2014Q3 Reports: SIGLEX
The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until summer of 2016:
President: Mona Diab (George Washington University, US)
Secretary: Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Information officers:
Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
We currently have 644 members and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.
SIGLEX has one Section on Multiword Expressions, which has currently 113 members. The MWE Section representative on the board:
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany)
*SEM
In 2014 we have the Third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2014) 23-24 August, collocated with COLING 2014, in Dublin, Ireland.
General Chair: Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
PC Chairs:
Anette Frank (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- SEM 2014 received a record number of 90 submissions (compare against 45 submissions in 2013), 60 long and 30 short papers.
14 long and 8 short papers were accepted (acceptance rate: 24%).
- SEM did not host a shared task in 2014.
Outlook: details for *SEM 2015 are being finalized.
SemEval
SemEval is in the process of switching to a two-year overlapping cycles. This means that it will run each year, but the run of each edition will take two years. SemEval-2014 runs on a yearly cycle, while SemEval-2015 runs on an overlapping two-year cycle.
SemEval-2014 and SemEval-2015 co-chairs:
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Torsten Zesch (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
SemEval-2014 (Semantic Evaluation Exercises; International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation), will be collocated with COLING'2014, in Dublin, Ireland. The event will run for two days, both overlapping with *SEM. See http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2014/ for more detail.
185 teams submitted more than 500 systems for the 10 tasks of SemEval-2014. A total of 10 task description papers and 142 system description papers are included in the procceedings.
SemEval-2015 has already started. Eighteen tasks have been selected, which are organized into five tracks: (i) Text Similarity and Question Answering, (ii) Time and Space, (iii) Sentiment, (iv) Word Sense Disambiguation and Induction, and (v) Learning Semantic Relations. The trial data is ready and the training data is in preparation. See http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/ for more detail.