https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DragoRadevAdmin Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-31T05:19:46ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Author_List_Clean-up_Code&diff=71106Author List Clean-up Code2016-04-17T17:02:18Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>[[Media:author_name_normalization.tar.gz]] - note on 2016-04-17 - this link doesn't seem to be working.<br />
<br />
A big challenge in automatically creating an anthology from publications is correcting author names. Many different versions of author names are found in different publications.<br />
<br />
For example, in the ACL Anthology, there are 5 different versions of the author name "Ros&eacute;, Carolyn Penstein" 's name, as shown below.<br />
<br />
Rose, Carolyn P.<br />
Ros&eacute;, CarolynPenstein<br />
Ros&eacute;, Carolyn P.<br />
PensteinRos&eacute;, Carolyn<br />
P. Ros&eacute;, Carolyn<br />
<br />
In order to resolve this, we have created a semi-automatically cleaned list of all author names in ACL anthology. The "master list" of author names contains 13,692 different authors.<br />
In addition to the master list, we provide code for the following tasks<br />
<br />
1. Finding the canonical version of different author names in the field of computational linguistics, if it exists in a master list (available as part of the package) using many different heuristics.<br />
<br />
2. Automatically change different versions of the name to the suggested canonical name (incorporating any manual corrections by the user, if any)<br />
<br />
<br />
* Contact radev@umich.edu for assistance with this software.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conference Handbook]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Author_List_Clean-up_Code&diff=71105Author List Clean-up Code2016-04-17T17:01:27Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Media:author_name_normalization.tar.gz]]<br />
<br />
A big challenge in automatically creating an anthology from publications is correcting author names. Many different versions of author names are found in different publications.<br />
<br />
For example, in the ACL Anthology, there are 5 different versions of the author name "Ros&eacute;, Carolyn Penstein" 's name, as shown below.<br />
<br />
Rose, Carolyn P.<br />
Ros&eacute;, CarolynPenstein<br />
Ros&eacute;, Carolyn P.<br />
PensteinRos&eacute;, Carolyn<br />
P. Ros&eacute;, Carolyn<br />
<br />
In order to resolve this, we have created a semi-automatically cleaned list of all author names in ACL anthology. The "master list" of author names contains 13,692 different authors.<br />
In addition to the master list, we provide code for the following tasks<br />
<br />
1. Finding the canonical version of different author names in the field of computational linguistics, if it exists in a master list (available as part of the package) using many different heuristics.<br />
<br />
2. Automatically change different versions of the name to the suggested canonical name (incorporating any manual corrections by the user, if any)<br />
<br />
<br />
* Contact radev@umich.edu for assistance with this software.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conference Handbook]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q1_Reports:_Secretary&diff=710132016Q1 Reports: Secretary2016-02-01T02:46:49Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Thanks to the outgoing members of the ACL exec ==<br />
<br />
Min-Yen Kan, Gertjan van Noord, and Hal Daume left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2015 after their terms<br />
expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future<br />
endeavors.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Four new members of the ACL exec ==<br />
<br />
Four new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/458<br />
<br />
These are:<br />
<br />
* Marti Hearst (vp-elect, replacing Gertjan van Noord)<br />
* Jing-Shin Chang (information officer, replacing Min-Yen Kan)<br />
* Shiqi Zhao (secretary, taking over for me; I will remain on the exec as past secretary in 2016)<br />
* Emily Bender (the new NAACL chair, ex officio, replacing Hal Daume) <br />
<br />
Welcome to Marti, Jing-Shin, Shiqi, and Emily! <br />
<br />
The full list of exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/website/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2017 include vp-elect and SIG chair (special interest group coordinator).<br />
<br />
<br />
== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner ==<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/445<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Li Sheng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.<br />
<br />
The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced in August in Berlin. <br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
<br />
4. ACL Fellows<br />
<br />
I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected four new ACL Fellows for 2015.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/457<br />
<br />
* Claire Cardie (Cornell University) For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine learning methods in natural language processing.<br />
<br />
* Kenneth W. Church (IBM) For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT community.<br />
<br />
* Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh) For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.<br />
<br />
* Salim Roukos (IBM) For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to these established ACL members!<br />
<br />
<br />
Nominations for 2016 can be made through this page: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations<br />
<br />
<br />
== NAACL HLT 2016 will be in San Diego, California ==<br />
<br />
This conference will take place from June 12 to June 17, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/<br />
<br />
* General Chair<br />
** Kevin Knight, ISI<br />
* Program Chairs<br />
** Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania and <br />
** Owen Rambow, Columbia University<br />
* Local Arrangements Chair<br />
** Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL<br />
<br />
<br />
== ACL 2016 will be in Berlin, Germany ==<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 will take place from August 7 to August 12, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/452<br />
<br />
* General Chair<br />
** Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen<br />
* Program Co-Chairs<br />
** Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br />
** Noah Smith, University of Washington<br />
* Local Organizing Committee<br />
** Valia Kordoni (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
** Markus Egg (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
** Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University<br />
** Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam<br />
** Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University<br />
** Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University<br />
** Ulf Leser, Humboldt University<br />
<br />
<br />
== EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin, Texas ==<br />
<br />
EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin from November 2 to November 6, 2016. More information TBA.<br />
<br />
<br />
== ACL 2017 will be in Vancouver, Canada ==<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/456<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that ACL 2017, its 55th Annual Meeting, will be held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July 2017 to 4 August 2017. The conference will take place in the Westin Bayshore Hotel. The conference chairs will be announced shortly.<br />
<br />
<br />
== ACL 2018 call for bids ==<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/448<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.<br />
<br />
The deadline for bids is March 15, 2016, with obligatory notification before January 31, 2016.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Upcoming events ==<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html<br />
<br />
<br />
== 2015 reports from ACL officers ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Winter reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Summer reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== ACL volunteers ==<br />
<br />
We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki<br />
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact Shiqi Zhao, the new ACL Secretary, at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev<br />
Past Secretary (2006-2015)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q1_Reports:_Secretary&diff=710122016Q1 Reports: Secretary2016-02-01T02:43:05Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Thanks to the outgoing members of the ACL exec ==<br />
<br />
Min-Yen Kan, Gertjan van Noord, and Hal Daume left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2015 after their terms<br />
expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future<br />
endeavors.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Four new members of the ACL exec ==<br />
<br />
Four new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/458<br />
<br />
These are:<br />
<br />
Marti Hearst (vp-elect, replacing Gertjan van Noord)<br />
Jing-Shin Chang (information officer, replacing Min-Yen Kan)<br />
Shiqi Zhao (secretary, taking over for me; I will remain on the exec as past secretary in 2016)<br />
Emily Bender (the new NAACL chair, ex officio, replacing Hal Daume) <br />
<br />
Welcome to Marti, Jing-Shin, Shiqi, and Emily! <br />
<br />
The full list of exec members is here:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2017 include vp-elect and SIG chair (special interest group<br />
coordinator).<br />
<br />
<br />
== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner ==<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/445<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Li Sheng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.<br />
<br />
The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced in August in Berlin. <br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit:<br />
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
<br />
4. ACL Fellows<br />
<br />
I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected four new ACL Fellows for 2015.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/457<br />
<br />
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)<br />
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine<br />
learning methods in natural language processing.<br />
<br />
Kenneth W. Church (IBM)<br />
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT<br />
community.<br />
<br />
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)<br />
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.<br />
<br />
Salim Roukos (IBM)<br />
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to these established ACL members!<br />
<br />
<br />
Nominations for 2016 can be made through this page:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations<br />
<br />
<br />
5. NAACL HLT 2016 will be in San Diego, California<br />
<br />
This conference will take place from June 12 to June 17, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Kevin Knight, ISI<br />
Program Chairs<br />
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Owen Rambow, Columbia University<br />
Local Arrangements Chair<br />
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL<br />
<br />
<br />
6. ACL 2016 will be in Berlin, Germany<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 will take place from August 7 to August 12, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/452<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen<br />
Program Co-Chairs<br />
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br />
Noah Smith, University of Washington<br />
Local Organizing Committee<br />
Valia Kordoni (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Markus Egg (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam<br />
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University<br />
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University<br />
<br />
<br />
7. EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin from November 2 to November 6, 2016. More information TBA.<br />
<br />
<br />
8. ACL 2017 will be in Vancouver, Canada<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/456<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that ACL 2017, its 55th Annual Meeting, will be<br />
held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July 2017 to 4 August 2017. The conference will take place in the Westin Bayshore<br />
Hotel. The conference chairs will be announced shortly.<br />
<br />
<br />
9. ACL 2018 call for bids<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/448<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the<br />
Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from<br />
prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for<br />
the final selection.<br />
<br />
The deadline for bids is March 15, 2016, with obligatory notification before January 31, 2016.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Upcoming events<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html<br />
<br />
<br />
11. 2015 reports from ACL officers<br />
<br />
<br />
Winter reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Summer reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
12. ACL volunteers<br />
<br />
We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki<br />
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact Shiqi Zhao, the new ACL Secretary, at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev<br />
Past Secretary (2006-2015)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q1_Reports:_Secretary&diff=710112016Q1 Reports: Secretary2016-02-01T02:41:47Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>* Thanks to the outgoing members of the ACL exec<br />
<br />
Min-Yen Kan, Gertjan van Noord, and Hal Daume left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2015 after their terms<br />
expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future<br />
endeavors.<br />
<br />
<br />
* Four new members of the ACL exec<br />
<br />
Four new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/458<br />
<br />
These are:<br />
<br />
Marti Hearst (vp-elect, replacing Gertjan van Noord)<br />
Jing-Shin Chang (information officer, replacing Min-Yen Kan)<br />
Shiqi Zhao (secretary, taking over for me; I will remain on the exec as past secretary in 2016)<br />
Emily Bender (the new NAACL chair, ex officio, replacing Hal Daume) <br />
<br />
Welcome to Marti, Jing-Shin, Shiqi, and Emily! <br />
<br />
The full list of exec members is here:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2017 include vp-elect and SIG chair (special interest group<br />
coordinator).<br />
<br />
<br />
* ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/445<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Li Sheng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.<br />
<br />
The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced in August in Berlin. <br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit:<br />
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
<br />
4. ACL Fellows<br />
<br />
I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected four new ACL Fellows for 2015.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/457<br />
<br />
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)<br />
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine<br />
learning methods in natural language processing.<br />
<br />
Kenneth W. Church (IBM)<br />
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT<br />
community.<br />
<br />
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)<br />
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.<br />
<br />
Salim Roukos (IBM)<br />
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to these established ACL members!<br />
<br />
<br />
Nominations for 2016 can be made through this page:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations<br />
<br />
<br />
5. NAACL HLT 2016 will be in San Diego, California<br />
<br />
This conference will take place from June 12 to June 17, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Kevin Knight, ISI<br />
Program Chairs<br />
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Owen Rambow, Columbia University<br />
Local Arrangements Chair<br />
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL<br />
<br />
<br />
6. ACL 2016 will be in Berlin, Germany<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 will take place from August 7 to August 12, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/452<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen<br />
Program Co-Chairs<br />
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br />
Noah Smith, University of Washington<br />
Local Organizing Committee<br />
Valia Kordoni (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Markus Egg (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam<br />
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University<br />
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University<br />
<br />
<br />
7. EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin from November 2 to November 6, 2016. More information TBA.<br />
<br />
<br />
8. ACL 2017 will be in Vancouver, Canada<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/456<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that ACL 2017, its 55th Annual Meeting, will be<br />
held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July 2017 to 4 August 2017. The conference will take place in the Westin Bayshore<br />
Hotel. The conference chairs will be announced shortly.<br />
<br />
<br />
9. ACL 2018 call for bids<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/448<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the<br />
Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from<br />
prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for<br />
the final selection.<br />
<br />
The deadline for bids is March 15, 2016, with obligatory notification before January 31, 2016.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Upcoming events<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html<br />
<br />
<br />
11. 2015 reports from ACL officers<br />
<br />
<br />
Winter reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Summer reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
12. ACL volunteers<br />
<br />
We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki<br />
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact Shiqi Zhao, the new ACL Secretary, at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev<br />
Past Secretary (2006-2015)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q1_Reports:_Secretary&diff=710102016Q1 Reports: Secretary2016-02-01T02:40:01Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Thanks to the outgoing members of the ACL exec<br />
<br />
Min-Yen Kan, Gertjan van Noord, and Hal Daume left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2015 after their terms<br />
expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future<br />
endeavors.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Four new members of the ACL exec<br />
<br />
Four new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/458<br />
<br />
These are:<br />
<br />
Marti Hearst (vp-elect, replacing Gertjan van Noord)<br />
Jing-Shin Chang (information officer, replacing Min-Yen Kan)<br />
Shiqi Zhao (secretary, taking over for me; I will remain on the exec as past secretary in 2016)<br />
Emily Bender (the new NAACL chair, ex officio, replacing Hal Daume) <br />
<br />
Welcome to Marti, Jing-Shin, Shiqi, and Emily! <br />
<br />
The full list of exec members is here:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2017 include vp-elect and SIG chair (special interest group<br />
coordinator).<br />
<br />
<br />
3. ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/445<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Li Sheng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.<br />
<br />
The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced in August in Berlin. <br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit:<br />
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
<br />
4. ACL Fellows<br />
<br />
I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected four new ACL Fellows for 2015.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/457<br />
<br />
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)<br />
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine<br />
learning methods in natural language processing.<br />
<br />
Kenneth W. Church (IBM)<br />
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT<br />
community.<br />
<br />
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)<br />
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.<br />
<br />
Salim Roukos (IBM)<br />
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to these established ACL members!<br />
<br />
<br />
Nominations for 2016 can be made through this page:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations<br />
<br />
<br />
5. NAACL HLT 2016 will be in San Diego, California<br />
<br />
This conference will take place from June 12 to June 17, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Kevin Knight, ISI<br />
Program Chairs<br />
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Owen Rambow, Columbia University<br />
Local Arrangements Chair<br />
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL<br />
<br />
<br />
6. ACL 2016 will be in Berlin, Germany<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 will take place from August 7 to August 12, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/452<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen<br />
Program Co-Chairs<br />
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br />
Noah Smith, University of Washington<br />
Local Organizing Committee<br />
Valia Kordoni (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Markus Egg (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam<br />
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University<br />
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University<br />
<br />
<br />
7. EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin from November 2 to November 6, 2016. More information TBA.<br />
<br />
<br />
8. ACL 2017 will be in Vancouver, Canada<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/456<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that ACL 2017, its 55th Annual Meeting, will be<br />
held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July 2017 to 4 August 2017. The conference will take place in the Westin Bayshore<br />
Hotel. The conference chairs will be announced shortly.<br />
<br />
<br />
9. ACL 2018 call for bids<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/448<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the<br />
Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from<br />
prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for<br />
the final selection.<br />
<br />
The deadline for bids is March 15, 2016, with obligatory notification before January 31, 2016.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Upcoming events<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html<br />
<br />
<br />
11. 2015 reports from ACL officers<br />
<br />
<br />
Winter reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Summer reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
12. ACL volunteers<br />
<br />
We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki<br />
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact Shiqi Zhao, the new ACL Secretary, at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev<br />
Past Secretary (2006-2015)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q1_Reports:_Secretary&diff=710092016Q1 Reports: Secretary2016-02-01T02:39:36Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with " ACL Newsletter December 31, 2015 Dear colleagues, On behalf of the..."</p>
<hr />
<div> ACL Newsletter<br />
<br />
December 31, 2015<br />
<br />
<br />
Dear colleagues,<br />
<br />
<br />
On behalf of the ACL exec, I would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season and and an exciting New Year.<br />
<br />
<br />
I want to share some of the exciting news related to ACL this year.<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Thanks to the outgoing members of the ACL exec<br />
<br />
Min-Yen Kan, Gertjan van Noord, and Hal Daume left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2015 after their terms<br />
expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future<br />
endeavors.<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Four new members of the ACL exec<br />
<br />
Four new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/458<br />
<br />
These are:<br />
<br />
Marti Hearst (vp-elect, replacing Gertjan van Noord)<br />
Jing-Shin Chang (information officer, replacing Min-Yen Kan)<br />
Shiqi Zhao (secretary, taking over for me; I will remain on the exec as past secretary in 2016)<br />
Emily Bender (the new NAACL chair, ex officio, replacing Hal Daume) <br />
<br />
Welcome to Marti, Jing-Shin, Shiqi, and Emily! <br />
<br />
The full list of exec members is here:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2017 include vp-elect and SIG chair (special interest group<br />
coordinator).<br />
<br />
<br />
3. ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/445<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Li Sheng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.<br />
<br />
The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced in August in Berlin. <br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit:<br />
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
<br />
4. ACL Fellows<br />
<br />
I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected four new ACL Fellows for 2015.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/457<br />
<br />
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)<br />
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine<br />
learning methods in natural language processing.<br />
<br />
Kenneth W. Church (IBM)<br />
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT<br />
community.<br />
<br />
Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)<br />
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.<br />
<br />
Salim Roukos (IBM)<br />
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to these established ACL members!<br />
<br />
<br />
Nominations for 2016 can be made through this page:<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations<br />
<br />
<br />
5. NAACL HLT 2016 will be in San Diego, California<br />
<br />
This conference will take place from June 12 to June 17, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Kevin Knight, ISI<br />
Program Chairs<br />
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Owen Rambow, Columbia University<br />
Local Arrangements Chair<br />
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL<br />
<br />
<br />
6. ACL 2016 will be in Berlin, Germany<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 will take place from August 7 to August 12, 2016.<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/452<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen<br />
Program Co-Chairs<br />
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br />
Noah Smith, University of Washington<br />
Local Organizing Committee<br />
Valia Kordoni (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Markus Egg (co-chair), Humboldt University<br />
Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam<br />
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University<br />
Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University<br />
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University<br />
<br />
<br />
7. EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin from November 2 to November 6, 2016. More information TBA.<br />
<br />
<br />
8. ACL 2017 will be in Vancouver, Canada<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/456<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that ACL 2017, its 55th Annual Meeting, will be<br />
held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July 2017 to 4 August 2017. The conference will take place in the Westin Bayshore<br />
Hotel. The conference chairs will be announced shortly.<br />
<br />
<br />
9. ACL 2018 call for bids<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/448<br />
<br />
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the<br />
Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from<br />
prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for<br />
the final selection.<br />
<br />
The deadline for bids is March 15, 2016, with obligatory notification before January 31, 2016.<br />
<br />
<br />
10. Upcoming events<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html<br />
<br />
<br />
11. 2015 reports from ACL officers<br />
<br />
<br />
Winter reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Summer reports:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
12. ACL volunteers<br />
<br />
We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki<br />
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact Shiqi Zhao, the new ACL Secretary, at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev<br />
Past Secretary (2006-2015)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708922015Q3 Reports2015-07-07T15:52:05Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708912015Q3 Reports2015-07-07T15:50:51Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708752015Q3 Reports2015-07-06T19:20:55Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_LREC_2016&diff=708742015Q3 Reports: LREC 20162015-07-06T19:19:43Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "LREC 2016 will be in Portoroz, Slovenia. http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2016/lrec2016.htm Main Conference: May 25-26-27, 2016 Workshops & Tutorials: May 23-24-28, 2016 Impor..."</p>
<hr />
<div>LREC 2016 will be in Portoroz, Slovenia.<br />
<br />
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2016/lrec2016.htm<br />
<br />
Main Conference: May 25-26-27, 2016<br />
<br />
Workshops & Tutorials: May 23-24-28, 2016<br />
<br />
Important Dates:<br />
<br />
Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers: 15 October 2015<br />
<br />
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2015<br />
<br />
Any question, please write to lrec@lrec-conf.or</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708732015Q3 Reports2015-07-06T19:18:44Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708722015Q3 Reports2015-07-06T19:16:52Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_Secretary&diff=708712015Q3 Reports: Secretary2015-07-06T19:16:23Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>* The most recent ACL exec resolutions are posted here:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions<br />
<br />
<br />
* The 2014 release of the ACL Anthology Network<br />
<br />
http://clair.eecs.umich.edu/aan/index.php <br />
<br />
* ACL-sponsored events:<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html<br />
<br />
* We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki (http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_Secretary&diff=708702015Q3 Reports: Secretary2015-07-06T19:14:28Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>* The most recent ACL exec resolutions are posted here:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions<br />
<br />
* ACL-sponsored events:<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
* We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki (http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_Secretary&diff=708692015Q3 Reports: Secretary2015-07-06T19:14:09Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div># The most recent ACL exec resolutions are posted here:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL-sponsored events:<br />
<br />
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events<br />
<br />
# We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki (http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_Secretary&diff=708682015Q3 Reports: Secretary2015-07-06T19:12:48Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "The most recent ACL exec resolutions are posted here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions"</p>
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<div>The most recent ACL exec resolutions are posted here:<br />
<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708672015Q3 Reports2015-07-06T19:12:18Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70866ACL Resolutions2015-07-06T17:01:00Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== June 26, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join Lillian Lee and Mark Johnson.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee + Mark Johnson (TACL co-editors-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== May 20, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.<br />
<br />
== May 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:<br />
<br />
By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.<br />
<br />
by: <br />
<br />
By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.<br />
<br />
Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.<br />
<br />
I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.<br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
== January 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70865ACL Resolutions2015-07-06T17:00:34Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== June 26, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join Lillian Lee and Mark Johnson.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee + Mark Johnson (TACL co-editors-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== May 20, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.<br />
<br />
== May 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:<br />
<br />
By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.<br />
<br />
by: <br />
<br />
By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.<br />
<br />
Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exlusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.<br />
<br />
I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.<br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
== January 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70864ACL Resolutions2015-07-06T16:58:46Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== June 26, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join Lillian Lee and Mark Johnson.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee + Mark Johnson (TACL co-editors-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== May 20, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.<br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
== January 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70863ACL Resolutions2015-07-06T16:55:41Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== May 20, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in<br />
chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of<br />
start-up mode into a fully established state.<br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the<br />
ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language<br />
Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
== January 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement<br />
for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing<br />
TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme<br />
Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives<br />
of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked<br />
list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the<br />
ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline,<br />
the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70862ACL Resolutions2015-07-06T16:55:16Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== May 20, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in<br />
chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of<br />
start-up mode into a fully established state.<br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the<br />
ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language<br />
Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
== January 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement<br />
for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing<br />
TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme<br />
Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives<br />
of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked<br />
list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the<br />
ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline,<br />
the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708232015Q3 Reports2015-07-02T13:48:16Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_NAACL_2015&diff=708222015Q3 Reports: NAACL 20152015-07-02T13:45:05Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>Report by Rada Mihalcea, General Chair<br />
<br />
NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.<br />
Some of the highlights of this year's program include:<br />
<br />
- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including<br />
long (402) and short (312) papers, resulting in a program with 117 long<br />
papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a<br />
plenary session during the last day of the conference.<br />
<br />
- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li<br />
from Stanford - who talked about the exciting research going on at the<br />
intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision<br />
respectively<br />
<br />
- Six tutorials held on May 31st<br />
<br />
- Several student-authored papers, including regular research papers,<br />
dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of<br />
the student research workshop<br />
<br />
- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session<br />
<br />
- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword<br />
expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational<br />
applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop<br />
<br />
- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and<br />
computational semantics *Sem<br />
<br />
NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of<br />
people: Joyce Chai and Anoop Sarkar (program chairs); Priscilla Rasmussen<br />
(local organizer), Cornelia Caragea and Bing Liu (workshop co-chairs); Yang<br />
Liu and Thamar Solorio (tutorial co-chairs); Shibamouli Lahiri, Karen<br />
Mazidi and Alisa Zhila (student co-chairs) and Diana Inkpen and Smaranda<br />
Muresan (faculty advisors) for the student research workshop; Matt Gerber,<br />
Catherine Havasi, and Finley Lacatusu (demo co-chairs), Annie Louis<br />
(student volunteer coordinator), Kevin Cohen (local sponsorship chair),<br />
Saif Mohammad (publicity chair), Matt Post and Adam Lopez (publication<br />
co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover<br />
designer).<br />
<br />
The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab,<br />
Bloomberg, Digital Roots, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Information Sciences<br />
Institute, National Science Foundation, Nuance, SDL, University of<br />
Washington Computational Linguistics, Yahoo Labs.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708212015Q3 Reports2015-07-02T13:44:26Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_NAACL_2015&diff=708202015Q3 Reports: NAACL 20152015-07-02T13:43:29Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.<br />
Some of the highlights of this year's program include:<br />
<br />
- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including<br />
long (402) and short (312) papers, resulting in a program with 117 long<br />
papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a<br />
plenary session during the last day of the conference.<br />
<br />
- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li<br />
from Stanford - who talked about the exciting research going on at the<br />
intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision<br />
respectively<br />
<br />
- Six tutorials held on May 31st<br />
<br />
- Several student-authored papers, including regular research papers,<br />
dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of<br />
the student research workshop<br />
<br />
- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session<br />
<br />
- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword<br />
expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational<br />
applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop<br />
<br />
- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and<br />
computational semantics *Sem<br />
<br />
NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of<br />
people: Joyce Chai and Anoop Sarkar (program chairs); Priscilla Rasmussen<br />
(local organizer), Cornelia Caragea and Bing Liu (workshop co-chairs); Yang<br />
Liu and Thamar Solorio (tutorial co-chairs); Shibamouli Lahiri, Karen<br />
Mazidi and Alisa Zhila (student co-chairs) and Diana Inkpen and Smaranda<br />
Muresan (faculty advisors) for the student research workshop; Matt Gerber,<br />
Catherine Havasi, and Finley Lacatusu (demo co-chairs), Annie Louis<br />
(student volunteer coordinator), Kevin Cohen (local sponsorship chair),<br />
Saif Mohammad (publicity chair), Matt Post and Adam Lopez (publication<br />
co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover<br />
designer).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab,<br />
Bloomberg, Digital Roots, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Information Sciences<br />
Institute, National Science Foundation, Nuance, SDL, University of<br />
Washington Computational Linguistics, Yahoo Labs.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_NAACL_2015&diff=708192015Q3 Reports: NAACL 20152015-07-02T13:42:43Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. Some of the highlights of this year's program include: - The main program, which received a total of..."</p>
<hr />
<div>NAACL 2015 took place on May 31st - June 5th, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.<br />
Some of the highlights of this year's program include:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- The main program, which received a total of 714 submissions, including<br />
long (402) and short (312) papers, resulting in a program with 117 long<br />
papers and 69 short papers. Three best paper awards were presented in a<br />
plenary session during the last day of the conference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Two invited speakers - Lillian Lee from Cornell University and Fei-fei Li<br />
from Stanford - who talked about the exciting research going on at the<br />
intersection of our field with social sciences and computer vision<br />
respectively<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Six tutorials held on May 31st<br />
<br />
- Several student-authored papers, including regular research papers,<br />
dissertation proposals, and an undergraduate track, presented as part of<br />
the student research workshop<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Several demos presented during the poster/demo session<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- Thirteen one-day workshops on diverse topics ranging from multiword<br />
expressions and metaphors to clinical psychology and educational<br />
applications, and Semeval as a two-day workshop<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
- A collocated conference: the fourth joint conference on lexical and<br />
computational semantics *Sem<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
NAACL 2015 was made possible by the hard work of a wonderful group of<br />
people: Joyce Chai and Anoop Sarkar (program chairs); Priscilla Rasmussen<br />
(local organizer), Cornelia Caragea and Bing Liu (workshop co-chairs); Yang<br />
Liu and Thamar Solorio (tutorial co-chairs); Shibamouli Lahiri, Karen<br />
Mazidi and Alisa Zhila (student co-chairs) and Diana Inkpen and Smaranda<br />
Muresan (faculty advisors) for the student research workshop; Matt Gerber,<br />
Catherine Havasi, and Finley Lacatusu (demo co-chairs), Annie Louis<br />
(student volunteer coordinator), Kevin Cohen (local sponsorship chair),<br />
Saif Mohammad (publicity chair), Matt Post and Adam Lopez (publication<br />
co-chairs), Peter Ljunglof (website chair), Aurelia Bunescu (handbook cover<br />
designer).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The event was sponsored by several generous contributors: A9, Baobab,<br />
Bloomberg, Digital Roots, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Information Sciences<br />
Institute, National Science Foundation, Nuance, SDL, University of<br />
Washington Computational Linguistics, Yahoo Labs.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708182015Q3 Reports2015-07-02T13:40:59Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708172015Q3 Reports2015-07-02T13:40:02Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708122015Q3 Reports2015-07-01T19:19:06Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]]<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]]<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708112015Q3 Reports2015-07-01T19:18:31Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]]<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]]<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]]<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=708102015Q3 Reports2015-07-01T19:17:44Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Mentoring Chair]]<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]]<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]]<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_EMNLP_2016&diff=707392015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 20162015-06-29T20:57:59Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin in the fall."</p>
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<div>EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin in the fall.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_Linguistics_Olympiads&diff=707262015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads2015-06-24T17:53:02Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>Report by Lori Levin<br />
<br />
The 2014 International Linguistics Olympiad was held in Beijing at the <br />
Beijing Language and Culture University. There were 152 contestants in <br />
39 teams, representing 28 countries, who competed to solve problems on <br />
diverse languages includingBenabena <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i1/>,Kiowa <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i2/>,Tangut <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i3/>,Engenni <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i4/>,Gbaya <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i5/>, andArmenian <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/t1/>. The winners can be viewed <br />
here: http://www.ioling.org/results/2014/. The problems can be viewed <br />
here: http://www.ioling.org/problems/2014/.<br />
<br />
The 2015 International Linguistics Olympiad will be held in Blagoevgrad, <br />
Bulgaria at the American University. At least 25 countries are <br />
participating. By the time of the ACL meeting, the results will be <br />
available at http://www.ioling.org.<br />
<br />
NAACL financially supports the US and Canadian teams (NACLO), <br />
contributing $5K per year, which is used for travel expenses to IOL. <br />
This year NAACL also donated an exhibit table at the annual conference <br />
at no charge to NACLO.<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev, the chair of the ELCLO (English Language Computational <br />
Linguistics Olympiads) consortium, oversaw the screening, refining, and <br />
testing of problems for NACLO, UKLO (UK), AILO (Ireland), OzCLO <br />
(Australia), and New Zealand. Contact Drago for information about <br />
joining ELCLO.<br />
<br />
Lori Levin, the co-chair of NACLO, has been bringing NACLO activities to <br />
the general public at science festivals such as the Philadelphia Science <br />
Festival. Contact Lori for ideas about public outreach activities.<br />
<br />
Contact international-olympiad-in-linguistics@googlegroups.com to find <br />
out how to start an Olympiad in your country.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=707062015Q3 Reports2015-06-18T15:02:09Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]]<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]]<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]]<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_Linguistics_Olympiads&diff=707042015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads2015-06-16T22:02:19Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "The 2014 International Linguistics Olympiad was held in Beijing at the Beijing Language and Culture University. There were 152 contestants in 39 teams, representing 28 count..."</p>
<hr />
<div>The 2014 International Linguistics Olympiad was held in Beijing at the <br />
Beijing Language and Culture University. There were 152 contestants in <br />
39 teams, representing 28 countries, who competed to solve problems on <br />
diverse languages includingBenabena <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i1/>,Kiowa <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i2/>,Tangut <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i3/>,Engenni <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i4/>,Gbaya <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/i5/>, andArmenian <br />
<http://ioling.org/problems/2014/t1/>. The winners can be viewed <br />
here: http://www.ioling.org/results/2014/. The problems can be viewed <br />
here: http://www.ioling.org/problems/2014/.<br />
<br />
The 2015 International Linguistics Olympiad will be held in Blagoevgrad, <br />
Bulgaria at the American University. At least 25 countries are <br />
participating. By the time of the ACL meeting, the results will be <br />
available at http://www.ioling.org.<br />
<br />
NAACL financially supports the US and Canadian teams (NACLO), <br />
contributing $5K per year, which is used for travel expenses to IOL. <br />
This year NAACL also donated an exhibit table at the annual conference <br />
at no charge to NACLO.<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev, the chair of the ELCLO (English Language Computational <br />
Linguistics Olympiads) consortium, oversaw the screening, refining, and <br />
testing of problems for NACLO, UKLO (UK), AILO (Ireland), OzCLO <br />
(Australia), and New Zealand. Contact Drago for information about <br />
joining ELCLO.<br />
<br />
Lori Levin, the co-chair of NACLO, has been bringing NACLO activities to <br />
the general public at science festivals such as the Philadelphia Science <br />
Festival. Contact Lori for ideas about public outreach activities.<br />
<br />
Contact international-olympiad-in-linguistics@googlegroups.com to find <br />
out how to start an Olympiad in your country.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=707012015Q3 Reports2015-06-12T15:13:39Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]]<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]]<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: LREC 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]]<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports&diff=706932015Q3 Reports2015-05-27T20:08:28Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015 '''Reports from ACL Management''' * 2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager * 2015Q3 Reports: Secretary * 2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer *..."</p>
<hr />
<div>ALL REPORTS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, 2015<br />
<br />
'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Office Manager]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Secretary]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Treasurer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EACL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Information Officer]]<br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: General Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Exhibits]]<br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]]<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]]<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: NAACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: COLING 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: ACL 2018]]<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br />
* [[2015Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q3_Reports&diff=706922014Q3 Reports2015-05-27T19:54:13Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>'''Reports from ACL Management'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Office Manager]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Treasurer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: EACL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (SUBMITTED) <br />
<br />
'''ACL 2014'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Local Arrangements Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED) <br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Reviewing Software]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (SUBMITTED) <br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Demo Chair]] (SUBMITTED) <br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Committee]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Exhibits]] <br />
<br />
'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Recent Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2013]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: IJCNLP 2013]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: EACL 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Future Conferences'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: COLING 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2014]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: ACL-IJCNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2015]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: ACL 2016]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: ACL 2017]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
<br />
'''Other Reports'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: Linguistics Olympiads]]<br />
<br />
'''Special Interest Groups'''<br />
<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGSEMITIC]]<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]] (SUBMITTED)<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (SUBMITTED)</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70691ACL Resolutions2015-05-12T03:48:07Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the<br />
ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language<br />
Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
== January 2015 ==<br />
<br />
1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement<br />
for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
<br />
2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing<br />
TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme<br />
Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives<br />
of the current ACL exec).<br />
<br />
3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
<br />
4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked<br />
list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
<br />
5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
<br />
6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the<br />
ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline,<br />
the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Reports&diff=70690Reports2015-03-23T14:15:51Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>* [[2015Q1 Reports]]<br />
* [[2014Q3 Reports]]<br />
* [[2014Q1 Reports]]<br />
* [[2013Q3 Reports]]<br />
* [[2013Q1 Reports]]<br />
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== Instructions for Q3 Reporting ==<br />
<br />
* Please request a wiki account from webmaster@aclweb.org, find the link to the report on the previous Q3 page, and start editing<br />
* If your report includes contributions from others, they can edit the report directly or send contributions for you to collate<br />
* Don't include sensitive information in the public report; instead please email any additional reports in plain text format to secretary@aclweb.org<br />
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== Older Reports ==<br />
<br />
* 2012: [[2012Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2012Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].<br />
* 2011: [[2011Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2011Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].<br />
* 2010: [[2010Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2010Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].<br />
* 2009: [[2009Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2009Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].<br />
* 2008: [[2008Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2008Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].<br />
* [http://www.aclweb.org/archive/reports.html Archive of Reports for 1993-2007]</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70689ACL Resolutions2015-03-17T03:36:00Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
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<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the<br />
ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language<br />
Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions&diff=70688ACL Resolutions2015-03-17T03:33:41Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>=ACL Resolutions=<br />
<br />
<p>This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.</p><br />
<br />
== March 3, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP<br />
<br />
== February 10, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the<br />
ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language<br />
Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
== January 15, 2015 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.<br />
<br />
== November 26, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing<br />
<br />
== August 15, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.<br />
<br />
== June 1, 2014 ==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,<br />
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as<br />
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the<br />
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for<br />
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The<br />
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European<br />
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.<br />
<br />
== January 10, 2014==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) <br />
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.<br />
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).<br />
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.<br />
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.<br />
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.<br />
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.<br />
<br />
==July 16, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.<br />
<br />
==June 10, 2013==<br />
<br />
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013<br />
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]<br />
<br />
==May 7, 2013==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions<br />
<br />
# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;<br />
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).<br />
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):<br />
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;<br />
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.<br />
<br />
==Oct 16, 2012==<br />
<br />
The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such<br />
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same<br />
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work<br />
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated<br />
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise<br />
or be perceived.<br />
<br />
For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the<br />
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the<br />
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of<br />
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in<br />
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two<br />
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the<br />
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the<br />
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no<br />
perceived conflict of interest.<br />
<br />
==Aug 20, 2012==<br />
<br />
A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a<br />
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.<br />
<br />
==June 15, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language<br />
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities<br />
(SIGHUM).<br />
<br />
<br />
==Mar 18, 2012==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the<br />
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of<br />
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double<br />
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of<br />
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access<br />
to the author identities.<br />
<br />
==Dec 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures<br />
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional<br />
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The<br />
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be<br />
introduced when necessary.<br />
<br />
==Nov 23, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest<br />
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.<br />
<br />
==Aug 2, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website<br />
<br />
Background:<br />
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We<br />
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some<br />
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally. <br />
<br />
Proposal:<br />
<br />
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a<br />
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)<br />
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per<br />
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total<br />
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.<br />
<br />
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting<br />
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the<br />
activities of the portal maintainer. <br />
<br />
==Jun 28, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR <br />
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).<br />
<br />
We hereby approve 1 and 2.<br />
<br />
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL<br />
<br />
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Jun 3, 2011==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to<br />
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.<br />
<br />
==Dec 17, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:<br />
<br />
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.<br />
<br />
Reduced rates: All other countries. <br />
<br />
==Dec 15, 2010==<br />
<br />
(PASSED)<br />
<br />
1 Background<br />
<br />
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:<br />
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production<br />
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance<br />
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,<br />
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,<br />
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing<br />
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of<br />
US$45-50k per annum. <br />
<br />
2 The New Model<br />
<br />
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.<br />
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are<br />
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware<br />
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its<br />
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost<br />
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This<br />
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages<br />
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page<br />
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include<br />
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost<br />
based on # of pages).<br />
<br />
3 The Proposed Package<br />
<br />
My proposal consists of two elements. <br />
<br />
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and <br />
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k<br />
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open<br />
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery. <br />
<br />
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with<br />
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in<br />
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing<br />
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will<br />
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third<br />
party publishers, should we choose to do that.<br />
<br />
4 Risks and Benefits<br />
<br />
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is<br />
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week<br />
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of<br />
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,<br />
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but<br />
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored<br />
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who<br />
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test<br />
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press<br />
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,<br />
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.<br />
<br />
==Nov 5, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]<br />
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]<br />
<br />
==Apr 14, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region. <br />
<br />
==Mar 22, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology. <br />
<br />
==Mar 11, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:<br><p>Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs<br> Robert Dale - as CL editor<br> Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer<br> Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary<br> Paola Merlo and Ken Church<br />
<br />
==Jan 27, 2010==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to. <br />
<br />
==November 13, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings <br><br>The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:<br> <br />
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics<br />
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review<br />
##The conference appears to be competently organized<br />
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference<br />
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology<br />
<br />
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.<br />
<br />
==October 21, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year. <br />
<br />
==July 7, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.<br>Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==March 11, 2009==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.<br> Ido Dagan <br />
<br />
==September 3, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal<br> Robert Dale 6th August 2008 <br><br> This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009. <br />
<br />
==August 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.<br>Steven Bird <br />
<br />
==June 10, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices<br> Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) <p>Goal</p> <p>To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).</p> <p>1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts</p> <p>1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.</p> <p>1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.</p> <p>1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.</p> <p>1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.</p> <p>2. Signature Authority and Usage</p> <p>2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.</p> <p>2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.</p> <p>2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.</p> <p>2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.</p> <p>3. Satellite Shadow Accounts</p> <p>3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).</p> <p>3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.</p> <p>4. Reporting</p> <p>3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.</p> <p>5. Maintaining a Minimum</p> <p>5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.</p> <p>5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.</p> <p>6. Income and Loss</p> <p>6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.</p> <p>6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.</p> <p>6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.</p> <p>6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.</p> <p>7. Definitions</p> <p>1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics<br> 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)<br> 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted<br> 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG<br> 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL<br> 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter<br> 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only </p> <br />
==May 31, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list. <br />
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board. <br />
<br />
==April 14, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement<br />
<br />
<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. </p><br />
<br />
<p>Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted </p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright</p><br />
<br />
<p>[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes</p><br />
<br />
<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p>Signature (type your name):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p><br />
<br />
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p><br />
<br />
<br />
==April 9, 2008==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.<br />
<br />
==September 14, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG. <br />
<br />
==June 24, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers. <br />
<br />
==June 18, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.</p><br />
<br />
<p>In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. </p><br />
<br />
==June 8, 2007==<br />
<br />
#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference. <br />
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers. <br />
<br />
==May 16, 2007==<br />
<br />
<p>Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field. <br />
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies". <br />
<br />
==May 2007==<br />
<p>Free registration for some conference officials</p><br />
<br />
#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members). <br />
<br />
==July 2006==<br />
<br />
<p>Internet access at conferences</p><br />
<br />
# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Schedule&diff=706802015Q1 Schedule2015-02-20T14:47:16Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>1. CONFERENCE REPORTS<br />
<br />
ACL 2015 - Gertjan<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 - Chris M<br />
<br />
ACL 2017 - Pushpak<br />
<br />
ACL 2018 - Joakim<br />
<br />
<br />
2. OFFICER REPORTS<br />
<br />
EACL - Lluis<br />
<br />
NAACL - Hal<br />
<br />
AFNLP - Haifeng (as representative of AFNLP)<br />
<br />
Office - Priscilla<br />
<br />
Secretary - Drago<br />
<br />
Treasurer - Graeme<br />
<br />
Info Officer - Min<br />
<br />
SIG Officer - Hermann<br />
<br />
Conference Officer - Yejin<br />
<br />
<br />
3. JOURNAL REPORTS<br />
<br />
CL journal - Paola<br />
<br />
TACL journal - Lillian and Mike<br />
<br />
<br />
4. OTHER UPDATES<br />
<br />
LTA<br />
<br />
nominations for the exec<br />
<br />
ACL fellows<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
5. OTHER TOPICS <br />
<br />
<br />
Graeme: Policy on payments to people who give tutorials at conferences<br />
<br />
Graeme: Our explicit financial agreement with AFNLP re sharing ACL-IJCNLP 2016 surplus or loss.<br />
<br />
Drago: TACL editor search update<br />
<br />
Drago: Exec status for TACL editors</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Schedule&diff=706452015Q1 Schedule2015-02-17T13:27:41Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>1. CONFERENCE REPORTS<br />
<br />
ACL 2015 - Gertjan<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 - Chris M<br />
<br />
ACL 2017 - Pushpak<br />
<br />
ACL 2018 - Joakim<br />
<br />
<br />
2. OFFICER REPORTS<br />
<br />
EACL - Lluis<br />
<br />
NAACL - Hal<br />
<br />
AFNLP - Haifeng (as representative of AFNLP)<br />
<br />
Office - Priscilla<br />
<br />
Secretary - Drago<br />
<br />
Treasurer - Graeme<br />
<br />
Info Officer - Min<br />
<br />
SIG Officer - Hermann<br />
<br />
Conference Officer - Yejin<br />
<br />
<br />
3. JOURNAL REPORTS<br />
<br />
CL journal - Paola<br />
<br />
TACL journal - Lillian and Mike<br />
<br />
<br />
4. OTHER UPDATES<br />
<br />
LTA<br />
<br />
nominations for the exec<br />
<br />
ACL fellows<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
5. OTHER TOPICS <br />
<br />
<br />
Graeme: Policy on payments to people who give tutorials at conferences<br />
<br />
Drago: TACL editor search update<br />
<br />
Drago: Exec status for TACL editors</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Schedule&diff=706432015Q1 Schedule2015-02-17T13:27:24Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>1. CONFERENCE REPORTS<br />
<br />
ACL 2015 - Gertjan<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 - Chris M<br />
<br />
ACL 2017 - Pushpak<br />
<br />
ACL 2018 - Joakim<br />
<br />
<br />
2. OFFICER REPORTS<br />
<br />
EACL - Lluis<br />
<br />
NAACL - Hal<br />
<br />
AFNLP - Haifeng (as representative of AFNLP)<br />
<br />
Office - Priscilla<br />
<br />
Secretary - Drago<br />
<br />
Treasurer - Graeme<br />
<br />
Info Officer - Min<br />
<br />
SIG Officer - Hermann<br />
<br />
Conference Officer - Yejin<br />
<br />
<br />
3. JOURNAL REPORTS<br />
<br />
CL journal - Paola<br />
<br />
TACL journal - Lillian and Mike<br />
<br />
<br />
4. OTHER UPDATES<br />
<br />
LTA<br />
<br />
nominations for the exec<br />
<br />
ACL fellows<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
5. OTHER TOPICS (DRAFT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Graeme: Policy on payments to people who give tutorials at conferences<br />
<br />
Drago: TACL editor search update<br />
<br />
Drago: Exec status for TACL editors</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Schedule&diff=706422015Q1 Schedule2015-02-17T13:27:00Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
<hr />
<div>1. CONFERENCE REPORTS<br />
<br />
ACL 2015 - Gertjan<br />
<br />
ACL 2016 - Chris M<br />
<br />
ACL 2017 - Pushpak<br />
<br />
ACL 2018 - Joakim<br />
<br />
<br />
2. OFFICER REPORTS<br />
<br />
EACL - Lluis<br />
NAACL - Hal<br />
AFNLP - Haifeng (as representative of AFNLP)<br />
<br />
Office - Priscilla<br />
<br />
Secretary - Drago<br />
Treasurer - Graeme<br />
<br />
Info Officer - Min<br />
SIG Officer - Hermann<br />
Conference Officer - Yejin<br />
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3. JOURNAL REPORTS<br />
<br />
CL journal - Paola<br />
TACL journal - Lillian and Mike<br />
<br />
<br />
4. OTHER UPDATES<br />
<br />
LTA<br />
nominations for the exec<br />
ACL fellows<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
5. OTHER TOPICS (DRAFT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Graeme: Policy on payments to people who give tutorials at conferences<br />
<br />
Drago: TACL editor search update<br />
<br />
Drago: Exec status for TACL editors</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Schedule&diff=706412015Q1 Schedule2015-02-17T13:26:39Z<p>DragoRadev: Created page with "1. CONFERENCE REPORTS ACL 2015 - Gertjan ACL 2016 - Chris M ACL 2017 - Pushpak ACL 2018 - Joakim 2. OFFICER REPORTS EACL - Lluis NAACL - Hal AFNLP - Haifeng (as representa..."</p>
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<div>1. CONFERENCE REPORTS<br />
<br />
ACL 2015 - Gertjan<br />
ACL 2016 - Chris M<br />
ACL 2017 - Pushpak<br />
ACL 2018 - Joakim<br />
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<br />
2. OFFICER REPORTS<br />
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EACL - Lluis<br />
NAACL - Hal<br />
AFNLP - Haifeng (as representative of AFNLP)<br />
<br />
Office - Priscilla<br />
<br />
Secretary - Drago<br />
Treasurer - Graeme<br />
<br />
Info Officer - Min<br />
SIG Officer - Hermann<br />
Conference Officer - Yejin<br />
<br />
<br />
3. JOURNAL REPORTS<br />
<br />
CL journal - Paola<br />
TACL journal - Lillian and Mike<br />
<br />
<br />
4. OTHER UPDATES<br />
<br />
LTA<br />
nominations for the exec<br />
ACL fellows<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
5. OTHER TOPICS (DRAFT)<br />
<br />
<br />
Graeme: Policy on payments to people who give tutorials at conferences<br />
<br />
Drago: TACL editor search update<br />
<br />
Drago: Exec status for TACL editors</div>DragoRadevhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports:_ACL_2015&diff=706392015Q1 Reports: ACL 20152015-02-17T13:15:35Z<p>DragoRadev: </p>
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<div>ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord <br />
<br />
[TO BE REFORMATTED]<br />
<br />
*** coordinating committee:<br />
<br />
Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu<br />
Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu<br />
Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl<br />
Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org<br />
Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg<br />
Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com<br />
Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg<br />
Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr<br />
Kam-Fai Wong (AFNLP) kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk (per July 2014)<br />
<br />
*** relevant facts<br />
<br />
email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org<br />
<br />
domain name: acl2015.org <br />
website is up at http://www.acl2015.org/index.html<br />
<br />
location: Beijing, China National Convention Center<br />
<br />
Site visit: by Graeme, Yuji, Priscilla. Contracts have been signed.<br />
<br />
dates: July 26-31, 2015<br />
<br />
*** Organizing committee<br />
<br />
General Chair<br />
»Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology<br />
<br />
PC Co-Chairs<br />
»Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br />
»Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies<br />
<br />
Local Arrangement Chairs<br />
»Le Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br />
»Yang Liu, Tsinghua University<br />
<br />
Workshop Co-Chairs<br />
»Hang Li, Huawei<br />
»Sebastian Riedel, University College London<br />
<br />
Tutorial Co-Chairs<br />
»Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology<br />
»Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country<br />
<br />
Demo Co-Chairs<br />
»Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University<br />
»Katja Markert, University of Leeds<br />
<br />
Publications Chairs<br />
»Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology<br />
»Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University<br />
<br />
Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors<br />
»Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo<br />
»Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia<br />
»Emily Bender, University of Washington<br />
<br />
Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop)<br />
»Kuan-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University<br />
»Angelina Ivanova, University of Oslo<br />
»Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania<br />
<br />
Mentoring Chair<br />
»Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University<br />
<br />
Publicity Co-Chairs<br />
»Xianpei Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br />
»Kang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br />
<br />
Sponsorship Co-Chairs<br />
»Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University<br />
»two more to be appointed<br />
<br />
*** Program Committee<br />
<br />
The following points show the current status of PC:<br />
<br />
1) All area chairs have been fixed. Please see the attachement. And all area<br />
chairs recruited reviewers aready. We are ready to process submissions.<br />
<br />
2) CFP has been made and uploaded on the conference web page<br />
(http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html).<br />
<br />
3) The START system for papers has been set up and it works well now. We have<br />
received 32 submissions, but 3 submissions were withdrawn.<br />
<br />
4) We are considering to invite keynote speakers now and over 10 candidates are<br />
listed.<br />
<br />
Generally, everything on PC issue is well prepared.<br />
Area chairs for ACL-IJCNLP 2015<br />
<br />
** Area Chairs<br />
<br />
* [1]Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics (2)<br />
* Pascal Denis, pascal.denis@inria.fr<br />
* Marta Recasens, recasens@google.com<br />
<br />
* [2]Information Retrieval (1)<br />
* Jian-Yun Nie, nie@iro.umontreal.ca<br />
<br />
* [3]Information Extraction and Text Mining (3)<br />
* Razvan Bunescu, bunescu@ohio.edu <br />
* Mausam, mausam@cse.iitd.ac.in<br />
* Steven Bethard, bethard@cis.uab.edu <br />
<br />
* [4]Language and Vision (1)<br />
* John Kelleher, john.d.kelleher@dit.ie <br />
<br />
* [5]Language Resources and Evaluation (2)<br />
* Rashmi Prasad, prasadr@uwm.edu<br />
* Jin-Dong Kim jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp<br />
<br />
* [6]Lexical Semantics and Ontology (2)<br />
* Qin Lu, csluqin@comp.polyu.edu.hk, csluqin@yahoo.com<br />
* Zornitsa Kozareva, zornitsa@kozareva.com<br />
<br />
* [7]Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL (1)<br />
* Suzanne Stevenson, suzanne@cs.toronto.edu<br />
<br />
* [8]Machine Learning and Topic Models for Language Processing (3)<br />
* Daichi Mochihashi, daichi@ism.ac.jp,daichi.mochihashi@gmail.com<br />
* Eric Xing, epxing@cs.cmu.edu<br />
* Regina Barzilay, regina@csail.mit.edu<br />
<br />
* [9]Machine Translation and Multilinguality (4)<br />
* Fei Huang, feirhuang@gmail.com<br />
* Taro Watanabe taro.watanabe@nict.go.jp<br />
* Min Zhang, minzhang@suda.edu.cn<br />
* Stephan Vogel, svogel@qf.org.qa <br />
<br />
* [10]NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology (2)<br />
* Joel Tetreault, tetreaul@gmail.com<br />
* Srinivas Bangalore srini@research.att.com<br />
<br />
* [11]NLP for the Web and Social Media (2)<br />
* Shou-De Lin, sdlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw<br />
* Alice Oh, alice.oh@kaist.edu<br />
<br />
* [12]Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation (2)<br />
* Greg Kondrak, gkondrak@ualberta.ca<br />
* Jianfeng Gao jfgao@microsoft.com<br />
<br />
* [13]Question Answering (1)<br />
* James Fan fanj@us.ibm.com <br />
<br />
* [14]Semantics (3)<br />
* Chris Biemann, biemann@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de<br />
* Raquel Fernandez, raquel.fernandez@uva.nl<br />
* Tom Kwiatkowski tom.kwiat@gmail.com<br />
<br />
* [15]Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2)<br />
* Jing Jiang, jingjiang@smu.edu.sg <br />
* Lun-Wei Ku, lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw<br />
<br />
* [16]Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, and Multimodal NLP (2)<br />
* David Schlangen, david.schlangen@uni-bielefeld.de <br />
* Julia Hirschberg julia@cs.columbia.edu<br />
<br />
* [17]Summarization and Generation (2)<br />
* Xiaojun Wan, wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn<br />
* Mirella Lapata, mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk<br />
<br />
* [18]Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing (3)<br />
* Yusuke Miyao, yusuke@nii.ac.jp<br />
* Anders Soegaard, soegaard@hum.ku.dk<br />
* Mark Dras, mark.dras@mq.edu.au <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*** Workshops<br />
<br />
15 workshops are accepted: One two-day workshop (SIGHAN)<br />
and 14 one-day workshops.<br />
<br />
List of workshops (http://www.acl2015.org/workshops.html):<br />
<br />
» SRW, ACL Student Research Workshop 2015<br />
<br />
Two-day Workshops (July 30 and 31)<br />
» SIGHAN, Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing<br />
<br />
Single-day Workshops (July 30)<br />
» ArabicNLP, Arabic Natural Language Processing<br />
» GEAF, Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2015)<br />
» BUCC, Eighth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora<br />
» S2MT, Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice<br />
» Keyphrase, Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction<br />
» SIGHUM LaTeCH, SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities<br />
» BioNLP, BioNLP 2015<br />
<br />
Single-day Workshops (July 31)<br />
» NEWS, Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2015)<br />
» CVSC, Third Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality<br />
» HyTra, Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation<br />
» LDL, Fourth Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources and Applications<br />
» WNUT, Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2015)<br />
» NLP-TEA, The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications<br />
» NewsStory, The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines<br />
<br />
*** Tutorials<br />
<br />
Yuji informs us: "The notification of acceptance date has already passed,<br />
and I am asking the chairs how many and what tutorials have<br />
been accepted. I will update this information as soon as I receive it."<br />
<br />
*** System Demonstration<br />
<br />
The schedule is confirmed and placed in the acl-ijcnlp 2015 website.<br />
Call: http://www.acl2015.org/call_for_system_demonstrations.html<br />
33 members have agreed to join into committee for system demonstration.<br />
<br />
*** Student Research Workshop<br />
<br />
The schedule has been fixed and the information has been updated on the web page:<br />
https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/<br />
http://www.acl2015.org/organize.html<br />
<br />
*** Sponsorship<br />
<br />
Yuji: "The local sponsorship chair has already started<br />
call-for-sponsorship to major Chinese IT/Net companies. I am trying<br />
to find another international sponsorship committee member."<br />
<br />
<br />
*** Local Organization<br />
<br />
1) We already set up the ACL2015 website. http://www.acl2015.org/index.html<br />
<br />
Add new CFP, and so on. If you have any suggestions for future update, please<br />
send to us.<br />
<br />
2) We have sent out the CFP worldwide, and to all the members of CIPS.<br />
<br />
3) The local organizer, that is CIPS, has paid the first phrase deposits (about<br />
25,000USD) to CNCC (conference venue).<br />
<br />
4) We have already discussed with a few local companies for donations to sponsor<br />
our conference.<br />
<br />
5) We held a local arrangement committee meeting in the end of January.<br />
<br />
Four new LC members added. Now the LC members are Le Sun (Co-Chair),<br />
Yan g Liu (Co-Chair), Erhong Yang (Volunteer Co-Ordinator), Zhiyuan<br />
Liu (Webmaster), Shumin Shi (AV and space management), Wenbin Jiang<br />
(AV and space management), Dong Yu (Entertainment), and Yufeng Chen<br />
(Registration). We have proposed several plans for the social event<br />
and exec++ dinner. The LC will evaluate the proposed locations in<br />
March. Discussion with sponsorship and publicity chairs. Publicity<br />
chairs will help us edit the conference handbook.<br />
<br />
6) We have contacted with Priscilla and will pull together an overall budget of<br />
estimates costs in March.<br />
<br />
<br />
*** also see<br />
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule</div>DragoRadev