2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer

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26-Jun-2015, Hermann Ney (last update: July 03, 2015)

SUMMARY

  • There is a total of 19 SIGs (including the new SIGSLAV, founded on 27-Nov-2014).
  • 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.
  • There is an ongoing activity to create a new SIG for Uralic languages (Francis Tyers, Tommi Piranen).

List of SIGs

  1. SIGANN: SIG for annotation
    web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
    contacts: president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu),
    contacts: secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
    members: 220
    elections (last, next): Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017
    events: LAW VIII at COLING 2014, LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015
  2. 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),
    contacts: secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
    members: 107
    elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
    events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2013, ACL 2014 and ACL 2015
  3. SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
    web page: http://www.sigdat.org/
    contacts: president Mark Johnson (mark.johnson@mq.edu.au),
    contacts: vice president Mark Steedman, secretray Noah Smith
    members: approx. 1000
    elections (last, next): 2015, 2016
    events: EMNLP 2015, EMNLP 2016
  4. SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue
    web page: http://www.sigdial.org
    contacts: president Amanda Stent (Amanda.Stent@gmail.com),
    contacts: vice president Jason Williams,
    contacts: secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi)
    members: 565
    elections (last, next): Feb. 2015; Feb. 2017
    events: annual conference June 2014, annual conference Sep. 2015
  5. 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),
    contacts: secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
    members: 93
    elections (last, next): 2012, 2015
    events: ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014; FSMNLP June 2015.
  6. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
    web page: http://www.siggen.org
    contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr),
    contacts: 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),
    events: INLG 2016
  7. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
    web page: http://www.sighan.org
    contacts: chair Zong Chengqing (cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn),
    contacts: secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
    members: 210
    elections (last, next): Dec. 2013, Dec. 2015
    events: CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014, SIGHAN Workshop July 2015
  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),
    contacts: secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
    members: 132
    elections (last, next): Dec. 2013; Oct. 2015
    events: LaTeCH 2014 at EACL, LaTeCH 2015 at ACL
  9. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
    web page: http://www.siglex.org
    contacts: president Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu),
    contacts: secretary Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk)
    members: 649
    elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
    events: STARSEM 2015 (jointly with SIGSEM), co-located with NACL 2015;
    events: MUMTTT 2015 (endorsed) at EUROPHRAS 2015
  10. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
    web page: http://www.molweb.org
    contacts: president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se),
    contacts: vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp)
    members: 255
    elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, early 2016
    events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015,
    events: 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),
    contacts: secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca)
    members: 150
    elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, Feb. 2016
    events: no event in 2015, next in 2016
  12. SIGMT: SIG for machine translation
    web page: http://www.sigmt.org
    contacts: president Philipp Koehn (pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
    contacts: secretary David Chiang (chiang@isi.edu)
    members: 140
    elections (last, next): none in the past; fall 2015
    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),
    contacts: 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),
    contacts: 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); IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed),
    events: co-located with IWPT 2015
  15. SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
    web page: http://www.sigsem.org
    contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl),
    contacts: secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu)
    members: 877
    elections (last, next): Oct. 2013; 2016
    events: STARSEM 2014; IWCS 2015; STARSEM 2015 (jointly with SIGLEX),
    events: co-located with NACL 2015
  16. SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)
    web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/index.shtml
    contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu),
    contacts: 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
    events: (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)
    contacts: secretary Jan Snajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr)
    members: 92
    elections (last, next): first election end of 2016
    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),
    contacts: 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@fau.de),
    contacts: secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
    members: 175
    elections (last, next): July 2012; Aug. 2015
    events: WAC9 at EACL 2014, April 2014; WAC10 at eLex 2015, Aug. 2015
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