2021Q3 Reports: SIGDAT

EMNLP

EMNLP 2020

SIGDAT, the ACL special interest group on Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP has held its annual conference online from November 16th to November 20th, 2020. EMNLP 2020 was a 3 day conference preceded with 2 days of workshops and tutorials with a total of 4,069 registrations (46% regular, 52% students, 2% sponsors, exhibitors, etc.).

The paper submissions continued to show a rapid increase for 27% to 3677 papers compared to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (2895 submissions). An innovation for EMNLP 2020 was the new acceptance category “Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020”: these refer to publications that are not accepted for publication in the main conference, but are nevertheless assessed by the programme committee as solid work with sufficient substance, quality, and novelty. The acceptance rate was 22.4% for EMNLP and a further 15.5% for Findings. More information about the conference can be found at [1].

EMNLP 2021

The upcoming EMNLP conference (3 days plus 2 days of workshop and tutorials) will be held online and in the Barceló Bávaro Convention Centre, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from November 7th to November 11th, 2021. We expect a large conference again this year. More information about the conference can be found at [2].

SIGDAT Organization

The SIGDAT officers are:

• President: Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Vice President: Hang Li, ByteDance, China
• Vice President-Elect: Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
• Secretary-Treasurer: Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, China

There is also a standing committee of 55 members, which can be found on the SIGDAT web site at [3].