2012Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until summer of 2013:

• President: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
• Secretary: Mona Diab, Columbia University

Information Officers:

• Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
• Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
• Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
• Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield

Board Member with Special Portfolio/Webmaster:

• Ken Litkowski, CL Research

We currently have 491 members (46 new members in the last 12 months) and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

The shadow account has USD TO BE DETERMINED.

Suresh Manandhar and Deniz Yuret are organizing SemEval-2013, with a total number of 27 proposed tasks.

New Constitution, Sections

Following a request from the Multiword Expression community, SIGLEX changed its constitution to accommodate so-called Sections. Each Section will elect a representative in the SIGLEX board.

The change to the constitution was approved by the SIGLEX board, the ACL exec, and a poll among SIGLEX members (68 votes, incl. 4 no, 8 maybe and 54 yes). The new constitution is currently being implemented, with a new Section on MWE and a corresponding board member to be elected soon.

Events

SIGLEX organized and sponsored jointly with SIGSEM a new conference, *SEM (see summary above).

In addition SIGLEX endorsed the following events this year:

• 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-07-12, Jeju, Korea.

• Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL 2012). Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-07-12, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

• Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6). Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-07-12, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

• Computational Linguistics Workshop on Austronesian Languages. Standalone workshop. 2012-07-02, Bali, Indonesia.