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2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2026-02-18T06:42:08Z

BarbaraPlank:

General Chair:
* Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
* Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen
* David Adelani, McGill University and Mila QuebecAI
* David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
* Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, UNAM Mexico

- GC and PC Co-Chairs joined mattermost.

- Submission of PCs to own conference: After EMNLP 2025 and ACL 2026 as exceptions, PCs should not submit to their own conference (issue was voted on in the ACL exec in 2025)

- Location & dates of ACL 2027 TBA at EACL 2026, or the latest at ACL 2026.

As VP in the last quarter of 2025 I worked on:

- Participation in the ACL Peer Review Committee. Handover to that role to 2026 VP Elect Luke Zettlemoyer, to have continuity of ACL Exec as presence in the review committee.

2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2026-02-16T18:48:26Z

BarbaraPlank:

2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2026-02-16T18:46:52Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "General Chair: * Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo Program Committee Co-Chairs: * Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen * David Adelani, McGill University and Mila QuebecAI * David Schlangen, University of Potsdam * Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, UNAM Mexico - GC and PC Co-Chairs joined mattermost. - Location & dates of ACL 2027 TBA at EACL 2026, or the latest at ACL 2026."

2026Q1 Reports

2026-02-16T18:41:39Z

BarbaraPlank:

* [[2026Q1 Reports: Office]] (Jenn Rachford)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Secretary]] (Yang Feng, Richard Johansson)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Associate Treasurer]] (Jonathan May)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA]] (Raffaella Bernardi)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific]] (Yuki Arase)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - America]] (Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: EACL]] (Preslav Nakov)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: NAACL]] (Anna Rumshisky)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: AACL]] (Xuanjing Huang)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2026]] (Chengqing Zong, Philipp Koehn)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2027]] (Barbara Plank)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2028]] (Luke Zettlemoyer)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2029]] (Jing Jiang)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] (Wei Lu)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: TACL Journal]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: PCC]] (Daniel Bikel, Donia Scott)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Joel Tetrault)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Luciana Benotti, Aurélie Névéol, Min-Yen Kan)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Workshop Officer]] (Zeerak Talat, Terra Blevins)

2026Q1 Reports

2026-02-16T18:40:08Z

BarbaraPlank: ACL mapping was wrong

* [[2026Q1 Reports: Office]] (Jenn Rachford)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Secretary]] (Yang Feng, Richard Johansson)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Associate Treasurer]] (Jonathan May)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA]] (Raffaella Bernardi)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific]] (Yuki Arase)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - America]] (Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: EACL]] (Preslav Nakov)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: NAACL]] (Anna Rumshisky)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: AACL]] (Xuanjing Huang)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2026]] (Philipp Koehn)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2027]] (Barbara Plank)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2028]] (Luke Zettlemoyer)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2029]] (Jing Jiang)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] (Wei Lu)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: TACL Journal]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: PCC]] (Daniel Bikel, Donia Scott)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Joel Tetrault)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Luciana Benotti, Aurélie Névéol, Min-Yen Kan)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)
* [[2026Q1 Reports: Workshop Officer]] (Zeerak Talat, Terra Blevins)

2025Q3 Reports: ACL 2027

2025-07-24T15:27:55Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "* ACL 2027: No updates at this point yet. Next up is to work on committee creation and venue with Jenn. * Member of the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee. * Member of ToT p..."

* ACL 2027: No updates at this point yet. Next up is to work on committee creation and venue with Jenn.

* Member of the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

* Member of ToT paper award selection for ACL 2025.

2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2025-02-10T19:10:50Z

BarbaraPlank:

As VP, I worked on the following:

- ACL 2027: Collected initial expressions of interest. Next up is to work on committee creation.

- Participation in the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee, particularly the move to five cycles.

2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2025-02-10T19:10:12Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "As VP, I worked on the following: - ACL 2027: Collected initial expressions of interest. Next up is to work on committee creation. - Participation in the ACL Peer Review Sta..."

As VP, I worked on the following:

- ACL 2027: Collected initial expressions of interest. Next up is to work on committee creation.

- Participation in the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee

2024Q3 Reports: ACL 2027

2024-08-10T09:13:00Z

BarbaraPlank:

- ACL 2027 will be in Asia Pacific. I will start the process after ACL2024, and put priority onto it in Q42024.

- In Q3, together with Yuki Arase, I served as a member of the ARR reviewing committee board to work on the improvement of ARR.

2024Q3 Reports: ACL 2027

2024-08-10T09:11:15Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "ACL 2027 will be in Asia Pacific. I will start the process after ACL2024, and put priority onto it in Q42024."

ACL 2027 will be in Asia Pacific.

I will start the process after ACL2024, and put priority onto it in Q42024.

2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2024-02-21T22:58:30Z

BarbaraPlank:

ACL 2027 will be held in Asia/Pacific. The coordinating committee will include members from both ACL and the AACL chapter.

The channel on the ACL slack has been set up for this.

I propose the following ACL 2027 Coordinating Committee, made up of X members of ACL and X members of AACL:

TBA soon

The plan is to have the call for bids ready for distribution after this year's ACL conference.

2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2027

2024-02-21T22:13:34Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "ACL 2027 will be held in Asia/Pacific. The coordinating committee will include members from both ACL and the AACL chapter. The mailing list acl27cc@aclweb.org has been set up..."

ACL 2027 will be held in Asia/Pacific. The coordinating committee will include members from both ACL and the AACL chapter.

The mailing list acl27cc@aclweb.org has been set up with Barbara Plank as owner.

I propose the following ACL 2027 Coordinating Committee, made up of X members of ACL and X members of AACL:

TBA soon

The plan is to have the call for bids ready for distribution after this year's ACL conference.

2022Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2022-07-15T17:37:18Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "0. At the end of 2022, the deputy director Sarvnaz Karimi will take over the director role after the 3-year term. A new deputy director has to be appointed. 1. Social media..."

0. At the end of 2022, the deputy director Sarvnaz Karimi will take over the director role after the 3-year term. A new deputy director has to be appointed.

1. Social media streamlining. No update. Persistent Twitter accounts are in place and in use, and we give *ACL conference publicity chairs access to the respective Twitter account via tweetdeck. For a status on followers, see point 3.

2. Handbook. Not much has happened in the handbook in the recent quarter.

3. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members. We continue to observe a steady increase in followers/members.

* Existing accounts:

* Twitter: @aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021),
* Weibo: (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/)
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
* LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/

Current follower/member status:

* July 15, 2022: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 13.6k), Facebook (685), LinkedIn members (1,285), Instagram (450).
* March 14, 2022: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 11.8k), Facebook (633), LinkedIn members (1,030), Instagram (454).
* July 8, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 9,336), Facebook (552), LinkedIn members (645), Instagram (449).
* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (LMU Munich, Germany and IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2022Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2022-03-14T07:08:36Z

BarbaraPlank: add course url

0. The publicity director's appointment has reached its 3rd and final year (we are appointed since July 2019).

1. Social media streamlining. No update. Persistent Twitter accounts are in place and in use, see point 6.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is planned to be presented at the business meeting at ACL 2022 in Dublin.

3. Handbook. We continuously do updates on the handbook, and invite new conference publicity chairs to contribute to it.

4. Workshop announcements. Last fall, we collected the list of accepted workshops from the workshop chairs and helped to publicize this information through social media channels. We recommend that future publicity director and deputy are in charge of publishing workshop announcements in collaboration with future *ACL workshop chairs, as not all conference chairs are appointed in fall or websites updated.

5. Two items are still on hold:
* a launch of an ACL blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed.
* The idea to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research to a broader audience (this was postponed due to preference for an on-site event). If interest exists and the exec approves, we could look into organizing a half day workshop co-located with ACL 2022, based on (a PhD course we did at ITU)[https://en.itu.dk/Research/PhD-Programme/PhD-Courses/PhD-courses-2021/PhD-Course---Communicating-State-of-the-art-NLP-Research-to-a-Broader-Audience] last fall where students wrote blog posts afterwards (we have a speaker who gave an invited guest lecture on "communicating NLP research to a broader audience" and would volunteer, tbc that she is available for next ACL or a later edition).

6. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members. We observe a steady increase in followers/members, except for Instagram (which is only used during on-site conferences and was active last time in 2019).

* Existing accounts:

* Twitter: @aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021),
* Weibo: (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/)
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
* LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/

Current follower/member status:

* March 14, 2022: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 11.8k), Facebook (633), LinkedIn members (1,030), Instagram (454).
* July 8, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 9,336), Facebook (552), LinkedIn members (645), Instagram (449).
* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2022Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2022-03-14T07:08:05Z

BarbaraPlank:

0. The publicity director's appointment has reached its 3rd and final year (we are appointed since July 2019).

1. Social media streamlining. No update. Persistent Twitter accounts are in place and in use, see point 6.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is planned to be presented at the business meeting at ACL 2022 in Dublin.

3. Handbook. We continuously do updates on the handbook, and invite new conference publicity chairs to contribute to it.

4. Workshop announcements. Last fall, we collected the list of accepted workshops from the workshop chairs and helped to publicize this information through social media channels. We recommend that future publicity director and deputy are in charge of publishing workshop announcements in collaboration with future *ACL workshop chairs, as not all conference chairs are appointed in fall or websites updated.

5. Two items are still on hold:
* a launch of an ACL blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed.
* The idea to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research to a broader audience (this was postponed due to preference for an on-site event). If interest exists and the exec approves, we could look into organizing a half day workshop co-located with ACL 2022, based on [a PhD course we did at ITU](https://en.itu.dk/Research/PhD-Programme/PhD-Courses/PhD-courses-2021/PhD-Course---Communicating-State-of-the-art-NLP-Research-to-a-Broader-Audience) last fall where students wrote blog posts afterwards (we have a speaker who gave an invited guest lecture on "communicating NLP research to a broader audience" and would volunteer, tbc that she is available for next ACL or a later edition).

6. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members. We observe a steady increase in followers/members, except for Instagram (which is only used during on-site conferences and was active last time in 2019).

* Existing accounts:

* Twitter: @aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021),
* Weibo: (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/)
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
* LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/

Current follower/member status:

* March 14, 2022: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 11.8k), Facebook (633), LinkedIn members (1,030), Instagram (454).
* July 8, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 9,336), Facebook (552), LinkedIn members (645), Instagram (449).
* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2022Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2022-03-14T07:07:20Z

BarbaraPlank: q1_2022 report

0. The publicity director's appointment has reached its 3rd and final year (we are appointed since July 2019).

1. Social media streamlining. No update. Persistent Twitter accounts are in place and in use, see point 6.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is planned to be presented at the business meeting at ACL 2022 in Dublin.

3. Handbook. We continuously do updates on the handbook, and invite new conference publicity chairs to contribute to it.

4. Workshop announcements. Last fall, we collected the list of accepted workshops from the workshop chairs and helped to publicize this information through social media channels. We recommend that future publicity director and deputy are in charge of publishing workshop announcements in collaboration with future *ACL workshop chairs, as not all conference chairs are appointed in fall or websites updated.

5. Two items are still on hold:
* a launch of an ACL blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed.
* The idea to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research to a broader audience (this was postponed due to preference for an on-site event). If interest exists and the exec approves, we could look into organizing a half day workshop co-located with ACL 2022, based on a PhD course we did at ITU last fall where students wrote blog posts afterwards (we have a speaker who gave an invited guest lecture on "communicating NLP research to a broader audience" and would volunteer, tbc that she is available for next ACL or a later edition).

6. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members. We observe a steady increase in followers/members, except for Instagram (which is only used during on-site conferences and was active last time in 2019).

* Existing accounts:

* Twitter: @aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021),
* Weibo: (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/)
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
* LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/

Current follower/member status:

* March 14, 2022: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 11.8k), Facebook (633), LinkedIn members (1,030), Instagram (454).
* July 8, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 9,336), Facebook (552), LinkedIn members (645), Instagram (449).
* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2021Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2021-07-08T07:01:16Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "1. Social media streamlining. No update. New persistent Twitter accounts for 2020/2021 are: EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting). 2. Survey on NLP groups and networ..."

1. Social media streamlining. No update. New persistent Twitter accounts for 2020/2021 are: EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting).

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks. We carried out a survey (Jan-April 2021) via ACL's office form, to collect information on local and national NLP groups and mailing lists. The result (122 respondants) will be presented at the business meeting and published in the publicity handbook.

3. Handbook. For the latest updates (timelines etc), see the [2021 Q1](https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director).

4. Workshop announcements. Workshops at *ACL conferences go through a joint call for proposal. As far as we know there was no process to streamline the announcement of all accepted workshops. Moreover, not all conference chairs may be recruited yet at the point when workshops are allocated, so e.g., websites might not be up-to-date yet (or even exist). To allow for an early overview of all accepted *ACL workshops, we collected the accepted workshops from all the corresponding workshop chairs and helped to publicize this information through email/social media channels.

We suggest that the future publicity director and deputy are in charge of publishing workshop announcements in collaboration with future *ACL workshop chairs.

5. Two items are still on hold: a launch of an ACL blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed. The organization of a workshop on publicity and how to present research at ACL (currently postponed due to preference for an on-site event).

6. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members. We observe a steady increase in followers/members, except for Instagram (which is only used during on-site conferences and was active last time in 2019).

* Existing accounts: - Twitter (@aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021), Weibo (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]

Current follower/member status:

* July 8, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 9,336), Facebook (552), LinkedIn members (645), Instagram (449).
* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2021Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2021-03-09T18:18:55Z

BarbaraPlank:

1. Social media streamlining. New persistent Twitter accounts for EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting) are in place.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is on-going (March 2021).

3. Continuously extending the handbook, with input from publicity chairs. We added a draft timeline. Suggested hashtags are now in uppercase, as suggested for better screen reader support.

We encourage using consistent hashtags as below, for example
* ACL announcements (e.g. election results): #NLProc and #ACLNLP (together)
* ACL Conference hashtag: #ACL<year>NLP (uppercase use started in Dec 2020)
* EACL: #EACL<year>
* NAACL: #NAACL<year>
* EMNLP: #EMNLP<year>
* AACL: #AACL<year>

4. Two items are currently on hold: We aimed a launch of the blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed. We plan to revisit this after the spring semester. In future, we would like to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research at ACL (currently postponed to next year, preference for on-site event).

5. There is a joint call for workshops in place, but as far as we know there is no process to streamline the announcement of all accepted workshops. We contacted all respective workshops chairs, gathered the list and disseminated it via our member email list and social media.

6. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members

* Existing accounts: - Twitter (@aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions], Weibo (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]

Current follower/member status:

* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).
* March 2, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 8,082), Facebook (438), LinkedIn members (474), Instagram (459).

Note: Instagram is only used during on-site conferences.

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2021Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2021-03-09T18:17:34Z

BarbaraPlank:

1. Social media streamlining. New persistent Twitter account for EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting) are in place.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is on-going (March 2021).

3. Continuously extending the handbook, with input from publicity chairs. We added a draft timeline. Suggested hashtags are now in uppercase, as suggested for better screen reader support.

We encourage using consistent hashtags as below, for example
* ACL announcements (e.g. election results): #NLProc and #ACLNLP (together)
* ACL Conference hashtag: #ACL<year>NLP (uppercase use started in Dec 2020)
* EACL: #EACL<year>
* NAACL: #NAACL<year>
* EMNLP: #EMNLP<year>
* AACL: #AACL<year>

4. Two items are currently on hold: We aimed a launch of the blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed. We plan to revisit this after the spring semester. In future, we would like to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research at ACL (currently postponed to next year, preference for on-site event).

5. There is a joint call for workshops in place, but as far as we know there is no process to streamline the announcement of all accepted workshops. We contacted all respective workshops chairs, gathered the list and disseminated it via our member email list and social media.

6. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members

* Existing accounts: - Twitter (@aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions], Weibo (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]

Current follower/member status:

* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).
* March 2, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 8,082), Facebook (438), LinkedIn members (474), Instagram (459).

Note: Instagram is only used during on-site conferences.

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2021Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2021-03-02T11:26:18Z

BarbaraPlank:

1. Social media streamlining. New persistent Twitter account for EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting) are in place.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is on-going (March 2021).

3. Continuously extending the handbook, with input from publicity chairs. We added a draft timeline. Suggested hashtags are now in uppercase, as suggested for better screen reader support.

We encourage using consistent hashtags as below, for example
* ACL announcements (e.g. election results): #NLProc and #ACLNLP (together)
* ACL Conference hashtag: #ACL<year>NLP (uppercase use started in Dec 2020)
* EACL: #EACL<year>
* NAACL: #NAACL<year>
* EMNLP: #EMNLP<year>
* AACL: #AACL<year>

4. Two items are currently on hold: We aimed a launch of the blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed. We plan to revisit this after the spring semester. In future, we would like to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research at ACL (currently postponed to next year, preference for on-site event).

5. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members

* Existing accounts: - Twitter (@aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions], Weibo (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]

Current follower/member status:

* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).
* March 2, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 8,082), Facebook (438), LinkedIn members (474), Instagram (459).

Note: Instagram is only used during on-site conferences.

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2021Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2021-03-02T08:37:45Z

BarbaraPlank:

1. Social media streamlining. New persistent Twitter account for EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting) are in place.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is on-going (March 2021).

3. Continuously extending the handbook, with input from publicity chairs. We added a draft timeline. Suggested hashtags are now in uppercase, as suggested for better screen reader support.

We encourage using consistent hashtags as below, for example
* ACL announcements (e.g. election results): #NLProc and #ACLNLP (together)
* ACL Conference hashtag: #ACL<year>NLP (uppercase use started in Dec 2020)
* EACL: #EACL<year>
* NAACL: #NAACL<year>
* EMNLP: #EMNLP<year>
* AACL: #AACL<year>

4. Two items are currently on hold: We aimed a launch of the blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed. We plan to revisit this after the spring semester. In future, we would like to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research at ACL (currently postponed to next year).

5. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members

* Existing accounts: - Twitter (@aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions], Weibo (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]

Current follower/member status:

* July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).
* March 2, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 8,082), Facebook (438), LinkedIn members (465), Instagram (459).

Note: Instagram is only used during on-site conferences.

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2021Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2021-03-02T08:35:40Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with " 1. Social media streamlining. New persistent Twitter account for EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting) are in place. 2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is on-goi..."

1. Social media streamlining. New persistent Twitter account for EMNLP (@emnlpmeeting) and AACL (@aaclmeeting) are in place.

2. Survey on NLP groups and networks is on-going (March 2021).

3. Continuously extending the handbook, with input from publicity chairs. We added a draft timeline. Suggested hashtags are now in uppercase, as suggested for better screen reader support.

We encourage using consistent hashtags as below, for example
ACL announcements (e.g. election results): #NLProc and #ACLNLP (together)
ACL Conference hashtag: #ACL<year>NLP (uppercase use started in Dec 2020)
EACL: #EACL<year>
NAACL: #NAACL<year>
EMNLP: #EMNLP<year>
AACL: #AACL<year>

4. Two items are currently on hold: We aimed a launch of the blog post together with the new ACL website; this is delayed. We plan to revisit this after the spring semester. In future, we would like to organize a workshop on publicity and how to present research at ACL (currently postponed to next year).

5. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members

Existing accounts: - Twitter (@aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions], Weibo (https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020):

July 3, 2020: Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).
March 2, 20201: Twitter (8,082), Facebook (438), LinkedIn members (465), Instagram (459).

Note: Instagram is only used during on-site conferences.

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-16T10:42:26Z

BarbaraPlank: rm draft flag, SK ok

* Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.

2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year, which includes the planned blog posts on the new ACL portal page. Moreover, we are working on a survey to collect NLP group information.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:45:15Z

BarbaraPlank:

[STATUS: draft]

* Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.

2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year, which includes the planned blog posts on the new ACL portal page. Moreover, we are working on a survey to collect NLP group information.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:42:28Z

BarbaraPlank:

[STATUS: draft]

* Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.

2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year. Moreover, we are working on a survey to collect NLP group information.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:42:14Z

BarbaraPlank:

[STATUS: draft]

* Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.

2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year. Moreover, we are working on a survey to collect NLP group information around the globe.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:40:03Z

BarbaraPlank:

[STATUS: draft]

* Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.

2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:39:50Z

BarbaraPlank:

* Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.

2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and deputy Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy)

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:38:10Z

BarbaraPlank: /* Overview of Social Media presence and number of members = */

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ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy). Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.
2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ===

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:38:00Z

BarbaraPlank: /* Overview of Social Media presence and number of members = */

[
ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy). Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.
2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ====

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting*, @emnlpmeeting*) [* not yet in use, planned for future editions]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

2020Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-07-14T18:37:04Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "[ ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy). Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https..."

[
ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, director) and Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia, deputy). Aim (see 2020-Q1 report)[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director]

1. Continued working on social media streamlining including new presence in Asia. Twitter: besides @aclmeeting, we have now new persistent accounts for @eaclmeeting and @naaclmeeting.
2. With the initiative and help from the ACL 2020 publicity chairs (Emily Bender, Esther Seyffarth) a third publicity co-chair was recruited and set up a Weibo account to strengthen our reach to China. This account was set up by Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) who also volunteerd to keep this presence up beyond ACL 2020. A big thanks to all ACL 2020 publicity chairs

3. Renamed the Instagram account to "aclmeeting" (from "aclnlp") to align it with the Twitter handle. As ACL 2020 was online due to the pandemic and Instagram is mostly active only during an ACL meeting, it was decided to not use it during this years' conference.

4. We are continuing to work on the handbook and publicizing efforts in the coming year.

=== Overview of Social Media presence and number of members ====

Existing accounts:
- Twitter (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting)
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting
- (LinkedIn group)[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/]
- (Weibo)[] (new since ACL 2020)

Current follower/member status (as of 14 July 2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (332, +143), LinkedIn members (278, +71), Instagram (485).

2020Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-06-15T19:09:11Z

BarbaraPlank: fix typo

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)

=== Aim ===
The aim of the new role is to take the lead on developing a publicity strategy for the ACL, including a social media strategy and publicizing ACL members' research and accomplishments.

=== Social media streamlining ===
* Twitter: @aclmeeting is the new permanent Twitter account for ACL conferences and announcements by the organization. Reasons: (1) to avoid creating a new account each year which requires to acquire new followers annually; and (2) transferring of the credentials is now centralized.
* Facebook: An ACL facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting] is created with each ACL conference being added annually as an event.
* LinkedIn: We created a LinkedIn group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/) as a moderated group to allow for the members to post news or job advertisements related to the NLP community.
* Instagram: (aclnlp)[https://www.instagram.com/aclnlp/] - Existing Instagram page, collected credentials.
* Strategy for hashtags - We encourage the use of consistent hashtags as below:
* ACL organization announcements (e.g., elections): #NLProc and #aclnlp (together)
* ACL conference hashtag: #acl<year>nlp, e.g., #acl2020nlp
* #NLProc for any other NLP-related announcements

Current follower/member status (as of 29-02-2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (189), LinkedIn members (201), Instagram (485).

=== Handbook for Publicity chairs ===

We are providing an updated handbook to the publicity chairs and PCs that outlines information that may be useful to choose publicity chairs as well as outlets to disseminate the information and an outline of their responsibilities.

=== Publicize Members' research ===

Planned work for the coming year: set up a channel to highlight ACL members' research and accomplishments (in collaboration with the Information Officer)

2020Q1 Reports: Publicity Director

2020-02-29T20:07:31Z

BarbaraPlank: report

ACL Publicity Director report by Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)

=== Aim ===
The aim of the new role is to take the lead on developing a publicity strategy for the ACL, including a social media strategy and publicizing ACL members' research and accomplishments.

=== Social media streamlining ===
* Twitter: @aclmeeting is the new permanent Twitter account for ACL conferences and announcements by the organization. Reasons: (1) to avoid creating a new account each year which requires to acquire new followers annually; and (2) transferring of the credentials is now centralized.
* Facebook: An ACL facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting] is created with each ACL conference being added annually as an event.
* LinkedIn: We created a LinkedIn group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/) as a moderated group to allow for the members to post news or job advertisements related to the NLP community.
* Instagram: (aclnlp)[https://www.instagram.com/aclnlp/] - Existing Instagram page, collected credentials.
* Strategy for hashtags - We encourage the use of consistent hashtags as below:
* ACL organization annoucements (e.g., elections): #NLProc and #aclnlp (together)
* ACL conference hashtag: #acl<year>nlp, e.g., #acl2020nlp
* #NLProc for any other NLP-related announcements

Current follower/member status (as of 29-02-2020): Twitter (4,305), Facebook (189), LinkedIn members (201), Instagram (485).

=== Handbook for Publicity chairs ===

We are providing an updated handbook to the publicity chairs and PCs that outlines information that may be useful to choose publicity chairs as well as outlets to disseminate the information and an outline of their responsibilities.

=== Publicize Members' research ===

Planned work for the coming year: set up a channel to highlight ACL members' research and accomplishments (in collaboration with the Information Officer)

2019Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs

2019-07-27T07:25:05Z

BarbaraPlank: added suggestions and observations

Workshop co-chairs:
* Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen)
* Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research & University College London)

We accepted 59 workshops out of 84 workshop proposal submission through the process of a joint cross-conference NLP workshops call, which for 2019 was shared between ACL, NAACL and EMNLP ([Link to CFP email announcement](https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/first-joint-call-workshop-proposals-acl-emnlp-ijcnlp-naacl-2019)). Workshop proposals were accompanied with the organizers' top two venue preferences. Submissions and reviews were coordinated through START, and reviewed and discussed by a joint cross-conference committee including the workshop chairs of all three conferences, including the two of us, plus Smaranda Muresan, Swapna Somasundaran and Elena Volodina (NAACL), Vera Demberg and Naoaki Okazaki (EMNLP). We largely followed the COLING model, for which there is [a blog post](https://coling2018.org/workshop-review-process-for-acl-coling-emnlp-and-naacl-2018/) describing more of this process (except that the reviewer load was higher due to the larger number of submissions, roughly 24 proposals/reviewer). During the joint selection process, we tried to allocate accepted workshops to their first or second choice of venue, however, this was impossible due to the overwhelming preference for ACL this year. Of the 84 submissions, 74% had ACL as their first choice, and 14% as second choice. The ACL workshops were assigned to the two days based on room availability, projected registrations, and in limited cases to maintain topical balance.
The Student Research Workshop, WMT, CoNLL, *SEM, SemEval and Widening NLP were "pre-admitted" workshops (or co-located events in case of WMT) which submitted a proposal, but were not reviewed through any of this process.
In general for the organization and coordination process, we followed the excellent [workshop chairs duties guide](https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Workshop_chair_duties). We would like to emphasize that we followed earlier recommendations and underline the importance of a "master file" shared coordination spreadsheet with up-to-date information about all the workshops, including organizers' email address, workshop URLs, and later in the process, proceedings URLs, ISBNs, poster scheduling and layout details, and possibly other one-off information such as organizers' requests for name changes, adding new organizer contacts, and other matters.

Points for discussion and suggestions:
* Reviewing: We followed the 2018 model (where 9 workshop chairs reviewed on average 15 proposals). Given the increased number of submissions (84 vs 58 in 2018) which seems to follow the general growing trend of *ACL conferences, this current model is unlikely to be sustainable in the future. In particular, we were 7 workshop chairs (as there were 3 conferences in 2019 vs 4 in 2018, including COLING) which amounted to 24 proposals per reviewer (with 2 reviews/proposal). The final decision and venue allocation required care and amounted to several online calls between all 7 chairs. We would like to propose to increase the number of workshop chairs per conference to at least 3 each, which helps both the reviewing process and to split up workshop chair duties. An alternative is to establish a PC for workshop proposals reviewal and solicit 3 reviews/proposal.
* Communication regarding schedule for handbook etc: Access to schedule information for the conference handbook, website etc can be retrieved from the order files in Softconf. However, we no longer had access to the individual Softconf pages to retrieve the latest information (and only some workshops mailed their program when their proceedings were due). We initially asked Softconf for full admin access to START to create all workshop START pages and this access was revoked in December on purpose. It might be worth to establish a dedicated workshop schedule co-chair that interacts with all workshop organizers, handbook chairs and publication chairs and keeps track of all last minute changes regarding the schedule. Moreover, we would encourage to go digital for the handbook in future.

The workshops and co-located events at ACL 2019 are:
* Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019)
* BioNLP 2019
* TyP-NLP: The Workshop on Typology for Polyglot NLP
* The Second BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP at ACL 2019
* 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
* The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
* 6th Workshop on Argument Mining
* The 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)
* 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019)
* The Sixteenth SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
* NLP for Conversational AI
* The Thirteenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII)
* Deep Learning & Formal Languages: Building Bridges
* Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing
* The 7th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing
* Widening NLP 2019
* The Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online
* Second Workshop on Storytelling (StoryNLP)
* The First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR)
* 4th Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health (#SMM4H) Research and Applications
* Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19)

2019Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs

2019-07-20T18:06:26Z

BarbaraPlank:

2019Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs

2019-07-20T18:04:42Z

BarbaraPlank: Created page with "Workshop co-chairs: * Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen) * Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research & University College London) We accepted 59 workshops out of 84 wor..."