2023Q3 Reports: SIGGEN
ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN): 2022 Report
Summary
SIGGEN is the Special Interest group on Natural Language Generation, the study of systems and methods to generate text or speech from both non-linguistic and linguistic input.
Membership
Currently, SIGGEN has around 490 members.
Board
The current SIGGEN board, elected in December 2022, is:
- Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Chair (term expires in 2024)
- Chenghua Lin (University of Sheffield, UK), Secretary (term expires in 2026)
- David Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK), Treasurer (term expires in 2026)
- Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Member (term expires in 2024)
- Javier González Corbelle (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), student representative (term expires in 2024)
The next SIGGEN board election is due to take place in December 2024, and new board members will be elected to replace van Miltenburg, Hervás, and González Corbelle.
Activities
Since the period covered in the last report, SIGGEN has been responsible for the following events.
INLG 2022
The 14th INLG conference was held in Aberdeen, UK, on 15-18 December 2020 (https://www.inlg2020.org/). This was a fully online event, due to COVID restrictions.
Other Events
SIGGEN also endorsed and supported the following events:
- GEM 2021 workshop, held at ACL 2021 (https://gem-benchmark.com/workshop)
- SIGGEN webinar series
Upcoming events
INLG-2022 will take place in Waterville, Maiine, USA on 18-22 July 2022. It will be a hybrid conference.
SIGGEN is also sponsoring and supporting the GEM Workshop at EMNLP 2022.
In addition, the SIGGEN webinar series will continue through 2022.
Website
We hope to release a new website during summer 2022.