> SIGDAT (Ken Church, David Yarowsky)
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> 
>                 SIGDAT - 2006 Summer Report
> 
> SIGDAT is ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and 
> corpus-based approaches to NLP.
> 
> In 2006, SIGDAT is organizing a 2-day Conference on Empirical Methods 
> in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006). The meeting is scheduled 
> immediately after ACL-06 in Sydney on July 22-23.
> Dan Jurafsky and Eric Gaussier are program chairs.
> 
> The conference appears to be highly successful: Over 400 submissions 
> were received, and 43 full papers accepted and 30 posters accepted, 
> yielding an acceptance rate under 20%. The proceedings exceeds 600 
> pages, and essentially the entire conference will be held in parallel 
> sessions, except for a poster session, plenary lecture and panel 
> session.
> In terms of scale on several dimensions, EMNLP is now at a similar 
> size to several recent NAACL and EACL meetings.
> 
> In fall 2005, SIGDAT will co-organized the HLT/EMNLP 2005 joint 
> Conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in 
> Natural Language Processing, October 6-8 2005 in Vancouver, Canada.
> Ray Mooney was General Chair, and Chris Brew, Lee-Feng Chien and 
> Katrin Kirchoff were program co-chairs. The conference received an 
> unexpectedly high 403 full paper submissions, of which fewer than 90 
> were accepted, yielding an acceptance rate below 22%.
> Submissions spanned the HLT areas of IR, speech and a full spectrum of 
> NLP.
> 
> 	- David Yarowsky
>           Secretary-Treasurer
>