2018Q1 Reports: NAACL

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Report from NAACL, February 2018

Julia Hockenmaier (Chapter board chair), Emily M. Bender (Past Chapter board chair)

Executive Committee Meetings

The board had a meeting at ACL on July 31, 2017. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.

Treasurer's Report

The NAACL Chapter's bank account held $88,797.07 as of December 31, 2017. In 2017, our expenditures totaled $28k and were comprised of outlays of $5k to NACLO, two Emerging Regions Fund awards at $1.5k apiece ($3k),​ ​and$10k for the JSALT Summer School. ​ ​NAACL 2016 in San Diego was a successful conference: it resulted in a surplus of $29k. At the same time, NAACL 2015 incurred a loss of $36​k which has not been factored into the balance.​ ​To put these numbers in perspective, our bank account last year held​ ​just over $73k with similar outlays, and ​f​​our​ years ago we carried a $41k balance.

NAACL Officers as of today

 Chair         Julia Hockenmaier   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Secretary     Colin Cherry        National Research Council Canada
 Treasurer     Joel Tetreault      Grammarly
 Past Chair    Emily M. Bender     University of Washington 
 
 Board Members:
 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe                      The Ohio State University
 Philip Resnik	                                  University of Maryland
 Ellen Riloff	                                  University of Utah
 Marilyn Walker                                   University of California Santa Cruz
 Luke Zettlemoyer                                 University of Washington/Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
 David Yarowsky (ex-officio, ACL representative)  Johns Hopkins University

NAACL Issues Under Discussion

[ TO BE ADDED]


North America Conference in 2018

NAACL 2018 will take place June 1--June 6 2019 in New Orleans. Marilyn Walker (UC Santa Cruz) is the General Chair. Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Amanda Stent (Bloomberg) are the Program Chairs.