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)