2016Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance
ACL SIGs: Report on Year 2015
Hermann Ney (last update: 08-Feb-2016)
Summary
• There is a total of 20 SIGs (including SIGSLAV, founded on 27-Nov-2014, and SIGUR, founded on 18-Aug-2015).
• The number of members reported below have been updated for the year 2015 in most cases.
• According to the SIG creation guidelines, a SIG should hold elections every two years, which is the case for the majority of the SIGs.
• There are nine SIGs that do not follow the two-year election pattern:
SIGANN, SIGBioMed, SIGFSM, SIGLEX, SIGMT, SIGNLL, SIGPARSE, SIGSEM, SIGWAC. Apart from SIGLEX and SIGANN, all these SIGs have a three-year term in their constitution. List of SIGs
1. 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 VIII at COLING 2014, LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015, LAW X at ACL 2016
2. 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): Aug. 2013, June 2016
– events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2013, ACL 2014 and ACL 2015
3. SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
– web page: http://www.sigdat.org/
– contacts: president Mark Steedman (steedman@inf.ed.ac.uk) vice president Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk) secretray Noah Smith
– members: approx. 1000
– elections (last, next): 2015, 2016
– events: EMNLP 2015, EMNLP 2016
4. SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue
– 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)
– members: 565
– elections (last, next): Feb. 2015; Sep. 2016
– events: annual conference June 2014, annual conference Sep. 2015
5. 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): 2012, Jan. 2016
– events: ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014; FSMNLP June 2015; workshop at ACL 2016
6. 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: 309
– elections (last, next): Dec 2014, end of 2016
– events: INLG 2014, ENLG 2015 (endorsed), Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed), INLG 2016
7. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
– web page: http://www.sighan.org
– contacts: chair Zong Chengqing (cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn), secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
– members: 210
– elections (last, next): Dec. 2013, March 2016
– events: CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014, SIGHAN Workshop July 2015
8. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
– web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
– contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (csporleder@coli.uni-sb.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
– members: 132
– elections (last, next): Oct. 2015; Oct. 2017
– events: LaTeCH 2014 at EACL, LaTeCH 2015 at ACL
9. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
– web page: http://www.siglex.org
– contacts: president Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk)
– members: 649
– elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
– events: STARSEM 2015 (jointly with SIGSEM), co-located with NAACL 2015; MUMTTT 2015 (endorsed) at EUROPHRAS 2015
10. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
– web page: http://www.molweb.org
– contacts: president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp), vice president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se)
– members: 294
– elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, early 2016
– events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015, co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago
11. 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: 150
– elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, Feb. 2016
– events: no event in 2015, next in 2016
12. 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: 146
– elections (last, next): none in the past; fall 2015
– events: workshop on MT and workshop on SSST, each year
13. SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning
– web page: http://www.signll.org
– contacts: president Xavier Carreras (carreras@cs.upc.edu), secretary Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu)
– members: 350
– elections (last, next): June 2014, June 2016
– events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2015 co-located with ACL-2015
14. SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing
– web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/»sigparse
– contacts: president John Carroll (J.A.Carroll@sussex.ac.uk), secretary Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr)
– members: 219
– elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Feb. 2016
– events: SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (endorsed); IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed), co-located with IWPT 2015
15. 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; 2016
– events: STARSEM 2014; IWCS 2015; STARSEM 2015 (jointly with SIGLEX), co-located with NACL 2015
16. 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, next): Dec. 2014; 2016
– events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages (SPMRL’13 co-located with EMNLP 2013)
17. 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 ˇSnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr)
– members: 100
– elections (last, next): first election end of 2016
– events: BSNLP 2015
18. 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 Fran¸cois Portet (francois.portet@imag.fr)
– members: 141
– elections (last, next): fall 2014, fall 2016
– events: SLPAT15, SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016, RaPID 2016
19. SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages
– web page: http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur
– contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (Tommi.Pirinen@computing.dcu.ie), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
– members: 32 (?)
– elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, winter 2017/8 (?)
20. SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus
– web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
– contacts: Roland Sch¨afer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de) secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
– members: 175
– elections (last, next): July 2015; July 2018
– events: WAC10 at eLex 2015, Aug. 2015 (cancelled); WAC-X at ACL 2016