SIGMOL Report Larry Moss The main activity this year of MOL has been to organize our biannual meeting. This time, the meeting will be held with the Formal Grammars meeting. It will be just before ESSLLI, in Helsinki. The conference received 48 submissions, primarily from Europe. We accepted 24. The papers will appear in a volume of the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, and authors will be invited to submit final versions to a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation. The meeting is organized by Geert-Jan Kruijff, Larry Moss, and Dick Oehrle. In addition, MOL this year sponsored a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. The topic was Statistics in Linguistics and NLP. The speakers were Mitch Marcus, Chris Manning, Mark Johnson, Andras Kornai, and Fernando Pereira. The point of organizing the meeting was to showcase an area that we feel enthusiastic about, and to do this in as public a way as possible. We mentioned the fact that MOL is a special interest group of the ACL. In addition, we plan to organize another session at the next AAAS meeting, this time on finite-state methods. We feel that the ACL might consider similar public events, and we're happy to share our experiences. As in the past, MOL is an unstructured organization which does not collect dues and exists primarily to hold its biannual meeting. The president currently is Larry Moss, and in August the current vice president, Dick Oehrle, succeeds him.