2021Q3 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 1500 members.
Board
SIGREP currently has the following officers:
- President: Isabelle Augenstein
- Secretary: Anna Rogers
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
- Karl Moritz Hermann
- Chris Dyer
- Kyunghyun Cho
- Isabelle Augenstein
The next SIGREP board election is due to take place in October 2022.
Repl4NLP 2021
The 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) will be hosted by ACL 2021 and held on 5 August 2021. The workshop is being organised by:
- Anna Rogers
- Iacer Calixto
- Ivan Vulić
- Naomi Saphra
- Nora Kassner
- Oana-Maria Camburu
- Trapit Bansal
- Vered Shwartz
and advised by the SOC.
Keynote speakers will be:
- Kristina Toutanova, Google Research
- Ellie Pavlick, Brown University & Google
- Noah Smith, University of Washington & AI2
- Lena Voita, University of Edinburgh & University of Amsterdam
More details on the workshop can be found under https://sites.google.com/view/repl4nlp-2021/
Website
The SIGREP website with all information about the SIG and co-located events can be found under http://www.sigrep.org/