2016Q3 Reports: SIGDAT

SIGDAT report:

SIGDAT, the ACL special interest group on Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP will be holding its annual conference, EMNLP-2016, in Austin from November 2-6, 2016.

  General Chair: Jian Su
  Program Chairs: Kevin Duh and Xavier Carreras
  Workshop Chairs: Annie Louis and Greg Kondrak
  Tutorial Chairs: Bishan Yang and  Rebecca Hwa
  Sponsorship Chairs: Michel Galley and Hang Li
  Publication Chairs: Siddharth Patwardhan and Daniele Pighin
  Publicity Chair: Saif M. Mohammad
  Handbook Chair: Swapna Somasundaran
  Website Chair: Jackie C.K. Cheung
  SIGDAT Liaison: Chris Callison-Burch
  Local Arrangements Chair: Priscilla Rasmussen

EMNLP is being held as a stand-alone conference with 1 day workshops preceding and following the main conference. (Due to conference room scheduling constraints we were unable to do two consecutive days of workshops, which precludes larger 2-day workshops this year.) More information about the conference can be found at http://www.emnlp2016.net/

We plan to hold EMNLP 2017 as a stand-alone conference in Europe in September or October. The selection of region was based on a survey of the SIGDAT membership following the 2015 conference. The SIGDAT advisory board helped to brainstorm and rank European cities with NLP researchers, and the SIGDAT Secretary-Treasurer is proceeding through that list soliciting bids from potential local hosts.

The SIGDAT officers are

  President: Mark Steedman
  Vice President: Pascale Fung
  Vice President-Elect: Mirella Lapata
  Secretary-Treasurer: Chris Callison-Burch

There is also a standing committee of about 45 members, which can be found on the SIGDAT web site at http://emnlp.org.