Call for Bids
ACL-IJCNLP 2015
53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language
Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Asian
Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) hereby invite proposals to
host the joint conference in the Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in
July or August 2015.
At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective
bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to
provide additional information for the final selection.
The ACL 2015 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the
ACL and representatives of AFNLP, will select the General Chair and
the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals
should identify a Local Arrangements Chair, who will work with the
General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed
plan and budget.
To facilitate conference organization, bidders may delegate many tasks
of their choice to a Professional Conference Organizer and/or to the
ACL Office (Priscilla Rasmussen). Handy bid guidelines, including
expense and task list templates and additional useful links are
provided at:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Bid_Guidelines . A recent
template for the local expenses is available here:
http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/ACL-conference-bid-template-Rev-2012062...
Bid Highlights: Draft proposals include information on the following:
- Location (accessibility; conference venue, e.g., hotel or
university; accommodation; dining options)
- Proposed dates. Religious and local national holidays should be
avoided, as much as possible.
- Local arrangements team (chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labor,
registration handling; describing any experience the team has had in
organizing previous conferences and the number of participants at
those conferences)
- Local Computational Linguistics community
- Meeting venues (space for sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters,
exhibits, demos, small meetings and registration)
- High-speed, all-ports-open, easy-to-use internet access
- Audiovisual equipment
- Catering, including breaks, receptions, banquet and entertainment
(traditionally, dancing for participants at the banquet)
- Local sponsorships
- Local expenses estimates spreadsheet (template provided, linked from
the Bid Guidelines)
Evaluation: Proposals will be evaluated according to the following
criteria (unordered):
- Experience of local arrangements team
- Local CL community support
- Local government and industry support
- Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site
- Suitability of proposed dates
- Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated
number of registrants
- Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of
price categories and close to the conference facilities
- Adequacy of expense projections
- Geographical balance with regard to ACL and IJCNLP meetings in the
Asia-Pacific region in the decade prior to 2015 (2006 Sydney, Australia;
2008 Hyderabad, India; 2009 Singapore; 2011 Chiang Mai, Thailand;
2012 Jeju, Korea; 2013 Nagoya, Japan)
Important Dates:
November, 2012 - Final Call for Bids
January 31, 2013 - Notify intention to submit proposal
March 15, 2013 - Draft proposals due
Through May 1, 2013 - Feedback to bidders
May 30, 2013 - Final bids due
July 1, 2013 - Bid selected
The selected location for ACL 2015 will be announced at the ACL 2013
conference (Sofia, August 4-9, 2013).
For any queries please contact Gertjan van Noord, the Coordinating
Committee chair. Please send notifications and draft proposals to:
Gertjan van Noord
Computational Linguistics
CLGG, University of Groningen
PO Box 716
NL 9700 AS Groningen
g.j.m.van.noord [at] rug.nl, gertjanvannoord [at] gmail.com