2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

Membership

SIGLEX currently has 496 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 384 members, and SemEval with 340 members.

Officers

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Fall 2024:

President: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA

Secretary: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Vice-President Elect: Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Vice-Secretary Elect: Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, UK

MWE section representative: Voula Giouli, ATHENA Research Centre

SemEval section representative: Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University, USA

Note: The Vice-President Elect and the Vice-Secretary Elect will automatically become the President and the Secretary of the following SIGLEX board that will start in Fall 2024, and thus these positions require a four-year commitment.

Elections

A new SIGLEX election will be held to elect the board for the Fall 2024 - Summer 2026 term. A call for nominations began on 11 Mar 2024 and closed on 1 May 2024. The election is expected to begin around 1 Jul 2024. Ivan Vulić announced that he would be stepping down, so in addition to the regular four positions (Vice-President Elect, Vice-Secretary Elect, MWE section representative, SemEval section representative), the election will additionally include a 2-year Secretary position.

Events

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

*SEM 2024: The 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by general chair Jose Camacho-Collados and program chairs Danushka Bollegala and Vered Shwartz. The conference received 65 submissions (6 from ARR and 59 direct), featured 35 talks and posters, hosted keynotes by Heng Ji and Greg Durrett, and had a panel discussion about "The Role of Semantics in the Age of LLMs" with Greg Durrett, Aline Villavicencio, Nanyun (Violet) Peng, and Yi Ren Fung.

SemEval 2024: The 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation was co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and took place on 20-21 June 2024. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Sara Rosenthal, and Aiala Rosá. The evaluation included XX tasks with XX participating teams, and the workshop featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

MWE 2024: The Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by XX. The workshop received XX submissions, featured XX talks and XX posters, and hosted keynotes by XX.

Websites and Mailing Lists

The SIGLEX website is backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard.

The website of the MWE section of SIGLEX is backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The MWE mailing lists are backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The website and the mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Voula Giouli.

The website of the SemEval section of SIGLEX and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com, are managed by the SemEval organizers.