2013Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

SIG Compliance Report – April 2013

The ACL currently has 18 SIGs. Newer SIGs are:

• 2012: SIGHUM, SIG on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
• 2011: SIGSLPAT, SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies -
• 2009: SIGMT, SIG for Machine Translation

About compliance

Three SIGs with last elections hold in 2009: SIGANN, SIGBioMed, SIGMT The others are are compliant with ACL's SIG Guidelines: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance.

Summary:

• 1 new SIG with no election (SIGHUM 2012)
• 3 SIGs held elections in 2009 (SIGANN, SIGBIOMED, SGMT)
• 4 SIGs held elections in 2010 (SIGDIAL, SIGLEX, SIGMORPHON, SIGSEM)
• 3 SIGs held elections in 2011(SIGHAN, SIGNLL, SIGSEMIT)
• 6 SIGs held elections in 2012 (SIGMOL, SIGDAT, SIGFSM, SIGGEN, SIGSLPAT,
• SIGW AC)
• 1 SIG held election in 2013 (SIGPARSE)

Number of members is given as reported in 2012, unless otherwise stated. Below is a list of SIGS with updated contact information.

Renata Vieira (SIG Convener)

1. SIGANN - SIG for ANNotation
   • Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu,meyers at cs.nyu.edu
   • Web page http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
   • 200 members
   • Last election: 2009
2. SIGBioMed - SIG for Biomedical Natural Language Processing
   • Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
   • Web page http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=Main_Page
   • 93 members
   • Last election: 2009
3. SIGDAT - SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
   • Contacts: Eugene Charniak, Noah Smith: eugene_charniak at brown.edu, nasmith at cs.cmu.edu
   • Web page: http://sigdat.org
   • ? members
   • Last election: 2012
4. SIGDIAL - SIG on Discourse and Dialogue
   • Contacts: Tim Paek, Kristiina Jokinen: timpaek at microsoft.com, Kristiina_dot_Jokinen_at_helsinki_dot_fi
   • Web page: http://www.sigdial.org/
   • 539 members (39 countries)
   • Last election: october 2010 (currently in the process of running an election)
5. SIGFSM - SIG on Finite State Methods and Models in Natural Language Processing
   • Contacts: Andreas Maletti, Måns Hulden : andreas.maletti at ims.uni-stuttgart.de, mhulden at email.arizona.edu
   • Web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM
   • 39 members
   • Last election: 2012
6. SIGGEN - SIG on Natural Language Generation
   • Contacts: Ielka van der Sluis, Verena Rieser: I.F.van.der.Sluis at rug.nl, v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk
   • Web page: http://www.siggen.org/
   • 256 members
   • Last election: 2012
7. SIGHAN – SIG on Chinese Language
   • Contacts: Hsin-hsi CHEN, Gina-Anne LEVOW : hhchen at ntu.edu.tw, levow at uw dot edu
   • Web page: http://www.sighan.org
   • 220 members (2013 update)
   • Last election: 2011
8. SIGHUM – SIG on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
   • Contacts: Caroline Sporleder csporled at coli.uni-sb.de 9. SIGLEX - SIG on the Lexicon
   • Contacts: Eneko Agirre, Mona Diab: e.agirre at ehu.es, mdiab at ccls.columbia.edu
   • Web page: http://www.clres.com/siglex.html
   • 441 members
   • Last election: 2010
9. SIGMOL – SIG on Mathematical Linguistics
   • Contacts:, András Kornai: kornai at iq.harvard.edu, Marco Kuhlmann : marco.kuhlmann at lingfil.uu.se
   • Web page : http://molweb.org/
   • 219 members
   • Last election : 2012
10. SIGMORPHON - SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics
    • Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
    • Web page: http://sigmorphon.org/
    • 105 members
    • Last election: 2010
11. SIGMT - SIG for Machine Translation
    • Contacts: Philipp Koehn, David Chiang: pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk, chiang at isi.edu
    • Web page: http://www.sigmt.org/
    • 118 members (2013 update)
    • Formed in 2009; no elections yet
12. SIGNLL - SIG on natural language learning
    • Contacts: Alexander Clark, Xavier Carreras alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk carreras at lsi.upc.edu
    • Web page: http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ http://ifarm.nl/signll/
    • 344 members
    • Last election: 2011
13. SIGPARSE
    • Contacts: John Carroll, Eric de la Clergerie: J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr
    • Web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse/
    • 200 members
    • Last election: 2013
14. SIGSEM – SIG on computational semantics
    • Contacts: Johan Bos, Katrin Erk : johan.bos at rug.nl , katrin DOT erk AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu
    • Web page: http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/
    • 774 members
    • Last election: 2010
15. SIG SEMITIC - SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
    • Contacts: Mona Diab, Reut Tsarfaty: mdiab at ccls.columbia.edu, reut.tsarfaty at gmail.com
    • Web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/
    • 200 members
    • Last election: 2011
16. SIGSLPAT - SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
    • Contacts: Frank Rudzicz, Annalu Walter: frank at cs.toronto.edu, awaller at computing.dundee.ac.uk
    • Web page: http://slpat.org/
    • 69 members (2013 update)
    • Last election: 2012
17. SIGWAC
    • Contacts: Stefan Evert, Egon Stemle: stefan.evert at fau.de, egon.stemle at eurac.edu
    • Web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk/
    • About 100 members (estimated)
    • Last election: 2012