2016Q3 Reports: SIG Officer
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Hermann Ney (last update: 16-Jul-2016)
Summary
- There is a total of 20 SIGs (including SIGSLAV, founded on 27-Nov-2014, and SIGUR, founded on 18-Aug-2015).
- According to the SIG creation guidelines (as of 27-August-2010), a SIG should hold elections every two years which is the case for the majority of the SIGs.
- There are nine SIGs that do not follow the two-year election pattern: SIGANN, SIGBioMed, SIGFSM, SIGLEX, SIGMT, SIGNLL, SIGPARSE, SIGSEM, SIGWAC. Apart from SIGLEX and SIGANN, all these SIGs have a three-year term in their constitution.
- Since its founding in 2009, SIGMT does not seem to have had any election.
List of SIGs
1.SIGANN: SIG for 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: 220 elections (last, next): Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017 events: LAW VIII at COLING 2014, LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015, LAW X at ACL 2016
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), secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com) members: 112 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 Steedman (steedman@inf.ed.ac.uk) vice president Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk) secretary Chris Callison-Burch members: approx. 1000 elections (last, next): 2015, 2016 events: EMNLP Sep. 2015, EMNLP Oct. 2016
4. SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue
web page: http://www.sigdial.org contacts: president Amanda Stent (Amanda.Stent@gmail.com), vice president Jason Williams, secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi) members: 565 elections (last, next): Feb. 2015; Feb. 2017 events: annual conference Sep. 2015, annual conference Sep. 2016
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), secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu) members: 102 elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, autumn 2018 events: ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014; FSMNLP June 2015; ACL workshop StatFSM in 2016; FSMNLP in 2017
6. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
web page: http://www.siggen.org contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr), secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt) members: 389 elections (last, next): Dec 2014, end of 2016 events: ENLG 2015 (endorsed), Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed), WebNLG 2016 (endorsed), CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed)
7. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
web page: http://www.sighan.org contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com), secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) members: 210 elections (last, next): April 2016, April 2018 events: CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014, SIGHAN Workshop July 2015, CIP-SIGHAN Nov. 2016
8. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (csporleder@coli.uni-sb.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) members: 132 elections (last, next): Oct. 2015; Oct. 2017 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), 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 NAACL 2015; MUMTTT 2015 (endorsed) at EUROPHRAS 2015
10. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
web page: http://www.molweb.org contacts: president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp), vice president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se) members: 282 elections (last, next): Feb. 2016, early year 2018 events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015, 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), 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 (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu) members: 152 elections (last, next): none in the past; fall 2016 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), 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 Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr), secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no) members: 219 elections (last, next): April 2016; Jan. 2019 events: IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed), co-located with IWPT 2015; next IWPT 2017
15. SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
web page: http://www.sigsem.org contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl), 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), 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), secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com) members: 245 elections (last, next): Dec. 2014; 2016 events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages (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) secretary Jan Šnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) members: 100 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), secretary-treasurer François Portet (francois.portet@imag.fr) members: 141 elections (last, next): fall 2014, fall 2016 events: SLPAT15, SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016, RaPID 2016
19. SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages
web page: http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com) members: 38 elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, winter 2017/8 (?) events: IWCLUL, Jan. 2017
20. 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: 175 elections (last, next): July 2015; July 2018 events: WAC10 at eLex 2015, Aug. 2015 (cancelled); WAC-X at ACL 2016