2022Q3 Reports: SIGSLAV

The purpose of SIGSLAV ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing, established in 2014, is to stimulate research in NLP and creation of linguistic resources for Slavic languages. The SIGSLAV web page is located at http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi. SIGSLAV has over a hundred members, who are notified about the activities of the SIG through its mailing list sigslav@googlegroups.com.

The last flagship event of SIGSLAV was the 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/), collocated with ACL 2021, and was accompanied with the 3rd BSNLP NER shared task "Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-lingual linking of Named Entities in Slavic Languages" (http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html). The proceedings are avaialable via the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/2021.bsnlp-1.0/).

Officers

The last SIGSLAV elections were held in October 2017 and the following officers were elected by the SIGSLAV members:

• Chair: Tomaž Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Vice-Chair: ​ Roman Yangarber (roman.yangarber@cs.helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Finland
• Secretary: Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa), Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
• Resource Manager: ​Lidia Pivovarova (pivovaro@cs.helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Finland
• Resource Manager: Josef Steinberger (jstein@kiv.zcu.cz), University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
• Interim Resource Manager: Michał Marcińczuk (michal.marcinczuk@pwr.edu.pl), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.

The Interim Resource Manager, Michał Marcińczuk, was elected by the other officers of SIGLSLAV, also to help with the preparation of the SIGSLAV shared NER tasks.

Advisory Board

• Natalia Grabar (natalia.grabar@univ-lille3.fr) , Université Lille 3, France
• Cvetana Krstev (cvetana@poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs), University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Vladislav Kuboň (vk@ufal.mff.cuni.cz), Charles University, Czech Republic
• Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@gmail.com), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw & Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
• Adam Przepiórkowski (adamp@ipipan.waw.pl), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Serge Sharoff (s.sharoff@leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• Kiril Simov (kivs@bultreebank.org), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Marko Tadić (marko.tadic@ffzg.hr), University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Jan Šnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr), University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Katerina Zdravkova (katerina.zdravkova@finki.ukim.mk), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

SIGSLAV Business Meetings

The last SIGSLAV business meeting was held on April 5, 2017 in Valencia (Spain).