2024Q3 Reports: SIGREP
Summary
SIGREP is the ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning. It seeks to promote research on representation learning in Natural Language Processing, specifically methods for inferring representations from data, as well as studying evaluation and transferability of representations, and organises the annual ACL workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (Repl4NLP).
Membership
Currently, SIGREP has 2000 members.
Board
SIGREP currently has the following officers:
- President: Elena Voita
- Secretary: Nora Kassner
In addition, there is a Senior Organising Committee (SOC), which is responsible for recruiting and selecting organising committee members for SIG events such as RepL4NLP, and advising them during the organisation of the event.
- Laura Rimell
- Edward Grefenstette
- Kyunghyun Cho
- Isabelle Augenstein
- Anna Rogers
The next SIGREP board election is due to take place in October 2024.
Repl4NLP 2024
The 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) was co-located with ACL 2024 and held on August 16 2024. The workshop is organised by:
- Chen Zhao
- Maximilian Mozes
- Marius Mosbach
- Pepa Atanasova
- Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrent
- Peter Hase
- Arian Hosseini
- Maha Elbayad
- Sandro Pezzelle
and advised by the SOC.
Keynote speakers were:
- Mor Geva, Tel Aviv University
- Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta
- Hassan Sajjad, Dalhousie University
- Edoardo Ponti, University of Edinburgh
More details on the workshop can be found under https://sites.google.com/view/repl4nlp2024
Website
The SIGREP website with all information about the SIG and co-located events can be found under http://www.sigrep.org/