2023Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

Membership

SIGLEX currently has 450 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 352 members, and SemEval with 309 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.

Events

SIGLEX organizes three yearly events:

*SEM 2023: The 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada and will take place on 13-14 July 2023. It was organized by general chair Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and program chairs Jose Camacho-Collados and Alexis Palmer. The conference received 95 submissions, will feature 45 talks and posters, and will host keynotes by Jessy Li, Hinrich Schütze and Danushka Bollegala.

SemEval 2023: The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada and will take place on 13-14 July 2023. It was organized by Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi and Ritesh Kumar. The evaluation included 12 tasks with 269 participating teams, and the workshop will feature 20 talks and 302 posters and host keynotes by Jessy Li and Siva Reddy.

MWE 2023: The 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions was co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and took place on 6 May 2023. It was organized by program chairs Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Shiva Taslimipoor, and Lifeng Han. The workshop received 21 submissions, featured 9 talks and 5 posters, and hosted keynotes by Leo Wanner, Asma Ben Abacha, and Goran Nenadic.

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.