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2011-03-02T10:21:21Z

IdoDagan:

* [[2011Q1 Reports: ACL 2011]] - Ido Dagan (Coordinating Committee Chair)
* [[2011Q1 Reports: ACL 2012]] - Kevin Knight (Coordinating Committee Chair)
* [[2011Q1 Reports: ACL 2013]] - Ken Church (Coordinating Committee Chair)
* [[2011Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] - Robert Dale [[Media:Submission Counts.pdf]] [[Media:Submissions_by_Country.pdf]]
* 2011Q1 Reports: EACL - http://clair.si.umich.edu/~radev/aclsec/reports-winter11/2011-Q1-EACL-Report.doc - Marie-Francine Moens
* [[2011Q1 Reports: NAACL]] - Rebecca Hwa
* 2011Q1 Reports: Office - http://clair.si.umich.edu/~radev/aclsec/membership-report-2002-2011-WINTER-statistics.xlsx - http://clair.si.umich.edu/~radev/aclsec/reports-winter11/Memberships-2011-by-country-WINTER.xlsx - Priscilla Rasmussen
* [[2011Q1 Reports: Secretary]] - Dragomir Radev
* [[2011Q1 Reports: Sponsorship]] - Srinivas
* [[2011Q1 Reports: SIG Convener]] - Renata Vieira - at the second telecon
* [[2011Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] - Graeme Hirst - at the second telecon
* Executive Structure - http://clair.si.umich.edu/~radev/aclsec/reports-winter11/ExecStructure.doc - Ido Dagan

2011Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2011-03-02T10:19:19Z

IdoDagan:

'''Issues for Future Consideration - Coordinating Committee Chair (Ido Dagan)'''

The report below was written by the various chairs of ACL-2011. It was consolidated by Dekang Lin, the General Chair, and it covers all aspects of this year’s conference. Here are a few points that came up this year and should be brought to the Exec’s attention with respect to future conferences:

=== Policy on the days of co-locating events: based on a certain event this year there is a recommendation to allow, by default, that co-locating events would occur only outside the 6 days of the official conference, to avoid competition with the events organized by the conference itself (this does not include traditionally coordinated events that overlap the workshop days, such as EMNLP and CoNLL). See a separate message to the exec in this matter.

=== Policy on joint submission and reviewing of workshop proposals by ACL and other ACL-related conferences on the same year: This year the workshop proposals process was run jointly by ACL and EMNLP. It seemingly was a positive experience, more than in the last couple of years where the conclusions were mixed, possibly thanks to some improved procedures. We expect a detailed report in this matter for the Portland Exec meeting, which will hopefully support more definite conclusions.

=== Publishing tutorial notes: It seemed like a good idea to make the tutorials notes publicly available, but it wasn’t fully clear where they should be put and at what timing, and there has been a discussion of this issue in the last few days. Having a consistent policy is desired, and Drago will bring up this issue. See the report of the publications chairs below for their intentions for this year.

=== A small number of Asian Student Session reviewers (see figures below): This is regrettable. Adding a sentence about the geo balance in the Wiki page about
SRW chair duty will help avoid this problem in the future.

'''General Chair (Dekang Lin)'''

All the roles in the organizing committee were filled before July
2010. Thanks to the work of all the chairs, the conference
organization is proceeding smoothly.

'''Program Chairs (Rada Mihalcea and Yuji Matsumoto)'''

- http://clair.si.umich.edu/~radev/aclsec/reports-winter11/ACL.ProgramChairsReport.Feb2011.doc -

'''Tutorial Co-Chairs (Patrick Pantel and Andy Way)'''

We received 18 proposals before the deadline of December 17, 2010. Email was used for handling submissions with email acknowledgement of receipt of proposals as stated in the CFP. Following advice from previous tutorial chairs, we solicited three proposals. We were very careful to encourage these proposals but at the same time warn that there was no guarantee of acceptance because all proposals would be subject to the same reviewing process. 1 out of the 3 solicited proposals were accepted. All 18 proposals were reviewed by both co-chairs and a few external reviewers were consulted.

We selected six proposals based on the following criteria: novelty, scientific interest, presenter, proposal document and target audience.

The selected tutorials are:

Beyond Structured Prediction: Inverse Reinforcement Learning (Hal Daume III)

Formal and Empirical Grammatical Inference (Jeffrey Heinz, Colin de la Higuera, and Menno van Zaanen)

Summarizing Text and Speech: Algorithms, Approaches and Issues (Ani Nenkova, Sameer Maskey , and Yang Liu)

Web Search Queries as a Corpus (Marius Pasca)

Rich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Natural Language Processing (Gregory Druck, Kuzman Ganchev, and Joao Graca)

Dual Decomposition for Natural Language Processing (Michael Collins and Alexander M Rush)

All presenters are confirmed. They will provide descriptions of the tutorials (for publicity and tutorial proceedings) by March 11, 2011 and the complete tutorial materials by April 25, 2011

'''Workshops (John Carroll and Hal Daume III)'''

This year, proposals for workshops were solicited jointly for ACL-HLT 2011 and EMNLP 2011. Acceptance and division of workshops to the two conference was easy and pleasant. Most workshops were given their first choice venue. The only time this was not the case was when the co-chairs agreed that doing so would result in an overlap in workshop topics. Review was conducted jointly by the workshop chairs of the respective conferences. In total, 32 proposals were received. Fifteen were selected for inclusion in the official ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop Program, plus CoNLL which had been pre-selected. All workshops have put up their websites, committees and calls for papers, and have START accounts for handling submissions. The workshop paper submission deadlines range from March 4 to April 1, and camera-ready copy deadlines from April 22 to May 6. Workshops chairs have been instructed to provide all relevant materials to the ACL-HLT Publications Chair by May 11 at the latest.

The workshops are:

June 23-24:

BioNLP 2011
Chairs: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Bonnie Webber
CoNLL 2011: Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Chairs: Christopher Manning, Sharon Goldwater
5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW V)
Chairs: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers

June 23:

Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages
Chairs: Ani Nenkova, Julia Hirschberg, Yang Liu
2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)
Chairs: Frank Keller, David Reitter
Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011)
Chairs: Meenakshi Nagarajan, Michael Gamon
Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE 2011)
Chairs: Valia Kordoni, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio
Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics (RELMS)
Chairs: Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid ? S?aghdha, Sebastian Pad?, Stan Szpakowicz
Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5)
Chairs: Dekai Wu
TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Chairs: Alessandro Moschitti, Irina Matveeva, Llu?s M?rquez, Fabio Zanzotto

June 24:

4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Chairs: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp, Serge Sharoff
DiSCo - Distributional Semantics and Compositionality
Chairs: Chris Biemann, Eugenie Giesbrecht, Emiliano Guevara
6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Chairs: Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock
5th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2011)
Chairs: Kalliopi Zervanou, Caroline Sporleder
Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation (Text-To-Text-2011)
Chairs: Katja Filippova, Stephen Wan
2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2.011)
Chairs: Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andr?s Montoyo, Patricio Mart?nez-Barco

'''Student Session ( Sasa Petrovic, Emily Pitler, Ethan Selfridge, Miles Osborne, Thamar Solorio)'''

Name: We have changed the name from "Student Research Workshop" to "Student Session". This was done as part of a rebranding effort in hopes of generating more submissions and greater attendance.

Program Committee Formation: The program committee list was approved by the Student Session faculty advisors on September 10, 2010. The program committee consists of 55 members, of which 31 are from North America, 20 are from Europe, and 4 are from Asia/Pacific. They represent 25 areas of NLP and computational linguistics research.

Conference Setup and Procedures: The call for papers was first uploaded to the ACL 2011 website on August 24, 2010. We also emailed it to a number of lists on Monday September 20th, 2010. The START account was also created for the submission process.

Submissions and Reviewing Procedure: We introduced a “Thesis Proposal” submission type, in addition to the traditional “Research Paper”. 57 valid submissions were received. This is the second largest number of submissions ever received. Of these, 9 were Thesis Proposals and the rest were Research Papers. All of the submissions were assigned 2 reviewers. We started the reviewing process on Monday January 31, 2011 and the reviews are due Friday, March 4, 2011.

Funding for Participants: We have been awarded funding for participants from the ACL Walker Student Fund, the European Association of Computational Linguistics, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These will be coordinated by Thamar Solorio, and a web page will be up soon with all the relevant information.

Submission Presentation: We have elected to have a poster-only session to be held in conjunction with the main ACL poster session. We are confident that this will increase the amount of feedback for participants, which is the primary goal of the Student Session. We plan to continue the tradition of non-student researcher feedback.

'''Local arrangements (Brian Roark)'''

Completed tasks:
1. Set up initial web site (no content): http://acl2011.org/
done

2. Inquiries into local dorms (Portland State U. and Reed College)
done (PSU dorms highly suitable)

3. Site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen and Graeme Hirst
done

4. Decisions on hotel/date
done (Marriott, June)

5. Decisions on banquet site and catering
done (Portland Art Museum)

5.5 Decisions on extra space arrangements for poster and parallel sessions
done (extra space available)

6. Establish local arrangements committee and convene first meeting
done

7. Finalize location and dates; sign contracts for meetings and
accommodations, pay any deposits (involves ACL Office)
done

8. Initial web site content specifying broad details of conference:
dates and site
done: acl2011.org

9. Select Exhibits Coordinator and Publicity Chair
done: Peter Heeman

10. Select local sponsorship chair and make contact with ACL
Sponsorship Committee
done: Richard Sproat

11. Finalize local dormspace at Portland State U. and/or Reed College
done: 75 rooms at PSU

12. Collect preliminary local info (describe meeting place and
accommodations, travel info, visas, weather, etc.)
done

13.More fleshed out website, with most preliminary information:
general conference announcement; preliminary local info; stubs for
calls for papers, etc.
done

14. Prepare new work plan for remainder of preparation
done

Other tasks that have been completed by local arrangement chair/committee

Set up email addresses for contact

Designed conference logo for program, posters

Coordinate with Sponsorship Chairs for corporate logos

Appoint Student Volunteer Coordinator (Christian Monson)

Appointed student housing coordinators for managing dorm space (Mahsa
and Masoud)

Arrange conference social program: confirm arrangements with banquet
and other social event providers; arrange reception and banquet

Tasks remaining to be done:
1. Set up a web page for accommodation booking
Target Completion Date: 03/01/2011
Link available for hotel; form in progress for dorms

2. Second site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen
Target Completion Date: 04/05/2011
Two day on-site visit planned to pin-down nitty-gritty decisions on banquet,
room allocations, poster session plan, etc.

3. Specific detailed room allocation for main conference,
tutorials, workshops and other meetings
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Initial rough allocation
with program chairs done; will work through details with Priscilla
during visit, then finalize in following week

4. Made a detailed plan for the Conference Handbook (making use of
designs from last few ACLs and NAACLs)
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
in progress; have appointed a student as publications coordinator

5. Set approximate registration deadlines and costs
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

6. Plan registration process
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

8. Plan on-site process, staff needs, etc.
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

9. Organize conference bag or other gimicks
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

10. Make a detailed budget for local costs
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

'''Demos (Sadao Kurohashi)'''

The demo session has had 46 submissions. Thanks to the previous demo
chair's advise, we collected enough size of demo committee beforehand
(23), and the reviewing is about to start. Reviews are due March 21,
and the final decision will be announced April 1.

As a new attempt, we are planning to ask accepted demo-ers to make a
one-minute video clip for the advertisement (optional), and put them
on the screen before main sessions (during the break) and on a minitor
beside the reception desk.

'''Publications (Zhou Guodong)'''

The publication committee had submitted formatting instructions, author instructions and style files to the program committee and web master before the first official Call for Paper. Besides, we have initially coordinated with the workshop and tutorial chairs for the inclusion of workshop proceedings and tutorials. Specifically, we hope that the tutorial speakers can provide their tutorial PPTs to be included in the conference proceedings this year, instead of only brief abstracts. We will provide a basic PPT template before early-April so that the tutorial speakers can conform to it.

Although we are not going to publish paper copies of the proceedings this year, we still need to co-work with the local committee for the publication of CDROMs and program handbook (which includes local information as well as program schedules, and so on). Some such details will therefore be negotiated with the local committee from early-April.

Before the camera ready due, we will also continuously watch and coordinate the publication needs of the various co-events, including workshops, tutorials, demos, exhibitions, student research workshops and local information. And ensure the correctness and consistent style of the e-copies of the proceedings.

We will then get familiar with ACLPUB in the START system starting from early April and begin to compile the proceedings starting from Mid-April after the camera ready date.

2011Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2011-03-01T21:32:57Z

IdoDagan:

'''Issues for Future Consideration - Coordinating Committee Chair (Ido Dagan)'''

''Note - March 1st: the PC Chairs report is not yet included here for formatting reasons, and is first circulated separately to the exec members.
''

The report below was written by the various chairs of ACL-2011. It was consolidated by Dekang Lin, the General Chair, and it covers all aspects of this year’s conference. Here are a few points that came up this year and should be brought to the Exec’s attention with respect to future conferences:

=== Policy on the days of co-locating events: based on a certain event this year there is a recommendation to allow, by default, that co-locating events would occur only outside the 6 days of the official conference, to avoid competition with the events organized by the conference itself (this does not include traditionally coordinated events that overlap the workshop days, such as EMNLP and CoNLL). See a separate message to the exec in this matter.

=== Policy on joint submission and reviewing of workshop proposals by ACL and other ACL-related conferences on the same year: This year the workshop proposals process was run jointly by ACL and EMNLP. It seemingly was a positive experience, more than in the last couple of years where the conclusions were mixed, possibly thanks to some improved procedures. We expect a detailed report in this matter for the Portland Exec meeting, which will hopefully support more definite conclusions.

=== Publishing tutorial notes: It seemed like a good idea to make the tutorials notes publicly available, but it wasn’t fully clear where they should be put and at what timing, and there has been a discussion of this issue in the last few days. Having a consistent policy is desired, and Drago will bring up this issue. See the report of the publications chairs below for their intentions for this year.

=== A small number of Asian Student Session reviewers (see figures below): This is regrettable. Adding a sentence about the geo balance in the Wiki page about
SRW chair duty will help avoid this problem in the future.

'''General Chair (Dekang Lin)'''

All the roles in the organizing committee were filled before July
2010. Thanks to the work of all the chairs, the conference
organization is proceeding smoothly.

'''Tutorial Co-Chairs (Patrick Pantel and Andy Way)'''

We received 18 proposals before the deadline of December 17, 2010. Email was used for handling submissions with email acknowledgement of receipt of proposals as stated in the CFP. Following advice from previous tutorial chairs, we solicited three proposals. We were very careful to encourage these proposals but at the same time warn that there was no guarantee of acceptance because all proposals would be subject to the same reviewing process. 1 out of the 3 solicited proposals were accepted. All 18 proposals were reviewed by both co-chairs and a few external reviewers were consulted.

We selected six proposals based on the following criteria: novelty, scientific interest, presenter, proposal document and target audience.

The selected tutorials are:

Beyond Structured Prediction: Inverse Reinforcement Learning (Hal Daume III)

Formal and Empirical Grammatical Inference (Jeffrey Heinz, Colin de la Higuera, and Menno van Zaanen)

Summarizing Text and Speech: Algorithms, Approaches and Issues (Ani Nenkova, Sameer Maskey , and Yang Liu)

Web Search Queries as a Corpus (Marius Pasca)

Rich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Natural Language Processing (Gregory Druck, Kuzman Ganchev, and Joao Graca)

Dual Decomposition for Natural Language Processing (Michael Collins and Alexander M Rush)

All presenters are confirmed. They will provide descriptions of the tutorials (for publicity and tutorial proceedings) by March 11, 2011 and the complete tutorial materials by April 25, 2011

'''Workshops (John Carroll and Hal Daume III)'''

This year, proposals for workshops were solicited jointly for ACL-HLT 2011 and EMNLP 2011. Acceptance and division of workshops to the two conference was easy and pleasant. Most workshops were given their first choice venue. The only time this was not the case was when the co-chairs agreed that doing so would result in an overlap in workshop topics. Review was conducted jointly by the workshop chairs of the respective conferences. In total, 32 proposals were received. Fifteen were selected for inclusion in the official ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop Program, plus CoNLL which had been pre-selected. All workshops have put up their websites, committees and calls for papers, and have START accounts for handling submissions. The workshop paper submission deadlines range from March 4 to April 1, and camera-ready copy deadlines from April 22 to May 6. Workshops chairs have been instructed to provide all relevant materials to the ACL-HLT Publications Chair by May 11 at the latest.

The workshops are:

June 23-24:

BioNLP 2011
Chairs: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Bonnie Webber
CoNLL 2011: Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Chairs: Christopher Manning, Sharon Goldwater
5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW V)
Chairs: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers

June 23:

Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages
Chairs: Ani Nenkova, Julia Hirschberg, Yang Liu
2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)
Chairs: Frank Keller, David Reitter
Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011)
Chairs: Meenakshi Nagarajan, Michael Gamon
Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE 2011)
Chairs: Valia Kordoni, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio
Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics (RELMS)
Chairs: Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid ? S?aghdha, Sebastian Pad?, Stan Szpakowicz
Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5)
Chairs: Dekai Wu
TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Chairs: Alessandro Moschitti, Irina Matveeva, Llu?s M?rquez, Fabio Zanzotto

June 24:

4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Chairs: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp, Serge Sharoff
DiSCo - Distributional Semantics and Compositionality
Chairs: Chris Biemann, Eugenie Giesbrecht, Emiliano Guevara
6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Chairs: Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock
5th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2011)
Chairs: Kalliopi Zervanou, Caroline Sporleder
Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation (Text-To-Text-2011)
Chairs: Katja Filippova, Stephen Wan
2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2.011)
Chairs: Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andr?s Montoyo, Patricio Mart?nez-Barco

'''Student Session ( Sasa Petrovic, Emily Pitler, Ethan Selfridge, Miles Osborne, Thamar Solorio)'''

Name: We have changed the name from "Student Research Workshop" to "Student Session". This was done as part of a rebranding effort in hopes of generating more submissions and greater attendance.

Program Committee Formation: The program committee list was approved by the Student Session faculty advisors on September 10, 2010. The program committee consists of 55 members, of which 31 are from North America, 20 are from Europe, and 4 are from Asia/Pacific. They represent 25 areas of NLP and computational linguistics research.

Conference Setup and Procedures: The call for papers was first uploaded to the ACL 2011 website on August 24, 2010. We also emailed it to a number of lists on Monday September 20th, 2010. The START account was also created for the submission process.

Submissions and Reviewing Procedure: We introduced a “Thesis Proposal” submission type, in addition to the traditional “Research Paper”. 57 valid submissions were received. This is the second largest number of submissions ever received. Of these, 9 were Thesis Proposals and the rest were Research Papers. All of the submissions were assigned 2 reviewers. We started the reviewing process on Monday January 31, 2011 and the reviews are due Friday, March 4, 2011.

Funding for Participants: We have been awarded funding for participants from the ACL Walker Student Fund, the European Association of Computational Linguistics, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These will be coordinated by Thamar Solorio, and a web page will be up soon with all the relevant information.

Submission Presentation: We have elected to have a poster-only session to be held in conjunction with the main ACL poster session. We are confident that this will increase the amount of feedback for participants, which is the primary goal of the Student Session. We plan to continue the tradition of non-student researcher feedback.

'''Local arrangements (Brian Roark)'''

Completed tasks:
1. Set up initial web site (no content): http://acl2011.org/
done

2. Inquiries into local dorms (Portland State U. and Reed College)
done (PSU dorms highly suitable)

3. Site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen and Graeme Hirst
done

4. Decisions on hotel/date
done (Marriott, June)

5. Decisions on banquet site and catering
done (Portland Art Museum)

5.5 Decisions on extra space arrangements for poster and parallel sessions
done (extra space available)

6. Establish local arrangements committee and convene first meeting
done

7. Finalize location and dates; sign contracts for meetings and
accommodations, pay any deposits (involves ACL Office)
done

8. Initial web site content specifying broad details of conference:
dates and site
done: acl2011.org

9. Select Exhibits Coordinator and Publicity Chair
done: Peter Heeman

10. Select local sponsorship chair and make contact with ACL
Sponsorship Committee
done: Richard Sproat

11. Finalize local dormspace at Portland State U. and/or Reed College
done: 75 rooms at PSU

12. Collect preliminary local info (describe meeting place and
accommodations, travel info, visas, weather, etc.)
done

13.More fleshed out website, with most preliminary information:
general conference announcement; preliminary local info; stubs for
calls for papers, etc.
done

14. Prepare new work plan for remainder of preparation
done

Other tasks that have been completed by local arrangement chair/committee

Set up email addresses for contact

Designed conference logo for program, posters

Coordinate with Sponsorship Chairs for corporate logos

Appoint Student Volunteer Coordinator (Christian Monson)

Appointed student housing coordinators for managing dorm space (Mahsa
and Masoud)

Arrange conference social program: confirm arrangements with banquet
and other social event providers; arrange reception and banquet

Tasks remaining to be done:
1. Set up a web page for accommodation booking
Target Completion Date: 03/01/2011
Link available for hotel; form in progress for dorms

2. Second site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen
Target Completion Date: 04/05/2011
Two day on-site visit planned to pin-down nitty-gritty decisions on banquet,
room allocations, poster session plan, etc.

3. Specific detailed room allocation for main conference,
tutorials, workshops and other meetings
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Initial rough allocation
with program chairs done; will work through details with Priscilla
during visit, then finalize in following week

4. Made a detailed plan for the Conference Handbook (making use of
designs from last few ACLs and NAACLs)
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
in progress; have appointed a student as publications coordinator

5. Set approximate registration deadlines and costs
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

6. Plan registration process
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

8. Plan on-site process, staff needs, etc.
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

9. Organize conference bag or other gimicks
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

10. Make a detailed budget for local costs
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

'''Demos (Sadao Kurohashi)'''

The demo session has had 46 submissions. Thanks to the previous demo
chair's advise, we collected enough size of demo committee beforehand
(23), and the reviewing is about to start. Reviews are due March 21,
and the final decision will be announced April 1.

As a new attempt, we are planning to ask accepted demo-ers to make a
one-minute video clip for the advertisement (optional), and put them
on the screen before main sessions (during the break) and on a minitor
beside the reception desk.

'''Publications (Zhou Guodong)'''

The publication committee had submitted formatting instructions, author instructions and style files to the program committee and web master before the first official Call for Paper. Besides, we have initially coordinated with the workshop and tutorial chairs for the inclusion of workshop proceedings and tutorials. Specifically, we hope that the tutorial speakers can provide their tutorial PPTs to be included in the conference proceedings this year, instead of only brief abstracts. We will provide a basic PPT template before early-April so that the tutorial speakers can conform to it.

Although we are not going to publish paper copies of the proceedings this year, we still need to co-work with the local committee for the publication of CDROMs and program handbook (which includes local information as well as program schedules, and so on). Some such details will therefore be negotiated with the local committee from early-April.

Before the camera ready due, we will also continuously watch and coordinate the publication needs of the various co-events, including workshops, tutorials, demos, exhibitions, student research workshops and local information. And ensure the correctness and consistent style of the e-copies of the proceedings.

We will then get familiar with ACLPUB in the START system starting from early April and begin to compile the proceedings starting from Mid-April after the camera ready date.

2011Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2011-03-01T20:49:38Z

IdoDagan: New page: '''Issues for Future Consideration - Coordinating Committee Chair (Ido Dagan)''' The report below was written by the various chairs of ACL-2011. It was consolidated by Dekang Lin, the Gen...

'''Issues for Future Consideration - Coordinating Committee Chair (Ido Dagan)'''

The report below was written by the various chairs of ACL-2011. It was consolidated by Dekang Lin, the General Chair, and it covers all aspects of this year’s conference. Here are a few points that came up this year and should be brought to the Exec’s attention with respect to future conferences:

=== Policy on the days of co-locating events: based on a certain event this year there is a recommendation to allow, by default, that co-locating events would occur only outside the 6 days of the official conference, to avoid competition with the events organized by the conference itself (this does not include traditionally coordinated events that overlap the workshop days, such as EMNLP and CoNLL). See a separate message to the exec in this matter.

=== Policy on joint submission and reviewing of workshop proposals by ACL and other ACL-related conferences on the same year: This year the workshop proposals process was run jointly by ACL and EMNLP. It seemingly was a positive experience, more than in the last couple of years where the conclusions were mixed, possibly thanks to some improved procedures. We expect a detailed report in this matter for the Portland Exec meeting, which will hopefully support more definite conclusions.

=== Publishing tutorial notes: It seemed like a good idea to make the tutorials notes publicly available, but it wasn’t fully clear where they should be put and at what timing, and there has been a discussion of this issue in the last few days. Having a consistent policy is desired, and Drago will bring up this issue. See the report of the publications chairs below for their intentions for this year.

=== A small number of Asian Student Session reviewers (see figures below): This is regrettable. Adding a sentence about the geo balance in the Wiki page about
SRW chair duty will help avoid this problem in the future.

'''General Chair (Dekang Lin)'''

All the roles in the organizing committee were filled before July
2010. Thanks to the work of all the chairs, the conference
organization is proceeding smoothly.

'''Tutorial Co-Chairs (Patrick Pantel and Andy Way)'''

We received 18 proposals before the deadline of December 17, 2010. Email was used for handling submissions with email acknowledgement of receipt of proposals as stated in the CFP. Following advice from previous tutorial chairs, we solicited three proposals. We were very careful to encourage these proposals but at the same time warn that there was no guarantee of acceptance because all proposals would be subject to the same reviewing process. 1 out of the 3 solicited proposals were accepted. All 18 proposals were reviewed by both co-chairs and a few external reviewers were consulted.

We selected six proposals based on the following criteria: novelty, scientific interest, presenter, proposal document and target audience.

The selected tutorials are:

Beyond Structured Prediction: Inverse Reinforcement Learning (Hal Daume III)

Formal and Empirical Grammatical Inference (Jeffrey Heinz, Colin de la Higuera, and Menno van Zaanen)

Summarizing Text and Speech: Algorithms, Approaches and Issues (Ani Nenkova, Sameer Maskey , and Yang Liu)

Web Search Queries as a Corpus (Marius Pasca)

Rich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Natural Language Processing (Gregory Druck, Kuzman Ganchev, and Joao Graca)

Dual Decomposition for Natural Language Processing (Michael Collins and Alexander M Rush)

All presenters are confirmed. They will provide descriptions of the tutorials (for publicity and tutorial proceedings) by March 11, 2011 and the complete tutorial materials by April 25, 2011

'''Workshops (John Carroll and Hal Daume III)'''

This year, proposals for workshops were solicited jointly for ACL-HLT 2011 and EMNLP 2011. Acceptance and division of workshops to the two conference was easy and pleasant. Most workshops were given their first choice venue. The only time this was not the case was when the co-chairs agreed that doing so would result in an overlap in workshop topics. Review was conducted jointly by the workshop chairs of the respective conferences. In total, 32 proposals were received. Fifteen were selected for inclusion in the official ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop Program, plus CoNLL which had been pre-selected. All workshops have put up their websites, committees and calls for papers, and have START accounts for handling submissions. The workshop paper submission deadlines range from March 4 to April 1, and camera-ready copy deadlines from April 22 to May 6. Workshops chairs have been instructed to provide all relevant materials to the ACL-HLT Publications Chair by May 11 at the latest.

The workshops are:

June 23-24:

BioNLP 2011
Chairs: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Bonnie Webber
CoNLL 2011: Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Chairs: Christopher Manning, Sharon Goldwater
5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW V)
Chairs: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers

June 23:

Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages
Chairs: Ani Nenkova, Julia Hirschberg, Yang Liu
2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)
Chairs: Frank Keller, David Reitter
Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011)
Chairs: Meenakshi Nagarajan, Michael Gamon
Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE 2011)
Chairs: Valia Kordoni, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio
Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics (RELMS)
Chairs: Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid ? S?aghdha, Sebastian Pad?, Stan Szpakowicz
Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5)
Chairs: Dekai Wu
TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Chairs: Alessandro Moschitti, Irina Matveeva, Llu?s M?rquez, Fabio Zanzotto

June 24:

4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Chairs: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp, Serge Sharoff
DiSCo - Distributional Semantics and Compositionality
Chairs: Chris Biemann, Eugenie Giesbrecht, Emiliano Guevara
6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Chairs: Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock
5th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2011)
Chairs: Kalliopi Zervanou, Caroline Sporleder
Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation (Text-To-Text-2011)
Chairs: Katja Filippova, Stephen Wan
2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2.011)
Chairs: Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andr?s Montoyo, Patricio Mart?nez-Barco

'''Student Session ( Sasa Petrovic, Emily Pitler, Ethan Selfridge, Miles Osborne, Thamar Solorio)'''

Name: We have changed the name from "Student Research Workshop" to "Student Session". This was done as part of a rebranding effort in hopes of generating more submissions and greater attendance.

Program Committee Formation: The program committee list was approved by the Student Session faculty advisors on September 10, 2010. The program committee consists of 55 members, of which 31 are from North America, 20 are from Europe, and 4 are from Asia/Pacific. They represent 25 areas of NLP and computational linguistics research.

Conference Setup and Procedures: The call for papers was first uploaded to the ACL 2011 website on August 24, 2010. We also emailed it to a number of lists on Monday September 20th, 2010. The START account was also created for the submission process.

Submissions and Reviewing Procedure: We introduced a “Thesis Proposal” submission type, in addition to the traditional “Research Paper”. 57 valid submissions were received. This is the second largest number of submissions ever received. Of these, 9 were Thesis Proposals and the rest were Research Papers. All of the submissions were assigned 2 reviewers. We started the reviewing process on Monday January 31, 2011 and the reviews are due Friday, March 4, 2011.

Funding for Participants: We have been awarded funding for participants from the ACL Walker Student Fund, the European Association of Computational Linguistics, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These will be coordinated by Thamar Solorio, and a web page will be up soon with all the relevant information.

Submission Presentation: We have elected to have a poster-only session to be held in conjunction with the main ACL poster session. We are confident that this will increase the amount of feedback for participants, which is the primary goal of the Student Session. We plan to continue the tradition of non-student researcher feedback.

'''Local arrangements (Brian Roark)'''

Completed tasks:
1. Set up initial web site (no content): http://acl2011.org/
done

2. Inquiries into local dorms (Portland State U. and Reed College)
done (PSU dorms highly suitable)

3. Site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen and Graeme Hirst
done

4. Decisions on hotel/date
done (Marriott, June)

5. Decisions on banquet site and catering
done (Portland Art Museum)

5.5 Decisions on extra space arrangements for poster and parallel sessions
done (extra space available)

6. Establish local arrangements committee and convene first meeting
done

7. Finalize location and dates; sign contracts for meetings and
accommodations, pay any deposits (involves ACL Office)
done

8. Initial web site content specifying broad details of conference:
dates and site
done: acl2011.org

9. Select Exhibits Coordinator and Publicity Chair
done: Peter Heeman

10. Select local sponsorship chair and make contact with ACL
Sponsorship Committee
done: Richard Sproat

11. Finalize local dormspace at Portland State U. and/or Reed College
done: 75 rooms at PSU

12. Collect preliminary local info (describe meeting place and
accommodations, travel info, visas, weather, etc.)
done

13.More fleshed out website, with most preliminary information:
general conference announcement; preliminary local info; stubs for
calls for papers, etc.
done

14. Prepare new work plan for remainder of preparation
done

Other tasks that have been completed by local arrangement chair/committee

Set up email addresses for contact

Designed conference logo for program, posters

Coordinate with Sponsorship Chairs for corporate logos

Appoint Student Volunteer Coordinator (Christian Monson)

Appointed student housing coordinators for managing dorm space (Mahsa
and Masoud)

Arrange conference social program: confirm arrangements with banquet
and other social event providers; arrange reception and banquet

Tasks remaining to be done:
1. Set up a web page for accommodation booking
Target Completion Date: 03/01/2011
Link available for hotel; form in progress for dorms

2. Second site visit by Priscilla Rasmussen
Target Completion Date: 04/05/2011
Two day on-site visit planned to pin-down nitty-gritty decisions on banquet,
room allocations, poster session plan, etc.

3. Specific detailed room allocation for main conference,
tutorials, workshops and other meetings
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Initial rough allocation
with program chairs done; will work through details with Priscilla
during visit, then finalize in following week

4. Made a detailed plan for the Conference Handbook (making use of
designs from last few ACLs and NAACLs)
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
in progress; have appointed a student as publications coordinator

5. Set approximate registration deadlines and costs
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

6. Plan registration process
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

8. Plan on-site process, staff needs, etc.
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

9. Organize conference bag or other gimicks
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

10. Make a detailed budget for local costs
Target Completion Date: 04/15/2011
Will work with Priscilla on this

'''Demos (Sadao Kurohashi)'''

The demo session has had 46 submissions. Thanks to the previous demo
chair's advise, we collected enough size of demo committee beforehand
(23), and the reviewing is about to start. Reviews are due March 21,
and the final decision will be announced April 1.

As a new attempt, we are planning to ask accepted demo-ers to make a
one-minute video clip for the advertisement (optional), and put them
on the screen before main sessions (during the break) and on a minitor
beside the reception desk.

'''Publications (Zhou Guodong)'''

The publication committee had submitted formatting instructions, author instructions and style files to the program committee and web master before the first official Call for Paper. Besides, we have initially coordinated with the workshop and tutorial chairs for the inclusion of workshop proceedings and tutorials. Specifically, we hope that the tutorial speakers can provide their tutorial PPTs to be included in the conference proceedings this year, instead of only brief abstracts. We will provide a basic PPT template before early-April so that the tutorial speakers can conform to it.

Although we are not going to publish paper copies of the proceedings this year, we still need to co-work with the local committee for the publication of CDROMs and program handbook (which includes local information as well as program schedules, and so on). Some such details will therefore be negotiated with the local committee from early-April.

Before the camera ready due, we will also continuously watch and coordinate the publication needs of the various co-events, including workshops, tutorials, demos, exhibitions, student research workshops and local information. And ensure the correctness and consistent style of the e-copies of the proceedings.

We will then get familiar with ACLPUB in the START system starting from early April and begin to compile the proceedings starting from Mid-April after the camera ready date.

2010Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2010-03-08T19:33:15Z

IdoDagan:

Progress report for ACL 2011 – March 2010

Most activity till now was at the local organization level, which progresses by the plan. Some recent updates:

Local organizing committee:

Committee formed, including:
* Richard Sproat - local sponsorship
* Peter Heeman - local publicity
* Christian Monson - a post-doc, student volunteer program
* Kim Basney - local financial contact.
* Nate Bodenstab - a graduate student, webmaster.

Next actions: Peter and Nate will work to get more information on the website over the next few months, and Richard will make contact with Srini and others on the non-local sponsorship committee.

Contracts:

The contract with the hotel has been signed. Contracts for auxiliary locations for parallel session and poster session and the banquet/catering will be signed very soon. We are working to finalize dormspace arrangements with Portland State University, which looked very nice (and cheap!) during the site visit.

Other actions:

Initial website formed, specifying broad details of conference: dates and site. Work in progress to collect more publicity info and put on website.

General Chair selected: Dekang Lin

Immediate next steps: Select program chairs and all other chairs.

Action item to be endorsed by Exec:

Update and adopt policy for joint committee for workshops at all conferences of a given year, with early solicitation of large SIG workshops. For 2011 it’s only ACL and EMNLP (EMNLP workshops were not handled in the 2010 cross-conference committee, but may be included in 2011 if their plans are clarified soon). This action to be coordinated with SIG chair.

2010Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2010-03-08T19:32:36Z

IdoDagan:

Progress report for ACL 2011 – March 2010

Most activity till now was at the local organization level, which progresses by the plan. Some recent updates:

Local organizing committee:

Committee formed, including:
Richard Sproat - local sponsorship
Peter Heeman - local publicity
Christian Monson - a post-doc, student volunteer program
Kim Basney - local financial contact.
Nate Bodenstab - a graduate student, webmaster.

Next actions: Peter and Nate will work to get more information on the website over the next few months, and Richard will make contact with Srini and others on the non-local sponsorship committee.

Contracts:

The contract with the hotel has been signed. Contracts for auxiliary locations for parallel session and poster session and the banquet/catering will be signed very soon. We are working to finalize dormspace arrangements with Portland State University, which looked very nice (and cheap!) during the site visit.

Other actions:

Initial website formed, specifying broad details of conference: dates and site. Work in progress to collect more publicity info and put on website.

General Chair selected: Dekang Lin

Immediate next steps: Select program chairs and all other chairs.

Action item to be endorsed by Exec:

Update and adopt policy for joint committee for workshops at all conferences of a given year, with early solicitation of large SIG workshops. For 2011 it’s only ACL and EMNLP (EMNLP workshops were not handled in the 2010 cross-conference committee, but may be included in 2011 if their plans are clarified soon). This action to be coordinated with SIG chair.

2010Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2010-03-08T19:31:48Z

IdoDagan:

Progress report for ACL 2011 – March 2010

Most activity till now was at the local organization level, which progresses by the plan. Some recent updates:

Local organizing committee:

Committee formed, including:
Richard Sproat - local sponsorship
Peter Heeman - local publicity
Christian Monson - a post-doc, student volunteer program
Kim Basney - local financial contact.
Nate Bodenstab - a graduate student, webmaster.

Next actions: Peter and Nate will work to get more information on the website over the next few months, and Richard will make contact with Srini and others on the non-local sponsorship committee.

Contracts:

The contract with the hotel has been signed. Contracts for auxiliary locations for parallel session and poster session and the banquet/catering will be signed very soon. We are working to finalize dormspace arrangements with Portland State University, which looked very nice (and cheap!) during the site visit.

Other actions:

Initial website formed, specifying broad details of conference: dates and site. Work in progress to collect more publicity info and put on website.

General Chair selected: Dekang Lin

Immediate next steps: Select program chairs and all other chairs.

Action item to be endorsed by Exec:

Update and adopt policy for joint committee for workshops at all conferences of a given year, with early solicitation of large SIG workshops. For 2011 it’s only ACL and EMNLP (EMNLP workshops were not handled in the 2010 cross-conference committee, but may be included in 2011 if their plans are clarified soon). This action to be coordinated with SIG chair.

2010Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2010-03-08T19:25:06Z

IdoDagan: New page: Progress report for ACL 2011 – March 2010 Most activity till now was at the local organization level, which progresses by the plan. Some recent updates: Local organizing committee: Co...

Progress report for ACL 2011 – March 2010

Most activity till now was at the local organization level, which progresses by the plan. Some recent updates:

Local organizing committee:

Committee formed, including:
Richard Sproat - local sponsorship
Peter Heeman - local publicity
Christian Monson - a post-doc, student volunteer program
Kim Basney - local financial contact.
Nate Bodenstab - a graduate student, webmaster.

Next actions: Peter and Nate will work to get more information on the website over the next few months, and Richard will make contact with Srini and others on the non-local sponsorship committee.

Contracts:
The contract with the hotel has been signed. Contracts for auxiliary locations for parallel session and poster session and the banquet/catering will be signed very soon. We are working to finalize dormspace arrangements with Portland State University, which looked very nice (and cheap!) during the site visit.

Other actions:
Initial website formed, specifying broad details of conference: dates and site. Work in progress to collect more publicity info and put on website.

General Chair selected: Dekang Lin

Immediate next steps:
Select program chairs and all other chairs.

Action item to be endorsed by Exec:
Update and adopt policy for joint committee for workshops at all conferences of a given year, with early solicitation of large SIG workshops. For 2011 it’s only ACL and EMNLP (EMNLP workshops were not handled in the 2010 cross-conference committee, but may be included in 2011 if their plans are clarified soon). This action to be coordinated with SIG chair.

2009Q3 Reports: SIG Convener

2009-07-09T19:00:41Z

IdoDagan:

SIG Convener Report 2009-Q3

Ido Dagan

The number of ACL SIGs is currently 16, with two new SIGs established in 2009:

* SIGMT (Machine Translation)
* SIGFSM (Finite State Methods)

The proposals to establish these SIGs, along with their proposed constitutions, were reviewed by the SIG Convener and the ACL Exec, and were approved by the Exec after some discussion and interaction with the SIG initiators.

Details and links for all SIGs can be found at http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance

Another major activity in 2009 was the approval of a constitution for SIGDAT. Historically, SIGDAT has been operating by a structure that was different than specified in the ACL SIG template constitution. The discrepancies were resolved after some mutual discussion between ACL and SIGDAT, yielding a revised constitution which was approved.

All SIGs have submitted their annual reports. Overall, the ACL SIGs seem healthy and very active, running many initiatives and events. Following Steven Bird’s effort in 2008, all SIGs have formed their constitution, most of them conducting elections in accordance with their constitutions.

SIGNLL and SIGHAN have proposed to conduct large SIG workshops in 2010.

2009Q3 Reports: SIG Convener

2009-07-09T14:30:32Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIG Convener Report 2009-Q3 Ido Dagan The number of ACL SIGs is currently 16, with two new SIGs established in 2009: * SIGMT (Machine Translation) * SIGFSM (Finite State Methods) The p...

SIG Convener Report 2009-Q3

Ido Dagan

The number of ACL SIGs is currently 16, with two new SIGs established in 2009:

* SIGMT (Machine Translation)
* SIGFSM (Finite State Methods)

The proposals to establish these SIGs, along with their proposed constitutions, were reviewed by the SIG Convener and the ACL Exec, and were approved by the Exec after some discussion and interaction with the SIG initiators.

Details and links for all SIGs can be found at http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance

Another major activity in 2009 was the approval of a constitution for SIGDAT. Traditionally, SIGDAT operated by a structure that was not consistent with the ACL template constitution. The discrepancies were resolved after some discussion between ACL and SIGDAT, and a revised constitution was approved. The SIGDAT officers are expected to publish the approved constitution on SIGDAT’s website.

All SIGs, except for SIGDAT, have submitted their annual reports. Overall, the ACL SIGs seem healthy and very active, running many initiatives and events. Following Steven Bird’s effort in 2008, all SIGs have formed their constitution, most of them conducting elections in accordance with their constitutions.

SIGNLL and SIGHAN have proposed to conduct large SIG workshops in 2010.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2009-07-09T14:20:25Z

IdoDagan:

SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/ sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 200 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

Elections will be held at the annual SIGANN meeting at the LAW in Singapore, in accordance with the SIGANN constitution requirement for elections every two years.

Two SIGANN working groups exist:

(1) Corpus Working Group: This group has identified and made available a small (40K) corpus representing several genres of written and spoken text, drawn from the Open American National Corpus (OANC) and therefore freely redistributable and reusable. The group is sponsoring a “shared corpus task” by calling for researchers to annotate the corpus for any phenomenon of interest, in any format, and to contribute the annotations to SIGANN. All of the annotations will be made freely available via the SIGANN site. The corpus was strategically identified so that it is part of the data being annotated by existing projects, including the ULA and ANC MASC, thereby ensuring that a base of annotations for the data exist.

(2) Best Practices working group: This group was established to begin work on the identification of best practices for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN officially organizes the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The second LAW was held at LREC 2008 in Marrakech, where it was one of the most highly attended workshops affiliated with LREC. The meeting was held over 1 1/2 days, with the first half day devoted to working group reports and open discussion. The open discussion was highly successful and provided substantial community input for the development of best practices for annotation and provision of a forum for work on resource development.

The third LAW will be a two-day workshop held in Singapore in conjunction with ACL/IJCNLP 2009. We received 43 submissions to the workshop, and accepted 10 long papers, 12 short papers, and 15 posters. The poster session is new at LAW, in order to provide a forum for work that may not be at the cutting-edge, but which is nonetheless of interest to attendees.

SIGANN Officers:

President: Nancy Ide, Vassar College

Secretary: Adam Meyers, New York University

SIGANN Committee:

Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica)

Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)

Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)

Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)

Nianwen Xue (University of Colorado)

2009Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL

2009-07-09T12:56:03Z

IdoDagan: New page: REPORT ON SIGDIAL ACTIVITIES: June 2008 to July 2009 Tim Paek, SIGDIAL President Kristiina Jokinen, SIGDIAL Secretary-Treasurer SIGDIAL is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Disc...

REPORT ON SIGDIAL ACTIVITIES: June 2008 to July 2009

Tim Paek, SIGDIAL President
Kristiina Jokinen, SIGDIAL Secretary-Treasurer

SIGDIAL is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.
More information about SIGDIAL can be found on the webpages:
http://www.sigdial.org
including an updated calendar of upcoming events, resources, and previous
reports. Members can join from the webpage, which includes participation in a
low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements).
SIGDIAL currently has 472 members from 36 countries (though we are currently
trying to filter non-active accounts). SIGDIAL is fully compliant with ACL
and ISCA guidelines for SIGs.

An election of officers and three advisory board members was held in Spring
of 2008 for a 2 year term. SIGDIAL is currently led by officers Tim Paek
(President), Amanda Stent (Vice President), and Kristiina Jokinen (Secretary-
Treasurer), and Science Advisory Committee members Mikio Nakano, Michael
McTear, David Schlangen, Candace Sidner, Janyce Wiebe and Jason Williams.
Additional positions are President Emeritus: David Traum, Information officer:
Karen Ward, SIG SLUD/JSAI liaison: Yasuhiro Katagiri, ISCA Liaison: Michael
Picheny, AVIOS Liaison: Alexander Rudnicky, SIGSEM Liaison: Harry Bunt, and
IEEE SLT Liaison: Roberto Pieraccini, Mailing List Maintainer: Laurent Romary.
Due to the opening of a separate euro-account for the Sigdial conferences and
the added responsibility of the related financial issues, the title of the
secretary was also changed to Secretary-Treasurer.

SIGDIAL has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialogue since 2000.
The last workshop was held in June 19-20, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio, just
after the ACL/HLT 2008 conference. The program chairs were Beth Ann Hockey
and David Schlangen, and Simon Keizer was local arrangements chair. More
information on SIGDIAL workshops can be found here:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/

Moving into the future, SIGDIAL recently announced that the new annual meeting
will no longer be a workshop, but rather a conference. The conference will be
held immediately following Interspeech 2007 on September 11-12, 2009 at Queen
Mary University of London. The General Co-Chairs will be Pat Healy and Roberto
Pieraccini. The Technical Co-Chairs will be Donna Byron and Steve Young. The
SIGDIAL 2009 website can be found here:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop10/.
Upon inaugurating SIGDIAL 2009 as a conference, we will be recognizing a Best
Paper Award as well as a Best Student Paper award. Submissions were closed on
May 4, and notifications of acceptance have been sent out. We received a
record number of submissions this year: 110 papers.

Several new initiatives are underway including:

* a revamped website with more resources and Wiki ability for community participation
* launching of a new open access journal specializing in dialogue and discourse
* outreach to various related research communities

SIGDIAL also endorses a number of other dialogue-related workshops and events
that are open to the general community. The SIGDIAL Endorsed events for the
upcoming year are:

* May, 2009: Towards a Standard Markup Language for Embodied Dialogue Acts (Budapest, Hungary)
* June, 2009: DiaHolmia: 2009 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Stockholm, Sweden)
* July 2009: 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems (Pasadena, CA)
* July, 2010: Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE)

Financial organisation of the SIGDial workshops co-located with the main
ACL conferences has been possible through the ACL "shadow" account. This is
managed by the ACL officers but the budget for the workshops is supervised
and agreed in cooperation with the workshop chairs and the SIGdial officers.
Financial arrangements for the meetings not co-located with ACL have been
taken care of by the chairs of the workshops through their university
accounts. The overheads generated by these events, due to an unexpectedly
large number of participants, is kept on a separate SIGDial account located
in Helsinki. The account is in euros, and it is managed by the Secretary-
Treasurer and the President.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed

2009-07-09T12:49:11Z

IdoDagan: New page: MEMBERSHIP ---------- SIGBIOMED is ACL's special interest group for Biomedical Natural Language Processing. Membership currently stands at 78, up from 39 initial members. ORGANIZATION ...

MEMBERSHIP
----------
SIGBIOMED is ACL's special interest group for Biomedical Natural Language Processing.
Membership currently stands at 78, up from 39 initial members.

ORGANIZATION
--------

The Chair and the Secretary will be elected in the fall of 2009.
In compliance with the BioNLP constitution, the first elected
Secretary will serve for 4 years.

WORKSHOP
--------
BioNLP09, held in conjunction with NAACL09, was the first BioNLP workshop under
the auspices of the newly formed SIGBIOMED and the eighth BioNLP workshop held
in conjunction with ACL conferences. Twenty-nine papers were submitted in response
to the Call for Papers, and 12 were selected for presentation as talks and 13 as posters.
The two-day BioNLP09 workshop featured submitted papers and posters on the first day
and the results of the shared task on event extraction on the second day.
Twenty-four teams submitted their results for the shared task.
Twenty papers (6 long, 7 short and 7 posters) were presented on the second day of the workshop.
The two-volume proceedings of the workshop contain all the papers and posters from both days.
Most of the 75 people registered for the workshop attended both days.

We plan proposing BioNLP10 to be held in conjunction with ACL10.

FUNDS
----------------
In 2008, we received $1,500 from NaCTeM and $2,000 from CMC.
We spent $1040 on studentships and $ 214.20 for the website
In 2009 we've got $2,000 from CMC.
We are in the process of finding out the status of our shadow fund.

To encourage future donors and to report to our current donors,
we would like to propose that ACL provides quarterly reports
about BioNLP financial accounts to the BioNLP steering committee.

WEBSITE and MAILING LIST
-----------------
We have a working [http://www.sigbiomed.org web site] that lists upcoming
events of interest to our members and links to BioNLP proceedings.
The website and the SIG mailing list will be used for holding elections in August – September 2009.
We use the BioNLP and AMIA nlp-sig mailing lists for announcements and discussions.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGANN

2009-07-09T12:44:24Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language...

SIGANN, the ACL Special Interest Group for ANNotation, is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of the creation and use of linguistic annotations for language data, and is especially interested in fostering the identification of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN has a mailing list (sigann@cs.vassar.edu) to communicate with members, a web page (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/ sigann), and a wiki (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/corpuswg). Approximately 200 people are on the SIGANN mailing list.

Two SIGANN working groups exist:

(1) Corpus Working Group: This group has identified and made available a small (40K) corpus representing several genres of written and spoken text, drawn from the Open American National Corpus (OANC) and therefore freely redistributable and reusable. The group is sponsoring a “shared corpus task” by calling for researchers to annotate the corpus for any phenomenon of interest, in any format, and to contribute the annotations to SIGANN. All of the annotations will be made freely available via the SIGANN site. The corpus was strategically identified so that it is part of the data being annotated by existing projects, including the ULA and ANC MASC, thereby ensuring that a base of annotations for the data exist.

(2) Best Practices working group: This group was established to begin work on the identification of best practices for linguistic annotation.

SIGANN officially organizes the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW). The second LAW was held at LREC 2008 in Marrakech, where it was one of the most highly attended workshops affiliated with LREC. The meeting was held over 1 1/2 days, with the first half day devoted to working group reports and open discussion. The open discussion was highly successful and provided substantial community input for the development of best practices for annotation and provision of a forum for work on resource development.

The third LAW will be a two-day workshop held in Singapore in conjunction with ACL/IJCNLP 2009. We received 43 submissions to the workshop, and accepted 10 long papers, 12 short papers, and 15 posters. The poster session is new at LAW, in order to provide a forum for work that may not be at the cutting-edge, but which is nonetheless of interest to attendees.

SIGANN Officers:

President: Nancy Ide, Vassar College

Secretary: Adam Meyers, New York University

SIGANN Committee:

Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Academia Sinica)

Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)

Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)

Manfred Stede (Universitat Potsdam)

Nianwen Xue (University of Colorado)

2009Q3 Reports: SIGMT

2009-07-09T12:42:55Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIGMT Annual Report, July 2009 --------------------------------- SIGMT was founded early 2009 as ACL's special interest group on machine translation. Currently, the main activity of SIGMT...

SIGMT Annual Report, July 2009
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SIGMT was founded early 2009 as ACL's special interest group on machine translation. Currently, the main activity of SIGMT is to co-ordinate workshops related to machine translation at ACL conferences.

In the past, there have been two successful workshop series:
* WMT (Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations) since 2006, and
* SSST (Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation) since 2007

We currently expect these workshops also to take place in 2010.
The SIG also aims to co-ordinate with other conferences and meetings on machine translation (AMTA, MT Summit, MT Marathon, ...).

The founding president is Philipp Koehn, reginal officers are Chris Callison-Burch (Americas), Marcello Federico (Europe), and Eiichiro Sumita (Asia).
Secretary is David Chiang.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE

2009-07-09T12:40:04Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIGPARSE Annual Report, July 2009 --------------------------------- SIGPARSE is ACL's special interest group on parsing. The main goal and activity of SIGPARSE is to ensure the continuit...

SIGPARSE Annual Report, July 2009
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SIGPARSE is ACL's special interest group on parsing. The main goal
and activity of SIGPARSE is to ensure the continuity of the biennial
`International Conferences on Parsing Technologies' (IWPT) series.
The last conference was the 11th in the series, held in June 2007
in Prague, Czech Republic, on the two days immediately preceding the
ACL 2007 conference. Preparations for the next conference in the
series are already in high gear. The 12th IWPT is scheduled to take
place in Paris on October 7-9, 2009. Harry Bunt is General Chair.
Eric de la Clergerie is Program Chair. Laurence Danlos is in charge
of local arrangements. The invited speakers are John Carroll, Mark
Johnson and Joakim Nivre.

Following ACL's recommendations, over the past two years, SIGPARSE
took some organizational action to ensure that it is fully complient
with the ACL guidelines for SIGs. In 2007 a constitution was
formulated, and approved both by the membership and the ACL board.
In Spring 2008 elections for the SIGPARSE board were held, for the first
time in the history of SIGPARSE. Alon Lavie was elected to the position
of President, replacing Harry Bunt, who had been acting as SIGPARSE
chair since 1993. John Carroll was elected to the position of secretary,
and Harry Bunt and Kenji Sagae were elected as information officers.
Kenji Sagae has the duty of maintaining the SIGPARSE website and
mailing list.

SIGPARSE maintains a website that contains information about the SIG,
upcoming activities, and instructions for joining the membership and
the mailing list. The website address is:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse/

Alon Lavie, SIGPARSE President, 03 July 2009.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

2009-07-09T12:34:26Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIGHAN Report 1. SIGHAN Organization SIGHAN is in the process of running its 2009 election (somewhat late). On March 28, 2009 the nominating committee (Chu-Ren Huang (chair), Benjamin...

SIGHAN Report

1. SIGHAN Organization

SIGHAN is in the process of running its 2009 election (somewhat late).
On March 28, 2009
the nominating committee (Chu-Ren Huang (chair), Benjamin Tsou, Martha Palmer, Richard Sproat, Maosong Sun) nominated the below slate of candidates.
Nominations were then opened for the general membership to nominate additional candidates. No additional nominations were received, and on July 2, 2009, the SIGHAN Secretary, Gina-Anne Levow, opened an on-line election with this slate as candidates. Voting will close on July 24, 2009.

Chair:
Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University, CA

Vice-Chair /Chair-Elect:
Hsin-hsi CHEN, National Taiwan University

Treasurer:
SUN Maosong, Tsinghua University

Secretary/Web Master:
Gina Levow, University of Manchester, UK

'''Information Officers:'''

China (Two positions):
SUI Zhifang, Peking University
ZONG Chengqing, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hong Kong SAR (Two positions):
Olivia KWONG, City University of Hong Kong LU Qin, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Singapore (One Position):
NG Hwee Tou, National University of Singapore

Taiwan (One position):
Shu-Chuan TSENG, Academia Sinica

United States (One position):
Nianwen XUE, Brandeis University

2. Upcoming conference plans

SiGHAN did not have a meeting in 2009. Since COLING-2010 is in Beijing, SIGHAN is planning an extra-large meeting in Beijing co-located with COLING, hence August 21-22. Details, including finding an organizing committee/program committee chair, as well as a bakeoff chair, will be worked out this summer.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON

2009-07-09T12:03:25Z

IdoDagan: New page: 2008-2009 Annual Report SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) Jason Eisner MEMBERSHIP ---------- SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational mor...

2008-2009 Annual Report
SIGMORPHON (Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics) Jason Eisner

MEMBERSHIP
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SIGMORPHON is ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Membership currently stands at 96, up from 55/73/90 in July 2006/2007/2008 respectively.

WORKSHOP
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We have customarily held workshops in even-numbered years. In keeping with this schedule, we will propose to hold our 11th SIG workshop at one of the 2010 conferences. We are currently discussing possible special themes and shared tasks.

ONLINE ACTIVITIES
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sigmorphon.org serves the community by maintaining a mailing list and
(outdated) online bibliographies at its web site. We are considering adding some tutorial materials for newcomers to the field. We also plan to continue advertising the SIG's expanded scope in order to recruit new members to the SIG and increase discussion on its mailing list.

UPCOMING ELECTIONS
---------
Our current board's term will expire on February 4, 2010. In keeping with the SIG Constitution, we will hold new elections on the following
schedule:

Monday October 12, 2009: Nomination period begins Monday November 30, 2009: Nomination period ends Friday December 4, 2009: Voting period begins (for any contested positions) Thursday February 4, 2010: Voting period closes

2009Q3 Reports: SIGNLL

2009-07-09T11:57:45Z

IdoDagan: New page: '''ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2008-2009)''' The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational modeli...

'''ACL SIGNLL Annual Report (2008-2009)'''

The goals of SIGNLL, ACL's special interest group on natural language
learning, are to promote and inform about research on computational
modeling of learning in natural language. These are served by (i) the
maintenance of an informative and up-to-date website and associated
mailing list, and (ii) the organization of annual events (the CoNLL
conference and the CoNLL shared task), and support of other related
activities.

The web-pages, located at URL http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and
maintained by Erik Tjong Kim Sang, remain an important source of
information, complemented by an email list for announcements for
SIGNLL-related events. On the web-site, links can be found to relevant
associations, networks, research cooperations, research departments,
groups, institutes, mailing lists, archives, journals, bulletins,
conference reports, online papers (including all papers of all CoNLL
proceedings), online courses and slides, bibliographies, software,
corpora, companies, meta-information sources, etc.

Currently, SIGNLL has 304 members, with ~20 new registrations in 2009.
Current SIGNLL officers are Lluís Màrquez (President), Joakim Nivre
(Secretary), and Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Information Officer). The SIGNLL
Steering Committee is composed by Antal van den Bosch, Claire Cardie,
Walter Daelemans, Hwee Tou Ng, David Powers, and Dan Roth. SIGNLL also
has a larger international Advisory Board (see
http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/#officers for a complete description of
SIGNLL officers and boards). David Yarowsky acts as the SIGDAT Liaison
Representative.

'''Main activities during the 2008-2009 period'''

* The Thirteenth SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL-2009, was held in Boulder, Colorado, 4-5 June 2009, in conjunction with NAACL-HLT. Program chairs were Suzanne Stevenson and Xavier Carreras. The special topic of interest was on unsupervised, minimally supervised and semi-supervised methods in natural language learning, as well as on incremental learning methods. From the 70 submissions received, 15 were selected to appear in the conference program as oral presentations, and 10 were chosen as posters. The invited speakers, Michael Frank and Andrew McCallum, reflected the state-of-the-art in human and machine learning of natural language. The CoNLL-2009 best paper award was sponsored by Google. More information can be found at the conference website http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2009/

* The CoNLL-2009 shared task (Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple Languages) focused, for the second time, on the joint learning of syntactic and semantic dependencies. This is an extension of the CoNLL-2008 shared task to multiple languages (English plus Catalan, Chinese, Czech, German, Japanese and Spanish). Among the new features are compatible evaluation for several languages and their comparison, and learning curves for languages with large datasets. The task was organized by a large team, leaded by Jan Hajic (as general chair) and Massimiliano Ciaramita (as publication and PC chair). The call attracted over 60 teams, out of which 20 submitted results and 18 presented a system description paper. The Shared Task papers are collected into an accompanying volume of CoNLL-2009. The task maintains its own website, http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/conll2009-st, where all the details (including results) can be found.

* As an indicator of the impact of the CoNLL conference (and its associated shared task) in the research community, we are glad to report that CoNLL was ranked 17th out of 701 (top 3%) on a list of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Robotics/Human Computer Interaction conferences (http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/conferencerankings/topicsii.html)

* SIGNLL has also endorsed the NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop "Active Learning for NLP", organized by Eric Ringger, Robbie Haertel, and Katrin Tomanek. (http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Workshop_on_Active_Learning_for_NLP)

* SIGNLL has expressed the preference for organizing CoNLL-2010 as a co-located event with ACL-2010 in Uppsala, Sweden. Following the agreement with SIGDAT and ACL, the preferences for CoNLL-2010 have precedence over EMNLP-2010.

* In July-August 2009, SIGNLL will launch a call for shared task proposals to select the task to be run in CoNLL-2010. A designated committee will judge the submitted proposals and declare the selected task no later than October 2009.

'''Elections'''

This autumn, on November 1, the two-year term of current SIGNLL
officers will end. According to SIGNLL's constitution, we have started
the procedure for the new elections. The period for collecting
nominations began in late June and will last until September 30, 2009.
Lluís Màrquez (Technical University of Catalonia) and Joakim Nivre
(Uppsala University) have declared their willingness to continue for a
second term but switching positions so that Joakim would be president
and Lluís secretary. If there are multiple nominees at the end of
this period for either or both offices, elections will be held
starting on October 1. Votes for nominees will be collected until
October 31, after which the majority of votes will determine who will
be president and secretary from November 1, 2009.

The schedule for the elections is currently on time. No delays are expected.

Lluís Màrquez
Joakim Nivre
July 3, 2009

2009Q3 Reports: SIGFSM

2009-07-09T11:46:22Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIGFSM * Newly formed; constitution on approval * No elections yet; elections planned to take place in half a year * Contacts: Anssi Yli-Jyra: anssi.yli-jyra at helsinki.fi ...

SIGFSM

* Newly formed; constitution on approval
* No elections yet; elections planned to take place in half a year
* Contacts: Anssi Yli-Jyra: anssi.yli-jyra at helsinki.fi
* website: https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/KitWiki/SIGFSM

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The proposals of some 40 initial members for establishing SIGFSM, the ACL Special Interest Group for Finite-State Methods, was warmly supported by ACL Exec in March 2009. The FSMSIG is an umbrella for research and activities associated with all aspects of finite-state methods (FSM) in NLP, including their computational and mathematical aspects, basic and applied research, tool and infrastructure construction etc.

The new version of the SIG constitution waits for its final approval of ACL Exec. Some paragraphs that were previously borrowed from the constititions of the existing SIGs turned out to be unsecure at the present, which suggests there is also a need for a renewed review of the previously approved constitutions.

No elections have been held yet. The current de facto officers:
* President: Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Treasurer: Thomas Hanneforth
* Secretary: Laurette Pretorius

A broad International Advisory Committee (IAC) is being appointed by the President on the basis of the suggestions that have been collected from the members. Web Master is not yet appointed. Liaison Representative is still open, since we are looking for someone who attends ACL.

The SIG has organized its first business meeting to be held in conjunction with the FSMNLP workshop that takes place in Pretoria in July 2009. We are expecting some 45 participants. An important goal of the joint meeting in Pretoria is to get the FSMNLP series adopted by the SIG. FSMNLP workshops have been organized spontaneously on a yearly basis since 2007. The next FSMNLP/SIGFSM meeting may be allocated already in Pretoria by the IAC.

There is a tentative home page in a wiki but the SIG has not yet establised other resources and activities.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGMOL

2009-07-09T11:44:45Z

IdoDagan: New page: As of today (July 3, 2009), SIGMOL has 168 members. The current officers of SIGMOL are Gerhard Jaeger (University of Tuebingen, president) and Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld, vice...

As of today (July 3, 2009), SIGMOL has 168 members.

The current officers of SIGMOL are Gerhard Jaeger (University of Tuebingen, president) and Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld, vice president/president elect). Marcus Kracht will take over the presidency in August 2009. Elections for a new vice president/president elect are scheduled for 2010. Until that date, Gerhard Jaeger will serve as vice president/former president.

The next biennial meeting of SIGMOL will take place at the University of Bielefeld on August 20/21, 2009. Preparations are under way. We issued a call for papers and received 20 submissions. One of it was withdrawn because of a successful parallel submission to the Formal Grammar conference. After an anonymous reviewing process, ten papers were selected for presentation and two papers as alternates. Additionally, Andras Kornai (Harvard) and Giorgio Satta (Padua) agreed to give invited talks.

A constitution for SIGMOL has been drafted and will decided about at the next business meeting on August 20.

2009Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2009-07-09T11:43:44Z

IdoDagan: New page: ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009 SIGGEN continues to be a valued shared resource for an active and developing community of researchers in natural language generation. Over the past year we hav...

ACL SIGGEN report 2008-2009

SIGGEN continues to be a valued shared resource for an active and developing
community of researchers in natural language generation. Over the past year we
have achieved full compliance with ACL SIG requirements, held elections for
the board, updated our online presence, given endorsement to three related
workshops (with three more in the pipeline), and agreed a host for the next
INLG conference, in Ireland in 2010.

SIGGEN is now fully compliant with ACL SIG requirements, including (slightly
reluctantly) the assignment of officer roles (chair, secretary, treasurer,
webmaster) to various board members. The new arrangements were fully confirmed
in an election to the board at the end of 2008 - the next election is due at
the end of 2010. We would like to thank the outgoing board members, Charles
Callaway, David McDonald, Jette Viethen for their hard work on behalf of the
generation community, and welcome our new members, Cecile Paris,
Christian Pietsch and Sebastian Varges who join Roger Evans and Mike White on
the SIGGEN board.

SIGGEN organises the biennial INLG conferences, and this year was a rest year
after the very successful INLG 2008 at Salt Fork, Ohio, USA. Following an open
bidding process in early 2009, we were delighted to award organisation of INLG
2010 to Ielka van der Sluis (Trinity College, Dublin), John Kelleher and Brian
McNamee (Dublin Institute of Technology). INLG 2010 will be held in Trim,
County Meath, Ireland, 7-9 July 2010. In addition, SIGGEN offers
(non-financial) endorsement to workshops and activities related to generation,
and this year we were pleased to support the Third Workshop on Constraints in
Discourse (Potsdam, August 2008), a Workshop on the Question Generation Task
and Evaluation Challenge (Arlington, September 2008) and the 12th European
Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09) (Athens, April 2009).
Support for three further workshops in July and August 2009 (UCNLG+Sum, GIVE-2
and PRE-Cogsci 2009)is also already agreed, so we look forward to a busy year
for the NLG community.

In January 2009, Christian Pietsch took over the role of SIGGEN webmaster, and
gave our online presence a much needed review. As well as a general tidy-up of
the main pages, Christian undertook to transfer the SIGGEN wiki site,
previously hosted at Edinburgh by David Reitter, into the main ACL wiki
(http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Natural_Language_Generation_Portal),
and to re-establish clear email addresses for contacting the SIGGEN board
through the main ACL mail server (siggen-board@aclweb.org etc.). We continue
to explore effective ways to support communication and access to resources for
the generation community.

SIGGEN's financial position is healthy. We last reported our account balance
(as a subaccount of the ACL account) in 2007 as $928 (all figures in US
dollars). We have since confirmed that INLG 2006 did not alter this balance
(as it ran as an ACL workshop, hence the risk and any surpus were assumed by
the main conference), and can now report that INLG 2008 made a surplus of
$2943, so that our current balance stands at $3871. Such a reserve is useful
to underwrite risk in free-standing events, and to allow for the possibility
of subsidising attendance to the INLG conference.

Roger Evans, Cecile Paris, Christian Pietsch, Sebastian Varges, Mike White
SIGGEN board
2 July 2009

2009Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2009-07-09T11:33:47Z

IdoDagan: New page: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Report on SIGSEM, July 2009 Johan Bos & Alexander Koller www.s...

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Report on SIGSEM, July 2009
Johan Bos & Alexander Koller
www.sigsem.org
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The current SIGSEM membership counts 661 members.

The SIGSEM constitution calls for board elections every three
years. We plan to hold the next elections in early 2010, in compliance
with the constitution.

Since the last ACL report, one newsletter has been sent to the SIGSEM
members, in November 2008, featuring a report of the STEP 2008
workshop in Venice, a report of the OLP-3 workshop at ECAI, a report
of the CID 2008 workshop in Potsdam, a statement of the ACM
Transaction on Computational Logic journal, and an announcement of the
IWCS-8 conference on computational semantics in Tilburg.

The next SIGSEM newsletter (planned for this month) is under
preparation. We are currently discussing to replace the newsletter
with a SIGSEM blog, which could be updated more frequently.

SIGSEM officers have continued work on archiving the proceedings of
previous ICoS conferences in the ACL Anthology. This will bring all
major SIGSEM-sponsored workshops into the Anthology, and is expected
to be completed within 2009.

IWCS-8, the Eighth International Workshop on Computational Semantics,
the major conference organised by SIGSEM, was held on Jan 7-9, 2009 in
Tilburg, Netherlands. An extensive conference report by Caroline
Sporleder and Luciana Benotti is available from the SIGSEM webpage.

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2008/2009 were/are:

[1] GEMS 2009 GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
March 31, 2009 (Athens, Greece)
http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/

[2] SEW 2009 Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions
Boulder, CO, 4-5 June 2009
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~lluism/sew2009/index.html

[3] DiaHolmia 2009
Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June 2009
http://www.diaholmia.org/

[4] GL2009 5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon
Pisa, Italy, 17-19 Sept 2009
http://www.gl2009.org/

[5] GIVE-2 Shared Task: Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions
in Virtual Environments
http://www.give-challenge.org/research/

2009Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

2009-07-09T11:31:27Z

IdoDagan: New page: The following siglex board officers are serving until 2010: President: Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex Secretary: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country Executive Board: M...

The following siglex board officers are serving until 2010:

President: Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Secretary: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

Executive Board:
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Roberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart
Carlo Strapparava, ITC-IRST, Trento

Board Member with Special Portfolio/Webmaster:
Ken Litkowski, CL Research

In accordance with the SIGLEX constitution, we will begin the nomination process for the 2010-2012 board at the start of next year and will pass to the new board after SemEval 2010. We currently have 367 members and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

Plans for SemEval-2010 are underway with Katrin Erk and Carlo Strapparava as the SemEval-2010 co-chairs overseeing a total of 18 tasks. We held a SIGLEX/SemEval meeting at NAACL 2009 with SIGLEX board members and past and previous SemEval chairs. A workshop (SEW-2009 see below) was held at NAACL 2009 to promote discussion on future directions for SemEval.

During 2008-2009, SIGLEX has endorsed the following 7 events:

* GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS). Workshop at European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2009-03-30, Megaron Athens International Conference Center, Athens, Greece.

* Unsupervised and Minimally Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantics. Workshop at NAACL-HLT 2009, 2009-06-05, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

* SEW-2009 - Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions. Workshop at NAACL-HLT, 2009-06-04, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

* Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications (MWE 2009) 2009-08-06, Workshop at the ACL/IJCNLP 2009 Conference (Singapore).

* TextGraphs-4: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
2009-08-07. Workshop at the ACL/IJCNLP 2009 Conference (Singapore).

* GL2009: Generative Lexicons: From Theory to Implementation. Workshop at 2009-09-17, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy.

* eLexicography in the 21st century: New challenges, new applications. Workshop at Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL), 2009-10-22, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

2009Q3 Reports: SIG SEMITIC

2009-07-09T11:30:02Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIG Semitic The SIG is healthy. We had a SIG meeting as a one-day EACL Workshop in Athens this year, which attracted about 20 submissions and a similar number of participants. The next mee...

SIG Semitic
The SIG is healthy. We had a SIG meeting as a one-day EACL Workshop in Athens this year, which attracted about 20 submissions and a similar number of participants. The next meeting is planned for LREC-2010 in Malta next year. We have a working web site and a low-key but active mailing list. The Secretary position was up for elections this year, and Mona Diab was elected for a 3-year term. One initiative Mona is pursuing is endorsing related events and activities; specifically, we offered to endorse the ongoing activities and future events of MEDAR (http://www.medar.info/ ).
Shuly Wintner, Chair

2009Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2009-07-09T11:27:23Z

IdoDagan: New page: SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2008-2009 Serge Sharoff 24 June 2009 SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC4) was held on 1 June 2008, co-located with LREC2008 in ...

SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2008-2009 Serge Sharoff
24 June 2009

SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC4) was held on
1 June 2008, co-located with LREC2008 in Marrakech (Morocco). In spite of the shorter than usual gap between the previous WAC3 workshop held in September 2007, we had a fairly large event with nine presentations and about 30 people attending. Two presentations were designated as 'Star Talks', i.e. high-quality papers important for the community (we had no funding to invite an invited speaker).

The next workshop (WAC5) is going to take place on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain, co-located with SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference.
We have obtained funding for an invited speaker and invited Dekang Lin from Google to talk on "Unsupervised acquisition of lexical knowledge from the Web". We have also selected nine papers for the workshop.

The next WAC6 workshop will be probably co-located with NAACL-HLT in Los Angeles in July 2010.

At WAC3 we also ran CleanEval, a competition on removal of unwanted elements from webpages (such as navigation frames, standard headers, footers, counters, which can potentially bias the language model). After the competition some participants commented that the text-only output of the gold standard misses important information linking text chunks to their representation in the original webpage. At WAC6 we plan to run CleanEval2, using a standoff annotation of the gold standard.

2009Q3 Reports: ACL 2011

2009-07-03T18:48:08Z

IdoDagan: New page: == ACL-2011 Report, July 2009 == ''Ido Dagan'' In 2009 Chris Brew and Lori Levin joined the ACL-2011 Coordinating Committee, representing the NAACL and ACL boards. The work of the commit...

== ACL-2011 Report, July 2009 ==
''Ido Dagan''

In 2009 Chris Brew and Lori Levin joined the ACL-2011 Coordinating Committee, representing the NAACL and ACL boards.

The work of the committee in the last half year focused on reviewing the recieved bids and going through the selection process. After some feedback and response iterations, the committee has selected the bid from Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, lead by Brian Roark. There was high appreciation for the quality of the bid, and for Brian's professionalism and responsiveness.

The selection process, and the interaction with the bidders, went smoothly. The use of the new templates and guidelines prepared for this year (see the January report) was very productive, and is highly recommended for coming years. Priscilla Rassmussen and Graeme Hirst did excellent job and took the primary role in reviewing the bid and spotting relevant issues. Major outcomes of the interaction with the bidders were coming up with an additional hotel for the conference venue and additional banquet options. The selection amongst these options is planned for the site visit by Graeme and Priscilla, scheduled for September.

The committee will meet in Singapore to plan and discuss its next steps, according to the ACL conference planning schedule.

SIG Compliance

2009-07-03T12:25:44Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGFSM:
* [https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/KitWiki/SIGFSM website]
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Anssi Yli-Jyra: anssi.yli-jyra at helsinki.fi

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMT:
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Philipp Koehn: pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, e.f.tjong.kim.sang at rug.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/constitution.txt?format=raw constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-29T09:36:55Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGFSM:
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Anssi Yli-Jyra: anssi.yli-jyra at helsinki.fi

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMT:
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Philipp Koehn: pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, e.f.tjong.kim.sang at rug.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/constitution.txt?format=raw constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-29T07:30:46Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGFSM:
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Anssi Yli-Jyra: anssi.yli-jyra at helsinki.fi

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMT:
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Philipp Koehn: pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, e.f.tjong.kim.sang at rug.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/constitution.txt?format=raw constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-29T07:27:38Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMT:
* Newly formed; no elections yet
* Contacts: Philipp Koehn: pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, e.f.tjong.kim.sang at rug.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/constitution.txt?format=raw constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-28T15:03:26Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, e.f.tjong.kim.sang at rug.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/constitution.txt?format=raw constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-28T14:57:47Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/constitution.txt?format=raw constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-28T14:51:31Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-28T14:47:52Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diana McCarthy, Eneko Agirre: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2007

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Harry Bunt: Harry.Bunt at uvt.nl
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-28T14:45:18Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diane McCarthy, Eneko Agiree: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2006? (constitution requires an election every three years)

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Harry Bunt: Harry.Bunt at uvt.nl
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, koller at mmci.uni-saarland.de
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-28T14:42:23Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Tim Paek: timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diane McCarthy, Eneko Agiree: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2006? (constitution requires an election every three years)

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Harry Bunt: Harry.Bunt at uvt.nl
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, a.koller at ed.ac.uk
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-26T16:11:28Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: David Traum, Tim Paek: traum at ict.usc.edu, timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diane McCarthy, Eneko Agiree: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2006? (constitution requires an election every three years)

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Harry Bunt: Harry.Bunt at uvt.nl
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, a.koller at ed.ac.uk
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

SIG Compliance

2009-06-26T16:10:51Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: David Traum, Tim Paek: traum at ict.usc.edu, timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGGEN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diane McCarthy, Eneko Agiree: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2006? (constitution requires an election every three years)

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Harry Bunt: Harry.Bunt at uvt.nl
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, a.koller at ed.ac.uk
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

2008Q3 Reports: SIGGEN

2009-06-26T16:08:49Z

IdoDagan: New page: The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are laid out on our web site, http://www.siggen.org. We organize international workshops every other year. This is an 'on' ...

The activities of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation are
laid out on our web site, http://www.siggen.org. We organize
international workshops every other year. This is an 'on' year and we
just finished our workshop at Salt Fork, Ohio
(linguistics.osu.edu/inlg2008/). Over 50 people attended, with
many new faces. We colocated with the 2009 referring expression
generation challenge 2009: (www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/research/reg08).

We lend our name in endorsing natural language generation (NLG)
related events when we are asked and the topic of the event seems
appropriate to the NGL community. This past year we sponsored the
second workshop on Multimodal Output Generation, MOG 2008, in
Aberdeen, Scotland in April (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/
~ivdsluis/mog2008/); and Using Corpora for NLG: Language Generation
and Machine Translation (www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/).

This year we had a referendum to choose among several alternative for
how to bring our constitution in line with the ACL guidelines. We had
about a 20% response rate. The now compliant revised document is on
our web page.

We have been accumulating and posting the papers of old workshops of
any sort that involve NLG on http://www.siggenarchive.org.uk/.

Finally, please could you remove the newsletter link from our entry on your sig page - we haven't had a newsletter for quite a while now!

SIG Compliance

2009-06-26T15:58:12Z

IdoDagan:

[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/sig_guidelines.txt ACL SIG Guidelines]

; SIGANN:
* [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/ website] [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann/SIGANN-constitution.txt constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGANN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers: ide at cs.vassar.edu, meyers at cs.nyu.edu
* Last election: ''formed in 2007, no election held yet''

; SIGBioMed:
* [http://www.sigbiomed.org/ website] [http://www.sigbiomed.org/r02.01.11/index.php?title=BioMed_SIG_Constitution constitution]
* Contacts: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman: Kevin.Cohen at gmail.com, ddemner at gmail.com
* Last election: ''formed in 2008, no election held yet''

; SIGDAT (not compliant):
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html website] ''no constitution''; ''no report''
* Contacts: Ken Church, David Yarowsky: church at microsoft.com, yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu
* Last election: ''none held so far''
* ''no constitution''

; SIGDIAL:
* [http://www.sigdial.org/ website] [http://www.sigdial.org/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGDIAL 2008 report]
* Contacts: David Traum, Tim Paek: traum at ict.usc.edu, timpaek at microsoft.com
* Last election: 2008

; SIGGEN:
* [http://www.siggen.org/ website] [http://www.siggen.org/discussion/constitution/index.html constitution] ''no report''
* Contacts: Sebastian Varges: varges + AT + disi.unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

; SIGHAN:
* [http://www.sighan.org/ website] [http://www.sighan.org/constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGHAN 2008 report]
* Contacts: Benjamin Tsou, Dan Jurafsky, Gina Levow: rlbtsou at cityu.edu.hk, jurafsky at stanford.edu, levow at cs.uchicago.edu
* Last election: 2006
* ''constitution requires elections every two years; was one held in 2008? It is not clear from the website when Dan takes over from Benjamin as chair''

; SIGLEX:
* [http://www.siglex.org/ website] [http://www.clres.com/SIGLEX%20Constitution.htm constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX 2008 report]
* Contacts: Diane McCarthy, Eneko Agiree: dianam at sussex.ac.uk, e.agirre at ehu.es
* Last election: 2006? (constitution requires an election every three years)

; SIGMT:
* in proposal stage
* Contacts: Alon Lavie: alavie at cs.cmu.edu

; SIGMOL:
* [http://molweb.org/ website] [http://molweb.org/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMOL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Gerhard Jaeger, Marcus Kracht: Gerhard.Jaeger at uni-bielefeld.de, marcus.kracht at uni-bielefeld.de
* Last election: 2008

; SIGNLL:
* [http://ifarm.nl/signll/ website] [http://ifarm.nl/signll/about/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGNLL 2008 report]
* Contacts: Lluis Marquez, Erik Tjong Kim Sang: lluism at lsi.upc.edu, erikt at science.uva.nl
* Last election: 2007

; SIGPARSE:
* [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/ website] [http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sigparse/constitution.html constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGPARSE 2008 report]
* Contacts: Harry Bunt: Harry.Bunt at uvt.nl
* Last election: 2008

; SIGMORPHON:
* [http://www.sigmorphon.org/ website] [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon/constitution.php constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGMORPHON 2008 report]
* Contacts: Jason Eisner, Rich Wicentowski: jason at cs.jhu.edu, richardw at cs.swarthmore.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGSEM:
* [http://www.sigsem.org/ website] [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGSEM 2008 report]
* Contacts: Johan Bos, Alexander Koller: jbos at inf.ed.ac.uk, a.koller at ed.ac.uk
* Last election: 2007

; SIG SEMITIC:
* [http://www.semitic.tk/ website] [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic/constitution.shtml constitution] [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIG_Semitic 2008 report]
* Contacts: Shuly Wintner, Nizar Habash: shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il, habash at cs.columbia.edu
* Last election: 2008

; SIGWAC:
* [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ website] ''no constitution'' [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC 2008 report]
* Contacts: Serge Sharoff, Marco Baroni: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, marco.baroni at unitn.it
* Last election: 2008

Conference planning schedule

2009-01-28T20:56:14Z

IdoDagan: /* Basic Timetable */

== Basic Timetable ==

The generic timetable for organizing the conference, from which a specific one can be built (months in advance from conference)

CC = Coordinating Committee; LC = Local Chair; GC = general chair; PC = program chair(s); SC = sponsorship chair

=== Year -3 ===

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 style="border-collapse: collapse;"
! Months Out !! Who !! Activity !! Notes
|-
| 38 || CC || constitute committee, liaise with ACL Exec for general parameters of time and place || add future VC-elect as soon as s/he is elected; identify related professional societies who may be planning a conference during the same period, e.g. SIGIR, AAAI
|-
| 37 || CC || Finalize CFB document ||
|-
| 36 || CC || Issue Call for Bids; check that acl20XY.org is held ||
|-
| 32 || LC || Deadline for potential bidders to signal their intention || permits chair to contact them with updates to instructions
|-
| 30 || CC || Add newest exec members to CC || these people began their role in January and will serve to the end of the year in which the planned conference takes place
|-
| 30 || LC || Deadline for draft bids || keep date away from ACL submission deadline!
|-
| 28 || CC || Give feedback to bidders about now; Make short-list of PC chair candidates
|-
| 26 || LC || Deadline for final bids || liaise with other professional societies about final dates
|-
| 25 || CC || notify bidders and exec++ of result; provide informative feedback to all bidders; set up basic conference website including venue and dates || should be at least a month ahead of this year's main conference
|}

=== Year -2 ===

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 style="border-collapse: collapse;"
! Months Out !! Who !! Activity !! Notes
|-
| 24 || CC || announce site at business meeting of ACL conference; announce on ACL mailing list and ACL website; site visit to happen during coming months; select a General Chair (see [[Selecting the general chair|criteria-for-general-chair]]); Local chair to prepare workplan cf (see [[Local arrangements chair duties (Conference Handbook) | Local arrangements chair duties]]) || establish web presence
|-
| || LC || finalize sponsorship chairs ([[Sponsorship chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]])
|-
| 18 || LC || finalize location and dates, sign contracts by now for meetings and accommodations, pay any deposits (involves ACL Office)
|-
| || CC || select Program Chair(s) ([[Program chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]), Student Workshop Chair ([[Workshop chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]])
|-
| || GC? || select Publications Chair ([[Publications chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]), Tutorial Chair ([[Tutorial chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]), Workshop Chair ([[Workshop chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]), Demo Chair ([[Demo chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]])
|-
| || LC? || select Exhibits Coordinator ([[Exhibits chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]), Publicity Chair ([[Publicity chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]) || set up email aliases
|-
| 15 || LC || identify Local Arrangements Committee: one or two people who would be able to take over in case something happens to the local chair; one or two admin-level people; someone dedicated to audiovisual (AV) and space management; (possibly) webmaster (see [[webmaster]])
|-
| || LC || collect preliminary local info (describe meeting place and accommodations, travel info, visas, weather, etc.)
|-
| || GC/SC || Create Sponsorship Committee ([[Sponsorship chair duties (Conference Handbook) | duties]]), estimate budget needs (see [[Example budgets (Conference Handbook) | Example budgets]]), assemble committee, mainly corporate insiders of likely sponsors, approach corporations to get placed on budget for next year
|-
| || * || General, program, local, and publicity chairs create and issue initial conference announcement; include theme, general outlines, location and dates, pointers to details, organizer contact info; publicize widely ([[Publicity chair duties (Conference Handbook)| duties]])
|-
|| || GC/LC/Webmaster || Establish website; include general conference announcement; preliminary local info; stubs for calls for papers, etc.
|}

===T-12? months===

<nowiki>[General and local chairs; Priscilla]</nowiki> Create and disseminate Call for Participation

<nowiki>[General and local chairs; Priscilla]</nowiki> set approx. registration deadlines and costs; design conference logo for program, posters, etc; create call for participation; design posters and fliers with Call for Participation; print and distribute them (web, email, hardcopy, posters, etc.)

<nowiki>[General, program, local, and publicity chairs]</nowiki> Create and disseminate Call for Papers (see [[Sample conference paper calls (Conference Handbook) | Sample conference paper calls]])

<nowiki>[General, program, local, and publicity chairs]</nowiki> create Call for Papers: determine general conference theme(s); if possible, identify some invited speakers; set dates of submission, notification, and final copies (T-7 / T-5 / T-3); set format requirements for papers; distribute Call for Papers (see [[publicity chair duties|publicity chair]]): on Web / newsgroups / mailing lists; provide to ACL (Priscilla and Finite String), AAAI Magazine, IEEE, etc; provide to SIGs, SIGIR, Speech, NLGen, AMTA, and other related communities

===T-13? to T-4 months===
<nowiki>[Sponsorship committee]</nowiki> Apply for funding; create and submit grant proposals to AAAI, NSF, etc; contact companies for donations to sponsor reception, banquet, etc. (Initial contact T-13, while budgets are still being set for the next year; maintain intermittent contact; then final requests at T-3)

===T-11? months===
<nowiki>[Program chairs]</nowiki> Assemble program committee: determine program committee structure and review process; establish major topic areas and likely submission distribution; invite appropriate reviewers (confirm first with ACL Exec)?people from research, development, commerce, users, government-funders, etc; ensure proportional representation of gender, seniority, origin, etc.

<nowiki>[Tutorial, workshop, student, demo, and program chairs]</nowiki> Solicit tutorials, workshops, and demos; create Calls for Bids and papers (see [[Tutorial calls for proposals (Conference Handbook) | Sample Tutorial calls for proposals]], [[Recent ACL calls for workshop proposals (Conference Handbook) | Sample Calls for Workshop Proposals]], and [[Sample workshop calls for papers]]); issue them (website, publications, email, etc.)

===T-9 months===
<nowiki>[Tutorial, workshop, program chairs]</nowiki> Select tutorials and workshops: select tutorials, taking into account coverage and recent past tutorials (contact Exec); select workshops (contact Exec; see ACL-policy-worksp-support); liaise with local chair for space needs and scheduling; issue instructions to tutorial teachers and workshop chairs about printed material, agenda/time management, payments, fees, etc; update webpages; liaise with ACL Office for registration form

<nowiki>[Workshop and student chairs]</nowiki> Issue workshop calls for papers (see [[Sample workshop calls for papers]]): liaise with local chair for space needs and scheduling; liaise with general chair about printed material, agenda/time management, payments, fees, etc; liaise with sponsorship chair for funding applications; create and disseminate Call for Workshop Papers (see workshop-calls-for-papers and student-calls-for-papers); update webpages; liaise with ACL Office for registration form

<nowiki>[Exhibits chair]</nowiki> Locate and sign up exhibitors: approach CL corporation exhibitors; approach book publisher exhibitors (unless this is done by ACL Office?); sign them up

===T-8 months===
<nowiki>[Program and sponsorship chair]</nowiki> Update financial picture: update budget; project financial needs and make plans to meet them

===T-7 months===
<nowiki>[Program chairs]</nowiki> Accept and distribute submitted papers: create review form and reviewer instructions; accept submitted papers; assign to reviewers; send out for review

<nowiki>[Program, workshop, sponsorship chairs]</nowiki> Finalize invited speakers, panelists, etc: create basic plan of speakers and panels; invite speakers; reissue Conference Announcement: Web, newsgroups, mailing lists, ACL (Priscilla and Finite String), AAAI Magazine, SIGIR, Speech, NLGen, AMTA, and other related communities; update webpages

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Confirm venues: confirm arrangements with meeting venue: rooms, spaces, lunches, etc; confirm arrangements with accommodation venue: rooms

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Arrange conference social program: confirm arrangements with banquet and other social event providers; arrange reception; arrange banquet: location, cost, transport, etc; plan outing, for open evening?; plan anything special? Spouses’ events? Outings?; update webpages; liaise with Priscilla for registration form

===T-7 to T-5 months===
<nowiki>[Sponsorship committee]</nowiki> Apply for corporate funding: approach/confirm companies for grants and donations

===T-6 months: ===
<nowiki>[Workshop and student chairs]</nowiki> Process workshop submissions: accept submissions; review them; send accept/reject letters

<nowiki>[Demo chair]</nowiki> Call for demos: create and issue Call for Demos (see [[Sample Calls for Demos & Posters (Conference Handbook) | Sample Calls for Demos & Posters]])

<nowiki>[Program chairs]</nowiki> Find Proceedings printers: specify proceedings format and ask for quotes; select printer and binder; plan to ensure timely delivery. If the proceedings are not printed in the host country, allow an extra 6—8 weeks for customs

<nowiki>[General chair]</nowiki> Update website: contact all chairs to collect their info for the website; liaise with Priscilla for registration form

<nowiki>[Priscilla, general, program, and local chairs]</nowiki> Create and issue registration form: create form, with input from all relevant people; send out by email and hardcopy; post on web

<nowiki>[Local Chair]</nowiki> Plan registration process: report to ACL Exec; update on conference registration; update on venue (meeting and accommodation)bookings; plan on-site process, staff needs, etc.; organize conference bag or other gimmicks; liaise with sponsorship chair for corporate logos. By this stage [[Volunteer co-ordinator]] should be on board and up to speed.

===T-5 months===
<nowiki>[Program chairs]</nowiki> Process reviewed papers and create program: accept reviews; decide on paper selection; create program, more or less (remember time for ACL members’ meeting, banquet, reception, outings if any, etc.); liaise with Local chair; send out accept and reject letters with reviews; update conference announcement and redistribute; update webpages

===T-4 months===
<nowiki>[General, program, workshop, tutorial, exhibits chairs]</nowiki> Collect Proceedings descriptions: collect from tutorial teachers, workshop organizers, exhibitors, etc. short descriptions, for proceedings; provide them to webmaster and general and program chairs

<nowiki>[Exhibits chair]</nowiki> Set up exhibit: locate exhibit company for pipe-and-drape stands, signage, etc.; buy insurance, if needed; liaise with exhibitors, local committee, and venue about display needs; work with program and sponsorship chairs on exhibitor fees

<nowiki>[Demo chair]</nowiki> Arrange demos: select demos; work with selected demo-ers for AV needs;liaise with local chair for AV needs; liaise with program chairs for scheduling and proceedings; update webpages

===T-3 months===
<nowiki>[Program and sponsorship chairs]</nowiki> Update financial picture: update budget; project needs; seriously go after corporate sponsors, now that logos are being put onto signs, publications, and toys

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Confirm local events: confirm meeting venue: rooms, spaces, lunches, etc.; confirm accommodations; confirm social events: banquet, reception, entertainment, outings, etc.

<nowiki>[Program, tutorial, workshop, demo, student, exhibits chairs]</nowiki> Confirm invitees: confirm attendance of invited speakers and panelists; confirm attendance of paper and demo presenters; confirm tutorials and workshops; confirm exhibitors

<nowiki>[Exhibits chair]</nowiki> Finalize exhibit spaces: finalize payments of all exhibitors; complete design of exhibition space(s); complete arrangements with pipe and drape rentals, etc.

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Set up demo AV equipment: determine AV requirements of demo and paper presenters and other speakers; link up with venue

<nowiki>[Publicity chair and Priscilla]</nowiki>: send out registration form again; contact local authorities, as relevant

<nowiki>[General, program, tutorial, workshop, demo, exhibit, sponsorship, student chairs]</nowiki> Receive final papers and create Proceedings: accept final camera-ready papers; create Proceedings (main volume and any accompanying ones); front matter: title page, ToC, foreword(s), list of authors, etc.; body (xerox page numbers onto submitted final papers); covers; send to printers and binders; update webpages as needed

<nowiki>[Tutorial, workshop, and student chairs]</nowiki> Create tutorial and workshop material: arrange for printing of tutorial and workshop materials (see workshop proceedings format); collect material from presenters; create books/proceedings

===T-2 month===

<nowiki>[Program chairs]</nowiki> Assign session chairs: send out instructions to session chairs and speakers about time and place, as well as time management for the talks

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Finalize on-site admin: assemble team of assistants for registration, gophering, etc.

<nowiki>[General, program, tutorial, workshop, student, exhibit, local chairs]</nowiki> Create conference registration material: create program to be included in conference registration package; gather all other material, incl. freebies

<nowiki>[Priscilla, local, and sponsorship chairs]</nowiki> Give registration update: update ACL Exec on conference registration, venue and accommodation bookings, financial status; update webpages, especially local and travel conditions (check the travel instructions, local weather, medical and political conditions, etc.)

===T-1 month===

<nowiki>[General and publicity chairs]</nowiki> Perform local outreach: start local advertising; contact press, TV, etc.

<nowiki>[Program, tutorial, workshop, student, exhibit, demo chairs]</nowiki> Finalize all Proceedings and tutorial material: collect and check proceedings (papers, students and other workshops, demos, etc.); collect and check final tutorial materials

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Finalize demo AV equipment: finalize AV requirements of demo-ers

<nowiki>[Priscilla, local and sponsorship chairs]</nowiki> Give registration update: update ACL Exec on conference registration, hotel and dorm bookings, financial status

<nowiki>[Local chair]</nowiki> Finalize registration package: assemble all materials into registration packets: local maps, local events, conference program, freebies, etc.

Author: Eduard Hovy, 1998, from timetables of previous AMTA conferences
Updates: Eduard Hovy, from AAAI conference schedule and notes by Marie Meteer.

[[Category:Conference Handbook]]

2009Q1 Reports: ACL 2011

2009-01-26T13:45:09Z

IdoDagan: New page: == ACL-2011 Report, January 2009 == ''Ido Dagan'' The work for ACL-2011 in the last half year focused on the Call for Bids (CFB). In early June a preliminary announcement of the prospecte...

== ACL-2011 Report, January 2009 ==
''Ido Dagan''

The work for ACL-2011 in the last half year focused on the Call for Bids (CFB). In early June a preliminary announcement of the prospected bidding process was issued, shortly before the ACL conference in Columbus. During the Columbus conference the ACL-2011 Coordinating Committee (CC) met and discussed the structure of the CFB and its supplement documents. Overall, the information provided to bidders was substantially upgraded and expanded, resulting with the following structure:

'''Call for Bids (CFB)'''
(http://www.aclweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=26)
The CFB message was circulated by Priscilla to the mailing lists, and posted to the ACL website. The CFB only highlights the main topics to be addressed in the bid, while directing to the newly introduced Bid Guidelines page on the ACL Wiki (see next) for detailed information. In addition, the CFB lists the main evaluation criteria for the bids and specifies the schedule for the bidding process. The introduction of the Bid Guidelines enabled us to shorten the CFB somewhat while providing much more useful information in the guidelines page.

'''Bid Guidelines'''
(http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Bid_Guidelines)
This page on the ACL Wiki space provides rather detailed information about the sought bid content. It covers the issues of organization, venue, setting, budget and task planning. A preliminary version of this page was prepared by Steven Bird, based on his experience with the ACL-2010 bids. It was further augmented, with the help of mostly Priscilla Rasmussen and Graeme Hirst. Overall, it is intended to assist bidders in covering all needed information in their bid and to do so in a rather uniform way. We particularly included points that were not addressed properly in earlier bids. The Bid Guidelines includes links to the two spreadsheets described below.

'''Budget Spreadsheet'''
(http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/budget.xls)
A template spreadsheet for specifying the bid’s budget, provided by Graeme Hirst. The spreadsheet includes all relevant budget items, and provides the various types of data and figures to be assumed (e.g. number of participants by type, hall sizes, food). The spreadsheet’s goal is to obtain from bidders budget proposals that are complete, uniform and comparable.

'''Task List Spreadsheet'''
(http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/tasklist.xls)
This spreadsheet was created for the NAACL-2010 bidding process (provided by Owen Rambow), and was made available as is for the ACL-2011 bidders. The spreadsheet specifies many of the tasks involved in hosting a major conference and suggests three alternatives for delegating varying amounts of work to a Professional Conference Organizer and/or to Priscilla Rasmussen. Bidders are asked to specify their choices regarding the amount of work to be delegated. This spreadsheet enables bidders to choose an appropriate level of work that they would like to accommodate, highlighting the option to make the overall task manageable on their side. For the Coordinating Committee, the bidders’ choices and capacity are clarified up front, enabling their proper evaluation and assessment of budgetary implications.

The CFB was posted in mid December. Bidders are expected to notify their intention to submit a bid in mid February, with the preliminary bid submission due in mid March. We are currently soliciting bidders of NAACL-2010 which were not selected to host that event, and are looking for additional suggestions for solicitations.

Bid Guidelines

2008-12-19T10:13:48Z

IdoDagan:

This page provides guidelines for preparing a bid for hosting the ACL conference. The guidelines link to two additional spreadsheets, explained further below: a detailed budget spreadsheet to be filled as part of the submission, synchronized with the bid document; a task-list spreadsheet, which details many of the tasks involved in hosting the conference and suggests several options for delegating a varying amount of the work to the ACL office and/or to a professional conference organizer.

== Preliminary and Final Bids ==

You are first requested to submit a preliminary bid. Promising bidders will be asked by the Conference Coordinating Committee to provide additional information and turn their bid into the final one, according to the schedule published in the Call for Bids. The purpose of a '''preliminary bid''' is to give the committee a detailed description of the organization, venue, and setting. The first round of review will help bidders to create a stronger bid, which is better tailored to the needs of the ACL. The purpose of the '''final bid''' is to convince the committee that the organizers are capable of running a large scientific conference with considerable professionalism and attention to detail.

== Covering Letter ==

Include a cover letter addressed to the ACL, naming venue and possible dates, identifying contact person(s) and contact details, signed.

== Organization ==

; Local Organizing Committee
: Please name the members of the local organizing committee, including titles and affiliations. For each person, provide a statement about their activities in the CL community and their experience in organizing scientific events (and the number of participants at those events).

; Local CL Community
: Describe the profile of the local CL community, including any research groups, graduate programs, professional bodies, companies.

; Professional Conference Organizer
: It is typically advisable to involve a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) for the local organization, while the amount of work delegated to the PCO might vary. Where geographically appropriate, Priscilla Rasmussen, from the ACL office, might take responsibility for typical tasks of a PCO, as coordinated directly with her.
: Specify (roughly) the intended split of tasks between the local organizers, a PCO and/or the ACL office (see the Task List Spreadsheet section below for detail).
: Identify the organization that will be responsible for such tasks as local arrangements, including venues, catering, accommodation, the social program, and finances. What is the scale of their operation? List major scientific meetings organized recently by the PCO and their size.

; Dates
: Bidders should indicate one or more options for the conference dates. Sometimes, additional alternatives might be explored when negotiating with the committee. When planning the dates please check first with the conference committee chair for the latest known constraints for that year, such as dates of related conferences.

== Venue ==

; Conference
: Describe the main auditorium, theatres for four parallel sessions, spaces for tutorials and workshops, and an option for meeting rooms on-demand. Describe capacity, seating style, A/V facilities, sloping vs level floor, availability of (fold-out) tables in theatres, ceiling height (especially in the smaller workshop and tutorial rooms).
: Workshops - capacity for 2 two-day workshops, and 8 one-day workshops (6 per each day)
: Tutorials - six is typically the optimal number, but proposers should desirably be prepared for up to eight (4 rooms, for morning and afternoon tutorials).
: Dates for which the venues have been booked.

; Accommodation
: List categories of accommodation, considering students as well, and their approximate capacities and prices. State the proximity of the accommodation to the conference venue, and the means of access.
: Dates for which room blocks have been tentatively reserved, or are available.

; Food and Social Program
: Describe plans for breaks (2 per day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon), student lunch (can be off-site; for at least 100-150 students), welcome reception (for about 50-60% of expected attendance), and banquet (typically 40-50% of expected attendance). Provide a preliminary plan of the types/quantities of foods per participant to be provided at each of these events, matching their cost in the budget spreadsheet. ACL encourages a tradition of some form of dancing for participants at the banquet.

; Estimated Costs Summary
: Provide a one-page summary of the budget spreadsheet (see below), specifying approximate total cost for each component of the conference (main conference, tutorials, workshops, banquet, overheads) and the VAT situation (or similar taxes – see comment in budget spreadsheet). Please give figures in both local currency and US dollars, and specify the exchange rate. Include any further relevant explanations for your budget spreadsheet.

== Setting ==

; Map
: Provide a detailed map showing positions of venues and accommodation, and other relevant locations (if any – e.g. food courts, subway/bus stops).

; Food
: Describe the eating options within and near the conference venue.

; City
: Describe the city and region, and the principal attractions. What is the climate at this time of year? Any optional social program. List public cultural events scheduled for the conference period.

; Transportation
: Describe the air and ground transportation that provides access to the city. What is the commute time from regional airport(s) and railway stations to the venue?

== Extras ==

(Not needed for preliminary bid)

* Letters of support
* Photographs of venues and regional attractions
* Evidence of sponsorship
* Information about visa, driver licenses

== Budget Spreadsheet ==

The full budget should be detailed in a separate [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/budget.xls Budget spreadsheet] with which the bid document should be consistent. The budget only includes items which vary from one venue to another. Costs which are largely fixed across venues (such as proceedings) are omitted. Overall budget will be coordinated with the ACL Treasurer and business office.

Most items in the spreadsheet are self-explained or include explanatory comments. Here are some additional guidelines:

* Some expenses will have both a constant component and a per-person component, and each line of the budget includes both components. For example, the banquet might have a cost for the venue rental plus a per-person cost for food. In most cases, however, only one component will be non-zero.
* Complete the budget in your local currency, and provide a multiplicative conversion factor for USD in the appropriate cell.
* The spreadsheet total costs are computed using conservative (lower-bound) assumptions for the size of the conference, as specified in the first lines of the spreadsheet. However, when considering venue and accommodation capacities upper-bound assumptions should be made, as specified in the relevant spreadsheet lines (there might be some flexibility here according to actual conditions, e.g. possibly not all rooms for parallel sessions should reach the maximal session capacity).
* With respect to overall banquet cost, the banquet ticket price should typically not exceed USD 75. Beyond that the numbers drop off, which pushes the per person cost even higher because of constants such as venue rental, risking a serious loss.
* Equipment-related costs should include security arrangements, if relevant

== Task List Spreadsheet ==

As mentioned above, the organizers may choose to delegate a varying amount of the organization work to a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) and/or to the ACL Office (Priscilla Rasmussen). As auxiliary information for your task planning, we attached the [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/tasklist.xls Task List spreadsheet] used for the NAACL 2010 call for bids. The spreadsheet lists many of the organization tasks and specifies three prototypical models for sharing the organization load. Option A represents the maximum amount of work for the local organizers, while Option C is the least amount of work. B is in between. Please indicate, in the PCO section of the BID, which of these three models captures best your preferred model and include relevant explanation as needed. The precise details of who does what will be further discussed with promising bidders, you are not committing to specific tasks at this point.

The budget items under the administration section, and particularly Conference Management Fees, should correspond to the cost of work planned for a PCO and/or Priscilla. Please discuss directly with Priscilla the plans and costs for her roles.

== Additional Information ==

Further relevant information may be found at the ACL [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook Conference Handbook] and [http://www.aclweb.org/policies/index-policies.html Policies]. Successful sample bids for previous conferences may be found at the
[http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html Bids Archive] (follow the current guidelines when preparing your bid). For any queries please contact the Coordinating Committee chair.

[[Category:Conference Handbook]]

Bid Guidelines

2008-12-19T09:57:20Z

IdoDagan:

This page provides guidelines for preparing a bid for hosting the ACL conference. The guidelines link to two additional spreadsheets, explained further below: a detailed budget spreadsheet to be filled as part of the submission, synchronized with the bid document; a task-list spreadsheet, which details many of the tasks involved in hosting the conference and suggests several options for delegating a varying amount of the work to the ACL office and/or to a professional conference organizer.

== Preliminary and Final Bids ==

You are first requested to submit a preliminary bid. Promising bidders will be asked by the Conference Coordinating Committee to provide additional information and turn their bid into the final one, according to the schedule published in the Call for Bids. The purpose of a '''preliminary bid''' is to give the committee a detailed description of the organization, venue, and setting. The first round of review will help bidders to create a stronger bid, which is better tailored to the needs of the ACL. The purpose of the '''final bid''' is to convince the committee that the organizers are capable of running a large scientific conference with considerable professionalism and attention to detail.

== Covering Letter ==

Include a cover letter addressed to the ACL, naming venue and possible dates, identifying contact person(s) and contact details, signed.

== Organization ==

; Local Organizing Committee
: Please name the members of the local organizing committee, including titles and affiliations. For each person, provide a statement about their activities in the CL community and their experience organizing scientific events.

; Local CL Community
: Describe the profile of the local CL community, including any research groups, graduate programs, professional bodies, companies.

; Professional Conference Organizer
: It is typically advisable to involve a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) for the local organization, while the amount of work delegated to the PCO might vary. Where geographically appropriate, Priscilla Rasmussen, from the ACL office, might take responsibility for typical tasks of a PCO, as coordinated directly with her.
: Specify (roughly) the intended split of tasks between the local organizers, a PCO and/or the ACL office (see the Task List Spreadsheet section below for detail).
: Identify the organization that will be responsible for such tasks as local arrangements, including venues, catering, accommodation, the social program, and finances. What is the scale of their operation? List major scientific meetings organized recently.

; Dates
: Bidders should indicate one or more options for the conference dates. Sometimes, additional alternatives might be explored when negotiating with the committee. When planning the dates please check first with the conference committee chair for the latest known constraints for that year, such as dates of related conferences.

== Venue ==

; Conference
: Describe the main auditorium, theatres for four parallel sessions, spaces for tutorials and workshops, and an option for meeting rooms on-demand. Describe capacity, seating style, A/V facilities, sloping vs level floor, availability of (fold-out) tables in theatres, ceiling height (especially in the smaller workshop and tutorial rooms).
: Workshops - capacity for 2 two-day workshops, and 8 one-day workshops (6 per each day)
: Tutorials - six is typically the optimal number, but proposers should desirably be prepared for up to eight (4 rooms, for morning and afternoon tutorials).
: Dates for which the venues have been booked.

; Accommodation
: List categories of accommodation, considering students as well, and their approximate capacities and prices. State the proximity of the accommodation to the conference venue, and the means of access.
: Dates for which room blocks have been tentatively reserved, or are available.

; Food and Social Program
: Describe plans for breaks (2 per day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon), student lunch (can be off-site; for at least 100-150 students), welcome reception (for about 50-60% of expected attendance), and banquet (typically 40-50% of expected attendance). Provide a preliminary plan of the types/quantities of foods per participant to be provided at each of these events, matching their cost in the budget spreadsheet. ACL encourages a tradition of some form of dancing for participants at the banquet.

; Estimated Costs Summary
: Provide a one-page summary of the budget spreadsheet (see below), specifying approximate total cost for each component of the conference (main conference, tutorials, workshops, banquet, overheads) and the VAT situation (or similar taxes – see comment in budget spreadsheet). Please give figures in both local currency and US dollars, and specify the exchange rate. Include any further relevant explanations for your budget spreadsheet.

== Setting ==

; Map
: Provide a detailed map showing positions of venues and accommodation, and other relevant locations (if any -– e.g. food courts, subway/bus stops).

; Food
: Describe the eating options within and near the conference venue.

; City
: Describe the city and region, and the principal attractions. What is the climate at this time of year? Any optional social program. List public cultural events scheduled for the conference period.

; Transportation
: Describe the air and ground transportation that provides access to the city. What is the commute time from regional airport(s) and railway stations to the venue?

== Extras ==

(Not needed for preliminary bid)

* Letters of support
* Photographs of venues and regional attractions
* Evidence of sponsorship
* Information about visa, driver licenses

== Budget Spreadsheet ==

The full budget should be detailed in a separate [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/budget.xls Budget spreadsheet] with which the bid document should be consistent. The budget only includes items which vary from one venue to another. Costs which are largely fixed across venues (such as proceedings) are omitted. Overall budget will be coordinated with the ACL Treasurer and business office.

Most items in the spreadsheet are self-explained or include explanatory comments. Here are some additional guidelines:

* Some expenses will have both a constant component and a per-person component, and each line of the budget includes both components. For example, the banquet might have a cost for the venue rental plus a per-person cost for food. In most cases, however, only one component will be non-zero.
* Complete the budget in your local currency, and provide a multiplicative conversion factor for USD in the appropriate cell.
* The spreadsheet total costs are computed using conservative (lower-bound) assumptions for the size of the conference, as specified in the first lines of the spreadsheet. However, when considering venue and accommodation capacities upper-bound assumptions should be made, as specified in the relevant spreadsheet lines (there might be some flexibility here according to actual conditions, e.g. possibly not all rooms for parallel sessions should reach the maximal session capacity).
* With respect to overall banquet cost, the banquet ticket price should typically not exceed USD 75. Beyond that the numbers drop off, which pushes the per person cost even higher because of constants such as venue rental, risking a serious loss.
* Equipment-related costs should include security arrangements, if relevant

== Task List Spreadsheet ==

As mentioned above, the organizers may choose to delegate a varying amount of the organization work to a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) and/or to the ACL Office (Priscilla Rasmussen). As auxiliary information for your task planning, we attached the [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/tasklist.xls Task List spreadsheet] used for the NAACL 2010 call for bids. The spreadsheet lists many of the organization tasks and specifies three prototypical models for sharing the organization load. Option A represents the maximum amount of work for the local organizers, while Option C is the least amount of work. B is in between. Please indicate, in the PCO section of the BID, which of these three models captures best your preferred model and include relevant explanation as needed. The precise details of who does what will be further discussed with promising bidders, you are not committing to specific tasks at this point.

The budget items under the administration section, and particularly Conference Management Fees, should correspond to the cost of work planned for a PCO and/or Priscilla. Please discuss directly with Priscilla the plans and costs for her roles.

== Additional Information ==

Further relevant information may be found at the ACL [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook Conference Handbook] and [http://www.aclweb.org/policies/index-policies.html Policies]. Successful sample bids for previous conferences may be found at the
[http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html Bids Archive] (follow the current guidelines when preparing your bid). For any queries please contact the Coordinating Committee chair.

[[Category:Conference Handbook]]

Bid Guidelines

2008-12-19T09:41:49Z

IdoDagan:

This page provides guidelines for preparing a bid for hosting the ACL conference. The guidelines link to two additional spreadsheets, explained further below: a detailed budget spreadsheet to be filled as part of the submission, synchronized with the bid document; a task-list spreadsheet, which details many of the tasks involved in hosting the conference and suggests several options for delegating a varying amount of the work to the ACL office and/or to a professional conference organizer.

== Preliminary and Final Bids ==

You are first requested to submit a preliminary bid. Promising bidders will be asked by the Conference Coordinating Committee to provide additional information and turn their bid into the final one, according to the schedule published in the Call for Bids. The purpose of a '''preliminary bid''' is to give the committee a detailed description of the organization, venue, and setting. The first round of review will help bidders to create a stronger bid, which is better tailored to the needs of the ACL. The purpose of the '''final bid''' is to convince the committee that the organizers are capable of running a large scientific conference with considerable professionalism and attention to detail.

== Covering Letter ==

Include a cover letter addressed to the ACL, naming venue and possible dates, identifying contact person(s) and contact details, signed.

== Organization ==

; Local Organizing Committee
: Please name the members of the local organizing committee, including titles and affiliations. For each person, provide a statement about their activities in the CL community and their experience organizing scientific events.

; Local CL Community
: Describe the profile of the local CL community, including any research groups, graduate programs, professional bodies, companies.

; Professional Conference Organizer
: It is typically advisable to involve a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) for the local organization, while the amount of work delegated to the PCO might vary. Where geographically appropriate, Priscilla Rasmussen, from the ACL office, might take responsibility for typical tasks of a PCO, as coordinated directly with her.
: Specify (roughly) the intended split of tasks between the local organizers, a PCO and/or the ACL office (see the Task List Spreadsheet section below for detail).
: Identify the organization that will be responsible for such tasks as local arrangements, including venues, catering, accommodation, the social program, and finances. What is the scale of their operation? List major scientific meetings organized recently.

; Dates
: Bidders should indicate one or more options for the conference dates. Sometimes, additional alternatives might be explored when negotiating with the committee. When planning the dates please check first with the conference committee chair for the latest known constraints for that year, such as dates of related conferences.

== Venue ==

; Conference
: Describe the main auditorium, theatres for four parallel sessions, spaces for tutorials and workshops, and an option for meeting rooms on-demand. Describe capacity, seating style, A/V facilities, sloping vs level floor, availability of (fold-out) tables in theatres, ceiling height (especially in the smaller workshop and tutorial rooms).
: Workshops - capacity for 2 two-day workshops, and 8 one-day workshops (6 per each day)
: Tutorials - six is typically the optimal number, but proposers should desirably be prepared for up to eight (4 rooms, for morning and afternoon tutorials).
: Dates for which the venues have been booked.

; Accommodation
: List categories of accommodation, considering students as well, and their approximate capacities and prices. State the proximity of the accommodation to the conference venue, and the means of access.
: Dates for which room blocks have been tentatively reserved, or are available.

; Food and Social Program
: Describe plans for breaks (2 per day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon), student lunch (can be off-site; for at least 100-150 students), welcome reception (for about 50-60% of expected attendance), and banquet (typically 40-50% of expected attendance). Provide a preliminary plan of the types/quantities of foods per participant to be provided at each of these events, matching their cost in the budget spreadsheet. ACL encourages a tradition of some form of dancing for participants at the banquet.

; Estimated Costs Summary
: Provide a one-page summary of the budget spreadsheet (see below), specifying approximate total cost for each component of the conference (main conference, tutorials, workshops, banquet, overheads) and the VAT situation (or similar taxes – see comment in budget spreadsheet). Please give figures in both local currency and US dollars, and specify the exchange rate. Include any further relevant explanations for your budget spreadsheet.

== Setting ==

; Map
: Provide a detailed map showing positions of venues and accommodation, and other relevant locations (if any -– e.g. food courts, subway/bus stops).

; Food
: Describe the eating options within and near the conference venue.

; City
: Describe the city and region, and the principal attractions. What is the climate at this time of year? Any optional social program. List public cultural events scheduled for the conference period.

; Transportation
: Describe the air and ground transportation that provides access to the city. What is the commute time from regional airport(s) and railway stations to the venue?

== Extras ==

(Not needed for preliminary bid)

* Letters of support
* Photographs of venues and regional attractions
* Evidence of sponsorship
* Information about visa, driver licenses

== Budget Spreadsheet ==

The full budget should be detailed in a separate [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/budget.xls Budget spreadsheet] with which the bid document should be consistent. The budget only includes items which vary from one venue to another. Costs which are largely fixed across venues (such as proceedings) are omitted. Overall budget will be coordinated with the ACL Treasurer and business office.

Most items in the spreadsheet are self-explained or include explanatory comments. Here are some additional guidelines:

* Some expenses will have both a constant component and a per-person component, and each line of the budget includes both components. For example, the banquet might have a cost for the venue rental plus a per-person cost for food. In most cases, however, only one component will be non-zero.
* Complete the budget in your local currency, and provide a multiplicative conversion factor for USD in the appropriate cell.
* The spreadsheet total costs are computed using conservative (lower-bound) assumptions for the size of the conference, as specified in the first lines of the spreadsheet. However, when considering venue and accommodation capacities upper-bound assumptions should be made, as specified in the relevant spreadsheet lines (there might be some flexibility here according to actual conditions, e.g. possibly not all rooms for parallel sessions should reach the maximal session capacity).
* With respect to overall banquet cost, the banquet ticket price should typically not exceed USD 75. Beyond that the numbers drop off, which pushes the per person cost even higher because of constants such as venue rental, risking a serious loss.
* Equipment-related costs should include security arrangements, if relevant

== Task List Spreadsheet ==

As mentioned above, the organizers may choose to delegate a varying amount of the organization work to a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) and/or to the ACL Office (Priscilla Rasmussen). As auxiliary information for your task planning, we attached the [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ACL-2011/tasklist.xls Task List spreadsheet] used for the NAACL 2010 call for bids. The spreadsheet lists many of the organization tasks and specifies three prototypical models for sharing the organization load. Option A represents the maximum amount of work for the local organizers, while Option C is the least amount of work. B is in between. Please indicate, in the PCO section of the BID, which of these three models captures best your preferred model and include relevant explanation as needed. The precise details of who does what will be further discussed with promising bidders, you are not committing to specific tasks at this point.

The budget items under the administration section, and particularly Conference Management Fees, should correspond to the cost of work planned for a PCO and/or Priscilla. Please discuss directly with Priscilla the plans and costs for her roles.

== Additional Information ==

Further relevant information about ACL policies and the conference handbook may be found at: http://www.aclweb.org/policies/. Successful sample bids for previous conferences may be found at:
http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html (follow the current guidelines when preparing your bid). For any queries please contact the Coordinating Committee chair.

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Bid Guidelines

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IdoDagan:

This page provides guidelines for preparing a bid for hosting the ACL conference. The guidelines link to two additional spreadsheets, explained further below: a detailed budget spreadsheet to be filled as part of the submission, synchronized with the bid document; a task-list spreadsheet, which details many of the tasks involved in hosting the conference and suggests several options for delegating a varying amount of the work to the ACL office and/or to a professional conference organizer.

== Preliminary and Final Bids ==

You are first requested to submit a preliminary bid. Promising bidders will be asked by the Conference Coordinating Committee to provide additional information and turn their bid into the final one, according to the schedule published in the Call for Bids. The purpose of a '''preliminary bid''' is to give the committee a detailed description of the organization, venue, and setting. The first round of review will help bidders to create a stronger bid, which is better tailored to the needs of the ACL. The purpose of the '''final bid''' is to convince the committee that the organizers are capable of running a large scientific conference with considerable professionalism and attention to detail.

== Covering Letter ==

Include a cover letter addressed to the ACL, naming venue and possible dates, identifying contact person(s) and contact details, signed.

== Organization ==

; Local Organizing Committee
: Please name the members of the local organizing committee, including titles and affiliations. For each person, provide a statement about their activities in the CL community and their experience organizing scientific events.

; Local CL Community
: Describe the profile of the local CL community, including any research groups, graduate programs, professional bodies, companies.

; Professional Conference Organizer
: It is typically advisable to involve a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) for the local organization, while the amount of work delegated to the PCO might vary. Where geographically appropriate, Priscilla Rasmussen, from the ACL office, might take responsibility for typical tasks of a PCO, as coordinated directly with her.
: Specify (roughly) the intended split of tasks between the local organizers, a PCO and/or the ACL office (see the Task List Spreadsheet section below for detail).
: Identify the organization that will be responsible for such tasks as local arrangements, including venues, catering, accommodation, the social program, and finances. What is the scale of their operation? List major scientific meetings organized recently.

; Dates
: Bidders should indicate one or more options for the conference dates. Sometimes, additional alternatives might be explored when negotiating with the committee. When planning the dates please check first with the conference committee chair for the latest known constraints for that year, such as dates of related conferences.

== Venue ==

; Conference
: Describe the main auditorium, theatres for four parallel sessions, spaces for tutorials and workshops, and an option for meeting rooms on-demand. Describe capacity, seating style, A/V facilities, sloping vs level floor, availability of (fold-out) tables in theatres.
: Workshops - capacity for 2 two-day workshops, and 8 one-day workshops (6 per each day)
: Dates for which the venues have been booked.

; Accommodation
: List categories of accommodation, considering students as well, and their approximate capacities and prices. State the proximity of the accommodation to the conference venue, and the means of access.
: Dates for which the rooms have been booked.

; Food and Social Program
: Describe plans for breaks, student lunch, welcome reception, and banquet. Provide detail about food ingredients, matching their cost in the budget spreadsheet. ACL encourages a tradition of some form of dancing for participants at the banquet.

; Estimated Costs Summary
: Provide a one-page summary of the budget spreadsheet, specifying approximate total cost for each component of the conference (main conference, tutorials, workshops, banquet, overheads) and the VAT situation (or similar taxes – see comment in budget spreadsheet). Please give figures in both local currency and US dollars, and specify the exchange rate. Include any further relevant explanations for your budget spreadsheet.

== Setting ==

; Map
: Provide a detailed map showing positions of venues and accommodation, and other relevant locations (if any – e.g. food courts, subway/bus stops).

; Food
: Describe the eating options within and near the conference venue.

; City
: Describe the city and region, and the principal attractions. What is the climate at this time of year? Any optional social program. List public cultural events scheduled for the conference period.

; Transportation
: Describe the air and ground transportation that provides access to the city. What is the commute time from regional airport(s) and railway stations to the venue?

== Extras ==

(Not needed for preliminary bid)

* Letters of support
* Photographs of venues and regional attractions
* Evidence of sponsorship
* Information about visa, driver licenses

== Budget Spreadsheet ==

The full budget is detailed in a separate spreadsheet (!!link ''here''), with which the bid document should be consistent. The budget only includes items which vary from one venue to another. Costs which are largely fixed across venues (such as proceedings) are omitted. Overall budget will be coordinated with the ACL Treasurer and business office.

Most items in the spreadsheet are self-explained or include explanatory comments. Here are some additional guidelines:

* Some expenses will have both a constant component and a per-person component, and each line of the budget includes both components. For example, the banquet might have a cost for the venue rental plus a per-person cost for food. In most cases, however, only one component will be non-zero.
* Complete the budget in your local currency, and provide a multiplicative conversion factor for USD in the appropriate cell.
* The spreadsheet total costs are computed using conservative (lower-bound) assumptions for the size of the conference, as specified in the first lines of the spreadsheet. However, when considering venue and accommodation capacities upper-bound assumptions should be made, as specified in the relevant spreadsheet lines (there might be some flexibility here according to actual conditions, e.g. possibly not all rooms for parallel sessions should reach the maximal session capacity).
* Banquet cost should be in a given range <!!specify>
* Equipment-related costs should include security arrangements, if relevant

== Task List Spreadsheet ==

As mentioned above, the organizers may choose to delegate a varying amount of the organization work to a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) and/or to the ACL Office (Priscilla Rasmussen). As auxiliary information for your task planning, we attached (<!! Link> here) the Task List spreadsheet used for the NAACL 2010 call for bids. The spreadsheet lists many of the organization tasks and specifies three prototypical models for sharing the organization load. Option A represents the maximum amount of work for the local organizers, while Option C is the least amount of work. B is in between. Please indicate, in the PCO section of the BID, which of these three models captures best your preferred model and include relevant explanation as needed. The precise details of who does what will be further discussed with promising bidders, you are not committing to specific tasks at this point.

The budget items under the administration section, and particularly Conference Management Fees, should correspond to the cost of work planned for a PCO and/or Priscilla. Please discuss directly with Priscilla the plans and costs for her roles.

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