2022Q3 Reports: SIGTURK
2022Q3 Reports: SIGTURK
SIGTURK is the ACL Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages. SIGTURK aims to foster a collaborative, diverse, inclusive, and responsible environment bringing together enthusiasts of Turkic languages to stimulate comprehensive, interoperable, modular, and reusable work that provides utility and leads to state-of-the-art research in computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Membership
The official establishment of SIGTURK is on April 12, 2022. As of July 6, 2022, SIGTURK has 38 members.
Board
As of July 6, 2022, SIGTURK does not have a formally-elected board. Assuming officers are:
- President: Duygu Ataman, New York University, USA
- Secretary: Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki, Finland
Our members that made code contributions to SIGTURK repositories during this year, sorted by the number of commits across the repositories:
- Mehmet Oguz Derin @mehmetoguzderin
- Jonne Sälevä @j0ma
- Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov @mirzakhalov
Elections
SIGTURK plans the first formal elections to take place in Autumn 2022.
Activities
Core Specification
To realize the vision of SIGTURK and to break the boundary of timezones that sync meetings require, SIGTURK authors an informative Core specification that defines a process and a set of guidelines to serve as many people as possible. SIGTURK Core is at https://sigturk.github.io/sigturk.
SIGTURK Core takes care of a few aspects:
- Defines a workflow to provide an open, ticket-traceable way to inquiry and contribute to the activities of SIGTURK,
- Aims to define conduct that allows the SIGTURK to contain alternative perspectives (such as consonant inventory of the proto-Language),
- Provides tooling guidelines to avoid common pitfalls such as non-normalized sources (by CI-checking NFKC sources).
Meetings
As defined by SIGTURK Core, the informal meetings take place on the Jitsi platform every Wednesday at 12 PM Eastern Time.
Communications
Website
SIGTURK website is at https://sigturk.github.io.
Mailing List
SIGTURK members get up-to-date information from the mailing list at https://groups.google.com/g/sigturk.
Future
Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages
SIGTURK plans to host a Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages.
Business Meetings
SIGTURK plans to host an in-person business meeting alongside the planned workshop.
International Advisory Committee
SIGTURK plans to invite members from the scientific community or language or technology experts to serve on the international advisory committee.