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| − | * There are 20 SIGs . | + | * There are 20 SIGs. |
| − | * The | + | * The latest information (January 2017) about each SIG is provided below. Note that updates for SIG SEMITIC are still pending. |
* SIGMT has never had an election. | * SIGMT has never had an election. | ||
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== Information on Individual SIGs == | == Information on Individual SIGs == | ||
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* members: 220 | * members: 220 | ||
* elections (last, next): Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017 | * elections (last, next): Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017 | ||
| − | * events: | + | * events: LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015; LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017 |
'''SIGBioMed: SIG for biomedical natural language processing''' | '''SIGBioMed: SIG for biomedical natural language processing''' | ||
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* contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com), secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com) | * contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com), secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com) | ||
* members: 112 | * members: 112 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): | + | * elections (last, next): June 2016, June-July 2019 |
* events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2015, ACL 2016 and ACL 2017 | * events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2015, ACL 2016 and ACL 2017 | ||
'''SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP''' | '''SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP''' | ||
| − | * web page: http:// | + | * web page: http://emnlp.org/ |
| − | * contacts: president | + | * contacts: president Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk), vice president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), VP elect Jian Su <sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg>, secretary-treasurer Chris Callison-Burch (ccb@upenn.edu) |
| − | * members: approx. | + | * members: approx. 1200 |
| − | * elections (last, next): | + | * elections (last, next): December 2016, December 2017 |
| − | * events: EMNLP | + | * events: EMNLP every year |
'''SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue''' | '''SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue''' | ||
* web page: http://www.sigdial.org | * web page: http://www.sigdial.org | ||
| − | * contacts: president Amanda Stent (Amanda.Stent@gmail.com), vice president Jason Williams, secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi) | + | * contacts: president Amanda Stent (Amanda.Stent@gmail.com), vice president Jason Williams (jawillia@microsoft.com), secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi) |
* members: 565 | * members: 565 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): Feb. 2015 | + | * elections (last, next): Feb. 2015, Feb. 2017 |
| − | * events: annual conference | + | * events: annual conference at Interspeech 2015; annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017 |
'''SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing''' | '''SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing''' | ||
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* contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de), secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu) | * contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de), secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu) | ||
* members: 102 | * members: 102 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): April 2016, | + | * elections (last, next): April 2016, Autumn 2018 |
| − | * events: | + | * events: FSMNLP 2015; StatFSM workshop at ACL 2016; FSMNLP 2017 |
'''SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation''' | '''SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation''' | ||
* web page: http://www.siggen.org | * web page: http://www.siggen.org | ||
* contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr), secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt) | * contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr), secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt) | ||
| − | * members: | + | * members: 405 |
| − | * elections (last | + | * elections (last): end of 2016 |
| − | * events: ENLG 2015 (endorsed) | + | * events: ENLG 2015 (endorsed); Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed); WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016 |
'''SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language''' | '''SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language''' | ||
| − | * web page: http:// | + | * web page: http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu |
* contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com) secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) | * contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com) secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) | ||
* members: 210 | * members: 210 | ||
* elections (last, next): April 2016, April 2018 | * elections (last, next): April 2016, April 2018 | ||
| − | * events: CIPS-SIGHAN | + | * events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015 |
'''SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities''' | '''SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities''' | ||
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* contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (csporled@coli.uni-sb.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) | * contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (csporled@coli.uni-sb.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) | ||
* members: 132 | * members: 132 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): Oct. 2015 | + | * elections (last, next): Oct. 2015, Oct. 2017 |
| − | * events: LaTeCH | + | * events: LaTeCH at ACL 2015, ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017 |
| − | '''SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon | + | '''SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon''' |
| − | * contacts: president | + | * web page: http://www.siglex.org |
| − | * members: | + | * contacts: president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa) |
| − | * elections (last, next): | + | * members: 727 |
| − | * events: | + | * elections (last, next): June 2016, June 2019 |
| + | * events: Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2015, NAACL 2016, ACL 2017 | ||
'''SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language''' | '''SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language''' | ||
* web page: http://www.molweb.org | * web page: http://www.molweb.org | ||
| − | * contacts: president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp), vice president | + | * contacts: president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp), vice president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr) |
| − | * members: | + | * members: 280 |
| − | * elections (last, next): Feb. 2016, early | + | * elections (last, next): Feb. 2016, early 2018 |
| − | * events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015, co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago | + | * events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015, co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago,; meeting on Mathematics of Language 2017, co-located with the 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation at University College, London |
'''SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics''' | '''SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics''' | ||
* web page: http://sigmorphon.org/ | * web page: http://sigmorphon.org/ | ||
* contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu), secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca) | * contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu), secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca) | ||
| − | * members: | + | * members: 161 |
| − | * elections (last, next): Feb. | + | * elections (last, next): Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019 |
| − | * events: | + | * events: SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017 |
'''SIGMT: SIG for machine translation''' | '''SIGMT: SIG for machine translation''' | ||
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* contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu) | * contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu) | ||
* members: 152 | * members: 152 | ||
| − | * elections | + | * elections: none in the past |
| − | * events: | + | * events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year |
'''SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning''' | '''SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning''' | ||
* web page: http://www.signll.org | * web page: http://www.signll.org | ||
| − | * contacts: president | + | * contacts: president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu) |
| − | * members: | + | * members: 342 |
| − | * elections (last, next): | + | * elections (last, next): August 2016, August 2018 |
| − | * events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL- | + | * events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL |
'''SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing''' | '''SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing''' | ||
* web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼sigparse | * web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼sigparse | ||
* contacts: president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr), secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no) | * contacts: president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr), secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no) | ||
| − | * members: | + | * members: 245 |
| − | * elections (last, next): April | + | * elections (last, next): April 2016, Jan. 2019 |
| − | * events: IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) | + | * events: IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 |
'''SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics''' | '''SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics''' | ||
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* contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl), secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu) | * contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl), secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu) | ||
* members: 877 | * members: 877 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): Oct. 2013 | + | * elections (last, next): Oct. 2013, 2017 |
| − | * events: | + | * events: IWCS 2015; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017 |
'''SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)''' | '''SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)''' | ||
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* contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com) | * contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com) | ||
* members: 245 | * members: 245 | ||
| − | * elections (last | + | * elections (last): Dec. 2014 |
| − | * events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages ( | + | * events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages at SPMRL 2013 (co-located with EMNLP 2013) and SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (co-located with COLING 2014) |
'''SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing''' | '''SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing''' | ||
* web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html | * web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html | ||
* contacts: chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com) secretary Jan Snajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) ˇ | * contacts: chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com) secretary Jan Snajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) ˇ | ||
| − | * members: | + | * members: 107 |
| − | * elections | + | * elections: first election March 2017 |
| − | * events: BSNLP 2015 | + | * events: BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017) |
'''SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies''' | '''SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies''' | ||
* web page: http://www.slpat.org | * web page: http://www.slpat.org | ||
| − | * contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer | + | * contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu) |
* members: 141 | * members: 141 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): | + | * elections (last, next): Fall 2016, Fall 2018 |
| − | * events: SLPAT15 | + | * events: SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016 |
'''SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages''' | '''SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages''' | ||
| − | * web page: | + | * web page: https://acl-sigur.github.io |
* contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com) | * contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com) | ||
| − | * members: | + | * members: 41 |
| − | * elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, | + | * elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, Jan. 2018 |
| − | * events: IWCLUL | + | * events: IWCLUL 2017 |
'''SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus''' | '''SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus''' | ||
* web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk | * web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk | ||
| − | * contacts: Roland | + | * contacts: Roland Schaefer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de) secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu) |
* members: 175 | * members: 175 | ||
| − | * elections (last, next): July 2015 | + | * elections (last, next): July 2015, July 2018 |
| − | * events: | + | * events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017 |
Latest revision as of 07:58, 10 February 2017
Summary
- There are 20 SIGs.
- The latest information (January 2017) about each SIG is provided below. Note that updates for SIG SEMITIC are still pending.
- SIGMT has never had an election.
Information on Individual SIGs
SIGANN: SIG for annotation
- web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
- contacts: president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
- members: 220
- elections (last, next): Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017
- events: LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015; LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017
SIGBioMed: SIG for biomedical natural language processing
- web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGBIOMED
- contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com), secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
- members: 112
- elections (last, next): June 2016, June-July 2019
- events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2015, ACL 2016 and ACL 2017
SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
- web page: http://emnlp.org/
- contacts: president Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk), vice president Mirella Lapata (mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk), VP elect Jian Su <sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg>, secretary-treasurer Chris Callison-Burch (ccb@upenn.edu)
- members: approx. 1200
- elections (last, next): December 2016, December 2017
- events: EMNLP every year
SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue
- web page: http://www.sigdial.org
- contacts: president Amanda Stent (Amanda.Stent@gmail.com), vice president Jason Williams (jawillia@microsoft.com), secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi)
- members: 565
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2015, Feb. 2017
- events: annual conference at Interspeech 2015; annual conference at Interspeech 2016; annual conference (co-located with SemDial) at Interspeech 2017
SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing
- web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM
- contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de), secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
- members: 102
- elections (last, next): April 2016, Autumn 2018
- events: FSMNLP 2015; StatFSM workshop at ACL 2016; FSMNLP 2017
SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
- web page: http://www.siggen.org
- contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr), secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt)
- members: 405
- elections (last): end of 2016
- events: ENLG 2015 (endorsed); Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed); WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016
SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
- web page: http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
- contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com) secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
- members: 210
- elections (last, next): April 2016, April 2018
- events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015
SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
- web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
- contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (csporled@coli.uni-sb.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
- members: 132
- elections (last, next): Oct. 2015, Oct. 2017
- events: LaTeCH at ACL 2015, ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017
SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
- web page: http://www.siglex.org
- contacts: president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
- members: 727
- elections (last, next): June 2016, June 2019
- events: Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2015, NAACL 2016, ACL 2017
SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
- web page: http://www.molweb.org
- contacts: president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp), vice president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr)
- members: 280
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2016, early 2018
- events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015, co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago,; meeting on Mathematics of Language 2017, co-located with the 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation at University College, London
SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics
- web page: http://sigmorphon.org/
- contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu), secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca)
- members: 161
- elections (last, next): Feb. 2017, Feb. 2019
- events: SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017
SIGMT: SIG for machine translation
- web page: http://www.sigmt.org
- contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
- members: 152
- elections: none in the past
- events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year
SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning
- web page: http://www.signll.org
- contacts: president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
- members: 342
- elections (last, next): August 2016, August 2018
- events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL
SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing
- web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼sigparse
- contacts: president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr), secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
- members: 245
- elections (last, next): April 2016, Jan. 2019
- events: IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017
SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
- web page: http://www.sigsem.org
- contacts: president Johan Bos (johan.bos@rug.nl), secretary Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu)
- members: 877
- elections (last, next): Oct. 2013, 2017
- events: IWCS 2015; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at NAACL 2015, ACL 2016, ACL 2017
SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)
- web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/index.shtml
- contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com)
- members: 245
- elections (last): Dec. 2014
- events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages at SPMRL 2013 (co-located with EMNLP 2013) and SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (co-located with COLING 2014)
SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing
- web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
- contacts: chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com) secretary Jan Snajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) ˇ
- members: 107
- elections: first election March 2017
- events: BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017)
SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
- web page: http://www.slpat.org
- contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
- members: 141
- elections (last, next): Fall 2016, Fall 2018
- events: SLPAT15 at Interspeech 2015; SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016
SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages
- web page: https://acl-sigur.github.io
- contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
- members: 41
- elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, Jan. 2018
- events: IWCLUL 2017
SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus
- web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
- contacts: Roland Schaefer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de) secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
- members: 175
- elections (last, next): July 2015, July 2018
- events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017