Guidelines
ACL SIG Creation Guidelines
List of SIGs
SIGANN: SIG on 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: 250
elections (last,next): Sep. 2017, 2019
events: LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;
SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing
web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
contacts: chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
members: 112
elections (last, next): June 2016, June-July 2019
events: BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019
SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
web page: http://emnlp.org/
contacts: president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
members: approx. 1200
elections (last, next): December 2019, December 2020
events: EMNLP every year
SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue
web page: http://www.sigdial.org
contacts: president Jason Williams (jdw@alumni.princeton.edu),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
members: 594
elections (last, next): March 2017, 2019
events: annual conference SIGDIAL at Interspeech 2016, co-located with SemDial at Interspeech 2017, at ACL 2018, at Interspeech 2019; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL
SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications
web page: https://sig-edu.org/
contacts: president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
members: 164
elections (last,next): March 2018, March 2021
events: Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019
SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages
web page: tbc
contacts: president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
members: 42
elections (first,next): tbc
events: ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019
SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing
web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
members: 106
elections (last, next): Autumn 2016, 2019
events: FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
contacts: chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
members: 419
elections (last, next): December 2018, December 2020
events: WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019
SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
web page: http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
contacts: chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
members: 210
elections (last, next): April 2018, 2020
events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017
SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
contacts: president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
members: 168
elections (last, next): October 2015, pending
events: LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019
SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
web page: http://www.siglex.org
contacts: president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
members: 852
elections (last, next): June 2016, 2019 or 2020
events: Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)
SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
web page: http://www.molweb.org
contacts: president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
members: 282
elections (last, next): Feb 2016, 2020
events: MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University
SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics
web page: https://sigmorphon.github.io/
contacts: president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
members: 145
elections (last, next): Feb 2019, Feb 2021
events: SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task
SIGMT: SIG on 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): none in the past
events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year
SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning
web page: http://www.signll.org
contacts: president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
members: 380
elections (last, next): August 2016, pending
events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019
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: 256
elections (last, next): April 2016, 2019
events:IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed)
SIGREP: SIG on representation learning
web page: http://www.sigrep.org
contacts: president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
members: 28
elections (last, next): October 2018, October 2021
events: Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019
SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
web page: http://www.sigsem.org
contacts: president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
members: 878
elections (last,next): July 2017, Summer 2020
events: IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019
SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing
web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
contacts: chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
members: 110
elections (first,last): Winter 2017, 2020
events: BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages
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 Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
elections (last, next): Fall 2018, Fall 2020
members: 150
events: SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;
SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology
web page: tbc
contacts: president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
members: 68
elections (first,next): tbc
events: Typ-NLP workshop on Typology for Polyglot NLP at ACL 2019;
SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages
web page: https://acl-sigur.github.io/
contacts: chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
members: 57
elections (last, next): Jan. 2018, 2020
events: IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020
SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus
web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk
contacts: Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
members: 178
elections (last, next): November 2018, 2021
events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017