Special Interest Groups
ACL has a large number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), focusing on specific areas of natural language processing. Some current SIGs within ACL are:
- Linguistic Annotation: SIGANN
- SIGBIOMED
- Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches: SIGDAT
- Dialogue Processing: SIGDIAL
- SIGFSM
- Natural Language Generation: SIGGEN
- Chinese Language Processing: SIGHAN
- Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities: SIGHUM
- Lexicon: SIGLEX (SIGLEX is the umbrella organization for the SemEval semantic evaluations and SENSEVAL word-sense evaluation exercises.)
- Mathematics of Language: SIGMOL
- Machine Translation: SIGMT
- Natural Language Learning: SIGNLL
- Natural Language Parsing: SIGPARSE
- Computational Morphology and Phonology: SIGMORPHON
- Computational Semantics: SIGSEM
- Speech & Language Processing for Assistive Technologies: SIGSLPAT
- Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: SEMITIC
- Web as Corpus SIGWAC
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