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<div>== ACL 2025 General Chair Report ==<br />
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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025.<br />
Tutorials will take place on July 27th, the main conference on July 28th-July 30th and the workshops on July 31st-August 1st. The Student Research Workshop is part of the main conference. <br />
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'''Program.''' The ACL community continues its impressive growth. For ACL 2025, we received more than 8,300 submissions, of which 1,699 papers were accepted to the main conference and 1,392 as Findings papers. The main program was shaped by our Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Ekaterina Shutova. All *CL conferences, including ACL, continue to operate fully under the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) model, so this incredible result was possible thanks to the hard work of the ARR Editors-in-Chief — Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu — whose close coordination with the Program Chairs greatly streamlined the process. Key to the success of the conference program was the work and support of our many Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs, reviewers, and the Best Paper Committee led by Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart. This year's special theme track was "Generalization of NLP Models". The Technical Open Review Chairs, Niket Tandon and Lizhen Qu, ensured technical oversight of the ARR pipeline. <br />
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The program also includes 2 keynotes speakers, one panel, 28 workshops (overseen by the Workshop Chairs Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier), 8 tutorials (overseen by the Tutorial Chairs Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, and Fei Xia), a rich demonstration program (overseen by the Demonstration Chairs Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu), and a strong SRW (Student Research Workshop) program (chaired by Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang, and Jin Zhao). <br />
Notable innovations include the introduction of the new CL Doctoral Dissertation Award, combined oral and panel sessions designed to deepen research discussions, and a dedicated Findings reception event. A key reinstated feature is the Industry Track, chaired by Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm, with the goal of strengthening the bridge between academia and industry. As in previous years, TACL and CL journal papers are presented during the conference thanks to the coordination of the respective Editors-in-Chief: Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (TACL) and Wei Lu (CL).<br />
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As was done in previous years, tutorial and workshop chairs from NAACL 2025 and ACL 2025 worked together to issue a joint CFP and select the proposals for each conference. <br />
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'''Participation.''' As of now (25 days before the conference), there are 4,935 registered participants (2,356 Regular, 2,579 Students). ACL 2025 will therefore by the largest conference in ACL history.<br />
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'''Online Conference.''' This year's hybrid experience again relies on Underline for content management and Whova for participant interaction. A new format innovation is the scheduling of virtual presentation sessions to run in parallel with in-person poster sessions, providing more flexibility and engagement opportunities for remote attendees.<br />
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'''Presentation Mode.''' All accepted main conference papers have oral or poster slots. Papers selected for oral presentation and combined panel sessions were chosen by the Program Chairs to ensure a diverse and balanced representation of topics. The Findings papers will have a dedicated reception event on the first day joint with their poster presentations.<br />
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'''Virtual Infrastructure.''' The Virtual Infrastructure Chairs — Manling Li, Yang Liu, and Avi Sil — coordinated the hybrid experience together with Underline. The conference will continue using Whova for communication.<br />
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'''Money.''' Sponsorship continues to play a crucial role in making ACL accessible. The Sponsorship Chairs — Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom — together with Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship Director, secured generous support: 10 Diamond Sponsors (Citadel, Ant Group, MI, Apple, Bloomberg, Cohere, Google Research, LinkedIn, Meta, Alibaba Cloud), 11 Platinum (Oracle, Toloka, ByteDance, IBM, Huawei, Megagon Labs, Baidu, Amazon science, Tencent, snowflake); 4 Gold (Thomson Reuters, Chen Institute, Kuaishou); 3 Silver (Appen, Adobe, nexdata); 7 Bronze (Babelscape, DataOcean, Defined.AI, JPMorganChase, NatWest Group, NEC, Translated), 1 Diversity (Apple).<br />
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'''Communication.''' Internal communication was coordinated by Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu as Internal Communication Chairs. The conference used Slack (managed by Nitin Madnani) for coordination among chairs, and Freshdesk (set up with the support of Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi) for routing and handling the high volume of participant inquiries.<br />
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'''Handbooks.''' The handbook chairs (Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu) produced two versions as in previous years: a printed version (with partial program information) and an online version updated continuously up to the conference. <br />
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'''Proceedings.''' The publications chairs (Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu) coordinated the production of all proceedings (Main, Findings, Demos, SRW, Workshops, Tutorials, Industry Track).<br />
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'''SRW funding.''' The Student Research Workshop chairs and faculty advisors secured funding from the Vienna Meeting Fund ($30,000) and ACL ($10,000), providing support for the participation of 15 student researchers.<br />
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'''Diversity & Inclusion.''' The D&I subsidies ($24000 in total) were allocated to 22 in-person participants from a total of 334 applications. Another 22 virtual participants received virtual registration subsidies, sponsored directly by ACL. $2,590 of the budget remaining after subsidies will be used for accessibility support (mostly closed captioning per attendees' request).<br />
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'''Student Volunteers.''' The Student Volunteer Chairs — Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini — coordinated the recruitment and management of student volunteers, providing vital on-site and virtual support. The Chairs received 434 applications, recruited about 147 volunteers (137 in-person, 10 virtual) and allocated 105 grants.<br />
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== Recommendations ==<br />
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* Start coordinating with ARR, PCs, and all chairs very early.<br />
* The timeline is always tighter than expected: many tasks all have cascading dependencies.<br />
* Synchronize the industry track properly with the PCs from the start.<br />
* Be aware that a significant fraction of papers may lack eligible reviewers (as high as 25% in this cycle).<br />
* Do not assign virtual vs. in-person presentation slots until after the early registration deadline - you won't know who's actually presenting until then.<br />
* Take the virtual program seriously from day one: it is consistently underestimated. Virtual chairs need to finalize the schedule, find session chairs, and coordinate with Underline well in advance. Someone needs to actively welcome people in the virtual lobby (if Gather is used). Make sure all virtual presenters confirm their sessions with a firm deadline well before the conference.<br />
* Get a dummy version of proceedings from all chairs (workshops, tutorials, demos, SRW) early. Review the Anthology preview carefully before it is finalized: missing papers or entire tracks are hard to fix late. It is normal to find typos or minor errors, but your proofreading is needed. All seven proceedings (main, findings, tutorials, industry, SRW, demos, workshops) need to be ready by firm deadlines.<br />
* Connect the local organizing committee with visa chairs immediately.<br />
* Request the budget for industry invited speakers on time; this fell through in this cycle. Push the SRW to apply for external funding. Explore sponsorship opportunities early.<br />
* Be clear with your chairs: some might not respond to emails or Slack message. In extreme cases, be ready to replace them.<br />
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=== Useful links ===<br />
* [https://acl-org.github.io/conference-handbook/ ACL guidelines (Chair duties)]<br />
* [https://github.com/rycolab/aclpub2 Proceedings]<br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org CL Github organization]<br />
** to host any Github repositories relevant to any *ACL conference. <br />
** Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to request access or to transfer existing repositories.<br />
** Used e.g., for conference website, creation of ACL anthology publications<br />
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=== Communication Tools === <br />
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==== Slack ====<br />
Using slack is a great way to keep track of each chair question/information/documents. <br />
* ACL has a paying account with Slack. Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to create a slack channel for your conference<br />
* Ask Nitin to set up Slack with one channel per Chair + a general channel including everyone<br />
* Get all chairs to use Slack<br />
* The general channel will be useful when a given chair has a question whose answer is known by a different chair. <br />
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==== Contact emails ====<br />
We used two contact emails (google group): one for PC related questions and one for all other questions.<br />
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==== Freshdesk ====<br />
The conference attracts a lot of emails. Using Freshdesk and having Internal Communication chairs answering or routing incoming emails is a good idea! ACL has an account. Contact XXXX to set up Freshdesk for you.<br />
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=== Useful people === <br />
* Nitin Madnani Chief Information Officer <nmadnani@ets.org><br />
** to set up Slack<br />
** to get access to ACL git repo<br />
* Jennifer Rachford, ACL conference manager <Jennifer@ACLweb.org><br />
* Chris Callison-Burch, ACL sponsorship chair <ccb@seas.upenn.edu><br />
* Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi, to set up Freshdesk (email handling)<br />
* [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR people], submission sites (OpenReview) and reviewing process. Thamar Solorio <thamar.solorio@gmail.com>, Mausam <mausam@cs.washington.edu><br />
* Openreview Harold Rubio <harold@openreview.net> for issues regarding how to produce proceedings from OpenReview data.<br />
* Ingestion of Proceedings in ACL Anthology: Matt Post <post@cs.jhu.edu>;<br />
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=== Submission platform === <br />
* Main conference uses ARR and OpenReview<br />
* Others (workshop, demos, SRW) can use other platforms such as START<br />
* The contact for setting up OpenReview is <tech@aclrollingreview.org> and more generally the ARR people<br />
* In 2025, ACL still had a contract with START. Contact: Rich Gerber <rrgerber@softconf.com><br />
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=== Website === <br />
* Ask Nitin to create repo in https://github.com/acl-org/ <br />
* Send request to website chairs for update<br />
* You can also directly update the git repo and issue a pull request <br />
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=== Publications (Proceedings) === <br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/309 Example ACL Anthology Ingestion Request] Allow 2 weeks for ingestion<br />
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=== Handbook === <br />
* For budget and printing please talk to Jennifer Rachford, ACL Conference Manager<br />
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=== Virtual Infrastructure === <br />
* Mainly handled by Underline and Whova<br />
* Interactions start about 2 months before the conference (regular weekly meeting starting -2M)<br />
* Underline people: "Damira Mrsic" <damira@underline.io>; "Sol Rosenberg" <sol@underline.io>;<br />
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=== Sponsorships === <br />
* Mainly handled by Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship officer<br />
* Connect Sponsorship chairs with him early<br />
* Sponsorship chair should also try to apply for funding from their own region<br />
* ACL has a Sponsorship Booklet<br />
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=== Fee waivers === <br />
Fee waivers are available for some e.g., each Tutorial will receive three (3) full conference registration. Contact Jennifer to know who can benefit from a fee waiver and how to proceed.</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_Sponsorship_Chairs&diff=766642025Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Chairs2025-07-26T03:51:21Z<p>Navigli: </p>
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<div>ACL 2025 Sponsorship Chairs Report<br />
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The *ACL sponsorships conditions are written in the Sponsorship Booklet made available through each *ACL event website. It is updated yearly by the Sponsorship director, Chris Callison-Burch, since it regards all the *ACL events. <br />
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ACL 2025 has obtained $796,525 EURO. Most of the budget comes from recurrent sponsors which have been contacted by the Sponsorship director sometime in January. The ACL 2025 sponsorship chairs provided support in keeping track of such exchanges and sent out reminders when appropriate. <br />
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The event organizer, Lina Staggs, took care of collecting sponsor logos and shared them with the ACL 2025 Web site and conference chairs as well as with the Publication Chairs. <br />
One of the benefits of Gold, Diamond, and Platinum sponsors is to have access to the ACL Recruitment Network.<br />
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During registration, ACL 2025 participants were given the possibility to declare whether they want:<br />
a) Some of their data (professional name, preferred name, affiliation, pronouns, country and email) to be listed in the Conference Participants list and <br />
b) If they are interested in employment opportunities and agree to have their email shared with the sponsors<br />
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Lina Staggs took care of sharing the data in a); <br />
The ACL 2025 sponsorship chairs created a Google Form to collect the CVs -- following the sample given by the ACL sponsorship director -- and invited all the ACL 2025 participants who expressed interest in employment opportunities and agreed to have their email shared with the sponsors (b above). The Excel file generated from the form and the directory containing the CVs have been shared with the Gold+ sponsors. So far 427 CVs have been collected, and more are expected to be uploaded. A zip file of all the CVs will be sent to the Gold+ sponsors who will ask for it.<br />
For the future, we suggest adding the Google Form link in the registration form. The link to the Excel form generated from the Google Form and the directory where the CVs are collected could be included directly in the contract. Sharing this information ahead will facilitate the communication flow.</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_Program_Chairs&diff=766632025Q3 Reports: Program Chairs2025-07-26T03:49:48Z<p>Navigli: /* Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models */</p>
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<div>The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025. ACL 2025 will be held in a hybrid format, offering attendees the option to join us in person in Vienna, Austria, or to participate remotely from anywhere in the world. <br />
Organizing ACL 2025 has been a collaborative effort, made possible by the dedication and hard work of thousands of people. We gratefully acknowledge the support and contributions of the following people:<br />
* The General Chair, Roberto Navigli;<br />
* The ARR Editors-in-Chief of the February 2025 cycle (Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu) and the entire team (Mausam, Viviane Moreira, Vincent Ng, Lilja Øvrelid, Anna Rogers, Michael White, Margot Mieskes, Sarvnaz Karimi);<br />
* The technical OpenReview chairs, Niket Tandon, Lizhen Qu, and the OpenReview support team, in particular Rachel, for multiple rounds of technical help in setting up ACL 2025 on the Open Review platform;<br />
* The 169 Senior Area Chairs;<br />
* The 1,937 Area Chairs and the 11,720 reviewers; <br />
* The best paper committee chairs, Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart, and the best paper committee members; <br />
* The ethics chairs, Karën Fort and Bjorn Ross; <br />
* The workshop chairs, Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier;<br />
* The tutorial chairs, Yuki Arase, David Jurgens and Fei Xia;<br />
* The industry track chairs, Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm;<br />
* The demonstration chairs, Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu;<br />
* The internal communications chairs, Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu<br />
* The website and conference app chairs, Xudong Han and Alessandro Raganato;<br />
* The publication chairs, Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu;<br />
* The handbook chairs, Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu;<br />
* The local organization chairs, Benjamin Roth and Dagmar Gromann, and their team;<br />
* The visa chairs, Rexhina Blloshmi and Eleni Ilkou;<br />
* The publicity and social media chairs, Anette Frank, Shruti Rijhwani and Horacio Saggion;<br />
* The documentation chair, Chenghua Lin;<br />
* The student research workshop chairs, Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang and Jin Zhao;<br />
* The student research workshop chairs faculty advisors, Lea Frermann, Daniel Hershcovich and Tristan Miller;<br />
* The student volunteer chairs, Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini;<br />
* The diversity and inclusion chairs, Senja Pollak, Maria Ryskina, Shane Storks and Hwaran Lee;<br />
* The sponsorship chairs, Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom;<br />
* The virtual infrastructure chairs, Manling Li, Yang Liu and Avi Sil;<br />
* The ACL Anthology Director Matt Post and his team;<br />
* The TACL editors-in-chief (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur) and CL Editor in-Chief Wei Lu for coordinating TACL and CL presentations with us;<br />
* The ACL 2024 Program Chairs, Lun-Wei Ku, André F. T. Martins, Vivek Srikumar, for information and support;<br />
* Damira Mrsic and Underline Team; <br />
* Jennifer Rachford and entire conference support staff; <br />
* All the authors of papers who submitted their papers for review in the ARR 2025 February cycle and those who committed to the ACL 2025 conference.<br />
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==Review Process==<br />
All submissions to ACL 2025 went through a two-stage review process. First, papers were submitted to the ACL Rolling Review (ARR), where they were reviewed by reviewers and received meta-reviews from Area Chairs. Then, authors had the option to commit their reviewed papers to ACL via a separate ACL 2025 commitment site. At this stage, Senior Area Chairs provided recommendations, and final acceptance decisions were made by the Program Chairs. This process is consistent with previous conferences, including ACL 2024, EACL 2024, and NAACL 2025.<br />
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We worked closely with the ARR team, particularly the ARR February 2025 Editors-in-Chief, and served as guest Editors-in-Chief for this round. We helped recruit new reviewers and Area Chairs to ARR, resulting in 11,720 reviewers and 1,942 Area Chairs in the February 2025 ARR cycle to which most ACL 2025 papers were submitted. ACL also recruited 169 Senior Area Chairs to oversee the review and meta-review process. Overall, the ARR process ran smoothly, ensuring that all submitted papers received at least three reviews and a meta-review. For the ACL commitment phase, Senior Area Chairs made recommendations for 5,356 committed papers based on the reviews, meta-reviews, and the papers themselves, with final acceptance decisions made by the Program Chairs.<br />
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==Acceptance Rate==<br />
In total, there are 1,699 papers accepted to the Main Conference and 1,392 papers accepted to Findings. The acceptance rate calculation follows precedent set by previous conferences that go through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), e.g. ACL 2024. The calculation takes into account the multi-stage process of ARR where a paper may get revised in ARR and then later committed to the conference. We had 8,360 unique submissions across the December 2024 and February 2025 ARR cycles of which 5,501 papers were committed to ACL. The acceptance rate is 20.3% for the Main Conference papers and a further 16.7% for Findings papers.<br />
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==Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models==<br />
ACL 2025's special theme is generalization of NLP models. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:<br />
How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions—compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness?<br />
What factors affect the generalization of NLP models?<br />
What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models?<br />
While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard?<br />
We received 128 submissions to the theme track during the review phase. Among these, 41 papers were accepted to the main conference and a further 33 to Findings of ACL 2025. The conference will also feature a panel discussion on the theme of Generalization, with the participation of leading experts in this area.<br />
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==Best Paper Selection==<br />
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ACL 2025 implemented the updated ACL award policy that seeks to expand the pool<br />
of work recognized as outstanding. In total 117 papers were nominated by the reviewers, area chairs and senior area chairs for best paper consideration. The best paper committee assessed these papers to select the best papers (featuring 0.6% of accepted papers), outstanding papers (featuring (2.5% of accepted papers), and special awards for social impact and best resource. Based on the review by the Best Paper committee, 39 papers have been selected for awards in the above categories. Separately, the senior area chairs also nominated their favourite papers as SAC Highlights.<br />
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In addition, we have awards for the test of time award for a paper published in TACL in 2013 or 2014 and the best paper award for a paper published in TACL in 2024. The final selection was made by the best paper committee, and the winners will be announced during the closing ceremony. The ACL 2025 Best Papers will also be given an opportunity to present their work in the closing ceremony.<br />
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==Program Composition & Presentation Modes==<br />
Based on feedback from the conference support staff and the Underline team after ACL 2025, we decided to hold the virtual presentations sessions during the main conference. This enables us to align the virtual sessions with time slots when in-person participants are available. This approach allows virtual attendees to participate concurrently with the physical event, avoiding the need for organizers and attendees to engage with the conference twice and separately.<br />
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This year, 218 main conference papers were selected for oral presentations by the program chairs, with the goal of creating a well-rounded program featuring a diverse set of topics instead of selecting papers based on their review scores. This year we have introduced a panel section of the conference. Out of the selected oral presenters, 25 will have an opportunity to not only present their work but also participate in a panel discussion. We have lined up five panels on the theme of: Generalisation in NLP, LLM alignment, Human-centred NLP, Interpretability and model analysis, Multilinguality and language diversity.<br />
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In addition to the main conference papers, the ACL program also includes 18 papers accepted by Computational Linguistics and 42 papers accepted by Transactions of the ACL (TACL). Among these, 11 journal papers will be presented in-person as oral presentations, thematically distributed across appropriate sessions. <br />
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This year the conference will also for the first time feature a dedicated Findings poster session with reception. All Findings presenters have been assigned poster presentations in this session or alongside other posters for main conference papers in the same track.<br />
Rounding out the program are dedicated sessions for the demonstration track and the student research workshop.<br />
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==Keynotes and Panel==<br />
This year’s program features an impressive lineup of two keynote presentations:<br />
*Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer from Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and a Senior Research Director at Meta, will share his insights on “Rethinking Pretraining: Data and Architecture.”<br />
*Prof. Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind will present on “Whose Gold? Re-imagining Alignment for Truly Beneficial AI.”<br />
Alongside these keynotes, we are thrilled to host a panel discussion aiming to answer the question Can large language models (LLMs) generalize?. Our esteemed panelists include:<br />
*Prof. Eduard Hovy, University of Melbourne (who will also act as the panel chair).<br />
*Prof. Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh<br />
*Prof. Yue Zhang, Westlake University<br />
*Prof. Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania and Oracle<br />
This diverse group of panelists will provide a comprehensive view of the latest trends and challenges in Generalisation of NLP in the Large Language Models era. <br />
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Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)<br />
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Cardiff University and Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies)<br />
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende (Makerere University)<br />
Wanxiang Che (Harbin Institute of Technology)<br />
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<div>The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025. ACL 2025 will be held in a hybrid format, offering attendees the option to join us in person in Vienna, Austria, or to participate remotely from anywhere in the world. <br />
Organizing ACL 2025 has been a collaborative effort, made possible by the dedication and hard work of thousands of people. We gratefully acknowledge the support and contributions of the following people:<br />
* The General Chair, Roberto Navigli;<br />
* The ARR Editors-in-Chief of the February 2025 cycle (Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu) and the entire team (Mausam, Viviane Moreira, Vincent Ng, Lilja Øvrelid, Anna Rogers, Michael White, Margot Mieskes, Sarvnaz Karimi);<br />
* The technical OpenReview chairs, Niket Tandon, Lizhen Qu, and the OpenReview support team, in particular Rachel, for multiple rounds of technical help in setting up ACL 2025 on the Open Review platform;<br />
* The 169 Senior Area Chairs;<br />
* The 1,937 Area Chairs and the 11,720 reviewers; <br />
* The best paper committee chairs, Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart, and the best paper committee members; <br />
* The ethics chairs, Karën Fort and Bjorn Ross; <br />
* The workshop chairs, Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier;<br />
* The tutorial chairs, Yuki Arase, David Jurgens and Fei Xia;<br />
* The industry track chairs, Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm;<br />
* The demonstration chairs, Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu;<br />
* The internal communications chairs, Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu<br />
* The website and conference app chairs, Xudong Han and Alessandro Raganato;<br />
* The publication chairs, Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu;<br />
* The handbook chairs, Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu;<br />
* The local organization chairs, Benjamin Roth and Dagmar Gromann, and their team;<br />
* The visa chairs, Rexhina Blloshmi and Eleni Ilkou;<br />
* The publicity and social media chairs, Anette Frank, Shruti Rijhwani and Horacio Saggion;<br />
* The documentation chair, Chenghua Lin;<br />
* The student research workshop chairs, Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang and Jin Zhao;<br />
* The student research workshop chairs faculty advisors, Lea Frermann, Daniel Hershcovich and Tristan Miller;<br />
* The student volunteer chairs, Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini;<br />
* The diversity and inclusion chairs, Senja Pollak, Maria Ryskina, Shane Storks and Hwaran Lee;<br />
* The sponsorship chairs, Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom;<br />
* The virtual infrastructure chairs, Manling Li, Yang Liu and Avi Sil;<br />
* The ACL Anthology Director Matt Post and his team;<br />
* The TACL editors-in-chief (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur) and CL Editor in-Chief Wei Lu for coordinating TACL and CL presentations with us;<br />
* The ACL 2024 Program Chairs, Lun-Wei Ku, André F. T. Martins, Vivek Srikumar, for information and support;<br />
* Damira Mrsic and Underline Team; <br />
* Jennifer Rachford and entire conference support staff; <br />
* All the authors of papers who submitted their papers for review in the ARR 2025 February cycle and those who committed to the ACL 2025 conference.<br />
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==Review Process==<br />
All submissions to ACL 2025 went through a two-stage review process. First, papers were submitted to the ACL Rolling Review (ARR), where they were reviewed by reviewers and received meta-reviews from Area Chairs. Then, authors had the option to commit their reviewed papers to ACL via a separate ACL 2025 commitment site. At this stage, Senior Area Chairs provided recommendations, and final acceptance decisions were made by the Program Chairs. This process is consistent with previous conferences, including ACL 2024, EACL 2024, and NAACL 2025.<br />
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We worked closely with the ARR team, particularly the ARR February 2025 Editors-in-Chief, and served as guest Editors-in-Chief for this round. We helped recruit new reviewers and Area Chairs to ARR, resulting in 11,720 reviewers and 1,942 Area Chairs in the February 2025 ARR cycle to which most ACL 2025 papers were submitted. ACL also recruited 169 Senior Area Chairs to oversee the review and meta-review process. Overall, the ARR process ran smoothly, ensuring that all submitted papers received at least three reviews and a meta-review. For the ACL commitment phase, Senior Area Chairs made recommendations for 5,356 committed papers based on the reviews, meta-reviews, and the papers themselves, with final acceptance decisions made by the Program Chairs.<br />
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==Acceptance Rate==<br />
In total, there are 1,699 papers accepted to the Main Conference and 1,392 papers accepted to Findings. The acceptance rate calculation follows precedent set by previous conferences that go through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), e.g. ACL 2024. The calculation takes into account the multi-stage process of ARR where a paper may get revised in ARR and then later committed to the conference. We had 8,360 unique submissions across the December 2024 and February 2025 ARR cycles of which 5,501 papers were committed to ACL. The acceptance rate is 20.3% for the Main Conference papers and a further 16.7% for Findings papers.<br />
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==Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models==<br />
ACL 2025's special theme is generalization of NLP models. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:<br />
How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions—compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness?<br />
What factors affect the generalization of NLP models?<br />
What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models?<br />
While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard?<br />
We received 128 submissions to the theme track during the review phase. Among these, 41 papers were accepted to the main conference and a further 33 to Findings of ACL 2025. The conference will also feature a panel discussion on the theme of Generalization, with the participation of leading experts in this area.<br />
Best Paper Selection<br />
ACL 2025 implemented the updated ACL award policy that seeks to expand the pool<br />
of work recognized as outstanding. In total 117 papers were nominated by the reviewers, area chairs and senior area chairs for best paper consideration. The best paper committee assessed these papers to select the best papers (featuring 0.6% of accepted papers), outstanding papers (featuring (2.5% of accepted papers), and special awards for social impact and best resource. Based on the review by the Best Paper committee, 39 papers have been selected for awards in the above categories. Separately, the senior area chairs also nominated their favourite papers as SAC Highlights.<br />
<br />
In addition, we have awards for the test of time award for a paper published in TACL in 2013 or 2014 and the best paper award for a paper published in TACL in 2024. The final selection was made by the best paper committee, and the winners will be announced during the closing ceremony. The ACL 2025 Best Papers will also be given an opportunity to present their work in the closing ceremony.<br />
<br />
==Program Composition & Presentation Modes==<br />
Based on feedback from the conference support staff and the Underline team after ACL 2025, we decided to hold the virtual presentations sessions during the main conference. This enables us to align the virtual sessions with time slots when in-person participants are available. This approach allows virtual attendees to participate concurrently with the physical event, avoiding the need for organizers and attendees to engage with the conference twice and separately.<br />
<br />
This year, 218 main conference papers were selected for oral presentations by the program chairs, with the goal of creating a well-rounded program featuring a diverse set of topics instead of selecting papers based on their review scores. This year we have introduced a panel section of the conference. Out of the selected oral presenters, 25 will have an opportunity to not only present their work but also participate in a panel discussion. We have lined up five panels on the theme of: Generalisation in NLP, LLM alignment, Human-centred NLP, Interpretability and model analysis, Multilinguality and language diversity.<br />
<br />
In addition to the main conference papers, the ACL program also includes 18 papers accepted by Computational Linguistics and 42 papers accepted by Transactions of the ACL (TACL). Among these, 11 journal papers will be presented in-person as oral presentations, thematically distributed across appropriate sessions. <br />
<br />
This year the conference will also for the first time feature a dedicated Findings poster session with reception. All Findings presenters have been assigned poster presentations in this session or alongside other posters for main conference papers in the same track.<br />
Rounding out the program are dedicated sessions for the demonstration track and the student research workshop.<br />
<br />
==Keynotes and Panel==<br />
This year’s program features an impressive lineup of two keynote presentations:<br />
*Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer from Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and a Senior Research Director at Meta, will share his insights on “Rethinking Pretraining: Data and Architecture.”<br />
*Prof. Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind will present on “Whose Gold? Re-imagining Alignment for Truly Beneficial AI.”<br />
Alongside these keynotes, we are thrilled to host a panel discussion aiming to answer the question Can large language models (LLMs) generalize?. Our esteemed panelists include:<br />
*Prof. Eduard Hovy, University of Melbourne (who will also act as the panel chair).<br />
*Prof. Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh<br />
*Prof. Yue Zhang, Westlake University<br />
*Prof. Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania and Oracle<br />
This diverse group of panelists will provide a comprehensive view of the latest trends and challenges in Generalisation of NLP in the Large Language Models era. <br />
<br />
Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)<br />
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Cardiff University and Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies)<br />
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende (Makerere University)<br />
Wanxiang Che (Harbin Institute of Technology)<br />
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<div>Obtained access to ACL Social Media Accounts (X, Facebook, Mastodon, BlueSky) and using the ACL Group on LinkedIn (anyone can post)<br />
* Coordinated with ACL Publicity Director (Sarvnaz Karimi) for messages to the membership via email, corpora list and the ACL Web Portal<br />
* Instructed all Chairs about procedures for passing on social media posting requests, and asked for posting requests in different phases: early, pre-, during and after conference<br />
* Main distribution focus was in that order: X, LinkedIn, BlueSky, Mastodon, FaceBook. After some time we restricted posting to X, LinkedIn and BlueSky.<br />
* Publicized posts on D&amp;I, recruiting volunteers, accommodation information, visas, program points (tutorials, keynotes, events, etc.)<br />
* Live-tweeting at the conference: at the the time of writing we are negotiating about double-recruiting volunteers that have been assigned tasks during talks, to post overviews and conclusions from sessions.<br />
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Issues:<br />
* complications by need to coordinate with people responsible for sending emails to the membership (requires personal contact)<br />
* we gave preference to social media accounts rather than serving many specialized / national mailing lists (unclear distribution bandwidth)<br />
* at the time of writing this report, live-tweeting at the conference seems to be understaffed in volunteers</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=766002025Q3 Reports: General Chair2025-07-08T05:38:05Z<p>Navigli: /* Handbook */</p>
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<div>== ACL 2025 General Chair Report ==<br />
<br />
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025.<br />
Tutorials will take place on July 27th, the main conference on July 28th-July 30th and the workshops on July 31st-August 1st. The Student Research Workshop is part of the main conference. <br />
<br />
'''Program.''' The ACL community continues its impressive growth. For ACL 2025, we received more than 8,300 submissions, of which 1,699 papers were accepted to the main conference and 1,392 as Findings papers. The main program was shaped by our Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Ekaterina Shutova. All *CL conferences, including ACL, continue to operate fully under the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) model, so this incredible result was possible thanks to the hard work of the ARR Editors-in-Chief — Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu — whose close coordination with the Program Chairs greatly streamlined the process. Key to the success of the conference program was the work and support of our many Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs, reviewers, and the Best Paper Committee led by Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart. This year's special theme track was "Generalization of NLP Models". The Technical Open Review Chairs, Niket Tandon and Lizhen Qu, ensured technical oversight of the ARR pipeline. <br />
<br />
The program also includes 2 keynotes speakers, one panel, 28 workshops (overseen by the Workshop Chairs Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier), 8 tutorials (overseen by the Tutorial Chairs Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, and Fei Xia), a rich demonstration program (overseen by the Demonstration Chairs Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu), and a strong SRW (Student Research Workshop) program (chaired by Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang, and Jin Zhao). <br />
Notable innovations include the introduction of the new CL Doctoral Dissertation Award, combined oral and panel sessions designed to deepen research discussions, and a dedicated Findings reception event. A key reinstated feature is the Industry Track, chaired by Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm, with the goal of strengthening the bridge between academia and industry. As in previous years, TACL and CL journal papers are presented during the conference thanks to the coordination of the respective Editors-in-Chief: Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (TACL) and Wei Lu (CL).<br />
<br />
As was done in previous years, tutorial and workshop chairs from NAACL 2025 and ACL 2025 worked together to issue a joint CFP and select the proposals for each conference. <br />
<br />
'''Participation.''' As of now (25 days before the conference), there are 4,935 registered participants (2,356 Regular, 2,579 Students). ACL 2025 will therefore by the largest conference in ACL history.<br />
<br />
'''Online Conference.''' This year's hybrid experience again relies on Underline for content management and Whova for participant interaction. A new format innovation is the scheduling of virtual presentation sessions to run in parallel with in-person poster sessions, providing more flexibility and engagement opportunities for remote attendees.<br />
<br />
'''Presentation Mode.''' All accepted main conference papers have oral or poster slots. Papers selected for oral presentation and combined panel sessions were chosen by the Program Chairs to ensure a diverse and balanced representation of topics. The Findings papers will have a dedicated reception event on the first day joint with their poster presentations.<br />
<br />
'''Virtual Infrastructure.''' The Virtual Infrastructure Chairs — Manling Li, Yang Liu, and Avi Sil — coordinated the hybrid experience together with Underline. The conference will continue using Whova for communication.<br />
<br />
'''Money.''' Sponsorship continues to play a crucial role in making ACL accessible. The Sponsorship Chairs — Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom — together with Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship Director, secured generous support: 10 Diamond Sponsors (Citadel, Ant Group, MI, Apple, Bloomberg, Cohere, Google Research, LinkedIn, Meta, Alibaba Cloud), 11 Platinum (Oracle, Toloka, ByteDance, IBM, Huawei, Megagon Labs, Baidu, Amazon science, Tencent, snowflake); 4 Gold (Thomson Reuters, Chen Institute, Kuaishou); 3 Silver (Appen, Adobe, nexdata); 7 Bronze (Babelscape, DataOcean, Defined.AI, JPMorganChase, NatWest Group, NEC, Translated), 1 Diversity (Apple).<br />
<br />
'''Communication.''' Internal communication was coordinated by Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu as Internal Communication Chairs. The conference used Slack (managed by Nitin Madnani) for coordination among chairs, and Freshdesk (set up with the support of Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi) for routing and handling the high volume of participant inquiries.<br />
<br />
'''Handbooks.''' The handbook chairs (Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu) produced two versions as in previous years: a printed version (with partial program information) and an online version updated continuously up to the conference. <br />
<br />
'''Proceedings.''' The publications chairs (Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu) coordinated the production of all proceedings (Main, Findings, Demos, SRW, Workshops, Tutorials, Industry Track).<br />
<br />
'''SRW funding.''' The Student Research Workshop chairs and faculty advisors secured funding from the Vienna Meeting Fund ($30,000) and ACL ($10,000), providing support for the participation of 15 student researchers.<br />
<br />
'''Diversity & Inclusion.''' The D&I subsidies ($24000 in total) were allocated to 22 in-person participants from a total of 334 applications. Another 22 virtual participants received virtual registration subsidies, sponsored directly by ACL. $2,590 of the budget remaining after subsidies will be used for accessibility support (mostly closed captioning per attendees' request).<br />
<br />
'''Student Volunteers.''' The Student Volunteer Chairs — Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini — coordinated the recruitment and management of student volunteers, providing vital on-site and virtual support. The Chairs received 434 applications, recruited about 147 volunteers (137 in-person, 10 virtual) and allocated 105 grants.<br />
<br />
== Issues and future recommendations ==<br />
<br />
TBC <br />
<br />
== Notes for future GCs ==<br />
<br />
TBC<br />
<br />
=== Useful links ===<br />
* [https://acl-org.github.io/conference-handbook/ ACL guidelines (Chair duties)]<br />
* [https://github.com/rycolab/aclpub2 Proceedings]<br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org CL Github organization]<br />
** to host any Github repositories relevant to any *ACL conference. <br />
** Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to request access or to transfer existing repositories.<br />
** Used e.g., for conference website, creation of ACL anthology publications<br />
<br />
=== Communication Tools === <br />
<br />
==== Slack ====<br />
Using slack is a great way to keep track of each chair question/information/documents. <br />
* ACL has a paying account with Slack. Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to create a slack channel for your conference<br />
* Ask Nitin to set up Slack with one channel per Chair + a general channel including everyone<br />
* Get all chairs to use Slack<br />
* The general channel will be useful when a given chair has a question whose answer is known by a different chair. <br />
<br />
==== Contact emails ====<br />
We used two contact emails (google group): one for PC related questions and one for all other questions.<br />
<br />
==== Freshdesk ====<br />
The conference attracts a lot of emails. Using Freshdesk and having Internal Communication chairs answering or routing incoming emails is a good idea! ACL has an account. Contact XXXX to set up Freshdesk for you.<br />
<br />
=== Useful people === <br />
* Nitin Madnani Chief Information Officer <nmadnani@ets.org><br />
** to set up Slack<br />
** to get access to ACL git repo<br />
* Jennifer Rachford, ACL conference manager <Jennifer@ACLweb.org><br />
* Chris Callison-Burch, ACL sponsorship chair <ccb@seas.upenn.edu><br />
* Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi, to set up Freshdesk (email handling)<br />
* [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR people], submission sites (OpenReview) and reviewing process. Thamar Solorio <thamar.solorio@gmail.com>, Mausam <mausam@cs.washington.edu><br />
* Openreview Harold Rubio <harold@openreview.net> for issues regarding how to produce proceedings from OpenReview data.<br />
* Ingestion of Proceedings in ACL Anthology: Matt Post <post@cs.jhu.edu>;<br />
<br />
=== Submission platform === <br />
* Main conference uses ARR and OpenReview<br />
* Others (workshop, demos, SRW) can use other platforms such as START<br />
* The contact for setting up OpenReview is <tech@aclrollingreview.org> and more generally the ARR people<br />
* In 2025, ACL still had a contract with START. Contact: Rich Gerber <rrgerber@softconf.com><br />
<br />
=== Website === <br />
* Ask Nitin to create repo in https://github.com/acl-org/ <br />
* Send request to website chairs for update<br />
* You can also directly update the git repo and issue a pull request <br />
<br />
=== Publications (Proceedings) === <br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/309 Example ACL Anthology Ingestion Request] Allow 2 weeks for ingestion<br />
<br />
=== Handbook === <br />
* For budget and printing please talk to Jennifer Rachford, ACL Conference Manager<br />
<br />
=== Virtual Infrastructure === <br />
* Mainly handled by Underline and Whova<br />
* Interactions start about 2 months before the conference (regular weekly meeting starting -2M)<br />
* Underline people: "Damira Mrsic" <damira@underline.io>; "Sol Rosenberg" <sol@underline.io>;<br />
<br />
=== Sponsorships === <br />
* Mainly handled by Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship officer<br />
* Connect Sponsorship chairs with him early<br />
* Sponsorship chair should also try to apply for funding from their own region<br />
* ACL has a Sponsorship Booklet<br />
<br />
=== Fee waivers === <br />
Fee waivers are available for some e.g., each Tutorial will receive three (3) full conference registration. Contact Jennifer to know who can benefit from a fee waiver and how to proceed.</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=765992025Q3 Reports: General Chair2025-07-08T05:37:06Z<p>Navigli: /* ACL 2025 General Chair Report */</p>
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<div>== ACL 2025 General Chair Report ==<br />
<br />
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025.<br />
Tutorials will take place on July 27th, the main conference on July 28th-July 30th and the workshops on July 31st-August 1st. The Student Research Workshop is part of the main conference. <br />
<br />
'''Program.''' The ACL community continues its impressive growth. For ACL 2025, we received more than 8,300 submissions, of which 1,699 papers were accepted to the main conference and 1,392 as Findings papers. The main program was shaped by our Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Ekaterina Shutova. All *CL conferences, including ACL, continue to operate fully under the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) model, so this incredible result was possible thanks to the hard work of the ARR Editors-in-Chief — Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu — whose close coordination with the Program Chairs greatly streamlined the process. Key to the success of the conference program was the work and support of our many Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs, reviewers, and the Best Paper Committee led by Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart. This year's special theme track was "Generalization of NLP Models". The Technical Open Review Chairs, Niket Tandon and Lizhen Qu, ensured technical oversight of the ARR pipeline. <br />
<br />
The program also includes 2 keynotes speakers, one panel, 28 workshops (overseen by the Workshop Chairs Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier), 8 tutorials (overseen by the Tutorial Chairs Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, and Fei Xia), a rich demonstration program (overseen by the Demonstration Chairs Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu), and a strong SRW (Student Research Workshop) program (chaired by Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang, and Jin Zhao). <br />
Notable innovations include the introduction of the new CL Doctoral Dissertation Award, combined oral and panel sessions designed to deepen research discussions, and a dedicated Findings reception event. A key reinstated feature is the Industry Track, chaired by Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm, with the goal of strengthening the bridge between academia and industry. As in previous years, TACL and CL journal papers are presented during the conference thanks to the coordination of the respective Editors-in-Chief: Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (TACL) and Wei Lu (CL).<br />
<br />
As was done in previous years, tutorial and workshop chairs from NAACL 2025 and ACL 2025 worked together to issue a joint CFP and select the proposals for each conference. <br />
<br />
'''Participation.''' As of now (25 days before the conference), there are 4,935 registered participants (2,356 Regular, 2,579 Students). ACL 2025 will therefore by the largest conference in ACL history.<br />
<br />
'''Online Conference.''' This year's hybrid experience again relies on Underline for content management and Whova for participant interaction. A new format innovation is the scheduling of virtual presentation sessions to run in parallel with in-person poster sessions, providing more flexibility and engagement opportunities for remote attendees.<br />
<br />
'''Presentation Mode.''' All accepted main conference papers have oral or poster slots. Papers selected for oral presentation and combined panel sessions were chosen by the Program Chairs to ensure a diverse and balanced representation of topics. The Findings papers will have a dedicated reception event on the first day joint with their poster presentations.<br />
<br />
'''Virtual Infrastructure.''' The Virtual Infrastructure Chairs — Manling Li, Yang Liu, and Avi Sil — coordinated the hybrid experience together with Underline. The conference will continue using Whova for communication.<br />
<br />
'''Money.''' Sponsorship continues to play a crucial role in making ACL accessible. The Sponsorship Chairs — Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom — together with Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship Director, secured generous support: 10 Diamond Sponsors (Citadel, Ant Group, MI, Apple, Bloomberg, Cohere, Google Research, LinkedIn, Meta, Alibaba Cloud), 11 Platinum (Oracle, Toloka, ByteDance, IBM, Huawei, Megagon Labs, Baidu, Amazon science, Tencent, snowflake); 4 Gold (Thomson Reuters, Chen Institute, Kuaishou); 3 Silver (Appen, Adobe, nexdata); 7 Bronze (Babelscape, DataOcean, Defined.AI, JPMorganChase, NatWest Group, NEC, Translated), 1 Diversity (Apple).<br />
<br />
'''Communication.''' Internal communication was coordinated by Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu as Internal Communication Chairs. The conference used Slack (managed by Nitin Madnani) for coordination among chairs, and Freshdesk (set up with the support of Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi) for routing and handling the high volume of participant inquiries.<br />
<br />
'''Handbooks.''' The handbook chairs (Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu) produced two versions as in previous years: a printed version (with partial program information) and an online version updated continuously up to the conference. <br />
<br />
'''Proceedings.''' The publications chairs (Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu) coordinated the production of all proceedings (Main, Findings, Demos, SRW, Workshops, Tutorials, Industry Track).<br />
<br />
'''SRW funding.''' The Student Research Workshop chairs and faculty advisors secured funding from the Vienna Meeting Fund ($30,000) and ACL ($10,000), providing support for the participation of 15 student researchers.<br />
<br />
'''Diversity & Inclusion.''' The D&I subsidies ($24000 in total) were allocated to 22 in-person participants from a total of 334 applications. Another 22 virtual participants received virtual registration subsidies, sponsored directly by ACL. $2,590 of the budget remaining after subsidies will be used for accessibility support (mostly closed captioning per attendees' request).<br />
<br />
'''Student Volunteers.''' The Student Volunteer Chairs — Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini — coordinated the recruitment and management of student volunteers, providing vital on-site and virtual support. The Chairs received 434 applications, recruited about 147 volunteers (137 in-person, 10 virtual) and allocated 105 grants.<br />
<br />
== Issues and future recommendations ==<br />
<br />
TBC <br />
<br />
== Notes for future GCs ==<br />
<br />
TBC<br />
<br />
=== Useful links ===<br />
* [https://acl-org.github.io/conference-handbook/ ACL guidelines (Chair duties)]<br />
* [https://github.com/rycolab/aclpub2 Proceedings]<br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org CL Github organization]<br />
** to host any Github repositories relevant to any *ACL conference. <br />
** Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to request access or to transfer existing repositories.<br />
** Used e.g., for conference website, creation of ACL anthology publications<br />
<br />
=== Communication Tools === <br />
<br />
==== Slack ====<br />
Using slack is a great way to keep track of each chair question/information/documents. <br />
* ACL has a paying account with Slack. Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to create a slack channel for your conference<br />
* Ask Nitin to set up Slack with one channel per Chair + a general channel including everyone<br />
* Get all chairs to use Slack<br />
* The general channel will be useful when a given chair has a question whose answer is known by a different chair. <br />
<br />
==== Contact emails ====<br />
We used two contact emails (google group): one for PC related questions and one for all other questions.<br />
<br />
==== Freshdesk ====<br />
The conference attracts a lot of emails. Using Freshdesk and having Internal Communication chairs answering or routing incoming emails is a good idea! ACL has an account. Contact XXXX to set up Freshdesk for you.<br />
<br />
=== Useful people === <br />
* Nitin Madnani Chief Information Officer <nmadnani@ets.org><br />
** to set up Slack<br />
** to get access to ACL git repo<br />
* Jennifer Rachford, ACL conference manager <Jennifer@ACLweb.org><br />
* Chris Callison-Burch, ACL sponsorship chair <ccb@seas.upenn.edu><br />
* Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi, to set up Freshdesk (email handling)<br />
* [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR people], submission sites (OpenReview) and reviewing process. Thamar Solorio <thamar.solorio@gmail.com>, Mausam <mausam@cs.washington.edu><br />
* Openreview Harold Rubio <harold@openreview.net> for issues regarding how to produce proceedings from OpenReview data.<br />
* Ingestion of Proceedings in ACL Anthology: Matt Post <post@cs.jhu.edu>;<br />
<br />
=== Submission platform === <br />
* Main conference uses ARR and OpenReview<br />
* Others (workshop, demos, SRW) can use other platforms such as START<br />
* The contact for setting up OpenReview is <tech@aclrollingreview.org> and more generally the ARR people<br />
* In 2025, ACL still had a contract with START. Contact: Rich Gerber <rrgerber@softconf.com><br />
<br />
=== Website === <br />
* Ask Nitin to create repo in https://github.com/acl-org/ <br />
* Send request to website chairs for update<br />
* You can also directly update the git repo and issue a pull request <br />
<br />
=== Publications (Proceedings) === <br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/309 Example ACL Anthology Ingestion Request] Allow 2 weeks for ingestion<br />
<br />
=== Handbook === <br />
* for budget and printing please see with Jennifer Rachford ACL conference manager<br />
<br />
=== Virtual Infrastructure === <br />
* Mainly handled by Underline and Whova<br />
* Interactions start about 2 months before the conference (regular weekly meeting starting -2M)<br />
* Underline people: "Damira Mrsic" <damira@underline.io>; "Sol Rosenberg" <sol@underline.io>;<br />
<br />
=== Sponsorships === <br />
* Mainly handled by Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship officer<br />
* Connect Sponsorship chairs with him early<br />
* Sponsorship chair should also try to apply for funding from their own region<br />
* ACL has a Sponsorship Booklet<br />
<br />
=== Fee waivers === <br />
Fee waivers are available for some e.g., each Tutorial will receive three (3) full conference registration. Contact Jennifer to know who can benefit from a fee waiver and how to proceed.</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=765982025Q3 Reports: General Chair2025-07-08T05:31:38Z<p>Navigli: </p>
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<div>== ACL 2025 General Chair Report ==<br />
<br />
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025.<br />
Tutorials will take place on July 27th, the main conference on July 28th-July 30th and the workshops on July 31st-August 1st. The Student Research Workshop is part of the main conference. <br />
<br />
'''Program.''' The ACL community continues its impressive growth. For ACL 2025, we received more than 8,300 submissions, of which 1,699 papers were accepted to the main conference and 1,392 as Findings papers. The main program was shaped by our Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Ekaterina Shutova. All *CL conferences, including ACL, continue to operate fully under the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) model, so this incredible result was possible thanks to the hard work of the ARR Editors-in-Chief — Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu — whose close coordination with the Program Chairs greatly streamlined the process. Key to the success of the conference program was the work and support of our many Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs, reviewers, and the Best Paper Committee led by Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart. This year's special theme track was "Generalization of NLP Models". The Technical Open Review Chairs, Niket Tandon and Lizhen Qu, ensured technical oversight of the ARR pipeline. <br />
<br />
The program also includes 2 keynotes speakers, one panel, 28 workshops (overseen by the Workshop Chairs Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier), 8 tutorials (overseen by the Tutorial Chairs Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, and Fei Xia), a rich demonstration program (overseen by the Demonstration Chairs Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu), and a strong SRW (Student Research Workshop) program (chaired by Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang, and Jin Zhao). <br />
Notable innovations include the introduction of the new CL Doctoral Dissertation Award, combined oral and panel sessions designed to deepen research discussions, and a dedicated Findings reception event. A key reinstated feature is the Industry Track, chaired by Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm, with the goal of strengthening the bridge between academia and industry. As in previous years, TACL and CL journal papers are presented during the conference thanks to the coordination of the respective Editors-in-Chief: Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (TACL) and Wei Lu (CL).<br />
<br />
As was done in previous years, tutorial and workshop chairs from NAACL 2025 and ACL 2025 worked together to issue a joint CFP and select the proposals for each conference. <br />
<br />
'''Participation.''' As of now (25 days before the conference), there are 4,935 registered participants (2,356 Regular, 2,579 Students). ACL 2025 will therefore by the largest conference in ACL history.<br />
<br />
'''Online Conference.''' This year's hybrid experience again relies on Underline for content management and Whova for participant interaction. A new format innovation is the scheduling of virtual presentation sessions to run in parallel with in-person poster sessions, providing more flexibility and engagement opportunities for remote attendees.<br />
<br />
'''Presentation Mode.''' All accepted main conference papers have oral or poster slots. Papers selected for oral presentation and combined panel sessions were chosen by the Program Chairs to ensure a diverse and balanced representation of topics. The Findings papers will have a dedicated reception event on the first day joint with their poster presentations.<br />
<br />
'''Virtual Infrastructure.''' The Virtual Infrastructure Chairs — Manling Li, Yang Liu, and Avi Sil — coordinated the hybrid experience together with Underline. The conference will continue using Whova for communication.<br />
<br />
'''Money.''' Sponsorship continues to play a crucial role in making ACL accessible. The Sponsorship Chairs — Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom — together with Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship Director, secured generous support: 10 Diamond Sponsors (Citadel, Ant Group, MI, Apple, Bloomberg, Cohere, Google Research, LinkedIn, Meta, Alibaba Cloud), 11 Platinum (Oracle, Toloka, ByteDance, IBM, Huawei, Megagon Labs, Baidu, Amazon science, Tencent, snowflake); 4 Gold (Thomson Reuters, Chen Institute, Kuaishou); 3 Silver (Appen, Adobe, nexdata); 7 Bronze (Babelscape, DataOcean, Defined.AI, JPMorganChase, NatWest Group, NEC, Translated), 1 Diversity (Apple).<br />
<br />
'''Communication.''' Internal communication was coordinated by Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu as Internal Communication Chairs. The conference used Slack (managed by Nitin Madnani) for coordination among chairs, and Freshdesk (set up with the support of Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi) for routing and handling the high volume of participant inquiries.<br />
<br />
'''Handbooks.''' The handbook chairs (Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu) produced two versions as in previous years: a printed version (with partial program information) and an online version updated continuously up to the conference. <br />
<br />
'''Proceedings.''' The publications chairs (Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu) coordinated the production of all proceedings (Main, Findings, Demos, SRW, Workshops, Tutorials, Industry Track).<br />
<br />
'''SRW funding.''' The Student Research Workshop chairs and faculty advisors secured funding from the Vienna Meeting Fund ($30,000) and ACL ($10,000), providing support for the participation of 15 student researchers.<br />
<br />
'''Diversity & Inclusion.''' The D&I subsidies ($XXXX in total) were allocated to XXX participants from a total of XXXX applications, which is hoped to provide full support. At the time of writing, XXX accepted the awards. <br />
<br />
'''Student Volunteers.''' The Student Volunteer Chairs — Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini — coordinated the recruitment and management of student volunteers, providing vital on-site and virtual support. The Chairs received XXX applications, recruited about XXX volunteers (XX in-person, XX virtual) and allocated XX grants.<br />
<br />
== Issues and future recommendations ==<br />
<br />
TBC <br />
<br />
== Notes for future GCs ==<br />
<br />
TBC<br />
<br />
=== Useful links ===<br />
* [https://acl-org.github.io/conference-handbook/ ACL guidelines (Chair duties)]<br />
* [https://github.com/rycolab/aclpub2 Proceedings]<br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org CL Github organization]<br />
** to host any Github repositories relevant to any *ACL conference. <br />
** Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to request access or to transfer existing repositories.<br />
** Used e.g., for conference website, creation of ACL anthology publications<br />
<br />
=== Communication Tools === <br />
<br />
==== Slack ====<br />
Using slack is a great way to keep track of each chair question/information/documents. <br />
* ACL has a paying account with Slack. Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to create a slack channel for your conference<br />
* Ask Nitin to set up Slack with one channel per Chair + a general channel including everyone<br />
* Get all chairs to use Slack<br />
* The general channel will be useful when a given chair has a question whose answer is known by a different chair. <br />
<br />
==== Contact emails ====<br />
We used two contact emails (google group): one for PC related questions and one for all other questions.<br />
<br />
==== Freshdesk ====<br />
The conference attracts a lot of emails. Using Freshdesk and having Internal Communication chairs answering or routing incoming emails is a good idea! ACL has an account. Contact XXXX to set up Freshdesk for you.<br />
<br />
=== Useful people === <br />
* Nitin Madnani Chief Information Officer <nmadnani@ets.org><br />
** to set up Slack<br />
** to get access to ACL git repo<br />
* Jennifer Rachford, ACL conference manager <Jennifer@ACLweb.org><br />
* Chris Callison-Burch, ACL sponsorship chair <ccb@seas.upenn.edu><br />
* Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi, to set up Freshdesk (email handling)<br />
* [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR people], submission sites (OpenReview) and reviewing process. Thamar Solorio <thamar.solorio@gmail.com>, Mausam <mausam@cs.washington.edu><br />
* Openreview Harold Rubio <harold@openreview.net> for issues regarding how to produce proceedings from OpenReview data.<br />
* Ingestion of Proceedings in ACL Anthology: Matt Post <post@cs.jhu.edu>;<br />
<br />
=== Submission platform === <br />
* Main conference uses ARR and OpenReview<br />
* Others (workshop, demos, SRW) can use other platforms such as START<br />
* The contact for setting up OpenReview is <tech@aclrollingreview.org> and more generally the ARR people<br />
* In 2025, ACL still had a contract with START. Contact: Rich Gerber <rrgerber@softconf.com><br />
<br />
=== Website === <br />
* Ask Nitin to create repo in https://github.com/acl-org/ <br />
* Send request to website chairs for update<br />
* You can also directly update the git repo and issue a pull request <br />
<br />
=== Publications (Proceedings) === <br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/309 Example ACL Anthology Ingestion Request] Allow 2 weeks for ingestion<br />
<br />
=== Handbook === <br />
* for budget and printing please see with Jennifer Rachford ACL conference manager<br />
<br />
=== Virtual Infrastructure === <br />
* Mainly handled by Underline and Whova<br />
* Interactions start about 2 months before the conference (regular weekly meeting starting -2M)<br />
* Underline people: "Damira Mrsic" <damira@underline.io>; "Sol Rosenberg" <sol@underline.io>;<br />
<br />
=== Sponsorships === <br />
* Mainly handled by Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship officer<br />
* Connect Sponsorship chairs with him early<br />
* Sponsorship chair should also try to apply for funding from their own region<br />
* ACL has a Sponsorship Booklet<br />
<br />
=== Fee waivers === <br />
Fee waivers are available for some e.g., each Tutorial will receive three (3) full conference registration. Contact Jennifer to know who can benefit from a fee waiver and how to proceed.</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=765212025Q3 Reports: General Chair2025-07-02T06:11:02Z<p>Navigli: </p>
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<div>== ACL 2025 General Chair Report ==<br />
<br />
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025.<br />
Tutorials will take place on July 27th, the main conference on July 28th-July 30th and the workshops on July 31st-August 1st. The Student Research Workshop is part of the main conference. <br />
<br />
'''Program.''' The ACL community continues its impressive growth. For ACL 2025, we received more than 8,300 submissions, of which 1,699 papers were accepted to the main conference and 1,392 as Findings papers. The main program was shaped by our Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Ekaterina Shutova. All *CL conferences, including ACL, continue to operate fully under the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) model, so this incredible result was possible thanks to the hard work of the ARR Editors-in-Chief — Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu — whose close coordination with the Program Chairs greatly streamlined the process. Key to the success of the conference program was the work and support of our many Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs, reviewers, and the Best Paper Committee led by Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart. This year's special theme track was "Generalization of NLP Models". The Technical Open Review Chairs, Niket Tandon and Lizhen Qu, ensured technical oversight of the ARR pipeline. <br />
<br />
The program also includes 2 keynotes speakers, one panel, 28 workshops (overseen by the Workshop Chairs Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier), 8 tutorials (overseen by the Tutorial Chairs Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, and Fei Xia), a rich demonstration program (overseen by the Demonstration Chairs Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu), and a strong SRW (Student Research Workshop) program (chaired by Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang, and Jin Zhao). <br />
Notable innovations include the introduction of the new CL Doctoral Dissertation Award, combined oral and panel sessions designed to deepen research discussions, and a dedicated Findings reception event. A key reinstated feature is the Industry Track, chaired by Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm, with the goal of strengthening the bridge between academia and industry. As in previous years, TACL and CL journal papers are presented during the conference thanks to the coordination of the respective Editors-in-Chief: Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (TACL) and Wei Lu (CL).<br />
<br />
As was done in previous years, tutorial and workshop chairs from NAACL 2025 and ACL 2025 worked together to issue a joint CFP and select the proposals for each conference. <br />
<br />
'''Participation.''' As of now (25 days before the conference), there are 4,935 registered participants (2,356 Regular, 2,579 Students). ACL 2025 will therefore by the largest conference in ACL history.<br />
<br />
'''Online Conference.''' This year's hybrid experience again relies on Underline for content management and Whova for participant interaction. A new format innovation is the scheduling of virtual presentation sessions to run in parallel with in-person poster sessions, providing more flexibility and engagement opportunities for remote attendees.<br />
<br />
'''Presentation Mode.''' All accepted main conference papers have oral or poster slots. Papers selected for oral presentation and combined panel sessions were chosen by the Program Chairs to ensure a diverse and balanced representation of topics. The Findings papers will have a dedicated reception event on the first day joint with their poster presentations.<br />
<br />
'''Virtual Infrastructure.''' The Virtual Infrastructure Chairs — Manling Li, Yang Liu, and Avi Sil — coordinated the hybrid experience together with Underline. The conference will continue using Whova for communication.<br />
<br />
'''Money.''' Sponsorship continues to play a crucial role in making ACL accessible. The Sponsorship Chairs — Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom — together with Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship Director, secured generous support: 10 Diamond Sponsors (Citadel, Ant Group, MI, Apple, Bloomberg, Cohere, Google Research, LinkedIn, Meta, Alibaba Cloud), 11 Platinum (Oracle, Toloka, ByteDance, IBM, Huawei, Megagon Labs, Baidu, Amazon science, Tencent, snowflake); 4 Gold (Thomson Reuters, Chen Institute, Kuaishou); 3 Silver (Appen, Adobe, nexdata); 7 Bronze (Babelscape, DataOcean, Defined.AI, JPMorganChase, NatWest Group, NEC, Translated), 1 Diversity (Apple).<br />
<br />
'''Communication.''' Internal communication was coordinated by Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu as Internal Communication Chairs. The conference used Slack (managed by Nitin Madnani) for coordination among chairs, and Freshdesk (set up with the support of Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi) for routing and handling the high volume of participant inquiries.<br />
<br />
'''Handbooks.''' The handbook chairs (Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu) produced two versions as in previous years: a printed version (with partial program information) and an online version updated continuously up to the conference. <br />
<br />
'''Proceedings.''' The publications chairs (Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu) coordinated the production of all proceedings (Main, Findings, Demos, SRW, Workshops, Tutorials, Industry Track).<br />
<br />
'''SRW funding.''' The Student Research Workshop chairs and faculty advisors secured funding from the Vienna Meeting Fund ($30,000) and ACL ($10,000), providing support for the participation of 15 student researchers.<br />
<br />
'''Diversity & Inclusion.''' The D&I subsidies ($XXXX in total) were allocated to XXX participants from a total of XXXX applications, which is hoped to provide full support. At the time of writing, XXX accepted the awards. <br />
<br />
'''Student Volunteers.''' The Student Volunteer Chairs — Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini — coordinated the recruitment and management of student volunteers, providing vital on-site and virtual support. The Chairs received XXX applications, recruited about XXX volunteers (XX in-person, XX virtual) and allocated XX grants.<br />
<br />
== Issues and future recommendations ==<br />
<br />
TBC <br />
<br />
== Notes for future GCs ==<br />
<br />
TBC<br />
<br />
=== Useful links ===<br />
* [https://acl-org.github.io/conference-handbook/ ACL guidelines (Chair duties)]<br />
* [https://github.com/rycolab/aclpub2 Proceedings]<br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org CL Github organization]<br />
** to host any Github repositories relevant to any *ACL conference. <br />
** Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to request access or to transfer existing repositories.<br />
** Used e.g., for conference website, creation of ACL anthology publications<br />
<br />
=== Communication Tools === <br />
<br />
==== Slack ====<br />
Using slack is a great way to keep track of each chair question/information/documents. <br />
* ACL has a paying account with Slack. Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to create a slack channel for your conference<br />
* Ask Nitin to set up Slack with one channel per Chair + a general channel including everyone<br />
* Get all chairs to use Slack<br />
* The general channel will be useful when a given chair has a question whose answer is known by a different chair. <br />
<br />
==== Contact emails ====<br />
We used two contact emails (google group): one for PC related questions and one for all other questions.<br />
<br />
==== Freshdesk ====<br />
The conference attracts a lot of emails. Using Freshdesk and having Internal Communication chairs answering or routing incoming emails is a good idea! ACL has an account. Contact XXXX to set up Freshdesk for you.<br />
<br />
=== Useful people === <br />
* Nitin Madnani Chief Information Officer <nmadnani@ets.org><br />
** to set up Slack<br />
** to get access to ACL git repo<br />
* Jennifer Rachford, ACL conference manager <Jennifer@ACLweb.org><br />
* Chris Callison-Burch, ACL sponsorship chair <ccb@seas.upenn.edu><br />
* XXXX, to set up Freshdesk (email handling) <XXXXX@gmail.com><br />
* [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR people], submission sites (OpenReview) and reviewing process. Thamar Solorio <thamar.solorio@gmail.com>, Mausam <mausam@cs.washington.edu><br />
* Openreview Harold Rubio <harold@openreview.net> for issues regarding how to produce proceedings from OpenReview data.<br />
* Ingestion of Proceedings in ACL Anthology: Matt Post <post@cs.jhu.edu>;<br />
<br />
=== Submission platform === <br />
* Main conference uses ARR and OpenReview<br />
* Others (workshop, demos, SRW) can use other platforms such as START<br />
* The contact for setting up OpenReview is <tech@aclrollingreview.org> and more generally the ARR people<br />
* In 2025, ACL still had a contract with START. Contact: Rich Gerber <rrgerber@softconf.com><br />
<br />
=== Website === <br />
* Ask Nitin to create repo in https://github.com/acl-org/ <br />
* Send request to website chairs for update<br />
* You can also directly update the git repo and issue a pull request <br />
<br />
=== Publications (Proceedings) === <br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/309 Example ACL Anthology Ingestion Request] Allow 2 weeks for ingestion<br />
<br />
=== Handbook === <br />
* for budget and printing please see with Jennifer Rachford ACL conference manager<br />
<br />
=== Virtual Infrastructure === <br />
* Mainly handled by Underline and Whova<br />
* Interactions start about 2 months before the conference (regular weekly meeting starting -2M)<br />
* Underline people: "Damira Mrsic" <damira@underline.io>; "Sol Rosenberg" <sol@underline.io>;<br />
<br />
=== Sponsorships === <br />
* Mainly handled by Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship officer<br />
* Connect Sponsorship chairs with him early<br />
* Sponsorship chair should also try to apply for funding from their own region<br />
* ACL has a Sponsorship Booklet<br />
<br />
=== Fee waivers === <br />
Fee waivers are available for some e.g., each Tutorial will receive three (3) full conference registration. Contact Jennifer to know who can benefit from a fee waiver and how to proceed.</div>Naviglihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=765122025Q3 Reports: General Chair2025-07-01T17:43:59Z<p>Navigli: First draft</p>
<hr />
<div>== ACL 2025 General Chair Report ==<br />
<br />
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27th to August 1st, 2025.<br />
Tutorials will take place on July 27th, the main conference on July 28th-July 30th and the workshops on July 31st-August 1st. The Student Research Workshop is part of the main conference. <br />
<br />
'''Program.''' The ACL community continues its impressive growth. For ACL 2025, we received more than 8,300 submissions, of which 1,699 papers were accepted to the main conference and 1,392 as Findings papers. The main program was shaped by our Program Chairs: Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Ekaterina Shutova. All *CL conferences, including ACL, continue to operate fully under the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) model, so this incredible result was possible thanks to the hard work of the ARR Editors-in-Chief — Jun Suzuki, Jing Jiang, and Xiaodan Zhu — whose close coordination with the Program Chairs greatly streamlined the process. Key to the success of the conference program was the work and support of our many Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs, reviewers, and the Best Paper Committee led by Rada Mihalcea and Roi Reichart. This year's special theme track was "Generalization of NLP Models". The Technical Open Review Chairs, Niket Tandon and Lizhen Qu, ensured technical oversight of the ARR pipeline. <br />
<br />
The program also includes 2 keynotes speakers, one panel, 28 workshops (overseen by the Workshop Chairs Terra Blevins and Christophe Gravier), 8 tutorials (overseen by the Tutorial Chairs Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, and Fei Xia), a rich demonstration program (overseen by the Demonstration Chairs Pushkar Mishra, Smaranda Muresan, and Tao Yu), and a strong SRW (Student Research Workshop) program (chaired by Zhu Liu, Mingyang Wang, and Jin Zhao). <br />
Notable innovations include the introduction of the new CL Doctoral Dissertation Award, combined oral and panel sessions designed to deepen research discussions, and a dedicated Findings reception event. A key reinstated feature is the Industry Track, chaired by Yunyao Li and Georg Rehm, with the goal of strengthening the bridge between academia and industry. As in previous years, TACL and CL journal papers are presented during the conference thanks to the coordination of the respective Editors-in-Chief: Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (TACL) and Wei Lu (CL).<br />
<br />
As was done in previous years, tutorial and workshop chairs from NAACL 2025 and ACL 2025 worked together to issue a joint CFP and select the proposals for each conference. <br />
<br />
'''Participation.''' As of now (25 days before the conference), there are 4,935 registered participants (2,356 Regular, 2,579 Students). ACL 2025 will therefore by the largest conference in ACL history.<br />
<br />
'''Online Conference.''' This year's hybrid experience again relies on Underline for content management and Whova for participant interaction. A new format innovation is the scheduling of virtual presentation sessions to run in parallel with in-person poster sessions, providing more flexibility and engagement opportunities for remote attendees.<br />
<br />
'''Presentation Mode.''' All accepted main conference papers have oral or poster slots. Papers selected for oral presentation and combined panel sessions were chosen by the Program Chairs to ensure a diverse and balanced representation of topics. The Findings papers will have a dedicated reception event on the first day joint with their poster presentations.<br />
<br />
'''Virtual Infrastructure.''' The Virtual Infrastructure Chairs — Manling Li, Yang Liu, and Avi Sil — coordinated the hybrid experience together with Underline. The conference will continue using Whova for communication.<br />
<br />
'''Money.''' Sponsorship continues to play a crucial role in making ACL accessible. The Sponsorship Chairs — Raffaella Bernardi and Thomas Scialom — together with Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship Director, secured generous support: 10 Diamond Sponsors (Citadel, Ant Group, MI, Apple, Bloomberg, Cohere, Google Research, LinkedIn, Meta, Alibaba Cloud), 11 Platinum (Oracle, Toloka, ByteDance, IBM, Huawei, Megagon Labs, Baidu, Amazon science, Tencent, snowflake); 4 Gold (Thomson Reuters, Chen Institute, Kuaishou); 3 Silver (Appen, Adobe, nexdata); 7 Bronze (Babelscape, DataOcean, Defined.AI, JPMorganChase, NatWest Group, NEC, Translated), 1 Diversity (Apple).<br />
<br />
'''Communication.''' Internal communication was coordinated by Sara Tonelli and Yiquan Wu as Internal Communication Chairs. The conference used Slack (managed by Nitin Madnani) for coordination among chairs, and Freshdesk (set up with the support of Sudipta Kar and Freda Shi) for routing and handling the high volume of participant inquiries.<br />
<br />
'''Handbooks.''' The handbook chairs (Els Lefever and Qiongkai Xu) produced two versions as in previous years: a printed version (with partial program information) and an online version updated continuously up to the conference. <br />
<br />
'''Proceedings.''' The publications chairs (Pierpaolo Basile, Libo Qin, and Zhenghao Liu) coordinated the production of all proceedings (Main, Findings, Demos, SRW, Workshops, Tutorials, Industry Track).<br />
<br />
'''SRW funding.''' The Student Research Workshop chairs and faculty advisors secured funding from the Vienna Meeting Fund ($15,000), supporting participation for several student researchers.<br />
<br />
'''Diversity & Inclusion.''' The D&I subsidies ($XXXX in total) were allocated to XXX participants from a total of XXXX applications, which is hoped to provide full support. At the time of writing, XXX accepted the awards. <br />
<br />
'''Student Volunteers.''' The Student Volunteer Chairs — Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Eleonora Mancini — coordinated the recruitment and management of student volunteers, providing vital on-site and virtual support. The Chairs received XXX applications, recruited about XXX volunteers (XX in-person, XX virtual) and allocated XX grants.<br />
<br />
== Issues and future recommendations ==<br />
<br />
TBC <br />
<br />
== Notes for future GCs ==<br />
<br />
TBC<br />
<br />
=== Useful links ===<br />
* [https://acl-org.github.io/conference-handbook/ ACL guidelines (Chair duties)]<br />
* [https://github.com/rycolab/aclpub2 Proceedings]<br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org CL Github organization]<br />
** to host any Github repositories relevant to any *ACL conference. <br />
** Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to request access or to transfer existing repositories.<br />
** Used e.g., for conference website, creation of ACL anthology publications<br />
<br />
=== Communication Tools === <br />
<br />
==== Slack ====<br />
Using slack is a great way to keep track of each chair question/information/documents. <br />
* ACL has a paying account with Slack. Contact the ACL Information Officer, Nitin Madnani (nmadnani@ets.org) to create a slack channel for your conference<br />
* Ask Nitin to set up Slack with one channel per Chair + a general channel including everyone<br />
* Get all chairs to use Slack<br />
* The general channel will be useful when a given chair has a question whose answer is known by a different chair. <br />
<br />
==== Contact emails ====<br />
We used two contact emails (google group): one for PC related questions and one for all other questions.<br />
<br />
==== Freshdesk ====<br />
The conference attracts a lot of emails. Using Freshdesk and having Internal Communication chairs answering or routing incoming emails is a good idea! ACL has an account. Contact XXXX to set up Freshdesk for you.<br />
<br />
=== Useful people === <br />
* Nitin Madnani Chief Information Officer <nmadnani@ets.org><br />
** to set up Slack<br />
** to get access to ACL git repo<br />
* Jennifer Rachford, ACL conference manager <Jennifer@ACLweb.org><br />
* Chris Callison-Burch, ACL sponsorship chair <ccb@seas.upenn.edu><br />
* XXXX, to set up Freshdesk (email handling) <XXXXX@gmail.com><br />
* [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR people], submission sites (OpenReview) and reviewing process. Thamar Solorio <thamar.solorio@gmail.com>, Mausam <mausam@cs.washington.edu><br />
* Openreview Harold Rubio <harold@openreview.net> for issues regarding how to produce proceedings from OpenReview data.<br />
* Ingestion of Proceedings in ACL Anthology: Matt Post <post@cs.jhu.edu>;<br />
<br />
=== Submission platform === <br />
* Main conference uses ARR and OpenReview<br />
* Others (workshop, demos, SRW) can use other platforms such as START<br />
* The contact for setting up OpenReview is <tech@aclrollingreview.org> and more generally the ARR people<br />
* In 2025, ACL still had a contract with START. Contact: Rich Gerber <rrgerber@softconf.com><br />
<br />
=== Website === <br />
* Ask Nitin to create repo in https://github.com/acl-org/ <br />
* Send request to website chairs for update<br />
* You can also directly update the git repo and issue a pull request <br />
<br />
=== Publications (Proceedings) === <br />
* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/309 Example ACL Anthology Ingestion Request] Allow 2 weeks for ingestion<br />
<br />
=== Handbook === <br />
* for budget and printing please see with Jennifer Rachford ACL conference manager<br />
<br />
=== Virtual Infrastructure === <br />
* Mainly handled by Underline and Whova<br />
* Interactions start about 2 months before the conference (regular weekly meeting starting -2M)<br />
* Underline people: "Damira Mrsic" <damira@underline.io>; "Sol Rosenberg" <sol@underline.io>;<br />
<br />
=== Sponsorships === <br />
* Mainly handled by Chris Callison-Burch, ACL Sponsorship officer<br />
* Connect Sponsorship chairs with him early<br />
* Sponsorship chair should also try to apply for funding from their own region<br />
* ACL has a Sponsorship Booklet<br />
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=== Fee waivers === <br />
Fee waivers are available for some e.g., each Tutorial will receive three (3) full conference registration. Contact Jennifer to know who can benefit from a fee waiver and how to proceed.</div>Navigli