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Guidelines

ACL SIG Creation Guidelines

List of SIGs

SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing

       web page: http://www.sigarab.org/
       contacts: president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb) 
       members: 427
       elections (last,next): Founded in 2022, elections every two years
       events: WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

SIGANN: SIG on annotation

       web page: https://sigann.github.io/ 
       contacts: president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de) 
       members: 150
       elections (last,next): Oct. 2021, 2024
       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;, LAW XIV at Coling 2020, LAW XV-DMR III at EMNLP 2021, LAW XVI at LREC 2022

SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

       web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
       contacts: chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),
                 secretary Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com)
       members: 224
       elections (last, next): June 2022, June 2025
       events: Yearly BioNLP workshops

SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP

       web page: http://emnlp.org/
       contacts: president TO BE UPDATED
       members: approx. 1200
       elections (last, next): December 2023, December 2024
       events: EMNLP every year

SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

       web page: http://www.sigdial.org
       contacts: president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
                 secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
       members: 581
       elections (last, next): March 2021, 2023
       events: annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

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: 240
       elections (last,next): March 2021, March 2024
       events: Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages

       web page: https://acl-sigel.github.io/
       contacts: president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com)
       members: 116
       elections (first,next): January 2021, January 2025
       events: ComputEL

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 Bruce Watson (bruce@bruce-watson.com)
       members: 131
       elections (last, next): Summer 2020, Summer 2023 
       events: FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled), FSMNLP 2023 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled)

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

       web page: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
       contacts: Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
                 secretary  Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
       members: 490
       elections (last, next): December 2022, December 2024 
       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; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022

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, 2021
       events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities

       web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
       contacts: president Barbara McGillivray (barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk), secretary Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), liaison representative Sara Tonelli (satonelli@fbk.eu)
       members: 168
       elections (last, next): July 2022, July 2024
       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, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

       web page: http://www.siglex.org
       contacts: president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
       members: 450
       elections (last, next): September 2022, August 2024
       events: Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual MWE workshop at LREC 2022, ACL 2021, EACL 2017, ACL 2016, NAACL 2015, EACL 2014, NAACL 2013, ACL 2011, COLING 2010 (endorsed); MWE-LEX at COLING 2020; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; LAW-MWE-CxG at COLING 2018;; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

       web page: http://www.molweb.org
       contacts: president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se), 
       members: 310
       elections (last, next): Feb 2020, mid 2022
       events: MOL 2017,  July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London;  MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

        web page: https://sigmorphon.github.io/
       contacts: president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
       members: 175
       elections (last, next): Feb 2021, Feb 2023
       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 2020, SIGMORPHON 2021

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: 180
       elections (last): none in the past
       events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning

       web page: http://www.signll.org
       contacts:  president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
       members: 380
       elections (last, next): August 2018, August 2021 
       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, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

       web page: https://www.sigparse.org
       contacts: president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
       members: 266
       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, IWPT 2021

SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

       web page: http://www.sigrep.org
       contacts: president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com),
                 secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com)
       members: 2000
       elections (last, next): October 2022, October 2024 
       events: Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023

SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

       web page: http://www.sigsem.org
       contacts: president Sina Zarrieß (Sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de),
                 secretary Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (stergios.chatzikyriakidis@uoc.gr)
       members: 880
       elections (last,next): summer 2021, 2025
       events: IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021

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 2020, winter 2023
       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, BSNLP 2020

SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies

       web page: http://www.slpat.org
       contacts: president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk)
       elections (last, next): Fall 2020, Fall 2022
       members: 160
       events: SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022

SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation

      web page: http://www.iwslt.org
      contacts:  president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)
      members:  144
      elections (first,next): First Oct 2022, every 2 years
       events: IWSLT 2004-2023;

SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization

      web page: sigsumm.org
      contacts: Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu
      members:  52
      elections (first,next): first Dec. 2023; every 2 years
       events: NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023

SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages

      web page: https://sigturk.github.io/
      contacts:  president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
      members:  95
      elections (first,next): Founded in 2022, elections every year
       events: TBA;

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: 380
       elections (first,next): tbc
       events: First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021

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 Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
       members: 60
       elections (last, next): Jan. 2020, 2022
       events: IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

       web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
       contacts: presidents: Nikola Ljubešić (nljubesi@gmail.com, Jožef Stefan Institute) and Benoît Sagot (benoit.sagot@inria.fr, INRIA); secretaries: Veronika Laippala (mavela@utu.fi, University of Turku) and Pedro Ortiz Suarez (pedro.ortiz@uni-mannheim.de, Mannheim University)
       members: 178
       elections (last, next): January 2022, 2024
       events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020