2018Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until summer of 2019:

• President: Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Secretary: Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)
• Information officers:
  • Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Daniel Cer (Google Inc., USA)
  • Els Lefever (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

We currently have 727 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.

SIGLEX has two sections:

Multiword Expressions (MWE) section, which has currently 206 members. The MWE Section representative on the board is Agata Savary (Université François Rabelais, France) SemEval section, which has currently 703 members.

The SemEval section representative on the board is Steven Bethard (University of Arizona, USA)

SIGLEX (co-)organises two yearly events:

SEM 2018

The Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2018), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL 2018 in New Orleans (US) and took place in June 2018.

People

• The general chair
  • Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• The programme co-chairs
  • Jonathan Berant, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
  • Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
• Publication Chair
  • Emmanuele Chersoni, University of Pisa, Italy and Aix-Marseille University, France
• Publicity Chair
  • Johannes Bjerva, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Area Chairs
  • Distributional semantics: Omer Levy, Sebastian Padó
  • Discourse and dialogue: Ani Nenkova, Marta Recasens
  • Lexical semantics: Núria Bel, Enrico Santus
  • Theoretical and formal semantics: Sam Bowman, Kilian Evang
  • Applied semantics: Svetlana Kiritchenko, Lonneke van der Plas

Submissions: 82 papers were submitted. Out of these, 35 papers were accepted (22 long, 14 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 35.6%, 42.3% for the long papers and 28.6% for the short submissions. Some of the papers were withdrawn after acceptance, due to multiple submissions to other conferences (the 2018 schedule was particularly complicated, with significant intersection of *SEM with ACL, COLING, and other venues). The final number of papers in the program is 32 (19 long, 13 short).

SemEval 2018

The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2018 and *SEM 2018

Organizers:

• Steven Bethard, University of Arizona
• Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland
• Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay and University of Pennsylvania
• Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada
• Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
• Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge

SemEval 2019

30 task proposals were received and reviewed by 27 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2019. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2019/