2020Q1 Reports: Member at-large
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A new SIG has been created: SIGTYP - SIG on linguistic typology
There are currently 23 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.
1. SIGANN: SIG on annotation
web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann contacts: president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu) members: 250 elections (last,next): Sep. 2017, 2019 events: LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;
2. SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing
web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com), secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com) members: 121 elections (last, next): June 2016, June-July 2019, June-July 2022 events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020
3. SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
web page: http://emnlp.org/ contacts: president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu) members: approx. 1200 elections (last, next): December 2019, December 2020 events: EMNLP every year
4. SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue
web page: http://www.sigdial.org contacts: president Gabriel Skantze (gabriel@speech.kth.se), secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org) members: 594 elections (last, next): March 2019, 2021 events: annual conference SIGDIAL 2020, temporally colocated with ACL 2020, Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL
5. SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications
web page: https://sig-edu.org/ contacts: president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk) members: 197 elections (last,next): March 2018, March 2021 events: Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019, 15th BEA at ACL 2020.
6. SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages
web page: tbc
contacts: president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
members: 42
elections (first,next): tbc
events: ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014;
ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019
7. SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing'
web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@uni-leipzig.de), secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu) members: 106 elections (last, next): Autumn 2019, 2022 events: FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
8. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN contacts: chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk), secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es) members: 422 elections (last, next): December 2018, December 2020 events: WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019, INLG-2020
9. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
web page: http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com), secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) members: 210 elections (last, next): April 2018, 2020 events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017
10. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) members: 168 elections (last, next): October 2015, pending events: LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020
11. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
web page: http://www.siglex.org contacts: president Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa) secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk) members: 852 elections (last, next): February 2020, February 2022 events: Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020; Annual SemEval workshop; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed), MWE-LEX 2020 at COLING 2020
12. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language'
web page: http://www.molweb.org contacts: president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se), members: 282 elections (last, next): Feb 2016, 2020 events: MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University
13. SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics
web page: https://sigmorphon.github.io/ contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu), secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca) members: 145 elections (last, next): Feb 2019, Feb 2021 events: SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task, SIGMORPHON at ACL 2020
14. SIGMT: SIG on machine translation
web page: http://www.sigmt.org contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu) members: 152 elections (last): none in the past events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year
15. SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning
web page: http://www.signll.org contacts: president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu) members: 380 elections (last, next): August 2016, pending events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CONLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020
16. SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing
web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse contacts: president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu) members: 246 elections (last, next): April 2019, April 2022 events:IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020 (colocated with ACL); IWPT Shared Task on Parsing into Multilingual Enhanced Universal Dependencies; TLT 2020 (endorsed)
17. SIGREP: SIG on representation learning
web page: http://www.sigrep.org contacts: president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk), secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com) members: 392 elections (last, next): October 2018, October 2021 events: Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020
18. SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
web page: http://www.sigsem.org contacts: president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu), secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it) members: 878 elections (last,next): July 2017, Summer 2020 events: IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX, from 2020 on SIGLEX will organise *SEM alone) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019
19. SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing
web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html contacts: chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si) secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa) members: 110 elections (first,last): Winter 2017, 2020 events: BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages
20. SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies
web page: http://www.slpat.org contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu) elections (last, next): Fall 2018, Fall 2020 members: 150 events: SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;
21. SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology
web page: https://sigtyp.github.io/ contacts: president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com) members: 68 elections (first,next): tbc events: First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020;
22. SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages
web page: https://acl-sigur.github.io/ contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de), secretary Francis M. Tyers members: 57 elections (last, next): Jan. 2018, 2020 events: IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020
23. SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus
web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk contacts: Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de) secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu) members: 178 elections (last, next): November 2018, 2021 events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017