2016Q3 Reports: SIGHUM

Summary

The ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM) is intended to provide a forum for CL researchers who are developing language technology for data from the socio-economic sciences or the humanities (SSH). It also functions as a contact point for SSH stakeholders.

Board

We solicited nominations for the new board in September/October 2015 via the SIGHUM mailing list. Since only one nomination was received for each of the positions, no elections were held. The new board started its work on January 1st, 2016.

* President: Caroline Sporleder (Göttingen University)

* Secretary: Kalliopi Zervanou (Utrecht University)

* Liaison officer: Michael Piotrowski (The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz)

We would like to thank the outgoing board members for their great work.

Membership

The most recent membership numbers are:

• 2012: 70

• 2013: 85

• 2014: 110

• 2015: 132

Activities

SIGHUM's flagship workshop, LaTeCH, will be held for the 10th time on August 11th, 2016 in Berlin, co-located with ACL 2016. The workshop co-chairs are Beatrice Alex (Edinburgh University), Nils Reiter (Stuttgart University) and Kalliopi Zervanou (Utrecht University). The 2016 edition received a record number of submissions. 48 papers were submitted in total (23 long papers, 25 short papers). After a thorough review process 21 papers were accepted for presentation, resulting in an acceptance rate of 44% (long: 47%, short: 40%).

The annual SIGHUM business meeting will be held during LaTeCH 2016.

LaTeCH 2016 Website: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2016/

LaTeCH 2016 Programme: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2016/programme/

Financial Report

SIGHUM currently doesn't have any financial resources.

Website

The SIGHUM website changed to: https://sighum.wordpress.com/

We are currently in the process of updating the website.