2015Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

ACL SIGs: Report on Year 2014 (Feb. 01, 2015) Hermann Ney (update: Feb. 16, 2015)

Summary

• There is a total of 19 SIGs (including the new SIGSLAV, founded on 27-Nov-2014).
• The number of members reported below refers to the year 2014 in most cases.
• According to the SIG creation guidelines, a SIG should hold elections every two years, which is the case for the majority of the SIGs.
• There are seven SIGs that do not follow the two-year election pattern: SIGBioMed, SIGFSM, SIGLEX, SIGNLL, SIGPARSE, SIGSEM, SIGWAC. Apart from SIGLEX, all these SIGs have a three-year term in their constitution.

List of SIGs

1. 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

1. • elections (last, next): none in the past, Sep. 2014
   • events: LAW VII at ACL 2013; LAW VIII at COLING 2014

2. 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: 107

1. • elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
   • events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2013 and ACL 2014

3. SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP – web page: http://www.sigdat.org/

1. • contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phkoehn@gmail.com),

vice president Mark Johnson (mark.johnson@mq.edu.au) VP elect Mark Steedman, secretray Noah Smith – members: approx. 1000

1. • elections (last, next): 2014, 2015
   • events: EMNLP Oct. 2013, EMNLP Oct. 2014

4. SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue

1. • web page: http://www.sigdial.org
   • contacts: president Amanda Stent, vice president Jason Williams,

secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi) – members: 400

1. • elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Feb. 2015
   • events: annual conference August 2013, annual conference June 2014

5. SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing – web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM

1. • contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),

secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu) – members: 93

1. • elections (last, next): 2012, 2015
   • events: FSMNLP 2013; ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014

6. SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

1. • web page: http://www.siggen.org
   • contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr),

secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt) – members: 309

1. • elections (last, next): Dec 2014, end of 2016
   • events: INLG 2014, ENLG 2015 (endorsed), Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed)

7. SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

1. • web page: http://www.sighan.org
   • contacts: chair Zong Chengqing (cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn),

secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) – members: 210

1. • elections (last, next): Dec. 2013, Dec. 2015
   • events: SIGHAN Workshop Oct. 2013, CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014

8. SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities

1. • web page: http://sighum.science.ru.nl
   • contacts: president Antal van den Bosch (a.vandenbosch@let.ru.nl),

secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk) – members: 109

1. • elections (last, next): Dec. 2013; Oct. 2015
   • events: LaTeCH 2013 at ACL, LaTeCH 2014 at EACL

9. SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon

1. • web page: http://www.siglex.org
   • contacts: president Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu),

secretary Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk) – members: 649

1. • elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
   • events: SEMEVAL and SIGLEX in 2013; planed for 2014/5

10. SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

1. • web page: http://www.molweb.org
   • contacts: president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se),

vice president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp) – members: 255

1. • elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, early 2016
   • events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015,

co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago 11. SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics – web page: http://sigmorphon.org/

1. • contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),

secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca) – members: 144

1. • elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, Feb. 2016
   • events: no event in 2013, 2014 joint meeting of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM co-located with ACL

12. SIGMT: SIG for machine translation

1. • web page: http://www.sigmt.org
   • contacts: president Philipp Koehn (pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),

secretary David Chiang (chiang@isi.edu) – members: 131

1. • elections (last, next): none in the past; summer 2014
   • events: workshop on MT and workshop on SSST, each year

13. SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning

1. • web page: http://www.signll.org
   • contacts: president Xavier Carreras (carreras@cs.upc.edu),

secretary Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) – members: 350

1. • elections (last, next): June 2014, June 2016
   • events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2015 co-located with ACL-2015

14. SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

1. • web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼sigparse
   • contacts: president John Carroll (J.A.Carroll@sussex.ac.uk),

secretary Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr) – members: 219

1. • elections (last, next): Feb. 2013; Dec. 2015
   • events: SPMRL-SANCL 2014 (endorsed); SPMRL 2015 (endorsed), collocated withIWPT 2015
2. 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: 876
   • elections (last, next): Oct. 2013; 2016
   • events: STARSEM 2013, IWCS 2013; STARSEM 2014.

16. SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages – web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/index.shtml

1. • contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com) – members: 245
   • elections (last, next): Dec. 2012; Dec. 2014
   • events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages (SPMRL’13 co-located with EMNLP 2013)

17. SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing – web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html

1. • contacts: chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com) secretary Jan Sˇnajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) – members: 53
   • elections (last, next): – – events: BSNLP 2015

18. SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies – web page: http://www.slpat.org

1. • contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Francois Portet (francois.portet@imag.fr) – members: 141
   • elections (last, next): fall 2014, fall 2016
   • events: SLPAT 2014, special session at Interspeech 2014, SLPAT 2015

19. SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

1. • web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
   • contacts: chair Stefan Evert (stefan.evert@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de), secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu) – members: 190
   • elections (last, next): July 2012; July 2015
   • events: WAC9 at EACL 2014, April 2014; WAC10 at eLex 2015, Aug. 2015.