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SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.
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The ACL currently has 16 SIGs.
  
SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 200 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.
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All SIGs are now compliant with ACL's SIG Guidelines (for details see [SIG Compliance:]http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance).
  
The third LAW, a 1.5 day workshop held in conjunction with ACL in Singapore, had approximately 55 participants. The fourth LAW will be held in Uppsala in conjunction with ACL 2010; at the end of early registration there were 56 registered. Nianwen Xue and Massimo Poesio served as Program Committee co-chairs. We received a record number of submissions (46 long papers, 8 demos and 6 posters), and accepted 20 papers and 22 posters.  
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Many SIGs had held elections during 2008, a few held elections in 2009 or 2010.
  
In 2009-10 SIGANN co-sponsored the International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2010), Generative Lexicon 2009 (GL 2009), and the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010).
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All SIGs are lively, and organise events from small workshops to large conferences.
  
SIGANN Officers:
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A couple of words on the more recents SIGs
President: Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
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Secretary: Adam Meyers (New York University)
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SIGFSM Joint CIAA conference and FSMNLP workshop in 2011 (France) under preparation. No FSMNLP meeting in 2010.
SIGANN Committee:
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Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica)
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Endorsed the ACL 2010 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/atanlp/cfp.html
Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)
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Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)
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Open call for papers to a special issue on Finite-State Methods and Models in Natural Language Processing (JNLE): see http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/projects/jnle/
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)
 
Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)
 
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)
 

Latest revision as of 08:31, 21 June 2010

The ACL currently has 16 SIGs.

All SIGs are now compliant with ACL's SIG Guidelines (for details see [SIG Compliance:]http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance).

Many SIGs had held elections during 2008, a few held elections in 2009 or 2010.

All SIGs are lively, and organise events from small workshops to large conferences.

A couple of words on the more recents SIGs

SIGFSM Joint CIAA conference and FSMNLP workshop in 2011 (France) under preparation. No FSMNLP meeting in 2010.

Endorsed the ACL 2010 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/atanlp/cfp.html

Open call for papers to a special issue on Finite-State Methods and Models in Natural Language Processing (JNLE): see http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/projects/jnle/