2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL

SIGMOL is the special interest group on mathematics of language, which refers to the study of mathematical structures and methods that are of importance to the study of language.

Activities

Biennial Meeting

The main activity of the SIG is the organization of the biennial meeting “Mathematics of Language (MoL)”. The previous meeting, MoL 13, was held as a workshop in connection with ACL 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The next meeting, MoL 14, will be held in Chicago July 25–26 (website for the meeting); the local organizer is Greg Kobele. The meeting received 22 submissions, 12 of which were accepted for presentation. One accepted paper was subsequently retracted. The proceedings of the meeting will be ingested into the ACL Anthology.

Kuroda Prize

The SIG awards the S.-Y. Kuroda Prize for lasting contributions to the mathematics of language. The award process is controlled by a SIG by-law. In its inaugural year the prize was awarded to Aravind K. Joshi, Vijay K. Shanker, and David Weir (award statement). The awardee for the 2015 prize has been selected and will be announced in connection with MoL 14.

Members and Officers

As of 2015-05-29 SIGMOL has 270 registered members. Its current officers are president Marco Kuhlmann (Linköping University, Sweden) and vice president Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan). Their terms end at the next business meeting of the SIG, which will be held in connection with MoL 14. At this time the vice president will take over the duties of the president, and the outgoing president will take over the duties of the vice president, until a new vice president will be elected at the end of 2015/beginning of 2016.

Marco Kuhlmann, 2015-05-29