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2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2025

2025-02-09T02:07:32Z

EmilyBender: Created page with "The '''ACL 2025 conference''' will take place in Vienna, Austria, from July 27th to August 1st, 2025. It is all on track for the conference: * Monthly meetings are held with..."

The '''ACL 2025 conference''' will take place in Vienna, Austria, from July 27th to August 1st, 2025. It is all on track for the conference:

* Monthly meetings are held with GC, PC and Jennifer.
* The [https://2025.aclweb.org/ conference website] is live listing [https://2025.aclweb.org/program/workshops/ workshops] and [https://2025.aclweb.org/program/tutorials/ tutorials].
* Two CFPs were launched (the first one in November, the second one in January).
* The [https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/industry_track/ call for industry papers] and the [https://2025.aclweb.org/calls/system_demonstration/ call for system demonstrations] have been published
* We have a shared space on Slack for all chairs.
* All communications are managed through Freshdesk, managed by the Internal Communication Chairs
* A document chair has been added to the usual list of chairs to increment the level and quality of conference chairing documentation
* Next tasks are:
** Student Research Workshop CFP
** Finalizing workshop organization

2024Q3 Reports: ACL 2025

2024-08-05T21:07:25Z

EmilyBender: Created page with "ACL 2025 will take place July 27-Aug 1, 2025 in Vienna. The website has been started at https://2025.aclweb.org/. General Chair: Roberto Navigli PC Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyc..."

ACL 2025 will take place July 27-Aug 1, 2025 in Vienna. The website has been started at https://2025.aclweb.org/.

General Chair: Roberto Navigli
PC Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

A full list of chairs can be found at https://2025.aclweb.org/organization/ and at present already includes:

* Local organization
* Workshop chairs
* Tutorial chairs
* Demonstration chairs
* Student Research Workshop chairs
* Student Research Workshop faculty advisors
* Publication chairs
* Handbook chairs
* Sponsorship chairs
* Diversity and inclusion chairs
* Publicity and social media chairs
* Website and conference app chairs
* Ethics chairs
* Student volunteer chairs
* Technical open review chairs
* Virtual infrastructure chairs
* Internal communication chairs
* Industry track chairs
* Best paper committee chairs
* Visa chairs

Huge thanks to Roberto for getting all of this together and to all of the chairs for lending their time and effort.

2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2025

2024-02-29T03:18:59Z

EmilyBender: Created page with "* General Chair: Roberto Navigli * Program Committee Co-Chairs: Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Wanxiang Che * Location & dates TBA at EACL 2024."

* General Chair: Roberto Navigli
* Program Committee Co-Chairs: Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Wanxiang Che
* Location & dates TBA at EACL 2024.

2023Q3 Reports: ACL 2025

2023-07-09T13:25:53Z

EmilyBender:

* Roberto Navigli has agreed to be GC.
* Location is still TBD.
* PCs are still TBD, though a list of candidates has been generated.

2023Q3 Reports: ACL 2025

2023-07-07T22:58:46Z

EmilyBender: Created page with "* Roberto Basili has agreed to be GC. * Location is still TBD. * PCs are still TBD, though a list of candidates has been generated."

* Roberto Basili has agreed to be GC.
* Location is still TBD.
* PCs are still TBD, though a list of candidates has been generated.

Equity Director

2023-03-23T00:20:30Z

EmilyBender:

The main duties of the ACL Equity Director are to facilitate initiatives to increase the diversity of the ACL membership, and to ensure that equity standards are maintained across the entire ACL. More specifically, the duties of the Equity Director are as follows:

*Develop and lead initiatives to increase and sustain diversity in the membership, as well as support existing initiatives
*Run an inclusion and demographics survey annually and report the results
*Stay current on diversity issues
*Be the point of contact on diversity issues among the membership, the EquiCL BIG, the Diversity & Inclusion Chairs for individual *ACL conferences, the ACL Exec, and the ACL Professional Conduct Committee.
*Work with the Publicity Director to ensure that opportunities within ACL are broadly publicized
*Work with the Exec to monitor the demographics and resolve issues related to equitable treatment in awards, reviewing, and leadership positions

This is a three-year position, appointed by the Executive Committee. Specifically, as of 2023:

* Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. The Executive Committee may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
* The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
* Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Executive Committee. This means that they attend all Executive Committee meetings and are on the Executive Committee mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
* In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

2023Q1 Reports: ACL 2025

2023-02-21T03:50:46Z

EmilyBender: Created page with "Current status: * Collecting bids to host * Collecting candidates for GC/PC * Special focus on candidates from Africa + Arabian peninsula (for above + SAC roles)"

Current status:

* Collecting bids to host
* Collecting candidates for GC/PC
* Special focus on candidates from Africa + Arabian peninsula (for above + SAC roles)

2020-02-05T00:04:05Z

PCC July2019 Statement

2019-07-12T19:06:59Z

EmilyBender: Created page with "<div align="center">STATEMENT ON THE ROLE OF THE ACL PCC July 2019 </div> In light of recent discussion on social media and elsewhere about the role of the Professional_Con..."

<div align="center">STATEMENT ON THE ROLE OF THE ACL PCC
July 2019
</div>

In light of recent discussion on social media and elsewhere about the role of the [[Professional_Conduct_Committee|Professional Conduct Committee]] (PCC), we would like to clarify to the community what exactly that role is and what we can and cannot do. PCC policies are set up to maintain confidentiality to the extent possible and as such this statement will not address any particular case.

Despite the name (which sounds very general), the PCC was established by the ACL in order to handle complaints raised under the [[Anti-Harassment_Policy|anti-harassment policy]]. It consists of volunteers who have all received training in mediation, and who are appointed for (renewable) three-year terms. The co-chairs of the committee (also volunteers) serve 5-year terms. The anti-harassment policy specifically concerns activities at ACL venues (“at any ACL conference, associated event, or in ACL-affiliated on-line discussions”) and it specifically concerns harassment. It was put in place to ensure that the events that ACL runs are “harassment-free experience[s] for all the members, as well as participants at our events and in our programs”.

ACL is the primary professional organization in our field and strives to create a welcoming environment, but it does not follow that ACL can or should regulate its members’ activities outside of participation in ACL-sponsored events. The PCC can therefore not resolve private conflicts between members, or act upon legal matters. Any cases pertaining to legal (e.g., threats), institutional (e.g., promotion), or psychological (e.g., anxiety) matters should instead be referred to the appropriate authorities. Furthermore, the PCC has the authority only to determine formal sanctions in response to violations of the anti-harassment policy. (PCC members can, however, offer mediation for situations beyond that, at their discretion.) The ACL does not yet have any similar policies around issues such as falsified data, etc.

Any community member experiencing harassing behavior at an ACL venue (as described above) is invited to bring their concerns to any member of the PCC. The PCC member will work with the community member raising a complaint to understand their experience, after which the community member will indicate what further action they request the PCC to take (where options include no further action, initiating mediation, or initiating formal consideration of sanctions). The consideration of formal sanctions takes place only if the person raising the complaint requests that process to start. The PCC will act to protect the privacy of both Complainants and Respondents, to the extent feasible and reasonable.

The intent of the ACL’s anti-harassment policy is to ensure that the ACL and the field that it represents can benefit from the broadest possible participation. The policy was adopted pro-actively and is still relatively new: it was initially adopted by NAACL in 2014 (in a slightly different form) and by the ACL in 2016, with the PCC established in 2018. In order for the policy to achieve its long-term goal of providing a harassment-free environment, due process and appropriate safeguards for confidentiality are essential.