Please visit http://www.acl2008.org/ for all conference information and watch this site for updates as they become available.
Accommodations information can be found at: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/accommodation.html
This promises to be an exciting conference! We hope you will join us in Columbus!
Following the decision of the ACL Executive Committee, which was announced at the ACL Business Meeting this year in Portland, we are now happy to launch the TACL journal - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Greetings,
I am happy to announce that the ACL Executive Committee has approved the creation of an ACL Fellows program, which recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for the past three consecutive years and be nominated by a current ACL member.
I am happy to announce that two new ACL members will join the exec as of January 1, 2012:
They replace Ido Dagan (current past president) and Lori Levin (member). The ACL exec acknowledges Lori and Ido for their for the hard work they devoted to ACL during their terms.
A new way to purchase printed ACL proceedings is now available. Please visit http://www.proceedings.com/0306.html for more details.
The ACL Anthology Network is online and available at http://aan.eecs.umich.edu
The newsletter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Dear ACL members,
Our annual conference, ACL-08:HLT (Human Language Technologies) is still two months away so let me take the time in this newsletter to send you some updates about ACL. Please contact me at sekrettary [at] org.aclweb (spellcheck and unscramble before writing) by April 30 if you have any suggestions for interesting activities. I will bring them to the ACL exec for discussion.
The ACL Video Archive is a pilot program with the aims of making teaching materials freely available to facilitate scientific communication, and to document history and progress in our field. The initiative has been started in June 2007 at the ACL's 45th Annual Meeting in Prague, with the technical infrastructure currently being built up by volunteers. The archive is available at http://www.aclweb.org/videoarchive.
I am happy to announce that all votes in the ACL executive committee elections have been counted. The winners are...
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) - vice-president-elect
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) - treasurer
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore) - member
The ACL has created a new wiki specifically for Computational Linguistics: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki
The purpose of this wiki is to facilitate the sharing of information on all aspects of Computational Linguistics.