The ACL Internet site (http://www.aclweb.org)
Dragomir R. Radev

INTRODUCTION

o   The ACL Web site is getting significantly more popular. From
    September 20, 2000 to June 24, 2001, the top-level page has been
    accessed 190,606 times. That is an average of 686 hits (accesses)
    per day (or an increase of 107.2% over the previous year).


NEW ACTIVITIES

o   NAACL registration was held electronically (Robert Frederking)
    http://www.naacl.org

o   A new online election will be held at ACL'2001.
 
CONTINUING FEATURES

o   The ACL NLP/CL Universe, the catalog of Web-based NLP/CL resources, has
    grown at a steady rate. Since last year there has been an 3.3%
    increase in the number of pointers, bringing their total from 2206
    to 2279. There are now 323 personal pages, 524 pointers to various
    resources (corpora, software, etc.), 327 academic or industrial labs,
    departments, and institutes, 65 professional organizations, etc. 

o   The mailing list acl-news is used to announce new additions to the
    NLP/CL Universe. Currently, the list includes 527 subscribers. The
    list is posted automatically to the only NLP-related newsgroup on
    Usenet - comp.ai.nat-lang.  

o   The unofficial Natural Language Processing FAQ (list of Frequently
    Asked Questions and Answers) is still available through the ACL page.
    Volunteers are sought to contribute to the list. 


ANNOUNCEMENTS

o   ACL members should make an attempt to announce all events,
    resources, or personal and lab pages to the aclweb.org site using
    the on-line URL submission mechanism.

Please feel free to send me mail with suggestions or comments
(radev@umich.edu)