Mark Steedman

SIGNLL: 2005-2006

ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
To promote and inform about research on computational modeling of
learning in natural language.

~450 members

- Officers

- Antal van den Bosch, Hwee Tou Ng, Erik Tjong Kim Sang

- International advisory board

- Main activities:

- Conference series on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

- Inform members via WWW and mailing list

- CoNLL X (tenth anniversary) June 8-9 2006

- co-located with HLT-NAACL-06

- Chairs: Lluís Marquez and Dan Klein

- 53 submissions, 18 accepted (34%)

- Shared task on Dependency Parsing

- Organized by Sabine Buchholz, Yuval Krymolowski, Erwin Marsi, Amit Dubey

- 13 languages, 19 participants (= 247 systems)

- Best paper award

- to Rie Kubota Ando, “Applying Alternating Structure Optimization to WSD”