2022Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Spring 2022:

President

• Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE

Secretary

• Aline Villavicencio, The University of Sheffield, UK

Executive Board

• Vice-President Elect: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA
• Vice-Secretary Elect: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in 2022, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board

• MWE section: Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France
• SemEval section: David Jurgens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Members

SIGLEX currently has 357 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 276 members, and SemEval with 240 members.

Websites and Mailing Lists

The SIGLEX website https://siglex.org/ is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The website of the MWE section of SIGLEX https://multiword.org/ is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Carlos Ramisch.

The SemEval section of SIGLEX continues to be managed by the SemEval organizers (currently Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar) using the existing website, https://semeval.github.io/, and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com.

SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:

*SEM 2022

The 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2022), organized by SIGLEX, was co-located with NAACL-HLT 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA and took place on July 14-15, 2022.

General Chair

• Vivi Nastase, University of Zurich

Program Chairs

• Ellie Pavlick, Brown University

• Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies

Publicity Chair

• Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University

Publication Chair

• Alessandro Raganato, University of Helsinki

Area Chairs

Lexical semantics and word representations

• Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania

• Vered Shwartz, University of British Columbia

Semantic composition and sentence-level semantics

• Allyson Ettinger, University of Chicago

Discourse, dialogue, and generation

• Nafise Sadat Moosavi, TU Darmstadt

• Malihe Alikhani, University of Pittsburgh

Multilinguality

• Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen

Psycholinguistics and semantic processing

• Najoung Kim, Johns Hopkins University

Resources and evaluation

• Daniel Khashabi, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Theoretical and formal semantics

• Gene Kim, University of Rochester

Commonsense reasoning and natural language understanding

- Keisuke Sakaguchi, Allen Institute for AI

Semantics in NLP applications

- Nazneen Rajani, Salesforce Research

SemEval 2022

The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2022), organized by SIGLEX, was co-located with NAACL-HLT 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA and took place on July 14-15, 2022.

Organizers:

- Guy Emerson, Cambridge University

- Natalie Schluter, IT University Copenhagen

- Gabriel Stanovsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

- Ritesh Kumar, Bhimrao Ambedkar University

- Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder

- Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University

SemEval 2022 included the following twelve shared tasks, organized into four tracks:

Lexical semantics

- Task 1: CODWOE - COmparing Dictionaries and WOrd Embeddings

– Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding

– Task 3: Presupposed Taxonomies - Evaluating Neural-network Semantics (PreTENS)

Social factors & opinion

Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection

Task 6: Detection of Persuasive Techniques in Texts and Images

Task 7: HaHackathon: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense

Information in scientific & clinical text

Task 8: MeasEval: Counts and Measurements

Task 9: Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables

Task 10: Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Semantic Processing

Task 11: NLPContributionGraph

Other phenomena

Task 12: Learning with Disagreements

The proceedings contain both task description papers for each of the above tasks, and system description papers describing the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 175 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

SemEval 2022

A total of 12 tasks were selected for SemEval 2022. They will be announced at the SemEval 2021 workshop. For more details about the event, check https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2022/

MWE 2021

The 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021) will be co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021, and will take place on August 6, 2021. This event is the 17th edition of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE). The special focus for this 17th edition of the workshop is on MWE processing in end-user applications and the workshop features a joint panel with WOAH (Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms).

Program Committee Chairs

Paul Cook, University of New Brunswick (Canada)

Jelena Mitrović, University of Passau (Germany)

Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (India)

Carla Parra Escartín, Iconic Translation Machines, RWS Group (Ireland)

Publication Chairs:

Petya Osenova, Sofia University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)

Shiva Taslimipoor, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Communication Chair:

- Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University (France)