About the ACL

The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people
working on problems involving natural language and computation. Membership includes the ACL quarterly journal, title="Computational Linguistics" target="_blank" href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli">
Computational Linguistics, reduced registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, discounts on
ACL-sponsored publications, and participation in ACL Special Interest Groups.

ACL Exec 2012

The ACL
journal, Computational Linguistics, continues to be the primary forum for research on computational linguistics and
natural language processing. Since 1988, the journal has been published for the ACL by title="MIT Press"
href="http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/">MIT
Press to provide a broader distributional base. title="More about the journal (submission and review forms)"
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about the journal (submission and review forms) .

An annual meeting is held each summer in
locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out.

Regional associations related to the ACL include:

  • EACL : The European Chapter of the ACL
  • NAACL : The North American Chapter of the ACL
  • AACL : The Asia Pacific Chapter of the ACL

Your Current Executive
committee is:

Past-President (2013)
Ken Church
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
USA

President (2013)
Haifeng Wang
Baidu, Inc.
China

Vice-President (2013)
Gertjan van Noord
University of Groningen
the Netherlands

Vice-President-elect (2013)
Chris Manning
Stanford University
USA

Treasurer (2013-2017)
Graeme Hirst
Computer Science
University of Toronto
Canada

Secretary (2011-2015)
Dragomir R. Radev
University of Michigan
USA
secretary [at] org.aclweb (unscramble me)

NAACL chair (ex officio)
Chris Callison-Burch
Computer Science Department
Johns Hopkins University
USA

EACL chair (ex officio)
Stephen Clark
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom



AACL Chair (2018-2020)
Haifeng Wang
Baidu
China


At-large (2011-2013)
Renata Vieira
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil

At-large (2012-2014)
Jian Su
Institute for Infocomm Research
Singapore

At-large (2013-2015)
Min Yen Kan
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Journal editor (ex officio)
Robert Dale
Macquarie University
Australia

Business Manager
Priscilla Rasmussen
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
acl [at] org.aclweb (unscramble me)
 
Nominating Committee

Ido Dagan (2011-2013)
Department of Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University
Israel

Kevin Knight (2012-2014)
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
USA

Past-President (2013-2015)
Ken Church
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
USA