2013Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance
SIG Compliance Report – April 2013 The ACL currently has 18 SIGs. Newer SIGs are: - 2012: SIGHUM, SIG on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities - 2011: SIGSLPAT, SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies - 2009: SIGMT, SIG for Machine Translation About compliance Three SIGs with last elections hold in 2009: SIGANN, SIGBioMed, SIGMT The others are are compliant with ACL's SIG Guidelines: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance.
Summary: - 1 new SIG with no election (SIGHUM 2012) - 3 SIGs held elections in 2009 (SIGANN, SIGBIOMED, SGMT) - 4 SIGs held elections in 2010 (SIGDIAL, SIGLEX, SIGMORPHON, SIGSEM) - 3 SIGs held elections in 2011(SIGHAN, SIGNLL, SIGSEMIT) - 6 SIGs held elections in 2012 (SIGMOL, SIGDAT, SIGFSM, SIGGEN, SIGSLPAT, - SIGW AC) - 1 SIG held election in 2013 (SIGPARSE)
Number of members is given as reported in 2012, unless otherwise stated. Below is a list of SIGS with updated contact information. Renata Vieira (SIG Convener)
1. SIGANN - SIG for ANNotation • Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu • Web page http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann • 200 members • Last election: 2009 2. SIGBioMed - SIG for Biomedical Natural Language Processing • Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com • Web page http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=Main_Page • 93 members • Last election: 2009 3. SIGDAT - SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP • Contacts: Eugene Charniak, Noah Smith: eugene_charniak at brown.edu, nasmith at cs.cmu.edu • Web page: http://sigdat.org • ? members • Last election: 2012 4. SIGDIAL - SIG on Discourse and Dialogue • Contacts: Tim Paek, Kristiina Jokinen: timpaek at microsoft.com, Kristiina_dot_Jokinen_at_helsinki_dot_fi • Web page: http://www.sigdial.org/ • 539 members (39 countries) • Last election: october 2010 (currently in the process of running an election) 5. SIGFSM - SIG on Finite State Methods and Models in Natural Language Processing • Contacts: Andreas Maletti, Måns Hulden : andreas.maletti at ims.uni-stuttgart.de, mhulden at email.arizona.edu • Web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM • 39 members • Last election: 2012 6. SIGGEN - SIG on Natural Language Generation • Contacts: Ielka van der Sluis, Verena Rieser: I.F.van.der.Sluis at rug.nl, v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk • Web page: http://www.siggen.org/ • 256 members • Last election: 2012 7. SIGHAN – SIG on Chinese Language • Contacts: Hsin-hsi CHEN, Gina-Anne LEVOW : hhchen at ntu.edu.tw, levow at uw dot edu • Web page: http://www.sighan.org • 220 members (2013 update) • Last election: 2011 8. SIGHUM – SIG on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities • Contacts: Caroline Sporleder csporled at coli.uni-sb.de 9. SIGLEX - SIG on the Lexicon • Contacts: Eneko Agirre, Mona Diab: e.agirre at ehu.es, mdiab at ccls.columbia.edu • Web page: http://www.clres.com/siglex.html • 441 members • Last election: 2010 10. SIGMOL – SIG on Mathematical Linguistics • Contacts:, András Kornai: kornai at iq.harvard.edu, Marco Kuhlmann : marco.kuhlmann at lingfil.uu.se • Web page : http://molweb.org/ • 219 members • Last election : 2012 11. SIGMORPHON - SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics • Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu • Web page: http://sigmorphon.org/ • 105 members • Last election: 2010 12. SIGMT - SIG for Machine Translation • Contacts: Philipp Koehn, David Chiang: pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk, chiang at isi.edu • Web page: http://www.sigmt.org/ • 118 members (2013 update) • Formed in 2009; no elections yet 13. SIGNLL - SIG on natural language learning • Contacts: Alexander Clark, Xavier Carreras alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk carreras at lsi.upc.edu • Web page: http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ http://ifarm.nl/signll/ • 344 members • Last election: 2011 14. SIGPARSE • Contacts: John Carroll, Eric de la Clergerie: J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr • Web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse/ • 200 members • Last election: 2013 15. SIGSEM – SIG on computational semantics • Contacts: Johan Bos, Katrin Erk : johan.bos at rug.nl , katrin DOT erk AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu • Web page: http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/ • 774 members • Last election: 2010 16. SIG SEMITIC - SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages • Contacts: Mona Diab, Reut Tsarfaty: mdiab at ccls.columbia.edu, reut.tsarfaty at gmail.com • Web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/ • 200 members • Last election: 2011 17. SIGSLPAT - SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies • Contacts: Frank Rudzicz, Annalu Walter: frank at cs.toronto.edu, awaller at computing.dundee.ac.uk • Web page: http://slpat.org/ • 69 members (2013 update) • Last election: 2012 18. SIGWAC • Contacts: Stefan Evert, Egon Stemle: stefan.evert at fau.de, egon.stemle at eurac.edu • Web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ • About 100 members (estimated) • Last election: 2012