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<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> <br /> ''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''<br /> <br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi) <br /> <br /> New student members in 2025: <br /> * '''Punya Syon Pandey''' – [mailto:punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''Esther Gan''' – [mailto:esther.gan@u.nus.edu esther.gan@u.nus.edu] (National University of Singapore)<br /> <br /> New chairs in 2025: <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) <br /> <br /> As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The ethics committee has continued to engage in sharing information about ethics and ethics policies with the community. Some of the main actions conducted include the following: <br /> <br /> * Update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]<br /> * Update of the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/ethics-reading-list/ Ethics reading list]]<br /> * Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/roles/ &quot;Roles in NLP&quot;]]<br /> * Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/chairs-metadata/ Ethics Committee Chairs Metadata at CL/NLP Conferences]]<br /> <br /> == Social Impact Award ==<br /> * AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.<br /> <br /> == ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==<br /> * The AEC provided recommendations on the licence agreement for the ARR reviewing corpus.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2026Q1_Reports&diff=76816 2026-03-02T16:23:36Z

<p>Knmnyn: Fixed Ethics Chairs&#039; Identities</p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> <br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Office]] (Jenn Rachford)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Secretary]] (Yang Feng, Richard Johansson)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Associate Treasurer]] (Jonathan May)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA]] (Raffaella Bernardi)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific]] (Yuki Arase)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Member at-large - America]] (Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: EACL]] (Preslav Nakov)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: NAACL]] (Anna Rumshisky)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: AACL]] (Xuanjing Huang)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2026]] (Chengqing Zong, Philipp Koehn)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2027]] (Barbara Plank)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2028]] (Luke Zettlemoyer) <br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: ACL 2029]] (Jing Jiang)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] (Wei Lu)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: TACL Journal]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: PCC]] (Daniel Bikel, Donia Scott)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Joel Tetrault)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Aurélie Névéol, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)<br /> * [[2026Q1 Reports: Workshop Officer]] (Zeerak Talat, Terra Blevins)</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Officers&diff=76723 2025-08-26T01:13:07Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Executive Committee (2025) */</p> <hr /> <div>= ACL Officers (1989 - ) = <br /> <br /> == 2025 == <br /> <br /> === Executive Committee (2025) ===<br /> <br /> *President Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br /> *Vice President Barbara Plank, LMU Munich<br /> *VP-elect Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington<br /> *Past President Emily M. Bender, University of Washington<br /> *Treasurer (2023 - 2027) David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University<br /> *Secretary (2025 - 2029) Yang Feng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br /> *Past Secretary (2025) Shiqi Zhao, Baidu<br /> *At-large (2023 - 2025) Vera Demberg, Universität des Saarlandes<br /> *At-large (2024 - 2026) Yuki Arase, Osaka University<br /> *At-large (2025 - 2027) Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland<br /> *CL Journal editor (2024 - 2029) Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design<br /> *EACL chair (2025-2026) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI<br /> *NAACL chair (2024-2025) Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University<br /> *AACL Chair (2025-2026) Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University<br /> *Business Manager Jenn Rachford, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)<br /> <br /> === Non-Executive Officers (2025) ===<br /> <br /> *Equity Director Lu Wang, University of Michigan<br /> *Information Director Nitin Madnani, Duolingo<br /> *Anthology Director Matt Post, Microsoft<br /> *Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Donia Scott, University of Sussex<br /> *Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Daniel Bikel, Meta AI<br /> *Publicity Director Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO<br /> *Sponsorship Director Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania<br /> *TACL Co-editor-in-chief Asli Celikyilmaz, Facebook AI Research<br /> *TACL Co-editor-in-chief Roi Reichart, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology<br /> *TACL Co-editor-in-chief Dilek Hakkani Tur, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (until August 2025)<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Karën Fort, Sorbonne University (until April 2025)<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Aurélie Névéol, CRNS (from May 2025)<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Zhijing Jin, University of Toronto (from September 2025)<br /> *Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen<br /> *Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Kokil Jaidka, National University of Singapore<br /> *Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Aoife Cahill, Dataminr<br /> *Associate Treasurer Jonathan May, ISI, USC<br /> *Workshop Officer Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh<br /> *Workshop Officer Terra Blevins, University of Vienna<br /> <br /> == 2024 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (President)<br /> <br /> Chengqing Zong (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Barbara Plank (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (Past President)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Vera Demberg (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Yuki Arase (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Wei Lu (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Roberto Basili (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Graham Neubig (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Lu Wang (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Information Director)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Daniel Bikel (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Sarvnaz Karimi (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Asli Celikyilmaz (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Roi Reichart (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti (Ethics Committee Co-chair; from July 2024)<br /> <br /> Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair; until June 2024)<br /> <br /> == 2023 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (President)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Chengqing Zong (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (Past President)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Yusuke Miyao (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Vera Demberg (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Roberto Basili (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Information Director)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Daniel Bikel (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Sarvnaz Karimi (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Lu Wang (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Asli Celikyilmaz (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Roi Reichart (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> == 2022 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (President)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (Past President)<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Anna Korhonen (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Yusuke Miyao (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Shuly Wintner (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Information Director)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Barbara Plank (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Natalie Schluter (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Pascale Fung (ARR Editors in Chief)<br /> <br /> Sebastian Riedel (ARR Editors in Chief)<br /> <br /> Amanda Stent (ARR Editors in Chief)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (general chair of 2022)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea<br /> <br /> Ronald M. Kaplan<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo<br /> <br /> Mirella Lapata<br /> <br /> Kam-Fai Wong<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans<br /> <br /> == 2021 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (President)<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (Past President)<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 21-25)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (At-large, 19-21)<br /> <br /> Anna Korhonen (At-large, 20-22)<br /> <br /> Yusuke Miyao (At-large, 21-23)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Shuly Wintner (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Colin Cherry (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Barbara Plank (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Natalie Schluter (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Chair)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen<br /> <br /> Kathleen R. McKeown<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman<br /> <br /> Ronald M. Kaplan<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer<br /> <br /> == 2020 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (President)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (Past President)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Executive Committee, 19-21)<br /> <br /> Anna Korhonen (Executive Committee, 20-22)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Sharon Goldwater (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Colin Cherry (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Chair)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen<br /> <br /> Kathleen R. McKeown<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman<br /> <br /> Candace Sidner<br /> <br /> == 2019 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (President)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Past President)<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Executive Committee, 19-21)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Sharon Goldwater (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Julia Hockenmaier (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Chair)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen<br /> <br /> Yuji Matsumoto<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman<br /> <br /> Candace Sidner<br /> <br /> == 2018 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (President)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Past President)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Past Treasurer, 18)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-18/07)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor, 18/07-)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Julia Hockenmaier (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Christopher D. Manning (Chair)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre<br /> <br /> Michael Collins<br /> <br /> Eva Hajičová<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy<br /> <br /> Yuji Matsumoto<br /> <br /> Candace Sidner<br /> <br /> == 2017 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (President)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Past President)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer, 13-17)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Chair)<br /> <br /> Christopher D. Manning<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari<br /> <br /> Eugene Charniak<br /> <br /> Michael Collins<br /> <br /> Eva Hajičová<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg<br /> <br /> Yuji Matsumoto<br /> <br /> == 2016 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (President)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Past President)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer, 13-17)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Past Secretary)<br /> <br /> Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Lluís Màrquez (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Nominating Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Nominating Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> == 2015 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (President)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Lluís Màrquez (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Nominating Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> == 2014 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (President)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Stephen Clark (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> == 2013 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (President)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Executive Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Stephen Clark (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> == 2012 == <br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ken Church (President)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Executive Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Marie-Francine Moens (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> == 2011 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (President)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Marie-Francine Moens (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Rebecca Hwa (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> == 2010 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (President)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> == 2009 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (President)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> == 2008 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (President)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Past Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (EACL Chair, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (EACL Chair-elect, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (EACL Secretary, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Eric Gaussier (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Kiril Simov (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Josef van Genabith (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Suzanne Stevenson (NAACL Secretary, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-09)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Chu-Carroll (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Bill Dolan (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Hal Daume III (NAACL Exective Board, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Rebecca Hwa (NAACL Exective Board, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Andy Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Regina Barzilay (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Mary Harper (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2007 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (President)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (EACL Chair, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (EACL Chair-elect, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (EACL Secretary, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Eric Gaussier (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Kiril Simov (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Josef van Genabith (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Regina Barzilay (NAACL Executive Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Mary Harper (NAACL Executive Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Chu-Carroll (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Bill Dolan (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Andy Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2006 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii (President)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Past-Secretary)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (ACL-E Chair-elect, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (ACL-E Secretary, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Sebastian Pado (ACL-E Student Board)<br /> <br /> Jonathon Read (ACL-E Student Board)<br /> <br /> Violetta Seretan (ACL-E Student Board)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Regina Barzilay (NAACL Exective Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Mary Harper (NAACL Exective Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2005 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (President)<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (ACL-E Chair-elect, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (ACL-E Secretary, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Past Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member<br /> <br /> == 2004 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (President)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair-elect, 03-04)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Past Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Executive Board, 2004)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2003 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (President)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord ACL-E Chair-elect, 03-04)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2002 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE === <br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (President)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair-elect, 02)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-02)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Piek Vossen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> ==2001 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (President)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 00-01)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-02)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-02)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Piek Vossen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Treasurer, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2000 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (President)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Vice President)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 00-01)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-00)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Treasurer, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Daniel Marcu (NAACL Nominating Committee, 2000)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 1999 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (President)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Henry Thomspon (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-00)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> == 1998 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (President)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Henry Thompson (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Chair, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-98)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Patrick Saint-Dizier (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Dan Tufis (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> == 1997 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mitchell Marcus (President)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Vice-President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Henry Thompson (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-98)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Chair, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-98)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Patrick Saint-Dizier (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Dan Tufis (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> == 1996 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (President)<br /> <br /> Mitchell Marcus (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98; CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Fernand Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Chair, 95-96)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 92-96)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-96)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> Anne de Roeck (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> Jan Hajic (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Jan Hajic (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iondin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> == 1995 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (President)<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Chair, 94-95)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 94-95)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-95)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Jan Hajic (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> == 1994 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (President)<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-93)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Chair, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-94)<br /> <br /> Igor M. Boguslavsky (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Harold L. Somers (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> == 1993 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (President)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Martha Pollack (Executive Committee, 92-93)<br /> <br /> Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Stuart M. Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-93)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 93-)<br /> <br /> Aravind K. Joshi (Book Series Editor, 82-)<br /> <br /> Judith Klavans (Associate Secretary-Treasurer, 92-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Chair, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-94)<br /> <br /> Igor M. Boguslavsky (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Harold L. Somers (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee Chair, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> == 1992 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (President)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Martha Stone Palmer (Executive Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Martha Pollack (Executive Committee, 92-93)<br /> <br /> Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Christian Roher (ACL-E Chair, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchman (ACL-E Secretary, 86-92)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-92)<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Juergen Kuenze (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> == 1991 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Executive Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Martha Stone Palmer (Executive Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Executive Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Chair, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 86-92)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-92)<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Juergen Kunze (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> == 1990 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (President)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Bruce W. Ballard (Executive Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Executive Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Executive Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> William C. Mann (Nominating Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Chair, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-90)<br /> <br /> Maurice Gross (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Gerard Kempen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> == 1989 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (President)<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Executive Committee, 87-89)<br /> <br /> Bruce W. Ballard (Executive Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Executive Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> Aravind K. Joshi (Book Series Editor, 82-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ralph M. Weischedel (Nominating Committee, 87-89)<br /> <br /> William C. Mann (Nominating Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Chair, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-90)<br /> <br /> Maurice Gross (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Dominico Parisi (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Gerard Kempen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> = Pre-1989 ACL Presidents =<br /> <br /> 1962 (no President within this first half year)<br /> <br /> 1963: Vic Yngve<br /> <br /> 1964: David Hays<br /> <br /> 1965: Winfred Lehmann<br /> <br /> 1966: Paul Garvin<br /> <br /> 1967: Susumo Kuno<br /> <br /> 1968: Don Walker<br /> <br /> 1969: Martin Kay<br /> <br /> 1970: Warren Plath<br /> <br /> 1971: Joyce Friedman<br /> <br /> 1972: Robert Simmons<br /> <br /> 1973: Barnes<br /> <br /> 1974: Bill Woods<br /> <br /> 1975: Aravind Joshi<br /> <br /> 1976: Stan Petrick<br /> <br /> 1977: Paul Chapin<br /> <br /> 1978: Jonathan Allen<br /> <br /> 1979: Ron Kaplan<br /> <br /> 1980: Bonnie Webber<br /> <br /> 1981: Norm Sondheimer<br /> <br /> 1982: Jane Robinson<br /> <br /> 1983: Ray Perrault<br /> <br /> 1984: Martha Evens<br /> <br /> 1985: Madeleine Bates<br /> <br /> 1986: Ralph Weischedel<br /> <br /> 1987: William Mann<br /> <br /> 1988: Alan Biermann<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> (The archive of the 1989-2016 ACL officers: https://www.aclweb.org/archive/officers_new.html)</div>

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<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>= ACL Officers (1989 - ) = <br /> <br /> == 2025 == <br /> <br /> === Executive Committee (2025) ===<br /> <br /> *President Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br /> *Vice President Barbara Plank, LMU Munich<br /> *VP-elect Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington<br /> *Past President Emily M. Bender, University of Washington<br /> *Treasurer (2023 - 2027) David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University<br /> *Secretary (2025 - 2029) Yang Feng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br /> *Past Secretary (2025) Shiqi Zhao, Baidu<br /> *At-large (2023 - 2025) Vera Demberg, Universität des Saarlandes<br /> *At-large (2024 - 2026) Yuki Arase, Osaka University<br /> *At-large (2025 - 2027) Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland<br /> *CL Journal editor (2024 - 2029) Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design<br /> *EACL chair (2025-2026) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI<br /> *NAACL chair (2024-2025)Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University<br /> *AACL Chair (2025-2026) Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University<br /> *Business Manager Jenn Rachford, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)<br /> <br /> === Non-Executive Officers (2025) ===<br /> <br /> *Equity Director Lu Wang, University of Michigan<br /> *Information Director Nitin Madnani, Duolingo<br /> *Anthology Director Matt Post, Microsoft<br /> *Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Donia Scott, University of Sussex<br /> *Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Daniel Bikel, Meta AI<br /> *Publicity Director Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO<br /> *Sponsorship Director Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania<br /> *TACL Co-editor-in-chief Asli Celikyilmaz, Facebook AI Research<br /> *TACL Co-editor-in-chief Roi Reichart, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology<br /> *TACL Co-editor-in-chief Dilek Hakkani Tur, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (until August 2025)<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Karën Fort, Sorbonne University (until April 2025)<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Aurélie Névéol, CRNS (from May 2025)<br /> *Ethics Committee Co-chair Zhijing Jin, University of Toronto (from September 2025)<br /> *Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen<br /> *Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Kokil Jaidka, National University of Singapore<br /> *Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Aoife Cahill, Dataminr<br /> *Associate Treasurer Jonathan May, ISI, USC<br /> *Workshop Officer Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh<br /> *Workshop Officer Terra Blevins, University of Vienna<br /> <br /> == 2024 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (President)<br /> <br /> Chengqing Zong (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Barbara Plank (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (Past President)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Vera Demberg (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Yuki Arase (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Wei Lu (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Roberto Basili (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Graham Neubig (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Lu Wang (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Information Director)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Daniel Bikel (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Sarvnaz Karimi (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Asli Celikyilmaz (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Roi Reichart (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti (Ethics Committee Co-chair; from July 2024)<br /> <br /> Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair; until June 2024)<br /> <br /> == 2023 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (President)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Chengqing Zong (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (Past President)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Yusuke Miyao (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Vera Demberg (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Roberto Basili (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Information Director)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Daniel Bikel (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Sarvnaz Karimi (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Lu Wang (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Asli Celikyilmaz (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Roi Reichart (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> == 2022 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (President)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (Past President)<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Anna Korhonen (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Yusuke Miyao (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Shuly Wintner (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Information Director)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Barbara Plank (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Natalie Schluter (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Pascale Fung (ARR Editors in Chief)<br /> <br /> Sebastian Riedel (ARR Editors in Chief)<br /> <br /> Amanda Stent (ARR Editors in Chief)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (general chair of 2022)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea<br /> <br /> Ronald M. Kaplan<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo<br /> <br /> Mirella Lapata<br /> <br /> Kam-Fai Wong<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans<br /> <br /> == 2021 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (President)<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (Past President)<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Iryna Gurevych (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 21-25)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (At-large, 19-21)<br /> <br /> Anna Korhonen (At-large, 20-22)<br /> <br /> Yusuke Miyao (At-large, 21-23)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Shuly Wintner (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Colin Cherry (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===<br /> <br /> Matt Post (Anthology Director)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (PCC Co-chair)<br /> <br /> Barbara Plank (Publicity Director)<br /> <br /> Natalie Schluter (Equity Director)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Chair)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen<br /> <br /> Kathleen R. McKeown<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman<br /> <br /> Ronald M. Kaplan<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer<br /> <br /> == 2020 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (President)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (Past President)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Tim Baldwin (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Executive Committee, 19-21)<br /> <br /> Anna Korhonen (Executive Committee, 20-22)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Sharon Goldwater (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> Colin Cherry (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Chair)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen<br /> <br /> Kathleen R. McKeown<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman<br /> <br /> Candace Sidner<br /> <br /> == 2019 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (President)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Past President)<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Rada Mihalcea (VP-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)<br /> <br /> Nitin Madnani (Executive Committee, 19-21)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)<br /> <br /> Sharon Goldwater (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Julia Hockenmaier (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Chair)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen<br /> <br /> Yuji Matsumoto<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman<br /> <br /> Candace Sidner<br /> <br /> == 2018 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (President)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Past President)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Hinrich Schütze (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Past Treasurer, 18)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-18/07)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor, 18/07-)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Julia Hockenmaier (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Christopher D. Manning (Chair)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre<br /> <br /> Michael Collins<br /> <br /> Eva Hajičová<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy<br /> <br /> Yuji Matsumoto<br /> <br /> Candace Sidner<br /> <br /> == 2017 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (President)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Past President)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Ming Zhou (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer, 13-17)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Chair)<br /> <br /> Christopher D. Manning<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari<br /> <br /> Eugene Charniak<br /> <br /> Michael Collins<br /> <br /> Eva Hajičová<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg<br /> <br /> Yuji Matsumoto<br /> <br /> == 2016 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (President)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Past President)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Marti Hearst (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer, 13-17)<br /> <br /> Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Past Secretary)<br /> <br /> Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Lluís Màrquez (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Emily M. Bender (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Nominating Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Nominating Committee, 16-18)<br /> <br /> == 2015 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (President)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Joakim Nivre (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Lluís Màrquez (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Nominating Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> == 2014 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (President)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)<br /> <br /> Stephen Clark (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)<br /> <br /> == 2013 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (President)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Chris Manning (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Executive Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Stephen Clark (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)<br /> <br /> == 2012 == <br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ken Church (President)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Jian Su (Executive Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Marie-Francine Moens (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Chris Callison-Burch (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)<br /> <br /> == 2011 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (President)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Haifeng Wang (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Marie-Francine Moens (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Rebecca Hwa (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)<br /> <br /> == 2010 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (President)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Ken Church (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)<br /> <br /> == 2009 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (President)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kevin Knight (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)<br /> <br /> == 2008 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (President)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Past Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (EACL Chair, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (EACL Chair-elect, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (EACL Secretary, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Eric Gaussier (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Kiril Simov (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Josef van Genabith (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Suzanne Stevenson (NAACL Secretary, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-09)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Chu-Carroll (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Bill Dolan (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Hal Daume III (NAACL Exective Board, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Rebecca Hwa (NAACL Exective Board, 08-09)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Andy Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Regina Barzilay (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Mary Harper (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2007 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (President)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (Chair of the EACL)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (EACL Chair, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Giorgio Satta (EACL Chair-elect, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (EACL Secretary, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Eric Gaussier (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Kiril Simov (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Josef van Genabith (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Regina Barzilay (NAACL Executive Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Mary Harper (NAACL Executive Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Jennifer Chu-Carroll (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Bill Dolan (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Andy Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2006 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii (President)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Past-Secretary)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (ACL-E Chair-elect, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (ACL-E Secretary, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Sebastian Pado (ACL-E Student Board)<br /> <br /> Jonathon Read (ACL-E Student Board)<br /> <br /> Violetta Seretan (ACL-E Student Board)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Regina Barzilay (NAACL Exective Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Mary Harper (NAACL Exective Board, 06-07)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2005 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (President)<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Mark Steedman (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Alex Lascarides (ACL-E Chair-elect, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Anette Frank (ACL-E Secretary, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Paola Merlo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Past Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member<br /> <br /> == 2004 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (President)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Junichi Tsujii (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair-elect, 03-04)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Past Chair, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Robert Frederking (NAACL Executive Board, 2004)<br /> <br /> Ellen Riloff (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2003 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (President)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Gertjan van Noord ACL-E Chair-elect, 03-04)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Dekang Lin (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2002 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE === <br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (President)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Johanna Moore (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair-elect, 02)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-02)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Piek Vossen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> ==2001 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (President)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Mark Johnson (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (Secretary)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 00-01)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-02)<br /> <br /> John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-02)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Piek Vossen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Treasurer, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)<br /> <br /> Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 2000 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (President)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Vice President)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (Vice President-elect)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Past-President)<br /> <br /> Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 00-01)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-00)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> === NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Treasurer, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Martha Palmer (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Philip Resnik (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Daniel Marcu (NAACL Nominating Committee, 2000)<br /> <br /> Andrew Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-01)<br /> <br /> Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)<br /> <br /> Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)<br /> <br /> == 1999 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (President)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Henry Thomspon (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-00)<br /> <br /> Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> == 1998 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (President)<br /> <br /> Philip R. Cohen (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen F. McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Henry Thompson (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Chair, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-98)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Patrick Saint-Dizier (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Dan Tufis (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> == 1997 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Mitchell Marcus (President)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (Vice-President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Henry Thompson (Executive Committee, 97-99)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-98)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Chair, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-98)<br /> <br /> Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Patrick Saint-Dizier (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Donia Scott (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Dan Tufis (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)<br /> <br /> == 1996 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (President)<br /> <br /> Mitchell Marcus (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98; CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Fernand Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Chair, 95-96)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 92-96)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-96)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> Anne de Roeck (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> Jan Hajic (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Jan Hajic (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iondin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)<br /> <br /> == 1995 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (President)<br /> <br /> Oliviero Stock (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)<br /> <br /> Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Chair, 94-95)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 94-95)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-95)<br /> <br /> Anne Abeille (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Jan Hajic (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> == 1994 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (President)<br /> <br /> Douglas E. Appelt (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-93)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Chair, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-94)<br /> <br /> Igor M. Boguslavsky (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Harold L. Somers (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> == 1993 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (President)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Martha Pollack (Executive Committee, 92-93)<br /> <br /> Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Stuart M. Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-93)<br /> <br /> Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 93-)<br /> <br /> Aravind K. Joshi (Book Series Editor, 82-)<br /> <br /> Judith Klavans (Associate Secretary-Treasurer, 92-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Chair, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-94)<br /> <br /> Igor M. Boguslavsky (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Harold L. Somers (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee Chair, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)<br /> <br /> == 1992 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (President)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Martha Stone Palmer (Executive Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Martha Pollack (Executive Committee, 92-93)<br /> <br /> Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Christian Roher (ACL-E Chair, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchman (ACL-E Secretary, 86-92)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-92)<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Juergen Kuenze (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> == 1991 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (President)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Executive Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Martha Stone Palmer (Executive Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Fernando Pereira (Executive Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Chair, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 86-92)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-92)<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Ewan Klein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Juergen Kunze (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)<br /> <br /> == 1990 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (President)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Bruce W. Ballard (Executive Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Wolfgang Wahlster (Executive Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Kathleen McKeown (Executive Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> William C. Mann (Nominating Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Chair, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-90)<br /> <br /> Maurice Gross (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Gerard Kempen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> == 1989 ==<br /> <br /> === EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Candy Sidner (President)<br /> <br /> Jerry R. Hobbs (Vice President)<br /> <br /> Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)<br /> <br /> Karen Sparck Jones (Executive Committee, 87-89)<br /> <br /> Bruce W. Ballard (Executive Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Ralph Grishman (Executive Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)<br /> <br /> Aravind K. Joshi (Book Series Editor, 82-)<br /> <br /> === NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===<br /> <br /> Ralph M. Weischedel (Nominating Committee, 87-89)<br /> <br /> William C. Mann (Nominating Committee, 88-90)<br /> <br /> Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)<br /> <br /> === EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===<br /> <br /> Margaret King (ACL-E Chair, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-90)<br /> <br /> Maurice Gross (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Dominico Parisi (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)<br /> <br /> Eva Hajicova (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Gerard Kempen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)<br /> <br /> Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)<br /> <br /> = Pre-1989 ACL Presidents =<br /> <br /> 1962 (no President within this first half year)<br /> <br /> 1963: Vic Yngve<br /> <br /> 1964: David Hays<br /> <br /> 1965: Winfred Lehmann<br /> <br /> 1966: Paul Garvin<br /> <br /> 1967: Susumo Kuno<br /> <br /> 1968: Don Walker<br /> <br /> 1969: Martin Kay<br /> <br /> 1970: Warren Plath<br /> <br /> 1971: Joyce Friedman<br /> <br /> 1972: Robert Simmons<br /> <br /> 1973: Barnes<br /> <br /> 1974: Bill Woods<br /> <br /> 1975: Aravind Joshi<br /> <br /> 1976: Stan Petrick<br /> <br /> 1977: Paul Chapin<br /> <br /> 1978: Jonathan Allen<br /> <br /> 1979: Ron Kaplan<br /> <br /> 1980: Bonnie Webber<br /> <br /> 1981: Norm Sondheimer<br /> <br /> 1982: Jane Robinson<br /> <br /> 1983: Ray Perrault<br /> <br /> 1984: Martha Evens<br /> <br /> 1985: Madeleine Bates<br /> <br /> 1986: Ralph Weischedel<br /> <br /> 1987: William Mann<br /> <br /> 1988: Alan Biermann<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> (The archive of the 1989-2016 ACL officers: https://www.aclweb.org/archive/officers_new.html)</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76721 2025-08-26T01:10:52Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* October 2021 Committee */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> ''We list the committee membership by their start term date.''<br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee. This committee's officer's terms are until December 2027.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025; committee member (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–April 2025; committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)<br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [http://zhijing-jin.com Zhijing Jin, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] January-August 2025; co-chair (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sites.google.com/view/seunghunjlee/home Seunghun J. Lee, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sis.h-da.de/personen/professor-innen-auf-einen-blick/prof-dr-margot-mieskes Margot Mieskes, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://perso.limsi.fr/neveol/ Aurélie Névéol, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] May 2025-2027<br /> * [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-3503 Adriana Silvina Pagano (Americas)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-December 2024</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76720 2025-08-26T00:53:05Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* January 2025 Committee */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> ''We list the committee membership by their start term date.''<br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee. This committee's officer's terms are until December 2027.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025; committee member (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–April 2025; committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)<br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [http://zhijing-jin.com Zhijing Jin, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] January-August 2025; co-chair (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sites.google.com/view/seunghunjlee/home Seunghun J. Lee, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sis.h-da.de/personen/professor-innen-auf-einen-blick/prof-dr-margot-mieskes Margot Mieskes, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://perso.limsi.fr/neveol/ Aurélie Névéol, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] May 2025-2027<br /> * [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-3503 Adriana Silvina Pagano (Americas)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-January 2025</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76719 2025-08-26T00:49:28Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Membership */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> ''We list the committee membership by their start term date.''<br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee. This committee's officer's terms are until December 2027.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025; committee member (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026; committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa) <br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [http://zhijing-jin.com Zhijing Jin, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] January-August 2025; co-chair (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sites.google.com/view/seunghunjlee/home Seunghun J. Lee, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sis.h-da.de/personen/professor-innen-auf-einen-blick/prof-dr-margot-mieskes Margot Mieskes, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-3503 Adriana Silvina Pagano (Americas)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-January 2025</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76718 2025-08-26T00:48:27Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* January 2025 Committee */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee. This committee's officer's terms are until December 2027.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025; committee member (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026; committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa) <br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [http://zhijing-jin.com Zhijing Jin, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] January-August 2025; co-chair (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sites.google.com/view/seunghunjlee/home Seunghun J. Lee, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sis.h-da.de/personen/professor-innen-auf-einen-blick/prof-dr-margot-mieskes Margot Mieskes, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-3503 Adriana Silvina Pagano (Americas)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-January 2025</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76717 2025-08-26T00:47:14Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Membership */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee. This committee's officer's terms are until December 2027.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025; committee member (Americas) September 2025-2027<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026; committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa) <br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [http://zhijing-jin.com Zhijing Jin, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sites.google.com/view/seunghunjlee/home Seunghun J. Lee, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sis.h-da.de/personen/professor-innen-auf-einen-blick/prof-dr-margot-mieskes Margot Mieskes, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-3503 Adriana Silvina Pagano (Americas)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-August 2025<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-January 2025</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76298 2025-03-02T08:12:36Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Margot Mieskes''' – [mailto:margot.mieskes@h-da.de margot.mieskes@h-da.de] (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) <br /> * '''Alvin Grissom II''' – [mailto:agrissom@haverford.edu agrissom@haverford.edu] (Haverford College, USA) <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''David Adelani''' – [mailto:davlanade@gmail.com davlanade@gmail.com] (McGill School of Computer Science, Canada) <br /> * '''Adriana Silvina Pagano''' – [mailto:apagano@letras.ufmg.br apagano@letras.ufmg.br] (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) <br /> * '''Seunghun Lee''' – [mailto:seunghun@icu.ac.jp seunghun@icu.ac.jp] (International Christian University, Japan)<br /> <br /> As of this time, two conference meetings have been held. As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Website.''' We sought to replicate the success of the ACL Mentorship subcommittee's outreach work in creating a useful website, to store official and authoritative information about ACL's ethical principles and policies. We have established the https://ethics.aclweb.org aclweb.org subdomain website for such purposes, and have reorganised the information from our EACL 2022 tutorial and the Ethics Reading List as a start. There is ongoing work to better explain the reproducible research checklist and to compile a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet.<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Tutorial.''' The tutorial titled &quot;Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers&quot; has been officially accepted for presentation at ACL 2025. The authors include the ACL ethics committee co-chairs as well as doctoral students working on NLP ethics: Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Seunghun Lee and Minzhi Li. <br /> <br /> The tutorial seeks to fulfill the community's need for clearer ethical guidelines and training, as requested by ACL membership in the ACL Ethics Committee survey in 2022. The key objectives include: <br /> <br /> * Raising awareness about ethical challenges in NLP research. <br /> * Providing hands-on experience with ethical review processes. <br /> * Training participants on writing ethical consideration sections in research papers. <br /> * Creating and disseminating publicly available tutorial materials. <br /> * Encouraging interactive discussions on ethical dilemmas in NLP. <br /> <br /> The methodology incorporates a participatory approach, including case studies, structured interactions, and small-group discussions. Participants will engage in practical exercises to flag papers for ethical review and analyze real-world ethical challenges.<br /> <br /> The tutorial will incorporate materials run in the EACL 2022 workshop, which includes materials contributed by prior co-chair, Yulia Tsvetkov. She has given her explicit permission for the materials to be used.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76297 2025-03-02T08:11:59Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Margot Mieskes''' – [mailto:margot.mieskes@h-da.de margot.mieskes@h-da.de] (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) <br /> * '''Alvin Grissom II''' – [mailto:agrissom@haverford.edu agrissom@haverford.edu] (Haverford College, USA) <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''David Adelani''' – [mailto:davlanade@gmail.com davlanade@gmail.com] (McGill School of Computer Science, Canada) <br /> * '''Adriana Silvina Pagano''' – [mailto:apagano@letras.ufmg.br apagano@letras.ufmg.br] (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) <br /> * '''Seunghun Lee''' – [mailto:seunghun@icu.ac.jp seunghun@icu.ac.jp] (International Christian University, Japan)<br /> <br /> As of this time, two conference meetings have been held. As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Website.''' We sought to replicate the success of the ACL Mentorship subcommittee's outreach work in creating a useful website, to store official and authoritative information about ACL's ethical principles and policies. We have established the https://ethics.aclweb.org aclweb.org subdomain website for such purposes, and have reorganised the information from our EACL 2022 tutorial and the Ethics Reading List as a start. There is ongoing work to better explain the reproducible research checklist and to compile a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet.<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Tutorial.''' The tutorial titled &quot;Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers&quot; has been officially accepted for presentation at ACL 2025. The authors include the ACL ethics committee co-chairs as well as doctoral students working on NLP ethics: Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Seunghun Lee and Minzhi Li. <br /> <br /> The tutorial seeks to fulfill the community's need for clearer ethical guidelines and training, as requested by ACL membership in the ACL Ethics Committee survey in 2022. The key objectives include: <br /> <br /> * Raising awareness about ethical challenges in NLP research. <br /> * Providing hands-on experience with ethical review processes. <br /> * Training participants on writing ethical consideration sections in research papers. <br /> * Creating and disseminating publicly available tutorial materials. <br /> * Encouraging interactive discussions on ethical dilemmas in NLP. <br /> <br /> The methodology incorporates a participatory approach, including case studies, structured interactions, and small-group discussions. Participants will engage in practical exercises to flag papers for ethical review and analyze real-world ethical challenges.<br /> <br /> The tutorial will incorporate materials run in the EACL 2022 workshop, which includes materials contributed by prior co-chair, Yulia Tsvetkov. She has given her explicit permission for the materials to be used.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76296 2025-03-02T08:11:33Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Margot Mieskes''' – [mailto:margot.mieskes@h-da.de margot.mieskes@h-da.de] (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) <br /> * '''Alvin Grissom II''' – [mailto:agrissom@haverford.edu agrissom@haverford.edu] (Haverford College, USA) <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''David Adelani''' – [mailto:davlanade@gmail.com davlanade@gmail.com] (McGill School of Computer Science, Canada) <br /> * '''Adriana Silvina Pagano''' – [mailto:apagano@letras.ufmg.br apagano@letras.ufmg.br] (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) <br /> * '''Seunghun Lee''' – [mailto:seunghun@icu.ac.jp seunghun@icu.ac.jp] (International Christian University, Japan)<br /> <br /> As of this time, two conference meetings have been held. As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Website.''' We sought to replicate the success of the ACL Mentorship subcommittee's outreach work in creating a useful website, to store official and authoritative information about ACL's ethical principles and policies. We have established the https://ethics.aclweb.org aclweb.org subdomain website for such purposes, and have reorganised the information from our EACL 2022 tutorial and the Ethics Reading List as a start. There is ongoing work to better explain the reproducible research checklist and to compile a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet.<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Tutorial.''' The tutorial titled &quot;Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers&quot; has been officially accepted for presentation at ACL 2025. The authors include the ACL ethics committee co-chairs as well as doctoral students working on NLP ethics: Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Minzhi Li. <br /> <br /> The tutorial seeks to fulfill the community's need for clearer ethical guidelines and training, as requested by ACL membership in the ACL Ethics Committee survey in 2022. The key objectives include: <br /> <br /> * Raising awareness about ethical challenges in NLP research. <br /> * Providing hands-on experience with ethical review processes. <br /> * Training participants on writing ethical consideration sections in research papers. <br /> * Creating and disseminating publicly available tutorial materials. <br /> * Encouraging interactive discussions on ethical dilemmas in NLP. <br /> <br /> The methodology incorporates a participatory approach, including case studies, structured interactions, and small-group discussions. Participants will engage in practical exercises to flag papers for ethical review and analyze real-world ethical challenges.<br /> <br /> The tutorial will incorporate materials run in the EACL 2022 workshop, which includes materials contributed by prior co-chair, Yulia Tsvetkov. She has given her explicit permission for the materials to be used.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76295 2025-03-02T08:04:54Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Margot Mieskes''' – [mailto:margot.mieskes@h-da.de margot.mieskes@h-da.de] (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) <br /> * '''Alvin Grissom II''' – [mailto:agrissom@haverford.edu agrissom@haverford.edu] (Haverford College, USA) <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''David Adelani''' – [mailto:davlanade@gmail.com davlanade@gmail.com] (McGill School of Computer Science, Canada) <br /> * '''Adriana Silvina Pagano''' – [mailto:apagano@letras.ufmg.br apagano@letras.ufmg.br] (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) <br /> * '''Seunghun Lee''' – [mailto:seunghun@icu.ac.jp seunghun@icu.ac.jp] (International Christian University, Japan)<br /> <br /> As of this time, two conference meetings have been held. As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Website.''' We sought to replicate the success of the ACL Mentorship subcommittee's outreach work in creating a useful website, to store official and authoritative information about ACL's ethical principles and policies. We have established the https://ethics.aclweb.org aclweb.org subdomain website for such purposes, and have reorganised the information from our EACL 2022 tutorial and the Ethics Reading List as a start.<br /> <br /> '''Ethics Tutorial.''' The tutorial titled &quot;Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers&quot; has been officially accepted for presentation at ACL 2025. The authors include the ACL ethics committee co-chairs as well as PhD students working on NLP ethics&gt; Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Min-Yen Kan, Minzhi Li. <br /> <br /> The tutorial seeks to fulfill the community's need for clearer ethical guidelines and training, as requested by ACL membership in the ACL Ethics Committee survey in 2022. The key objectives include: <br /> <br /> * Raising awareness about ethical challenges in NLP research. <br /> * Providing hands-on experience with ethical review processes. <br /> * Training participants on writing ethical consideration sections in research papers. <br /> * Creating and disseminating publicly available tutorial materials. <br /> * Encouraging interactive discussions on ethical dilemmas in NLP. <br /> <br /> The methodology incorporates a participatory approach, including case studies, structured interactions, and small-group discussions. Participants will engage in practical exercises to flag papers for ethical review and analyze real-world ethical challenges.<br /> <br /> The tutorial will incorporate materials run in the EACL 2022 workshop, which includes materials contributed by prior co-chair, Yulia Tsvetkov. She has given her explicit permission for the materials to be used.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76294 2025-03-02T07:59:50Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Margot Mieskes''' – [mailto:margot.mieskes@h-da.de margot.mieskes@h-da.de] (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) <br /> * '''Alvin Grissom II''' – [mailto:agrissom@haverford.edu agrissom@haverford.edu] (Haverford College, USA) <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''David Adelani''' – [mailto:davlanade@gmail.com davlanade@gmail.com] (McGill School of Computer Science, Canada) <br /> * '''Adriana Silvina Pagano''' – [mailto:apagano@letras.ufmg.br apagano@letras.ufmg.br] (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) <br /> * '''Seunghun Lee''' – [mailto:seunghun@icu.ac.jp seunghun@icu.ac.jp] (International Christian University, Japan)<br /> <br /> As of this time, two conference meetings have been held. As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The tutorial titled &quot;Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers&quot; has been officially accepted for presentation at ACL 2025. The authors include the ACL ethics committee co-chairs as well as PhD students working on NLP ethics&gt; Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Min-Yen Kan, Minzhi Li. <br /> <br /> The tutorial seeks to fulfill the community's need for clearer ethical guidelines and training, as requested by ACL membership in the ACL Ethics Committee survey in 2022. The key objectives include: <br /> <br /> * Raising awareness about ethical challenges in NLP research. <br /> * Providing hands-on experience with ethical review processes. <br /> * Training participants on writing ethical consideration sections in research papers. <br /> * Creating and disseminating publicly available tutorial materials. <br /> * Encouraging interactive discussions on ethical dilemmas in NLP. <br /> <br /> The methodology incorporates a participatory approach, including case studies, structured interactions, and small-group discussions. Participants will engage in practical exercises to flag papers for ethical review and analyze real-world ethical challenges.<br /> <br /> The tutorial will incorporate materials run in the EACL 2022 workshop, which includes materials contributed by prior co-chair, Yulia Tsvetkov. She has given her explicit permission for the materials to be used.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76293 2025-03-02T07:58:25Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition */</p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP. <br /> <br /> * '''Margot Mieskes''' – [mailto:margot.mieskes@h-da.de margot.mieskes@h-da.de] (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany) <br /> * '''Alvin Grissom II''' – [mailto:agrissom@haverford.edu agrissom@haverford.edu] (Haverford College, USA) <br /> * '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada) <br /> * '''David Adelani''' – [mailto:davlanade@gmail.com davlanade@gmail.com] (McGill School of Computer Science, Canada) <br /> * '''Adriana Silvina Pagano''' – [mailto:apagano@letras.ufmg.br apagano@letras.ufmg.br] (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) <br /> * '''Seunghun Lee''' – [mailto:seunghun@icu.ac.jp seunghun@icu.ac.jp] (International Christian University, Japan)<br /> <br /> As of this time, two conference meetings have been held. As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The tutorial titled &quot;Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers&quot; has been officially accepted for presentation at ACL 2025. The authors include the ACL ethics committee co-chairs as well as PhD students working on NLP ethics&gt; Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Min-Yen Kan, Minzhi Li. <br /> <br /> The tutorial seeks to fulfill the community's need for clearer ethical guidelines and training, as requested by ACL membership in the ACL Ethics Committee survey in 2022. The key objectives include: <br /> <br /> * Raising awareness about ethical challenges in NLP research. <br /> * Providing hands-on experience with ethical review processes. <br /> * Training participants on writing ethical consideration sections in research papers. <br /> * Creating and disseminating publicly available tutorial materials. <br /> * Encouraging interactive discussions on ethical dilemmas in NLP. <br /> <br /> The methodology incorporates a participatory approach, including case studies, structured interactions, and small-group discussions. Participants will engage in practical exercises to flag papers for ethical review and analyze real-world ethical challenges.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76217 2025-02-02T06:52:30Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* January 2025 Committee */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-2026<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [http://zhijing-jin.com Zhijing Jin, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sites.google.com/view/seunghunjlee/home Seunghun J. Lee, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://sis.h-da.de/personen/professor-innen-auf-einen-blick/prof-dr-margot-mieskes Margot Mieskes, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-3503 Adriana Silvina Pagano (Americas)] [she/her] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-2026<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-2026</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76216 2025-02-02T06:45:27Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76215 2025-02-02T06:45:15Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>[[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> ''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=76214 2025-02-02T06:44:45Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Membership */</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> <br /> === January 2025 Committee ===<br /> <br /> ''Due to a gap in recruiting, the AEC only ran with its co-chairs for November and December 2024, while appointing new members of its committee.''<br /> <br /> * [https://dadelani.github.io/ David Adelani, committee member (Europe/Middle East/Africa)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-2026<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://agrissom.sites.haverford.edu/ Alvin Grissom II, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2025-2027<br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> <br /> === October 2021 Committee ===<br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-2026<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-2026</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76213 2025-02-02T06:37:08Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>[[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]<br /> <br /> _N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public._<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76212 2025-02-02T06:35:17Z

<p>Knmnyn: Created page with &quot;https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs &#039;24 Q1 https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>[[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports&diff=76211 2025-02-02T06:32:34Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Office]] (Jenn Rachford)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Secretary]] (Shiqi Zhao, Yang Feng)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA]] (Vera Demberg)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific]] (Yuki Arase)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Member at-large - America]] (Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: EACL]] (Preslav Nakov)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: NAACL]] (Graham Neubig)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: AACL]] (Xuanjing Huang)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2025]] ()<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2026]] ()<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2027]] ()<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] (Wei Lu)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: TACL Journal]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: PCC]] (Daniel Bikel, Donia Scott)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Chris Callison-Burch)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Leon Derczynski, Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)<br /> <br /> <br /> * [[2025Q1 Minutes (public version)]]</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports&diff=76210 2025-02-02T06:31:25Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Office]] (Jenn Rachford)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Secretary]] (Shiqi Zhao, Yang Feng)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA]] (Vera Demberg)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific]] (Yuki Arase)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Member at-large - America]] (Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: EACL]] (Preslav Nakov)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: NAACL]] (Graham Neubig)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: AACL]] (Xuanjing Huang)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2025]] ()<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2026]] ()<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL 2027]] ()<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] (Wei Lu)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: TACL Journal]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: PCC]] (Daniel Bikel, Donia Scott)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Chris Callison-Burch)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: ACL Ethics Committee]] (Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan)<br /> * [[2025Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Leon Derczynski, Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)<br /> <br /> <br /> * [[2025Q1 Minutes (public version)]]</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76142 2024-08-28T15:44:28Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Committee Scope */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee] (PEC), whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups: in particular, the AEC is committed to coordinating with the PEC every month by email.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> The tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) ethics guidelines are still being compiled, in absorbing the input from the recent sister organizations' LREC–COLING 2024 conference in May (Turin, Italy). We are also revising it in tandem with EMNLP 2024's (Miami, USA) execution, where Luciana Benotti (an AEC co-chair) is co-chairing the ethics review pipeline. <br /> <br /> We hope to make the constant revision and update of the experiences of ethics reviewing a live documentation source. To this extent, we compiled the information about the statistics and magnitude of ethics reviewing pipelines over the last five years of ethics review (thanks to the component events chairs). This information will be consolidated into the AEC website (see below).<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial '''[https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing]''' at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that ethics awareness requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners). The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to '''update and re-run our ethics tutorial''' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to '''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial''', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;code&gt;aclweb&lt;/code&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin Madani (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76141 2024-08-28T15:44:02Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Committee Scope */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee] (PEC), whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups: the AEC is committed to coordinating with the PEC every month by email.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> The tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) ethics guidelines are still being compiled, in absorbing the input from the recent sister organizations' LREC–COLING 2024 conference in May (Turin, Italy). We are also revising it in tandem with EMNLP 2024's (Miami, USA) execution, where Luciana Benotti (an AEC co-chair) is co-chairing the ethics review pipeline. <br /> <br /> We hope to make the constant revision and update of the experiences of ethics reviewing a live documentation source. To this extent, we compiled the information about the statistics and magnitude of ethics reviewing pipelines over the last five years of ethics review (thanks to the component events chairs). This information will be consolidated into the AEC website (see below).<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial '''[https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing]''' at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that ethics awareness requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners). The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to '''update and re-run our ethics tutorial''' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to '''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial''', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;code&gt;aclweb&lt;/code&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin Madani (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=76140 2024-08-28T15:11:49Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> The tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) ethics guidelines are still being compiled, in absorbing the input from the recent sister organizations' LREC–COLING 2024 conference in May (Turin, Italy). We are also revising it in tandem with EMNLP 2024's (Miami, USA) execution, where Luciana Benotti (an AEC co-chair) is co-chairing the ethics review pipeline. <br /> <br /> We hope to make the constant revision and update of the experiences of ethics reviewing a live documentation source. To this extent, we compiled the information about the statistics and magnitude of ethics reviewing pipelines over the last five years of ethics review (thanks to the component events chairs). This information will be consolidated into the AEC website (see below).<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial '''[https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing]''' at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that ethics awareness requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners). The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to '''update and re-run our ethics tutorial''' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to '''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial''', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;code&gt;aclweb&lt;/code&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin Madani (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75991 2024-07-11T05:26:00Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> The tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) ethics guidelines are still being compiled, in absorbing the input from the recent sister organizations' LREC–COLING 2024 conference in May (Turin, Italy). We are also revising it in tandem with EMNLP 2024's (Miami, USA) execution, where Luciana Benotti (an AEC co-chair) is co-chairing the ethics review pipeline. <br /> <br /> We hope to make the constant revision and update of the experiences of ethics reviewing a live documentation source. To this extent, we compiled the information about the statistics and magnitude of ethics reviewing pipelines over the last five years of ethics review (thanks to the component events chairs). This information will be consolidated into the AEC website (see below).<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial '''[https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing]''' at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that attention to ethics requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners) that should be aware of. The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to '''update and re-run our ethics tutorial''' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to '''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial''', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;code&gt;aclweb&lt;/code&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin Madani (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75990 2024-07-11T05:19:46Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial '''[https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing]''' at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that attention to ethics requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners) that should be aware of. The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to '''update and re-run our ethics tutorial''' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to '''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial''', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;code&gt;aclweb&lt;/code&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin Madani (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75989 2024-07-11T05:19:02Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial '''[https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing]''' at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that attention to ethics requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners) that should be aware of. The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to '''update and re-run our ethics tutorial''' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to '''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial''', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;pre&gt;aclweb&lt;/pre&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75988 2024-07-11T05:17:42Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with three subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> <br /> Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that attention to ethics requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners) that should be aware of. The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to ''update and re-run our ethics tutorial'' at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, by instructing the joint tutorials/workshops co-chairs to ''mandate that each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial'', where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly, we are working to centralise all of our ethics resources into a single &lt;pre&gt;aclweb&lt;/pre&gt;-domain based website. Our stocktake of resources showed that there are sufficient resources covering many aspects of ethics but they are not collated effectively for discovery by our membership and the public at large. We have discussed with Nitin (ACL IO officer) on this and we will be rolling this out when we are able to get the basic website working. We plan to re-use the pipeline of GitHub based static webpages used by a few ACL units (in particular the ACL Mentorship group) to build out the facilities. <br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75987 2024-07-11T05:02:38Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' has not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left it out of this update. We first discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> The AEC broadly believes that the current membership is broadly interested in having a better understanding of ethics and ethical issues surrounding our field's technology and studies to real-world, deployed applications. As such, our subcommittee on this issue has centered on three initiatives: tutorial, video interviews, and a special journal issue on ethics in CL/NLP. <br /> <br /> Although we ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May 2023, Dubrovnik), the committee feels that attention to ethics requires renewed and reinforced attention, as the continued growth in the field attracts new authors, practitioners, reviewers and event organisers (conveners) that should be aware of. The ethics tutorial is necessarily interactive and requires participation to capture and be sensitive to the nuances of ethics. <br /> <br /> As such our plans to **update and re-run our ethics tutorial** at multiple *ACL venues within the 2024-2025 calendar cycle. Our onboarding of additional Human Resources in terms of the co-chairs' doctoral students represent one way forward with this initiative. Since we have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial associated Github repository link], re-running the tutorial will help to capture additional parties sensitive to ethics and pave the way for a more concerted effort for a standing poll of qualified ethics reviewers and ethics reviewing co-chairs. <br /> <br /> We urge the ACL Executive to consider placing sufficient emphasis on ethics; for example, allowing each major venue to feature the running of an instance of the ethics tutorial, where qualified AEC-certified human resources allow.<br /> <br /> Secondly,<br /> <br /> Thirdly, on the issue of visibility of CL/NLP ethics research, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75986 2024-07-10T11:31:11Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' has not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left it out of this update. We first discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75985 2024-07-10T11:29:44Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Committee Scope */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive formed and appointed members to a new, separate [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee ACL Publication Ethics Committee], whose scope encompasses ethics concerns surrounding publications (inclusive of plagiarism and improper conduct) which require sufficient operational support. While at current there is sufficient interchange across both groups due to a co-chair in each committee overlapping at the same institution (Kokil Jaidka and Min-Yen Kan; both with NUS), our committees realises that a long term solution is needed, and thus we are currently working on a means to broadly interchange information across both groups.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75984 2024-07-10T11:18:38Z

<p>Knmnyn: Partially done with Committee Scope for 24Q3</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * [[#Committee Scope]]<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> Ethical issues specifically related to publications (specifically, misuse of the ethical considerations section) prompted discussion about how to best handle such issues. Due to its strong operational nature, it was felt that a separate committee that had the operational resource would be best positioned to handle such issues. The AEC (this committee) would continue to think more broadly about the implication of current policies and practices but would divest itself of operational concerns where execution would be a large part of its implementation. <br /> <br /> As as result, the current ACL Executive enacted a separate ACL Publication Ethics Committee <br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75983 2024-07-10T11:10:38Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [ACLWeb https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee]).<br /> <br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75982 2024-07-10T11:07:40Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Changes in Leadership */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==<br /> <br /> Firstly, due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026. <br /> <br /> We have updated the [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee] page as a result of the changeover and the ACL Exec has been duly notified of this internal change.<br /> <br /> Secondly, committee members have a term of 3 years, co-chairs for 5 years. This is to give the co-chairs sufficient time and overlap to ensure that programmes and processes started can culminate, and ensure overlap of terms between chairs and committee members, as originally enacted by the 2021 ACL <br /> Executive Committee. Currently, the term of our first regular committee members is ending in September, and the committee is preparing itself for renewal.<br /> <br /> Finally, the co-chairs have also enlisted the voluntary help of their own subordinates (largely doctoral candidates supervised or working with them) to help execute policy and legislative decisions made by them, as of June 2024. We look forward to reporting on executed output in the next Q1 report.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee&diff=75981 2024-07-10T10:59:58Z

<p>Knmnyn: Update chairs</p> <hr /> <div>An ACL Ethics Committee will be formed, to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee will be to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research (as opposed to e.g., making value judgments).<br /> <br /> <br /> The role of this committee will be to:<br /> <br /> *Define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns within the ACL<br /> *Coordinate with the Ethics (Co)Chairs at ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, EMNLP conferences to ensure consistency of process and guidelines across different events<br /> *Provide clear guidelines to the ACL membership on how to report ethical concerns, as well as any possible implications of such reporting<br /> *Coordinate the compilation and publication of resources to educate the broad community about the limitations and societal implications of the technologies we develop<br /> <br /> The committee will consist of three co-chairs serving a five-year team, and six members at large serving a three-year term, ensuring uniform coverage of the three geographic regions represented by AACL, EACL, and NAACL.<br /> <br /> == Membership ==<br /> <br /> Initial appointed committee (October 2021), ordered by surname:<br /> <br /> * [https://benotti.github.io/ Luciana Benotti, committee member (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; co-chair (Americas) June 2024-2026<br /> * [https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/ Mark Drezde, committee member (Americas)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Karën Fort, co-chair (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2026<br /> * [https://pascale.home.ece.ust.hk/ Pascale Fung, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [she/her] 2021–2024 <br /> * [http://www.dirkhovy.com/index.php Dirk Hovy, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [he/him] 2021–2024 <br /> * [https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Min-Yen Kan, co-chair (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2026<br /> * [http://data.dbcls.jp/~jdkim/ Jin-Dong Kim, committee member (Asia/Oceania)] [he/him] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://malvinanissim.github.io/ Malvina Nissim, committee member (Europe/Africa)] [she/her] 2021–2024<br /> * [https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yuliats/ Yulia Tsvetkov, co-chair (Americas)] [she/her] 2021–May 2024; committee member (Americas) June 2024-2026</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75980 2024-07-10T10:55:44Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Changes in Leadership */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership ==<br /> <br /> Due to personal reasons, Yulia Tsvekov and Luciana Benotti exchanged their roles as co-chair (Americas) and committee member (Americas), around May 2024.<br /> <br /> Luciana takes over the remainder of the co-chair 5-year term, up until the end of September 2026.<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75956 2024-07-05T00:43:27Z

<p>Knmnyn: Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by th...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> Our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Changes in Leadership ==<br /> <br /> == Committee Scope ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports&diff=75955 2024-07-05T00:24:46Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Reports from ACL Exec-plus'''<br /> <br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (Graham Neubig)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: EACL]] (Roberto Basili)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: AACL]] (Jian Su)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Member at-large / SIGs&amp;BIG]] (Vera Demberg)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Member at-large / Conference Officer]] (Yuki Arase)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Member at-large]] (Mohit Bansal)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (Shiqi Zhao)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: PCC Co-Chairs]] (Donia Scott, Daniel Bikel)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Chris Callison-Burch)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]] (Wei Lu)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Leon Derczynski, Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)<br /> <br /> '''ACL 2024'''<br /> <br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: General Chair]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Local Organization Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Demo Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop: Faculty Advisors]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Handbook Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Technical Open Review Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Publicity and Social Media Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Website and Conference APP Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Virtual Infrastructure Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Diversity and Inclusion Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Internal Communications Chairs]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: Student Volunteer Chairs]]<br /> <br /> '''Future ACL Conferences'''<br /> <br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: ACL 2025]] (Emily M. Bender)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: ACL 2026]] (Chengqing Zong)<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: ACL 2027]] (Barbara Plank)<br /> <br /> '''SIG &amp; BIG'''<br /> <br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGARAB]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGEDU]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGEL]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGREP]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGSEC]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGSLAV]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGSLT]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGSUMM]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGTURK]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGTYP]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: SIGWrit]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Reports: EquiCL]]<br /> <br /> '''Exec Meeting'''<br /> * [[2024Q3 Agenda]]<br /> * [[2024Q3 Minutes]]</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75842 2024-02-27T00:57:49Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Overview ==<br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. As a reminder, our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an '''ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee''' to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledged, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> <br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> <br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> <br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> <br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> As certain camera-ready versions of EMNLP 2023 papers contained non-peer reviewed statements that particular members of the public and our committee thought were misused, our committee also deliberated on what action to take. As of this timing, the committee has not taken an official action, as we understand that there are again various members of the executive working on these delicate issues. We are still formulating a possible action. <br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75825 2024-02-21T09:02:39Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Issue 1. Pre-print survey */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. As a reminder, our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an '''ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee''' to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> <br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> <br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> <br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> <br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> As certain camera-ready versions of EMNLP 2023 papers contained non-peer reviewed statements that particular members of the public and our committee thought were misused, our committee also deliberated on what action to take. As of this timing, the committee has not taken an official action, as we understand that there are again various members of the executive working on these delicate issues. We are still formulating a possible action. <br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75824 2024-02-21T09:00:38Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Issue 1. Pre-print survey */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. As a reminder, our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an '''ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee''' to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> As certain camera-ready versions of EMNLP 2023 papers contained non-peer reviewed statements that particular members of the public and our committee thought were misused, our committee also deliberated on what action to take. As of this timing, the committee has not taken an official action, as we understand that there are again various members of the executive working on these delicate issues. We are still formulating a possible action. <br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75823 2024-02-21T08:58:42Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Issue 1. Pre-print survey */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. As a reminder, our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an **ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee** to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> As certain camera-ready versions of EMNLP 2023 papers contained non-peer reviewed statements that particular members of the public and our committee thought were misused, our committee also deliberated on what action to take. As of this timing, the committee has not taken an official action, as we understand that there are again various members of the executive working on these delicate issues. We are still formulating a possible action. <br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75822 2024-02-21T08:58:26Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. As a reminder, our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br /> <br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an _ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee_ to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> As certain camera-ready versions of EMNLP 2023 papers contained non-peer reviewed statements that particular members of the public and our committee thought were misused, our committee also deliberated on what action to take. As of this timing, the committee has not taken an official action, as we understand that there are again various members of the executive working on these delicate issues. We are still formulating a possible action. <br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75821 2024-02-21T08:52:52Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Issue 1. Pre-print survey */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Efforts ==<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. <br /> <br /> * [[#]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an _ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee_ to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75820 2024-02-21T08:49:25Z

<p>Knmnyn: /* Issue 1. Pre-print survey */</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Efforts ==<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. <br /> <br /> * [[#]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an _ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee_ to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> &gt; Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> &gt; <br /> &gt; References:<br /> &gt; [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> &gt; [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> &gt; [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> &gt; [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: &gt; 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> &gt; [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

Knmnyn https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs&diff=75819 2024-02-21T08:47:10Z

<p>Knmnyn: </p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Efforts ==<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. <br /> <br /> * [[#]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update.<br /> <br /> == Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br /> <br /> The ACL Executive instituted an _ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee_ to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br /> <br /> As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledge, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br /> <br /> We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br /> <br /> '''<br /> Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br /> <br /> Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br /> <br /> In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br /> <br /> Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br /> <br /> We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br /> <br /> Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br /> <br /> Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br /> <br /> We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br /> <br /> The ACL Ethics Committee<br /> <br /> References:<br /> [1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br /> [2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br /> [3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br /> [4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br /> [5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br /> '''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

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<p>Knmnyn: Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by th...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Efforts ==<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee has made progress on its internal initiatives. <br /> <br /> * [[#Ethics Survey]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

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<p>Knmnyn: /* Ethics Survey */ Added PDF for the survey.</p> <hr /> <div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2023 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br /> <br /> == Efforts ==<br /> <br /> After 2023 Q1, the Ethics Committee has made progress on its internal initiatives. <br /> <br /> * [[#Ethics Survey]]<br /> * [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br /> * [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br /> * Committee Scope<br /> * Committee Procedure<br /> <br /> The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Survey ==<br /> <br /> We will have completed the processing of the raw results over all nine questions in the survey. We will be reporting our findings at ACL 2023 in a parallel session on Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:15-17:45 in Toronto as part of the parallel tracks. <br /> <br /> Our work on the survey indicated a large interest from the ground in having educational outreach, which informed our decision to propose and run an ethics tutorial that ran at EACL 2023 in May, in Dubrovnik, Croatia.<br /> <br /> The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br /> <br /> Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br /> <br /> == Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br /> <br /> Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br /> <br /> As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br /> <br /> This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br /> <br /> == Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br /> <br /> We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br /> <br /> Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br /> <br /> As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br /> <br /> At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br /> <br /> We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br /> <br /> https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br /> <br /> With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>

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