2017Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance
Summary
- There are 20 SIGs .
- The up-to-date (January 2017) information for all but one SIG is provided below. Updates on SIG SEMITIC events and elections 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 (co-located with Interspeech) Sep. 2015, annual conference (co-located with Interspeech) Sep. 2016, annual conference (co-located with SemDial and Interspeech) Aug. 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 June 2015; ACL workshop StatFSM in Aug. 2016; FSMNLP Sep. 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. New board members: Dimitra Gkatzia, Amy Isard (Student Representative), Amanda Stent
- 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 Oct. 2014, SIGHAN Workshop July 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 2015 at ACL, LaTeCH 2016 at ACL, LaTeCH-CLfL 2017 at ACL
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 2016 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 2015 (at RANLP); BSNLP 2017 (at EACL); 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): Autumn 2014, Autumn 2018
- events: SLPAT15 (at Interspeech); SLPAT16 (at Interspeech); RaPID 2016 (at LREC)
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