013, SPMRL 2013 (endorsed); SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (endorsed); IWPT 2015 15. SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics – web page: http://www.sigsem.org – contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl), secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu) – members: 871 – elections (last, next): Oct. 2013; next election in 2016 – events: SIGSEM 2013, IWCS 2013; SEM 1014. 16. SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages – 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, next): 2011; May 2014 – events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages (SPMRL’13 co-located with EMNLP 2013) 3 17. SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies – web page: http://www.slpat.org – contacts: presdient Annalu Waller (awaller@computing.dundee.ac.uk), secretary Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu) – members: 100 – elections (last, next): fall 2012, fall 2014 – events: SLPAT 2013, PITR 2013; SLPAT 2014, special session at Interspeech 2014 18. SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus – web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk – contacts: chair Stefan Evert (stefan.evert@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de), secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu) – members: 184 – elections (last, next): July 2012; next in 2015 – events: WAC8 at Corpus Linguistics, July 2013; WAC9 at EACL 2014, April 2014 4