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2021Q3 Reports: NAACL

2021-07-26T14:58:54Z

Colin A Cherry:

__NOTOC__
== Activities ==
* The Regional Americas Fund issued awards to three projects for 2022:
** Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
*** NLP textbook in/for Brazilian Portuguese (“Delas para PLN”)
*** Coordinated effort of 80 Brazilian women in NLP
*** Shaped by previous NAACL funding (R.A.F. & WiNLP grants, project initiated WiNLP 2020)
** Francis Tyers, Indiana University, USA
*** Stipends for 8 speakers of different indigenous languages of Mexico & Guatemala to attend a tutorial on morphosyntactic annotation at Conference on Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi) in Chiapas Nov 2021
** Evandro L. T. P. Cunha, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
*** Development of three online Computational Linguistics courses in Portuguese
*** Follow-up to 2020 ERF/RAF grant

* NAACL Board discussion of regional pricing for virtual NAACL conferences.
** Decision: no regional pricing this year, instead make D&I grants easy for presenters.

== NAACL 2021 Conference ==
* NAACL 2021, originally intended for Mexico City, was hosted virtually from June 6–11, 2021.
* Business meeting had a healthy debate about proper handling of ethics review, which continued into our annual board meeting. I recommend reading the Conference blog posts on the topic:
** https://2021.naacl.org/blog/ethics-review-process/
** https://2021.naacl.org/downloads/pc-ethics-takeaway.pdf
** https://2021.naacl.org/blog/ethics-review-process-report-back/

== NAACL 2022 Conference ==
* The board finished appointing Program Chairs for NAACL 2022, to be hosted in Seattle, July 10 - 15, 2022.
** General Chair: Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
** Program Chairs:
*** Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)
*** Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (The Ohio State University, USA)
*** Ivan Vladimir Meza-Ruiz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

* Dan Roth has submitted a proposal to the ACL and NAACL boards regarding changes to the ACL Publication Process.

* As a new procedure for NAACL 2022, the NAACL board and the NAACL 2022 organizing committee issued an open call for D&I Committee members.

== NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020 ==
* Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
* Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
* Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Board Members:
** Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
** Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
** Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)
** Luciana Benotti (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
** Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* North American Sponsorship chairs:
** Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
** Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

2021Q3 Reports: NAACL

2021-07-26T14:54:13Z

Colin A Cherry: Created page with "__NOTOC__ == Activities == * The Regional Americas Fund issued awards to three projects for 2022: ** Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil *** N..."

__NOTOC__
== Activities ==
* The Regional Americas Fund issued awards to three projects for 2022:
** Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
*** NLP textbook in/for Brazilian Portuguese (“Delas para PLN”)
*** Coordinated effort of 80 Brazilian women in NLP
*** Shaped by previous NAACL funding (R.A.F. & WiNLP grants, project initiated WiNLP 2020)
** Francis Tyers, Indiana University, USA
*** Stipends for 8 speakers of different indigenous languages of Mexico & Guatemala to attend a tutorial on morphosyntactic annotation at Conference on Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi) in Chiapas Nov 2021
** Evandro L. T. P. Cunha, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
*** Development of three online Computational Linguistics courses in Portuguese
*** Follow-up to 2020 ERF/RAF grant

* NAACL Board discussion of regional pricing for virtual NAACL conferences.
** Decision: no regional pricing this year, instead make D&I grants easy for presenters.

== NAACL 2022 Conference ==
* The board finished appointing Program Chairs for NAACL 2022, to be hosted in Seattle, July 10 - 15, 2022.
** General Chair: Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
** Program Chairs:
*** Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)
*** Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (The Ohio State University, USA)
*** Ivan Vladimir Meza-Ruiz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

* Dan Roth has submitted a proposal to the ACL and NAACL boards regarding changes to the ACL Publication Process.

* As a new procedure for NAACL 2022, the NAACL board and the NAACL 2022 organizing committee issued an open call for D&I Committee members.

== NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020 ==
* Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
* Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
* Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Board Members:
** Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
** Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
** Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)
** Luciana Benotti (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
** Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* North American Sponsorship chairs:
** Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
** Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

2021Q1 Reports: NAACL

2021-03-24T15:33:33Z

Colin A Cherry:

__NOTOC__
== Activities ==
Voted change the official name of the Emerging Regions Fund to the Regional Americas Fund, with appropriate translations to be added as available.

Voted to hold NAACL 2024 at the Mexico City Hilton the week of June 16-21, postponing our 2021 commitments.

== NAACL 2022 Conference ==
The board has appointed the General Chair, and is beginning the search for the Program Chairs.

* General Chair: Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

== NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020 ==
* Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
* Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
* Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Board Members:
** Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
** Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
** Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)
** Luciana Benotti (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
** Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* North American Sponsorship chairs:
** Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
** Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

2021Q1 Reports: NAACL

2021-03-24T15:33:19Z

Colin A Cherry: Created page with " __NOTOC__ == Activities == Voted change the official name of the Emerging Regions Fund to the Regional Americas Fund, with appropriate translations to be added as available...."

2020Q3 Reports: NAACL

2020-07-13T23:10:28Z

Colin A Cherry: /* Finances */

__NOTOC__
== Finances ==

As of 12/31/2018 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $71,164.59 As of 3/31/20 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $21,800.69. This includes:
* $36,265.36 payment to ACL for 2015 NAACL loss
* $3000 in ERF payments plus $125 in total wire transfer fees
* $3300 in JSALT payments
* $2500 in NACLO payments
* $2500 to reimburse the CLPsych speaker (temporary emergency outlay, due to be repaid from ACL master account)
ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, and NAACL 2019 profit or loss have not yet been calculated and this profit or loss have not been added to or subtracted from the NAACL bank account total. We must thus continue to outlay prudently throughout 2020.

== Website ==

As part of preparations for NAACL 2021, we are in the process of transferring the naacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer.

== Activities ==
Appointed two North American Sponsorship chairs:
* Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
* Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

Voted to hold NAACL 2022 in Seattle, July 10 through July 15, 2022.

Voted to fund the following outlays in 2020:
*NAACL Emerging Regions Fund (ERF): $3,000.00
*North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO): $5,000.00

Four Emerging Regions Fund (ERF) awardees:
*Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) for NLP course development in Portuguese
*Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) for workshop on open corpora (OpenCor) attendance support
*Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) for virtual NLP conference (CILCC) support
*Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru) for summer school attendance support (Peruvian native languages focus).

== NAACL 2021 Conference ==
The board has appointed the General and Program Chairs, who are assembling the rest of the committee. I believe they should have their own report.

* General Chair: Kristina Toutanova (Google, USA)

* Program Chairs:
** Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
** Anna Rumshisky (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
** Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, USA)

== NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020 ==
* Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
* Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
* Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Board Members:
** Joyce Chai (University of Michigan, USA)
** Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
** Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
** Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
** Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)

2020Q3 Reports: NAACL

2020-07-13T23:07:41Z

Colin A Cherry: /* Website */

== Finances ==

As of 12/31/2018 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $71,164.59 As of 3/31/20 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $21,800.69. This includes:
* $36,265.36 payment to ACL for 2015 NAACL loss
* $3000 in ERF payments plus $125 in total wire transfer fees
* $3300 in JSALT payments
* $2500 in NACLO payments
* $2500 to reimburse the CLPsych speaker (temporary emergency outlay, due to be repaid from ACL master account)
ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, and NAACL 2019 profit or loss have not yet been calculated and this profit or loss have not been added to or subtracted from the NAACL bank account total. We must thus continue to outlay prudently throughout 2020.

== Website ==

As part of preparations for NAACL 2021, we are in the process of transferring the naacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer.

== Activities ==
Appointed two North American Sponsorship chairs:
* Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
* Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

Voted to hold NAACL 2022 in Seattle, July 10 through July 15, 2022.

Voted to fund the following outlays in 2020:
*NAACL Emerging Regions Fund (ERF): $3,000.00
*North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO): $5,000.00

Four Emerging Regions Fund (ERF) awardees:
*Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) for NLP course development in Portuguese
*Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) for workshop on open corpora (OpenCor) attendance support
*Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) for virtual NLP conference (CILCC) support
*Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru) for summer school attendance support (Peruvian native languages focus).

== NAACL 2021 Conference ==
The board has appointed the General and Program Chairs, who are assembling the rest of the committee. I believe they should have their own report.

* General Chair: Kristina Toutanova (Google, USA)

* Program Chairs:
** Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
** Anna Rumshisky (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
** Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, USA)

== NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020 ==
* Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
* Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
* Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
* Board Members:
** Joyce Chai (University of Michigan, USA)
** Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
** Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
** Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
** Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)

2020Q3 Reports: NAACL

2020-07-13T23:04:29Z

Colin A Cherry: Created page with " == Finances == As of 12/31/2018 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $71,164.59 As of 3/31/20 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $21,800.69. This includes: * $36,265...."

== Finances ==

As of 12/31/2018 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $71,164.59 As of 3/31/20 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $21,800.69. This includes:
* $36,265.36 payment to ACL for 2015 NAACL loss
* $3000 in ERF payments plus $125 in total wire transfer fees
* $3300 in JSALT payments
* $2500 in NACLO payments
* $2500 to reimburse the CLPsych speaker (temporary emergency outlay, due to be repaid from ACL master account)
ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, and NAACL 2019 profit or loss have not yet been calculated and this profit or loss have not been added to or subtracted from the NAACL bank account total. We must thus continue to outlay prudently throughout 2020.

== Website ==

As part of preparations for NAACL 2021, we are in the process of transferring the naacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer.
Activities:
Appointed two North American Sponsorship chairs:
Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

Voted to hold NAACL 2022 in Seattle, July 10 through July 15, 2022.

Voted to fund the following outreach activities in 2020:
NAACL Emerging Regions Fund (ERF): $3,000.00
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO): $5,000.00

Four Emerging Regions Fund (ERF) awardees:
Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) for NLP course development in Portuguese
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) for workshop on open corpora (OpenCor) attendance support
Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) for virtual NLP conference (CILCC) support
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru) for summer school attendance support (Peruvian native languages focus).
NAACL 2021 Conference:
The board has appointed the General and Program Chairs, who are assembling the rest of the committee. I believe they should have their own report.
General Chair: Kristina Toutanova (Google, USA)
Program Chairs:
Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
Anna Rumshisky (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, USA)
NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020:
Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Board Members:
Joyce Chai (University of Michigan, USA)
Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)