2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN
SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.
SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 250 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.
SIGANN Sponsors the annual Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), LAW IX was a one-day workshop held in conjunction with NAACL in Denver in June 2015. The program committee co-chairs were Adam Meyers (New York University), Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University), and Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg). There were 35 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for oral presentation and 11 as posters. In addition, LAW IX included a panel on the Syntactic Analysis of Non-canonical Language. Thirty-three participants registered for the workshop.
LAW X will have a special theme of evaluation of human annotation, with Katrin Tomanek (VigLink Inc., San Francisco CA) and Annemarie Friedrichs (Saarland University, Germany) as program committee co-chairs.
SIGANN co-sponsored the 6th edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), a satellite event to EMNLP 2015.
SIGAN held elections in 2014, with Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers running uncontested for president and secretary, respectively.
SIGANN Officers: President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University)
SIGANN Committee: Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum) Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Lori Levin (Carnegie-Mellon University) Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC & ILSA, UCM / ATLAS, UNED) Massimo Poesio (University of Trento) Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies) Ines Rehbein (Universitat Potsdam) Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam) Katrin Tomanek (VigLink Inc.) Fei Xia (University of Washington) Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University) Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg)