ACL Secretary report


                            Dragomir Radev
                           radev@umich.edu


A number of new policies were adopted, including a policy to add IR 
and Speech papers to the ACL conference and to include short papers 
not unlike the NAACL HLT conferences. 


A call for new initiatives was sent to the membership. A number of 
interesting proposals have come through. The deadline is June 4. 


A newsletter was sent out in the Winter. 


Priscilla's pay raise was discussed and approved. 


The ACL handbooks and related materials were moved from Delaware to 
the ACL web site.


The Webmaster, Ali Hakim, reorganized a number of sections of the 
site, including policies and conference organization. 


A Wiki for ACL was created at the initiative of Peter Turney. Ali 
Hakim helped set it up.


Minutes from the most recent executive meetings (Sydney 2006 and 
Winter phone conference 2007) were distributed to the exec. 


The Lifetime achievement award winner for 2007 was picked and invited 
to attend ACL 2007 to receive the award.


The archives of the ACL were reorganized and updated, thanks to the 
archivist, Eric Fosler-Lussier. 


An initiative to organize all ACL resolutions on the web was started. 
This will be a time consuming endeavor.