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'''President'''  
 
'''President'''  
  
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Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
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- Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
  
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'''Secretary"'
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'''Secretary'''
  
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Aline Villavicencio, The University of Sheffield, UK
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- Aline Villavicencio, The University of Sheffield, UK
  
 
'''Executive Board'''
 
'''Executive Board'''
  
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Vice-President Elect: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA
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- Vice-President Elect: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA
  
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Vice-Secretary Elect: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Vice-Secretary Elect: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  
 
'''SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board'''  
 
'''SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board'''  
  
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MWE section: Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France
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- MWE section: Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France
  
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SemEval section: David Jurgens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- SemEval section: David Jurgens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  
  
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We currently have 852 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.
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''' Members'''
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SIGLEX has 876 members and we manage membership and mailing lists using the website that was developed by Ken Litkowski and is now managed by Preslav Nakov.
 
   
 
   
  
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'''SIGLEX has two sections:'''
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SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 289 members, and SemEval with 958 members.
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Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 205 members.
 
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SemEval with 982 members.
 
  
 
   
 
   
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'''SEM 2019'''
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'''*SEM 2020'''
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The 9th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2020), organized by SIGLEX, will be co-located with COLING-2020 in Barcelona, Spain in December 2020.
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General Chair
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- Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Program Chairs
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- Marianna Apidianaki, University of Helsinki
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- Manaal Faruqui, Google Assistant
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Publication Chair
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- Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
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Area Chairs
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Lexical semantics and word representations
  
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- Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Iran University of Science and Technology)
  
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The Eight Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2019), jointly organised by SIGLEX and SIGSEM, was co-located with NAACL-HLT’2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and took place in June 2019.
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- Vered Shwartz (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) & University of Washington)  
  
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Organizers:
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Semantic composition and sentence representations
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- Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge)
  
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General Chair - Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Germán Kruszewski (Facebook AI Research)
  
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Programme Co-chairs - Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam and Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Discourse, dialogue, and generation
  
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Publication Chair - Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf
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- Junyi Jessy Li (University of Texas at Austin)
  
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Publicity Chair - Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University
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- Philippe Muller (Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT)
  
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Area Chairs:
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Multilinguality
  
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Lexical semantics and word representations: Anna Feldman, Montclair State University
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- Alessandro Raganato (University of Helsinki)
  
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Lexical semantics and word representations: Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata
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- Shyam Upadhyay (Google Assistant)
  
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Semantic composition and sentence representations: Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge
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Psycholinguistics and semantic processing
  
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Semantic composition and sentence representations: Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research
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- Harm Brouwer (Saarland University)
  
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Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lea Frermann, Amazon Core AI
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- Alessandra Zarcone (Fraunhofer IIS)
  
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Discourse, dialogue and generation: Lu Wang, Northeastern University
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Resources and evaluation
  
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Machine learning for semantic tasks: Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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- Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana)
  
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Machine learning for semantic tasks: Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam
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- Goran Glavaš (University of Mannheim)
  
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Multidisciplinary & COI: Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
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Theoretical and formal semantics
  
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Multilinguality: Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
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- Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (University of Gothenburg)
  
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Human semantic processing / Psycholinguistics: Barry Devereux, Queen’s University Belfast
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- Denis Paperno (Utrecht University)
  
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Semantics in NLP applications: Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University
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Commonsense reasoning and natural language understanding
  
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Semantics in NLP applications: Saif Mohammad, National Research Council of Canada
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- Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)
  
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Semantics in NLP applications: Marek Rei, University of Cambridge
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- Rachel Rudinger (University of Maryland)
  
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Resources and evaluation: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service
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Sentiment analysis and argument mining
  
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Theoretical and formal semantics: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London
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- Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada)
  
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Submissions: 96 papers were submitted. Out of these, 36 papers were accepted (19 long, 13 short). The final overall acceptance rate was 33%. The final number of papers in the program is 36 (19 long, 13 short).
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- Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d'Azur, INRIA, CNRS)
  
  
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'''SemEval 2019'''
 
  
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The SIGLEX flagship event took place in coordination with NAACL 2019 and *SEM 2019.
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'''SemEval 2020'''
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The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2020), organized by SIGLEX, will be co-located with COLING-2020 in Barcelona, Spain in December 2020.
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Organizers:
 
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Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
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- Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento
  
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Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
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- Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University
  
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Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento
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- Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University
  
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Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University
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- Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
  
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Marianna Apidianaki, CNRS
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- Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California
  
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Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada
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- Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
  
  
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SemEval 2019 included the following 11 shared tasks organized in five tracks:
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SemEval 2020 included the following 12 shared tasks organized in four tracks:
  
  
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''Frame semantics and semantic parsing''
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''Lexical semantics''
  
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Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA
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- Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection
  
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Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction
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- Task 2: Predicting Multilingual and Cross-Lingual (Graded)
  
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- Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in Context (GWSC)
  
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''Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection''
 
  
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Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
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''Common Sense Knowledge and Reasoning, Knowledge Extraction''
  
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Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection
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- Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation
  
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Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter
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- Task 5: Modelling Causal Reasoning in Language: Detecting Counterfactuals
  
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Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media
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- Task 6: DeftEval: Extracting Definitions from Free Text in Textbooks
  
  
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''Fact vs fiction''
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''Humour, Emphasis, and Sentiment''
  
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Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
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- Task 7: Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines
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Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums
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- Task 8: Memotion Analysis
  
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''Information extraction and question answering''
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- Task 9: Sentiment Analysis for Code-Mixed Social Media Text
  
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- Task 10: Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media
  
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Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums
 
  
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Task 10: Math Question Answering
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''Societal Applications of NLP''
  
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- Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles
  
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''NLP for scientific applications''
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- Task 12: OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media
  
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Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers
 
  
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The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 223 system description papers are included in the proceedings.
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The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 12 task description papers and about 300 system description papers are included in the proceedings.
  
  
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'''SemEval 2020'''
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'''SemEval 2021'''
  
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32 task proposals were received and reviewed by 68 external reviewers from the ACL community. 12 of the tasks were selected for SemEval 2020. For more details about the event, check out http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/
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A total of 12 tasks were selected for SemEval 2021. For more details about the event, check out https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2021/
 
   
 
   
  
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'''MWE-WN 2019'''
 
  
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The 15th edition of the yearly flagship event of the MWE Section, called Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), was co-located with the ACL 2019 conference in Florence, Italy. In a quest for synergies with related communities, the Section joined forces with the Global Wordnet Association (GWA). Thus, the event was called Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019).  
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'''MWE-LEX 2020'''
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The Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020), will be co-located with COLING-2020 in Barcelona, Spain in December 2020.  
  
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It is co-organized by SIGLEX and the European Lexicographic Infrastructure (ELEXIS). This joint event is the 16th edition of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE).
  
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Invited talk:
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The workshop features a PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-Supervised verbal MWE Identification.
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"When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity", by Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
 
  
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Program Committee Chairs
  
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Submissions: 37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate was 54%.
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Research track, MWE-specific topics:
  
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- Stella Markantonatou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, R.C. "Athena" (Greece)
  
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Proceedings: to appear in the ACL Anthology.
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- Jelena Mitrović, University of Passau (Germany)
  
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Research track, MWE-LEX topics:
  
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Community discussion: it will include feedback from this joint event, MWE-related announcements, announcements about the SIGLEX-MWE Steering Committee recruitment, plans for future shared task editions and for collaboration between the Universal Dependencies and the PARSEME communities.
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- John McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland)
  
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- Carole Tiberius, Dutch Language Institute in Leiden (Netherlands)
  
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'''SIGLEX Endorsed Events in 2019''':
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Shared task track:
  
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EUROPHRAS'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/
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- Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University (France)
  
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MUMTTT'2019: http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/
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- Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (India)

Latest revision as of 10:14, 9 July 2020

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Spring 2022:


President

- Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

Secretary

- Aline Villavicencio, The University of Sheffield, UK

Executive Board

- Vice-President Elect: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

- Vice-Secretary Elect: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board

- MWE section: Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France

- SemEval section: David Jurgens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA


Members

SIGLEX has 876 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) with 289 members, and SemEval with 958 members.


SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:


*SEM 2020


The 9th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2020), organized by SIGLEX, will be co-located with COLING-2020 in Barcelona, Spain in December 2020.

General Chair

- Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt


Program Chairs

- Marianna Apidianaki, University of Helsinki

- Manaal Faruqui, Google Assistant


Publication Chair

- Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California


Area Chairs

Lexical semantics and word representations

- Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Iran University of Science and Technology)

- Vered Shwartz (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) & University of Washington)

Semantic composition and sentence representations

- Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge)

- Germán Kruszewski (Facebook AI Research)

Discourse, dialogue, and generation

- Junyi Jessy Li (University of Texas at Austin)

- Philippe Muller (Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT)

Multilinguality

- Alessandro Raganato (University of Helsinki)

- Shyam Upadhyay (Google Assistant)

Psycholinguistics and semantic processing

- Harm Brouwer (Saarland University)

- Alessandra Zarcone (Fraunhofer IIS)

Resources and evaluation

- Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana)

- Goran Glavaš (University of Mannheim)

Theoretical and formal semantics

- Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (University of Gothenburg)

- Denis Paperno (Utrecht University)

Commonsense reasoning and natural language understanding

- Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)

- Rachel Rudinger (University of Maryland)

Sentiment analysis and argument mining

- Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada)

- Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d'Azur, INRIA, CNRS)


SemEval 2020

The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2020), organized by SIGLEX, will be co-located with COLING-2020 in Barcelona, Spain in December 2020.


Organizers:

- Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento

- Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University

- Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University

- Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas

- Jonathan May, ISI, University of Southern California

- Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam


SemEval 2020 included the following 12 shared tasks organized in four tracks:


Lexical semantics

- Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection

- Task 2: Predicting Multilingual and Cross-Lingual (Graded)

- Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in Context (GWSC)


Common Sense Knowledge and Reasoning, Knowledge Extraction

- Task 4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation

- Task 5: Modelling Causal Reasoning in Language: Detecting Counterfactuals

- Task 6: DeftEval: Extracting Definitions from Free Text in Textbooks


Humour, Emphasis, and Sentiment

- Task 7: Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines

- Task 8: Memotion Analysis

- Task 9: Sentiment Analysis for Code-Mixed Social Media Text

- Task 10: Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media


Societal Applications of NLP

- Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

- Task 12: OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media


The proceedings contain both Task Description papers that describe each of the above tasks, and System Description papers that present the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 12 task description papers and about 300 system description papers are included in the proceedings.


SemEval 2021

A total of 12 tasks were selected for SemEval 2021. For more details about the event, check out https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2021/


MWE-LEX 2020


The Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020), will be co-located with COLING-2020 in Barcelona, Spain in December 2020.

It is co-organized by SIGLEX and the European Lexicographic Infrastructure (ELEXIS). This joint event is the 16th edition of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE).

The workshop features a PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-Supervised verbal MWE Identification.

Program Committee Chairs

Research track, MWE-specific topics:

- Stella Markantonatou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, R.C. "Athena" (Greece)

- Jelena Mitrović, University of Passau (Germany)

Research track, MWE-LEX topics:

- John McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland)

- Carole Tiberius, Dutch Language Institute in Leiden (Netherlands)

Shared task track:

- Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University (France)

- Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (India)

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