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| − | Currently, SIGNLL has | + | Currently, SIGNLL has ? members, with ? new registrations in 2010. |
| − | + | The SIGNLL officers are president Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, | |
| − | + | Sweden), secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia, | |
| − | secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia, | + | Spain), and information officer Erik Tjong Kim Sang. The current |
| − | Spain). The current office period runs from November 1, 2009 to | + | office period for president and secretary runs from November 1, 2009 |
| − | October 31, 2011 | + | to October 31, 2011, so new elections will be held after the summer |
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Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees. | Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees. | ||
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acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative. | acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative. | ||
| − | === CoNLL- | + | === CoNLL-2011 === |
| − | The | + | The Fifteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language |
| − | Learning, CoNLL- | + | Learning, CoNLL-2011, will be held in Portland, Oregon, 23-124 June |
| − | + | 2011, in conjunction with ACL 2011. Program co-chairs are Sharon | |
| − | + | Goldwater and Chris Manning. The special topic of interest of the | |
| − | edition is | + | 2011 edition is Massive, Linked Text Data. |
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| − | CoNLL | + | CoNLL 2011 received 82 submissions, of which 4 were eventually |
| − | withdrawn. Of the remaining | + | withdrawn. Of the remaining 78 papers, 27 were selected to appear in |
| − | the conference | + | the conference program for an acceptance rate of 35%. The invited |
| − | + | speakers are Bruce Hayes (UCLA) and Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL) | |
| − | + | and their talks will cover computational linguistics for studying | |
| − | talks will cover | + | language in people and bayesian tools for natural language learning, |
| − | + | respectively. | |
| − | As in | + | As in previous years, the CoNLL-2011 best paper award is sponsored by |
Google. More information can be found at the conference website: | Google. More information can be found at the conference website: | ||
| − | http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/ | + | http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2011/. |
| − | === CoNLL- | + | === CoNLL-2011 Shared Task === |
| − | As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared | + | As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared task, "Modeling Unrestricted |
| − | task, " | + | Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected |
| − | + | from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in | |
| − | of | + | September 2010. CONTINUE HERE It addresses the detection of uncertainty in two |
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domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles) | domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles) | ||
and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty | and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty | ||
Revision as of 05:59, 4 June 2011
ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2010-2011)
by Joakim Nivre and Lluís Màrquez
The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational modeling of learning in natural language. These are served by (i) the maintenance of an informative and up-to-date website and associated mailing list, and (ii) the organization of annual events (the CoNLL conference and the CoNLL shared task), and support of other related activities.
The web-pages, located at URL http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and maintained by Erik Tjong Kim Sang, remain an important source of information, complemented by an email list for announcements for SIGNLL-related events. On the web-site, links can be found to relevant associations, networks, research cooperations, research departments, groups, institutes, mailing lists, archives, journals, bulletins, conference reports, online papers (including all papers of all CoNLL proceedings), online courses and slides, bibliographies, software, corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.
Currently, SIGNLL has ? members, with ? new registrations in 2010. The SIGNLL officers are president Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden), secretary Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), and information officer Erik Tjong Kim Sang. The current office period for president and secretary runs from November 1, 2009 to October 31, 2011, so new elections will be held after the summer of 2011.
Apart from the officers, SIGNLL also has two consultative committees. The SIGNLL Steering Committee, composed by all past SIGNLL officers: Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie, Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng, David Powers, and Dan Roth; and the larger SIGNLL International Advisory Board (see http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers, for a complete description of SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky acts as the SIGDAT Liaison Representative.
CoNLL-2011
The Fifteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL-2011, will be held in Portland, Oregon, 23-124 June 2011, in conjunction with ACL 2011. Program co-chairs are Sharon Goldwater and Chris Manning. The special topic of interest of the 2011 edition is Massive, Linked Text Data.
CoNLL 2011 received 82 submissions, of which 4 were eventually withdrawn. Of the remaining 78 papers, 27 were selected to appear in the conference program for an acceptance rate of 35%. The invited speakers are Bruce Hayes (UCLA) and Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL) and their talks will cover computational linguistics for studying language in people and bayesian tools for natural language learning, respectively.
As in previous years, the CoNLL-2011 best paper award is sponsored by Google. More information can be found at the conference website: http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2011/.
As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 has a shared task, "Modeling Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes". The shared task is completely new and was selected from a set of 5 proposals submitted to the SIGNLL call for shared tasks in September 2010. CONTINUE HERE It addresses the detection of uncertainty in two domains, using the BioScope corpus (biological scientific articles) and the public Wikipedia weasel annotations. Two uncertainty detection tasks were proposed: 1) detecting sentences containing uncertainty, and 2) resolving the in-sentence scope of hedge cues. A total of 23 teams have participated in the shared task, which can be considered a real success, given the novelty of the topic. Those who participated in both tasks were invited to write a 8 page paper. The page limit for those who participated only in the first task was 6 pages. The Shared Task papers are collected into an accompanying volume of CoNLL-2010.
The task maintains its own website where all the details (including datasets and results) can be found at: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st.
Other Activities
- SIGNLL is also endorsing the Workshop "Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing (NeSpNLP 2010)", organized by Roser Morante and Caroline Sporleder. The workshop will be held next July in Uppsala, just before the ACL 2010 events. Workshop website: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/NeSpNLP2010/index.html.
- In July-August 2010, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2011. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2010.