2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

Membership

SIGLEX currently has 496 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 384 members, and SemEval with 340 members.

Officers

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

President: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

Secretary: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Vice-President Elect: Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Vice-Secretary Elect: Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

MWE section representative: Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research Centre, Greece

SemEval section representative: Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

Elections

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect the board for the Fall 2024 - Summer 2026 term. A call for nominations began on 11 Mar 2024 and closed on 1 May 2024. The election is expected to begin around 1 Jul 2024. Ivan Vulić announced that he would be stepping down, so in addition to the regular four positions (Vice-President Elect, Vice-Secretary Elect, MWE section representative, SemEval section representative), the election will additionally include a 2-year Secretary position.

Events

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

*SEM 2024: The 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by general chair Jose Camacho-Collados and program chairs Danushka Bollegala and Vered Shwartz. The conference received 65 submissions (6 from ARR and 59 direct), featured 35 talks and posters, hosted keynotes by Heng Ji and Greg Durrett, and had a panel discussion about "The Role of Semantics in the Age of LLMs" with Greg Durrett, Aline Villavicencio, Nanyun (Violet) Peng, and Yi Ren Fung. The proceedings of the conference are available on the ACL Anthology.

SemEval 2024: The 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Sara Rosenthal, and Aiala Rosá. The evaluation included 10 tasks with 269 participating teams (teams that sent description papers), and the workshop featured 10 talks, 2 best system descriptions and 65 posters, and hosted two keynote talks by André Martins and Heng Ji (Heng Ji's talk was shared with *SEM). The proceedings of the workshop are available on the ACL Anthology

MWE 2024: The 20th edition of the MWE workshop was organized as a joint event with the Universal Dependencies workshop. The Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) took place on 25 May 2024 and was co-located with the LREC-COLING 2024 Conference in Turin, Italy. It was organized as a hybrid event by Voula Giouli, Kilian Evang, Lifeng Han, Archna Bhatia, Marcos Garcia, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Gosse Bouma, and Joakim Nivre. The workshop received 44 archival submissions, of which 26 were accepted after peer review. It featured oral, poster, and (online) booster presentations, one best paper award, and hosted two keynotes by Dr. Tayyar Madabushi and Dr. Natalia Levshina. Being the 3rd biggest satellite event of this conference, it attracted more than 70 onsite and 7 online registered participants (the final figures still to be provided by the Conference Organisers). The proceedings of the workshop are available on the ACL Anthology

Websites and Mailing Lists

The SIGLEX website is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The website of the MWE section of SIGLEX is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com, are managed by the SemEval organizers.