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Newsletter 2008

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128.250.34.121: New page: == 2008 ACL NEWSLETTER == ''The newsletter of the Association for Computational Linguistics'' Dear ACL members, Our annual conference, ACL-08:HLT (Human Language Technologies) is still ...

== 2008 ACL NEWSLETTER ==

''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@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.

'''1. Changes to the executive board (as of January 1, 2009)'''

Our former president, Bonnie Dorr, will stay on as past president
for a year. We welcome former vice-president Steven Bird to the
position of ACL president for 2009. Three new researchers will join the
ACL exec:

* Kevin Knight (ISI) - vice-president-elect
* Lori Levin (CMU) - member
* Giorgio Satta (U. Padua) - ex officio as chair of EACL

They replace Mark Steedman, Claire Cardie, and Alex Lascarides whose
terms ended. The exec wants to thank them for the tremendous amount of
attention that they devoted to ACL while on the exec.

'''2. ACL 2007'''

ACL 2007 was the largest ACL conference ever with almost 1,100
participants. It took place in beautiful Prague. The ACL exec wants to
thank Eva Hajicova, who was the local chair, and John Carroll, who was
general chair. We are also greateful to Annie Zaenen and Antal van den
Bosch for chairing the program committee as well as dozens of other
chairs and volunteers who made the conference a huge success. The LTA
award went to Lauri Karttunen for his long list of contributions to
Computational Linguistics. Earlier recipients of this great award
include Aravind Joshi (2002), Makoto Nagao (2003), Karen Sparck Jones
(2004), Martin Kay (2005), and Eva Hajicova (2006).

'''3. The 2008 Annual Conference'''

ACL-08:HLT will be held in Columbus, OH from June 15 to June 20,
2008. The list of accepted papers is shown here:
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/accepts.html Registration is now
open. Check this site for more information:
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/ The general chair is Kathy
McKeown. Local arrangements are by Chris Brew, Donna Byron, Eric
Fosler-Lussier, Detmar Meurers, Michael White, and DJ Hovermale
(webmaster). The program chairs are Johanna Moore, Simone Teufel,
James Allan, and Sadaoki Furui. The conference will include a
presentation by the ACL's seventh lifetime achievement award winner.

'''4. Additional conferences'''

Two additional conferences in NLP/CL are coming up. COLING 2008 is in
Manchester, UK (http://www.coling2008.org.uk/) in August and EMNLP
2008 (the conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing) is in Honolulu, HI
(http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp08/) in October. The deadline
for submissions to COLING has passed but the EMNLP deadline is still
open (July 3, 2008).

'''5. The ACL Anthology and the ACL Anthology Network (AAN)'''

Over the last year, the ACL Anthology has been migrated to its new
home on the ACL's own website http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/ . The
original site, hosted at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), now
redirects visitors to the new site. The ACL would like to express its
gratitude to the LDC for hosting the Anthology over the past 6 years.

Steven Bird has passed on the editorship of the ACL Anthology to
Min-Yen Kan, from the National University of Singapore. Steven
founded the anthology in 2001, and is stepping down as he takes on his
new role as vice-president. Steven invited Min-Yen to take on the
editorship, given Min-Yen's expertise in digital libraries, IR and
NLP, and his leadership in work on extracting plain text from the
anthology.

The ACL Anthology Network (www.aclweb.org/aan) is a new resource
that includes a manually curated database of all citations and
collaborations in the ACL Anthology as well as a number of statistics
generated from it.

'''6. The Web site'''

The membership web site http://www.aclweb.org/membership is open for
business. You can enroll using our secure server or use the
printable form. You can also decide to contribute to the Walker Fund
which ACL uses to sponsor student activities and travel to annual
conferences. Finally, you can order old proceedings from ACL and some
COLING conferences using the order form available on the site.

'''7. The Wiki'''

The ACL Wiki has grown a lot since it was inaugurated last year. It
currently includes (www.aclweb.org/aclwiki) 1984 pages and 221
articles on a variety of topics including "Competitions and
challenges", "State of the art", "Conference acceptance rates",
"Blogs", "Conference Chairs", etc.

'''8. NACLO 2008'''

The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) 2008
finished recently. 763 students from the US and Canada worked on hard
problems in linguistics and computational linguistics. The top 8 will
participate at the International Linguistics Olympiad in August. Check
www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu for more details as well as a copy of the
problems and their solutions. Canada participated for the first time
in 2008 and Australia will also participate for the first time later
this year.

'''9. The ACL video archive'''

The ACL video archive (www.aclweb.org/videoarchive) run by Chris
Biemann and Reinhard Rapp has made its debut. I hope that the
community will support this initiative and contribute to it.

'''10. Address changes'''

If your address changes, please write immediately to Priscilla
Rasmussen at acl@org.aclweb (unscramble me). And, please note that
the address of our ACL offices is now the following: ACL, 209
N. Eighth Street, Stroudsburg, PA 18360.

'''11. New mailing lists'''

Priscilla had to start using two new mechanisms for sending important
announcements to the ACL membership. The first mechanism is used for
conference announcements. Email comes from an address at aclweb.org
ACL members can opt out of that mailing list.
The second mechanism is used for the most important messages related
to ACL such as this newsletter, election notices, membership
reminders, etc. Email here comes from an address at umich.edu and is
signed by the ACL Webmaster, Ali Hakim.

'''12. Acknowledgments'''

Our archivist, Eric Fosler-Lussier did an amazing job of updating the
archives - please visit them here: http://www.aclweb.org/archive
The ACL webmaster, Ali Hakim has been very helpful with timely updates
to the ACL site.

''Drago''

ACL Secretary

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* [[2009Q1 Reports]]

== Instructions for 2009Q1 Reporting ==

* Please request a wiki account, find the link to the report on the 2009Q1 page, and start editing
* If your report includes contributions from others, they can edit the report directly or send contributions for you to collate
* Don't include sensitive information in the public report; instead please email any additional reports in plain text format to admin-2009 at aclweb.org

; 2009 Conference Reports:
:* The general chair of each 2009 conference is responsible for compiling the report; please include detailed sections for:
:* program chair: submission data; review process; workshops; tutorials; student workshop; demonstrations; publicity; publications
:* local chair: any changes to local arrangements; progress with finalizing room plan including satellite events; reception and banquet; website; on-site registration process; materials
:* sponsorship chair: local sponsorship; international sponsorship; comparison with budgetted sponsorship level

; Secretary Report:
:* elections for the exec; LTA
:* website, wiki, anthology
:* summary of resolutions from past year

== Past Reports ==

* [[2008Q3 Reports]]
* [[2008Q1 Reports]]

Reports

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* [[2009Q1 Reports]]

== Instructions for 2009Q1 Reporting ==

* Please request a wiki account, find the link to the report on the 2009Q1 page, and start editing
* If your report includes contributions from others, they can edit the report directly or send contributions for you to collate
* The general chair of each 2009 conference is responsible for compiling the report; please include detailed sections for:
** program chair: submission data; review process; workshops; tutorials; student workshop; demonstrations; publicity
** local chair: any changes to local arrangements; progress with finalizing room plan including satellite events; reception and banquet; website; on-site registration process; materials
** sponsorship chair: local sponsorship; international sponsorship; comparison with budgetted sponsorship level
* Don't include sensitive information in the public report; instead please email any additional reports in plain text format to admin-2009 at aclweb.org

== Past Reports ==

* [[2008Q3 Reports]]
* [[2008Q1 Reports]]