2016Q3 Reports: SIGGEN
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ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN)
Report 2016
Summary
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both nonlinguistic and linguistic input.
Membership
Currently, SIGGEN has around 389 members.
Board
An election was held in December 2014 for three positions on the SIGGEN board. The members elected in 2014 are the following:
- Claire Gardent (CNRS and Lorraine University, Nancy), Chair
- Albert Gatt (University of Malta), Secretary
- Xiao Li (University of Aberdeen, UK), student representative
In addition, there are the following serving members, whose term of elected office started on January 1, 2013:
- Barbara di Eugenio (University of Illinois at Chicago), Treasurer
- Verena Rieser (HeriotWatt University, Edinburgh), Member at large
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2016.
Activities
Since the period covered in the last report for 2015, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.