2017Q1 Reports: SIG Compliance

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Summary

  • There are 20 SIGs .
  • The up-to-date (January 2017) information for all but one SIG is provided below. Updates on SIG SEMITIC events and elections are still pending.
  • SIGMT have never had an election.


Information on Individual SIGs

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
  • elections (last, next): Sep. 2014, Sep. 2017
  • events: LAW VIII at COLING 2014, LAW IX at NAACL-HLT 2015, LAW X at ACL 2016

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: 112
  • elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016 (?)
  • events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2015, ACL 2016 and ACL 2017

SIGDAT: SIG for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP

  • web page: http://www.sigdat.org/
  • contacts: president Mark Steedman (steedman@inf.ed.ac.uk) vice president Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk) secretary Chris Callison-Burch
  • members: approx. 1000
  • elections (last, next): 2015, 2016
  • events: EMNLP Sep. 2015, EMNLP Oct. 2016 1

SIGdial: SIG on discourse and dialogue

  • web page: http://www.sigdial.org
  • contacts: president Amanda Stent (Amanda.Stent@gmail.com), vice president Jason Williams, secretary-treasurer Kristiina Jokinen (Kristiina.Jokinen@helsinki.fi)
  • members: 565
  • elections (last, next): Feb. 2015; Feb. 2017
  • events: annual conference Sep. 2015, annual conference Sep. 2016

SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing

  • web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM
  • contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de), secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
  • members: 102
  • elections (last, next): April 2016, autumn 2018
  • events: ACL workshop jointly with SIGMORPHON in 2014; FSMNLP June 2015; ACL workshop StatFSM in 2016; FSMNLP in 2017

SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation

  • web page: http://www.siggen.org
  • contacts: chair Claire Gardent (Claire.Gardent@loria.fr), secretary Albert Gatt (albert.gatt@um.edu.mt)
  • members: 389
  • elections (last, next): Dec 2014, end of 2016
  • events: ENLG 2015 (endorsed), Data2Text workshop 2015 (endorsed), WebNLG 2016 (endorsed), CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed)

SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language

  • web page: http://www.sighan.org
  • contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com) secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
  • members: 210
  • elections (last, next): April 2016, April 2018
  • events: CIPS-SIGHAN Oct. 2014, SIGHAN Workshop July 2015, CIP-SIGHAN Nov. 2016

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

  • web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
  • contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (csporled@coli.uni-sb.de), secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
  • members: 132
  • elections (last, next): Oct. 2015; Oct. 2017
  • events: LaTeCH 2014 at EACL, LaTeCH 2015 at ACL 2015

SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon – web page: http://www.siglex.org

  • contacts: president Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk)
  • members: 649
  • elections (last, next): Aug. 2013, June 2016
  • events: STARSEM 2015 (jointly with SIGSEM), co-located with NAACL 2015; MUMTTT 2015 (endorsed) at EUROPHRAS 2015

SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language

  • web page: http://www.molweb.org
  • contacts: president Makoto Kanazawa (kanazawa@nii.ac.jp), vice president Marco Kuhlmann (marco.kuhlmann@liu.se)
  • members: 282
  • elections (last, next): Feb. 2016, early year 2018
  • events: meeting on Mathematics of Language 2015, co-located with the 2015 Linguistic Institute at the University of Chicago

SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics

  • web page: http://sigmorphon.org/
  • contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu), secretary Greg Kondrak (gkondrak@ualberta.ca)
  • members: 150
  • elections (last, next): Feb. 2014, Feb. 2016
  • events: no event in 2015, next in 2016

SIGMT: SIG for machine translation

  • web page: http://www.sigmt.org
  • contacts: president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk), secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
  • members: 152
  • elections (last, next): none in the past; fall 2016
  • events: workshop on MT and workshop on SSST, each year

SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning

  • web page: http://www.signll.org
  • contacts: president Xavier Carreras (carreras@cs.upc.edu), secretary Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu)
  • members: 350
  • elections (last, next): June 2014, June 2016
  • events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2015 co-located with ACL-2015

SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing

  • web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼sigparse
  • contacts: president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De La Clergerie@inria.fr), secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
  • members: 219
  • elections (last, next): April 2016i, Jan. 2019
  • events: IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed), co-located with IWPT 2015; next IWPT 2017 3

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: 877
  • elections (last, next): Oct. 2013; 2016
  • events: STARSEM 2014; IWCS 2015; STARSEM 2015 (jointly with SIGLEX), co-located with NACL 2015

SIG SEMITIC: SIG on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (not fully updated)

  • web page: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/index.shtml
  • contacts: chair Mona Diab (mtdiab@gwu.edu), secretary Reut Tsarfaty (reut.tsarfaty@gmail.com)
  • members: 245
  • elections (last, next): Dec. 2014; 2016
  • events: shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages (SPMRL’13 co-located with EMNLP 2013)

SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic Natural Language Processing

  • web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
  • contacts: chair Jakub Piskorski (jpiskorski@googlemail.com) secretary Jan Snajder (jan.snajder@fer.hr) ˇ
  • members: 100
  • elections (last, next): first election end of 2016
  • events: BSNLP 2015

SIGSLPAT: SIG on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

  • web page: http://www.slpat.org
  • contacts: president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Fran¸cois Portet (francois.portet@imag.fr)
  • members: 141
  • elections (last, next): fall 2014, fall 2016
  • events: SLPAT15, SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016, RaPID 2016

SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages

  • web page: http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur
  • contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
  • members: 38
  • elections (last, next): Jan. 2016, winter 2017/8 (?)
  • events: IWCLUL, Jan. 2017

SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus

  • web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
  • contacts: Roland Sch¨afer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de) secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
  • members: 175
  • elections (last, next): July 2015; July 2018
  • events: WAC10 at eLex 2015, Aug. 2015 (cancelled); WAC-X at ACL 2016
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