2017Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

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