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2024Q3 Reports: Member at-large

2024-08-10T18:14:56Z

Mbansal47: Created page with "Worked with new CL Journal Editor-in-Chief to create ACL Dissertation Award Last quarter, led the search committee for the Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal's new..."

Worked with new CL Journal Editor-in-Chief to create ACL Dissertation Award

Last quarter, led the search committee for the Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal's new Editor-in-Chief. Wei Lu (SUTD) was selected as the new EiC candidate and he started his role on Feb 15, 2024. Worked with Wei for last several months to finalize the details of the "ACL Dissertation Award" similar to the thesis awards in many other communities. Will be announced soon.

ACL Cloud GPU program for under-resourced communities

Clarifying bureaucratic and legal steps on the award-based cloud GPU program for under-resourced communities with tech companies and finalized some justifications, selection procedures, and amounts of credits/funding.

2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Americas

2024-02-19T00:53:37Z

Mbansal47: Created page with "Led search committee for CL Journal's new Editor-in-Chief Led the search committee for the Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal's new Editor-in-Chief. Committee cons..."

Led search committee for CL Journal's new Editor-in-Chief

Led the search committee for the Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal's new Editor-in-Chief. Committee consisted of Claire Cardie, Robert Dale, Vera Demberg, Julia Hirschberg, Hwee Tou Ng, and Joakim Nivre, and Mohit Bansal (chair). The committee advertised/requested open call for nominations, received nominations, and reviewed submitted statements. Wei Lu (SUTD) was selected as the new EiC candidate and was asked if he agrees to take on the EiC role -- he agreed to take on the role and started his role on Feb 15, 2024.

ACL Cloud GPU program for under-resourced communities

More concrete progress on the award-based cloud GPU program for under-resourced communities. Have sent detailed draft information on tentative CfP, award size, number of awards, etc. and is being currently reviewed the GPU division/department. Should hear back likely in 1 month.

2023Q3 Reports: Member at-large

2023-07-01T11:19:36Z

Mbansal47: Created page with "===Hybrid-Conference working group=== Have finished collecting the conclusions and initial report of the ACL hybrid-conference working group, whose aim was to come up with ide..."

===Hybrid-Conference working group===
Have finished collecting the conclusions and initial report of the ACL hybrid-conference working group, whose aim was to come up with ideas and todo's on how to make our future conferences have a more engaged remote/virtual component (which has many reasons, esp. with pandemics and for people who cannot join due to visa/cost issues, and for environmental effects in general). The report has put special emphasis on increasing engagement and visibility for virtual attendees' talks and posters. The working group already included an ACL 2023 program chair and the plan is to finalize the report in the next ACL-Exec July meeting and share with EMNLP 2023 and future *ACL program chairs.

2023Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Americas

2023-02-21T03:31:21Z

Mbansal47: Created page with "===Hybrid-Conference working group=== Recently created the ACL hybrid-conference working group, whose aim is to come up with ideas and todo's on how to make our future confere..."

===Hybrid-Conference working group===
Recently created the ACL hybrid-conference working group, whose aim is to come up with ideas and todo's on how to make our future conferences have a more engaged remote/virtual component (which has many reasons, esp. with pandemics and for people who cannot join due to visa/cost issues, and for environmental effects in general). The working group consists of diverse representation from ACL-exec regions as well as *ACL program chair. Will create a final document to share with the community for feedback and also with future *ACL chairs.

===ACL Cloud GPU program for underserved communities===
In addition to discussions with NSF, also in touch two major companies with cloud compute programs and are discussing with them an award-based cloud GPU program for underserved communities.

===ACL Year-Round Mentorship Program===
Monthly worldwide and year-round mentorship sessions running smoothly for third year, with sustained help from mentors and organizers. Plans to request/add more co-organizers soon for helping with several tasks of moderating sessions, processing zoom recordings and adding to youtube, announcing sessions, inviting mentors, etc. More details of the program at: https://mentorship.aclweb.org/

2022Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Americas

2022-03-14T23:21:55Z

Mbansal47:

-- Paper awards policies: Discussing two main points: (a) consistently having a larger number of diverse awards, and (b) how to improve the anonymity in parts of the best paper review process.
(Waiting for final report from ACL Conference Awards Policy committee)

-- ACL Cloud GPU program for underserved communities: working on an infrastructure program promoted by ACL that provides support to underserved international communities; collecting more information from recent, relevant GPU/infrastructure programs initiated by NSF and other similar organizations.

2022Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Americas

2022-03-14T23:19:01Z

Mbansal47: Created page with "-- Paper awards policies: Working on two main points: (a) consistently having a larger number of diverse awards, and (b) how to improve the anonymity in parts of the best pape..."

-- Paper awards policies: Working on two main points: (a) consistently having a larger number of diverse awards, and (b) how to improve the anonymity in parts of the best paper review process.
(Waiting for final report from ACL Conference Awards Policy committee)

-- ACL Cloud GPU program for underserved communities: working on an infrastructure program promoted by ACL that provides support to underserved international communities; collecting more information from recent, relevant GPU/infrastructure programs initiated by NSF and other similar organizations.

Demo chair duties

2017-07-24T16:20:31Z

Mbansal47: Updated Demo chair duties (original was from 10 years ago: 2007-2008) --MohitBansal

==Demo Chair Overview==

'''[[Conference_Handbook|Conference Handbook]] - Demo Chair Overview'''

The Demo Chair is responsible for assembling the system demonstration papers to be presented in the main conference program. This includes the following steps:

* Selecting the demo program committee (number calculated based on having three reviewers per paper).
* Requesting demo paper submissions via a Call-for-System-Demonstrations and advertising via publicity chair.
* Call-for-System-Demonstrations should encourage a diverse set of submissions, ranging from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems, including technologically innovative industrial systems. Of particular interest are publicly available open-source or open-access systems (see sample call below).
* Assigning three expert reviewers per submission (with an extra paper bidding step, if needed).
* Encouraging reviewer discussions per paper, esp. For the borderline and disagreement ones.
* Making accept/reject decisions for each submission based on reviewer recommendations and the number of demo slots in the main conference (conveyed by the general/program chairs). It is important to maintain a balance of accepted topic areas, underrepresented or neglected areas, etc.
* Creating descriptions for the conference program and assisting the publication chairs in preparing the companion volume of the ACL 2017 demo proceedings.
* Making sure that demo display requirements (monitors, cables, poster boards, etc.) are conveyed to the local arrangements chair and to the authors.
* Optionally, selecting a best demo paper (and runner-up).
* Coordinating with general/program chairs to decide the time slot for demo presentation (e.g., jointly with an evening poster session).
* The Demo Chair should work very closely with the Program Chairs, to coordinate the amount of time in the program available for demos, the meeting space, and the demo descriptions for the conference Proceedings.

===Sample Call-for-Demos===

* [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-acl-2017-system-demonstrations-and-new-best-demo-paper-award| ACL 2017 Call-for-Demos]
* [http://mirror.aclweb.org/acl2016/index06ae.html?article_id=34| ACL 2016 Call-for-Demos]

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