2019Q3 Reports: SIGRREP

Summary

SIGREP is the ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning. It seeks to promote research on representation learning in Natural Language Processing, specifically methods for inferring representations from data, as well as studying evaluation and transferability of representations, and organises the annual ACL workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (Repl4NLP).

Membership

Currently, SIGREP has 393 members.

Board

SIGREP currently has the following officers:

• President: Isabelle Augenstein
• Secretary: Karl Moritz Hermann

In addition, there is a Senior Organising Committee (SOC), which is responsible for recruiting and selecting organising committee members for SIG events such as RepL4NLP, and advising them during the organisation of the event.

• Laura Rimell
• Edward Grefenstette
• Karl Moritz Hermann
• Chris Dyer
• Kyunghyun Cho
• Isabelle Augenstein

The next SIGREP board election is due to take place in October 2020.

Repl4NLP 2019

The 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) will be hosted by ACL 2019 and held on 2 August 2019. The workshop is being organised by:

• Isabelle Augenstein
• Spandana Gella
• Sebastian Ruder
• Katharina Kann
• Burcu Can
• Alexis Conneau
• Johannes Welbl
• Xian Ren
• Marek Rei

and advised by the SOC. It receives generous sponsorship from Facebook AI Research, Amazon, and Naver Labs Europe.

Keynote speakers will be:

• Marco Baroni, Facebook AI Research
• Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University
• Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam
• Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill

At the time of writing, 370 attendees have signed up for the workshop, which is up from around 250 for the previous years.

Website

The SIGREP website with all information about the SIG and co-located events can be found under http://www.sigrep.org/