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Guidelines
List of SIGs
SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing
web page: http://www.sigarab.org/ contacts: president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb), Mona Diab treasurer (mdiab@andrew.cmu.edu) members: 841 elections (last,next): December 2022, December 2024 events: ArabicNLP 2024, ArabicNLP 2023, WANLP 2022, OSACT 2024, OSACT 2022, IWABigDAI 2022; ArabicNLP Scholar, OSACT Scholar, Arabic NLP Archives
SIGANN: SIG on annotation
web page: https://sigann.github.io/ contacts: president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de) members: 150 elections (last,next): Oct. 2021, 2024 events: LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;, LAW XIV at Coling 2020, LAW XV-DMR III at EMNLP 2021, LAW XVI at LREC 2022
SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing
web page: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED contacts: chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com), secretary Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com) members: 224 elections (last, next): June 2022, June 2025 events: Yearly BioNLP workshops
SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP
web page: http://emnlp.org/ contacts: president Mona Diab; Vice President: Isabelle Augenstein; Secretary: Chin-Yew Lin members: approx. 1200 elections (last, next): December 2023, December 2024 events: EMNLP every year
SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue
web page: http://www.sigdial.org contacts: president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se), secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org) members: 581 elections (last, next): March 2021, 2023 events: annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL
SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications
web page: https://sig-edu.org/ contacts: president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk) members: 240 elections (last,next): March 2021, March 2024 events: Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)
SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages
web page: https://acl-sigel.github.io/ contacts: president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com) members: 116 elections (first,next): January 2021, January 2025 events: ComputEL
SIGFSM: SIG on finite state methods and models in natural language processing
web page: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM contacts: president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@uni-leipzig.de), secretary Bruce Watson (bruce@bruce-watson.com) members: 131 elections (last, next): Summer 2020, Summer 2023 events: FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled), FSMNLP 2023 (Stellenbosch, South Africa, canceled)
SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation
web page: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN contacts: Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu), secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk), members: 490 elections (last, next): December 2022, December 2024 events: WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022
SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language
web page: http://sighan.ling.washington.edu contacts: chair Nianwen Xue (xuen@brandeis.edu), secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu) members: 210 elections (last, next): December 2022, December 2024 events: CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017
SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities
web page: https://sighum.wordpress.com/ contacts: president Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), secretary Lorella Viola (l.viola@vu.nl), liaison representative Craig Messner (cmessne4@jhu.edu) members: 471 elections (last, next): June 2024, June 2026 events: LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021, LaTeCH-CLfL 2022, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024.
SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon
web page: http://www.siglex.org contacts: president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com) members: 485 elections (last, next): September 2022, August 2024 events: Annual *SEM conference at NAACL 2024; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2024; Annual MWE workshop at LREC-COLING 2024; Additional past sponsored and endorsed events are listed on the SIGLEX page of the ACL Anthology
SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language
web page: http://www.molweb.org contacts: president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Thomas Graf (mail@thomasgraf.net), members: 333 elections (last, next): May 2024, mid 2025 events: MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)
SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics
web page: https://sigmorphon.github.io/ contacts: president Garett Nicolai (garrett.nicolai@ubc.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi) members: 175 elections (last, next): Feb 2023, Feb 2025 events: SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task, SIGMORPHON 2020, SIGMORPHON 2021, SIGMORPHON 2022, SIGMORPHON 2023, SIGMORPHON 2024
SIGMT: SIG on machine translation
web page: https://www.sigmt.org contacts: president Alexandra Birch (a.birch@ed.ac.uk), Secretary: Antonis Anastasopoulos, North America: Marine Carpuat, Europe: Ondrej Bojar, Asia: Masao Utiyama members: 180 elections (last): September 2021 events: WMT conference and SSST workshop each year
SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning
web page: http://www.signll.org contacts: president Omri Abend (omri.abend@mail.huji.ac.il), secretary Antske Fokkens (antske.fokkens@vu.nl) members: 380 elections (last, next): August 2018, August 2021 events: CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CoNLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021, CoNLL 2022 co-located with EMNLP 2022, CoNLL 2023 co-located with EMNLP 2023, CoNLL 2024 co-located with EMNLP 2024
SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing
web page: https://www.sigparse.org contacts: president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu), members: 266 elections (last, next): April 2019, April 2022 events:IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021
SIGREP: SIG on representation learning
web page: http://www.sigrep.org contacts: president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com), secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com) members: 2000 elections (last, next): October 2022, October 2024 events: Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023
SIGSEC: SIG on NLP security
web page: https://sig.llmsecurity.net contacts: President: Leon Derczynski ld@itu.dk, Secretary: Muhao Chen, Jekaterina Novikova members: 124 elections (last,next): -, 2024 events: fortnightly talks - https://sig.llmsecurity.net/talks/
SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics
web page: http://www.sigsem.org contacts: president Sina Zarrieß (Sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de), secretary Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (stergios.chatzikyriakidis@uoc.gr) members: 880 elections (last,next): summer 2021, 2025 events: IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021
SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing
web page: http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html contacts: chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si) secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa) members: 110 elections (first,last): Winter 2020, winter 2023 events: BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages, BSNLP 2020
SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies
web page: http://www.slpat.org contacts: president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk) elections (last, next): Fall 2020, Fall 2022 members: 160 events: SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022
SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation
web page: http://www.iwslt.org contacts: president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu) members: 144 elections (first,next): First Oct 2022, every 2 years events: IWSLT 2004-2023;
SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization
web page: https://www.sigsumm.org/ contacts: Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu members: 82 elections (first,next): first Aug. 2024; every 2 years events: NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023
SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages
web page: https://sigturk.com contacts: president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi) members: 136 elections (first,next): Founded in 2022, elections every year events: The First Workshop on Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2024);
SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology
web page: https://sigtyp.github.io/ contacts: president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com) members: 420 elections (first,next): tbc events: First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021, SIGTYP 2022 (NAACL 2022), SIGTYP 2023 (EACL 2023), SIGTYP 2024 (EACL 2024)
SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages
web page: https://acl-sigur.github.io/ contacts: chair Mika Hämäläinen (mika.hamalainen@metropolia.fi), secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com) members: 60 elections (last, next): 2023, 2025 events: IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2021, IWCLUL 2023
SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus
web page: http://www.sigwac.org.uk contacts: presidents: Nikola Ljubešić (nljubesi@gmail.com, Jožef Stefan Institute) and Benoît Sagot (benoit.sagot@inria.fr, INRIA); secretaries: Veronika Laippala (mavela@utu.fi, University of Turku) and Pedro Ortiz Suarez (pedro.ortiz@uni-mannheim.de, Mannheim University) members: 178 elections (last, next): January 2022, 2024 events: WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020
SIGWrit: SIG on writing systems and written language
web page:
contacts: president (pro-temp): Richard Sproat (rws@xoba.com); vice-president (pro-temp): Emily Prud’hommeaux (emilytucker@gmail.com); Secretary-Treasurer (pro-temp): Kyle Gorman (kylebgorman@gmail.com); Student-member (pro-temp): Noah Hermalin (nmhermalin@berkeley.edu)
members: 44 (indicated interest)
elections (last, next): -, January 2025
events: CAWL at ACL 2023