2026Q3 Reports: SIGANN
Membership
SIGANN membership is 138 members.
Officers
Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) and Ines Rehbein (Universität Mannheim) were re-elected in November 2025 to a second term as President and Secretary respectively.
Committee
The SIGANN Committee is comprised of past and present Program Committee Chairs for SIGANN's annual workshop, the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The committee currently includes Claire Bonial, Stefanie Dipper, Annemarie Friedrich, Luke Gessler, Sophie Henning, Chu-Ren Huang, Jena DC Hwang, Nancy Ide, Sandra Kübler, Lori Levin, Adam Meyers, Yang Janet Liu, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Siyao Peng, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Jakob Prange, Ines Rehbein, Nathan Schneider, Manfred Stede, Katrin Tomanek, Fei Xia, Nianwen Xue, Amir Zeldes, Deniz Zeyrek and Heike Zinsmeister.
Workshop
The SIG's major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2026 the Twentieth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XX) will be held in person and in hybrid virtual format in conjunction with ACL 2026 in San Diego, CA in July, by PC chairs Luke Gessler (IU) and Yang Janet Liu (Pitt). The workshop accepted 22 papers, as detailed on the workshop website:
https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XX-2026/
The special theme for the workshop is "Errors in Annotation", with invited talks by Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (UCLouvain) and Rachel Rudinger (UMD).
Website and mailing list
We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. The website was updated in this reporting period and is found at:
We also have a mailing list that is used for notices and discussion.