2016Q3 Reports: SIGHUM

2016-08-01T13:13:29Z

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=== Summary ===

The ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM)
is intended to provide a forum for CL researchers who are developing language technology for data from the socio-economic sciences or the humanities (SSH). It also functions as a contact point for SSH stakeholders.

=== Board ===

We solicited nominations for the new board in September/October 2015 via the SIGHUM mailing list. Since only one nomination was
received for each of the positions, no elections were held. The new board started its work on January 1st, 2016.

'''''* President:''''' Caroline Sporleder (Göttingen University)

'''''* Secretary:''''' Kalliopi Zervanou (Utrecht University)

'''''* Liaison officer:''''' Michael Piotrowski (The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz)

We would like to thank the outgoing board members for their great work.

=== Membership ===

The most recent membership numbers are:

* '''2012:''' 70

* '''2013:''' 85

* '''2014:''' 110

* '''2015:''' 132

=== Activities ===

SIGHUM's flagship workshop, LaTeCH, will be held for the 10th time on August 11th, 2016 in Berlin, co-located with ACL 2016.
The workshop co-chairs are Beatrice Alex (Edinburgh University), Nils Reiter (Stuttgart University) and Kalliopi Zervanou (Utrecht University). The 2016 edition received a record number of submissions. 48 papers were submitted in total (23 long papers, 25 short papers). After a thorough review process 21 papers were accepted for presentation, resulting in an acceptance rate of 44% (long: 47%, short: 40%).

The annual SIGHUM business meeting will be held during LaTeCH 2016.

LaTeCH 2016 Website: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2016/

LaTeCH 2016 Programme:
https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2016/programme/

=== Financial Report ===

SIGHUM currently doesn't have any financial resources.

=== Website ===

The SIGHUM website changed to: https://sighum.wordpress.com/

We are currently in the process of updating the website.

2015Q3 Reports: EACL

2015-07-07T11:03:27Z

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EACL 2015Q3 Report, July 2015

Lluís Màrquez, Chair

Walter Daelemans, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

==EACL 2017==

Report by Lluís Màrquez

The winning bid for EACL 2017 was decided on April 30, 2015. After a very close competition, the selected bid is:

Paolo Rosso (chair), Francisco Casacuberta (co-chair), Jon Ander Gómez (co-chair)
Universitat Politècnica de València, PRHLT Research Centre (https://www.prhlt.upv.es)
Valencia, Spain

The EACL conference will take place in April 2017.

The next steps in the timeline will be carried out in due time, e.g., signing the contract between local organizers and ACL, deciding the General Chair, etc.

==Financial Report==

Report by Mike Rosner

2014 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

31-Dec-13 balance 7,949

INCOME
EACL2014 Surplus 20,869

EXPENSES
EACL Sponsorship -2,500
Bank Charges -5

31-Dec-14 balance 26,313

==EACL Sponsorships==

* EACL supports ESSLLI 2015 by sponsoring 5 students with a maximum amount of 550 Euros each.
* EACL supports CLEF2015 by sponsoring 1 student

==EACL shorts==

* The two EACL sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee are still to be appointed. We have indentified several good candidates and they are being approached during these days. We will try to appoint them as soon as possible.

==EACL Elections==

Two of our student board members, Desmond Elliott and Douwe Kiela, have just finished their 2-year term in June. After elections, which took place in early June 2015, the replacements fo their positions are:

* Florian Kunneman, Radboud University Nijmegen
* John Camilleri, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

The EACL welcomes the new members of the EACL Student Board and greatly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.

==EACL Officers per July 1, 2015==

Chair:
Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Chair-Elect:
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Secretary:
Caroline Sporleder (Trier University, Germany)

Treasurer:
Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
* Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
* Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
* Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Student Board:
* Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
* John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
* Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Trier University, Germany)

Nominating Committee
* Sien Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
* Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
* Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
* Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Giorgio Satta and Kiril Simov came to the end of their term on the Nominating Committee. The EACL Board decided to nominate Stephen Clark and Vivi Nastase as new members of the Nominating Committee. The EACL welcomes the new members of the Nominating Committee and warmly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.

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