2020Q1 Reports: Member at-large (SIG)

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A new SIG has been created: SIGTYP - SIG on linguistic typology

There are currently 23 SIGs: up-to-date information on each SIG is provided below.


1. SIGANN: SIG on 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: 250
      elections (last,next): Sep. 2017, 2019
      events: LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling;  LAW XIII at ACL 2019;

2. SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing

      web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
      contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
                secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
      members: 121
      elections (last, next): June 2016, June-July 2019, June-July 2022
      events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020

3. SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP

      web page: http://emnlp.org/
      contacts: president Jian Su  (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
      members: approx. 1200
      elections (last, next): December 2019, December 2020
      events: EMNLP every year

4. SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue

      web page: http://www.sigdial.org
      contacts: president Gabriel Skantze (gabriel@speech.kth.se),
                secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
      members: 594
      elections (last, next): March 2019, 2021
      events: annual conference SIGDIAL 2020, temporally colocated with ACL 2020, Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

5. SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications

      web page: https://sig-edu.org/
      contacts: president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
      members: 197
      elections (last,next): March 2018, March 2021
      events: Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019, 
      15th BEA at ACL 2020.

6. SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages

      web page: tbc
      contacts: president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
      members: 42
      elections (first,next): tbc
      events: ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; 
      ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019


7. SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing'

      web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
      contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
                secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
      members: 106
      elections (last, next): Autumn 2019, 2022 
      events: FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

8. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

      web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
      contacts: chair Ehud Reiter  (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
                secretary  Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
      members: 422
      elections (last, next): December 2018, December 2020 
      events: WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); 
      XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018  (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019, INLG-2020

9. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

      web page: http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu 
      contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
                secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
      members: 210
      elections (last, next): April 2018, 2020
      events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

10. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities

      web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
      contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
                secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
      members: 168
      elections (last, next): October 2015, pending
      events:  LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities
       (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019,
       LaTeCH-CLfL 2020

11. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

      web page: http://www.siglex.org
      contacts: president Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa) secretary Aline Villavicencio (a.villavicencio@sheffield.ac.uk)
      members: 852
      elections (last, next): February 2020, February 2022
      events: Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020; Annual SemEval workshop; 
      MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed), MWE-LEX 2020 at COLING 2020

12. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language'

      web page: http://www.molweb.org
      contacts: president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se), 
      members: 282
      elections (last, next): Feb 2016, 2020
      events: MOL 2017,  July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London.  MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

13. SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

       web page: https://sigmorphon.github.io/
      contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
                secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
      members: 145
      elections (last, next): Feb 2019, Feb 2021
      events: SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017;
      SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task,
      SIGMORPHON at ACL 2020 

14. SIGMT: SIG on machine translation

      web page: http://www.sigmt.org
      contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
                secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
      members: 152
      elections (last): none in the past
      events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

15. SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning

      web page: http://www.signll.org
      contacts:  president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
      members: 380
      elections (last, next): August 2016, pending 
      events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CONLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020

16. SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

      web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
      contacts: president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu)
      members: 246
      elections (last, next): April 2019, April 2022 
      events:IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; 
      SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020 (colocated with ACL); IWPT Shared Task on Parsing into Multilingual Enhanced Universal Dependencies; TLT 2020 (endorsed)

17. SIGREP: SIG on representation learning

      web page: http://www.sigrep.org
      contacts: president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
                secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
      members: 28
      elections (last, next): October 2018, October 2021 
      events: Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020

18. SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics

      web page: http://www.sigsem.org
      contacts: president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
                secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
      members: 878
      elections (last,next): July 2017, Summer 2020
      events: IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX, from 2020 on SIGLEX will organise *SEM alone) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

19. SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing

     web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
      contacts: chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
                secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
      members: 110
      elections (first,last): Winter 2017, 2020
      events: BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); 
      RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages

20. 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 Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
      elections (last, next): Fall 2018, Fall 2020
       members: 150
      events: SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

21. SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology

      web page: https://sigtyp.github.io/
      contacts: president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
      members: 68
      elections (first,next): tbc
      events: First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020;

22. SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages

      web page: https://acl-sigur.github.io/
      contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
                secretary Francis M. Tyers
      members: 57
      elections (last, next): Jan. 2018, 2020
      events: IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

23. SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

      web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
      contacts: Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
                secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
      members: 178
      elections (last, next): November 2018, 2021
      events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017