2015Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance
ACL SIGs: Report on Year 2014 (Feb. 01, 2015) Hermann Ney (update: Feb. 16, 2015)
Summary
- There is a total of 19 SIGs (including the new SIGSLAV, founded on 27-Nov-2014).
- The number of members reported below refers to the year 2014 in most cases.
- According to the SIG creation guidelines, a SIG should hold elections every two years, which is the case for the majority of the SIGs.
- There are seven SIGs that do not follow the two-year election pattern: SIGBioMed, SIGFSM, SIGLEX, SIGNLL, SIGPARSE, SIGSEM, SIGWAC. Apart from SIGLEX, all these SIGs have a three-year term in their constitution.
List of SIGs
- . SIGANN: SIG for annotation
- web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
- contacts: president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu) – members: 220
- elections (last, next): none in the past, Sep. 2014
- events: LAW VII at ACL 2013; LAW VIII at COLING 2014
- . SIGBioMed: SIG for biomedical natural language processing – web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGBIOMED – contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com), secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com) – members: 107
- elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
- events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2013 and ACL 2014
- . SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP – web page: http://www.sigdat.org/
- contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phkoehn@gmail.com), vice president Mark Johnson (mark.johnson@mq.edu.au)
VP elect Mark Steedman, secretray Noah Smith – members: approx. 1000
- elections (last, next): 2014, 2015
- events: EMNLP Oct. 2013, EMNLP Oct. 2014
- . SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue
- web page: http://www.sigdial.org
- contacts: president Amanda Stent, vice president Jason Williams,
secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi) – members: 400
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Feb. 2015
- events: annual conference August 2013, annual conference June 2014
- . SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing – web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM
- contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu) – members: 93
- elections (last, next): 2012, 2015
- events: FSMNLP 2013; ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014
6. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
- web page: http://www.siggen.org
- contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr),
secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt) – members: 309
- elections (last, next): Dec 2014, end of 2016
- events: INLG 2014, ENLG 2015 (endorsed), Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed)
7. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
- web page: http://www.sighan.org
- contacts: chair Zong Chengqing (cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) – members: 210
- elections (last, next): Dec. 2013, Dec. 2015
- events: SIGHAN Workshop Oct. 2013, CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014
8. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
- web page: http://sighum.science.ru.nl
- contacts: president Antal van den Bosch (a.vandenbosch@let.ru.nl),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) – members: 109
- elections (last, next): Dec. 2013; Oct. 2015
- events: LaTeCH 2013 at ACL, LaTeCH 2014 at EACL
9. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
- web page: http://www.siglex.org
- contacts: president Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu),
secretary Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk) – members: 649
- elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
- events: SEMEVAL and SIGLEX in 2013; planed for 2014/5
2 10. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
- web page: http://www.molweb.org
- contacts: president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se),
vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp) – members: 255
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, early 2016
- events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015,
co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago 11. SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics – web page: http://sigmorphon.org/
- contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca) – members: 144
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, Feb. 2016
- events: no event in 2013, 2014 joint meeting of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM co-located with ACL
12. SIGMT: SIG for machine translation
- web page: http://www.sigmt.org
- contacts: president Philipp Koehn (pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (chiang@isi.edu) – members: 131
- elections (last, next): none in the past; summer 2014
- events: workshop on MT and workshop on SSST, each year
13. SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning
- web page: http://www.signll.org
- contacts: president Xavier Carreras (carreras@cs.upc.edu),
secretary Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) – members: 350
- elections (last, next): June 2014, June 2016
- events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2015 co-located with ACL-2015
14. SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing
- web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼sigparse
- contacts: president John Carroll (J.A.Carroll@sussex.ac.uk),
secretary Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr) – members: 219
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Dec. 2015
- events: SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (endorsed); SPMRL 2015 (endorsed), collocated withIWPT 2015
15. SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
- web page: http://www.sigsem.org
- contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl),
secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu) – members: 876
- elections (last, next): Oct. 2013; 2016
- events: STARSEM 2013, IWCS 2013; STARSEM 2014.
3  16. SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages – web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/index.shtml
- contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu),
secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com) – members: 245
- elections (last, next): Dec. 2012; Dec. 2014
- events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages
(SPMRL’13 co-located with EMNLP 2013) 17. SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing – web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
- contacts: chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com)
secretary Jan Sˇnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) – members: 53
- elections (last, next): – – events: BSNLP 2015
18. SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies – web page: http://www.slpat.org
- contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu),
secretary-treasurer Francois Portet (francois.portet@imag.fr) – members: 141
- elections (last, next): fall 2014, fall 2016
- events: SLPAT 2014, special session at Interspeech 2014, SLPAT 2015
19. SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus
- web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
- contacts: chair Stefan Evert (stefan.evert@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de),
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu) – members: 190
- elections (last, next): July 2012; July 2015
- events: WAC9 at EACL 2014, April 2014; WAC10 at eLex 2015, Aug. 2015.
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