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2021Q3 Reports: ACL 2022

2021-07-07T23:10:46Z

RadaMihalcea: Created page with "ACL 2022 — the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics — will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 22nd to 27th May 2022, at the Convention Center..."

ACL 2022 — the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics — will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 22nd to 27th May 2022, at the Convention Center Dublin. ACL 2022 will be organized as a hybrid event, with a majority of the attendees participating in person.

The General Chair is Bernardo Magnini. The Program Chairs are Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov and Aline Villavicencio. The Local Organization Chairs are Andy Way, John Kelleher and Greg Carew. The majority of the organization team is also in place, including tutorial chairs, workshop chairs, student workshop chairs, and demo chairs.

Notably, ACL 2022 will consider paper submissions only through the ACL Rolling Review. More information and a timeline will be provided by the conference organizers.

2021Q1 Reports: ACL 2022

2021-03-15T10:17:07Z

RadaMihalcea: Created page with "ACL 2022 will be held jointly with EACL. Location: Dublin, Ireland Dates: May 22-28, 2022 General chair: Bernardo Magnini (FBK Trento) Local Co-chairs: Andy Way (Adapt Cen..."

ACL 2022 will be held jointly with EACL.

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Dates: May 22-28, 2022

General chair: Bernardo Magnini (FBK Trento)

Local Co-chairs: Andy Way (Adapt Center, Dublin City U), John Kelleher (TU Dublin), Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City U), Teresa Lynn (Adapt Center, Dublin City U)

Program Committee co-chairs: Aline Villavicencio (U Sheffield, Federal U. Rio Grande do Sul), Chris Biemann (U. Hamburg), Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

2020Q3 Reports: ACL 2022

2020-07-22T05:23:17Z

RadaMihalcea: Created page with "ACL 2022 will be held in Europe/Middle East/Africa, in collaboration with EACL. Because of changes of plans due to COVID-19 (e.g, ACL 2020 site cancellation), and implication..."

ACL 2022 will be held in Europe/Middle East/Africa, in collaboration with EACL.

Because of changes of plans due to COVID-19 (e.g, ACL 2020 site cancellation), and implications of these changes, we had to postpone the decisions for ACL 2022.

We currently have four bids, to which we have provided feedback, with final bids expected by July 31. We plan to decide the site for ACL 2022 during August-September and announce it at EMNLP 2022.

2020Q1 Reports: ACL 2022

2020-03-02T17:58:16Z

RadaMihalcea: Created page with "ACL 2022 will be held in Europe/Middle East/Africa, in collaboration with EACL. We have received three expressions of interest so far. I expect all three interested parties t..."

ACL 2022 will be held in Europe/Middle East/Africa, in collaboration with EACL.

We have received three expressions of interest so far. I expect all three interested parties to submit a draft proposal by the March 15 deadline.

I do not think we need to solicit other proposals at this point.

2019Q3 Reports: Mentorship Co-Chairs

2019-07-20T02:04:30Z

RadaMihalcea: Created page with "ACL 2019 is conducting two mentorship programs intended to provide support for newcomers to our conferences and/or for early-career researchers. These programs are a continuat..."

ACL 2019 is conducting two mentorship programs intended to provide support for newcomers to our conferences and/or for early-career researchers. These programs are a continuation of the mentoring programs started at NAACL 2019.

1. Sibling program: This program specifically targets newcomers who are attending a *CL conference for the first time. They are assigned a big sibling, who can take them around the conference, introduce them to their friends and colleagues and help them find suitable affinity groups. The main aim of this program is to ensure that first-time attendees are able to mingle and do not feel left out.

2. One-on-one mentoring: This program is focused on early-career researchers. They are assigned a mentor, usually an established researcher in the field, who can give them career advice such as choosing research problems to work on, managing time, and building a research identity. This program aims to ensure that young researchers get an opportunity to interact with senior researchers whose career paths they wish to emulate.

We are also co-ordinating with the Student Research Workshop (SRW) to help SRW attendees receive one-on-one mentorship.

To organize these programs, we sent out a survey to all registered participants of ACL and SRW (n=2901) on July 13th. This survey solicited their interest in participating in the program (as a mentor or a mentee) as well as some additional information such as affiliation, seniority, research interests, and so on, which would be used to make matches. As of July 16, we had 260 responses. Some statistics from the responses are reported below:

1. Number of big siblings: 27

2. Number of mentors: 42

3. Number of little siblings: 168

4. Number of mentees: 179

135 people have signed up to be both little siblings and mentees.
By the sign-up deadline (July 18th), 388 people had responded. We are currently unable to access these because of a bug in Microsoft Office that has blocked access to form responses for everyone, but we hope it will get resolved soon.

Matching process:
Similar to NAACL, we have a matching script to automatically create sibling and mentor-mentee matches. This script uses integer linear programming to create optimal matches while satisfying several constraints. The objective function used by the script is the sum of jaccard similarity scores between research interests of each mentor-mentee pair. Since sibling matches are inherently random, they are not included in the objective. The script tries to maximize this score (pairing mentors and mentees who have many matching interests). This maximization is subject to constraints such as not exceeding limits specified by mentors and big siblings (eg: if somebody asked for only one mentee, do not assign them more), ensuring that matched pairs are from different affiliations (to encourage more socialization) and constraining mentors to be more senior than mentees. We collected metadata such as seniority level and research interests from participants during the survey phase.

While the mentorship program at ACL 2019 is still ongoing, and we do not have a final set of lessons learned, this is what we have learned so far:

- The *CL community has a very large appetite for mentorship, possibly due to a sharp increase in the membership of our community over the past few years, which has resulted in a large number of new/early-career researchers. The immediate effect on the mentorship program, observed both during ACL 2019 and NAACL 2019, is a large gap between the number of people who are interested in receiving mentorship and those able to offer it. Future offerings of such programs will have to consider various solutions for growing the number of mentors.

- The forms used so far to collect mentor/mentee interest have posed issues. Google forms are not accessible in certain parts of the world, thus cannot be used. Microsoft Office forms have had issues, with the information collected from participants becoming inaccessible to the form organizers (a bug we are currently experiencing). If mentorship becomes an integral part of our conferences, as we hope it will, it might be worthwhile developing our own forms to collect mentorship interest.

2019Q3 Reports

2019-07-20T02:03:14Z

RadaMihalcea:

'''Reports from ACL Management'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: Office Manager]] (Priscilla Rasmussen)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (Shiqi Zhao)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (Julia Hockenmaier)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: EACL]] (Walter Daelemans)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: AACL]] (Haifeng Wang)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIG Officer]] (Jennifer Foster)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Conference Officer]] (Barbara Di Eugenio)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Information Officer]] (Nitin Madnani)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Professional Conduct Committee]] (Graeme Hirst, Emily Bender)

'''NAACL 2019'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]] (Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio)

'''ACL 2019'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: General Chair]] (Lluís Màrquez)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]] (Anna Korhonen, David Traum)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Local Organizing Co-chairs]] (Alessandro Lenci, Bernardo Magnini, Simonetta Montemagni)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]] (Barbara Plank, Sebastian Riedel)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]] (Preslav Nakov, Alexis Palmer)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs]] (Douwe Kiela, Ivan Vulić, Shay Cohen, Kevin Gimpel)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Demonstration Chairs]] (Enrique Alfonseca, Marta R. Costa-jussà)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]] (Fernando Alva-Manchego, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Khashabi and SRW Faculty advisors Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Aurelie Herbelot, Scott Yih, Yue Zhang)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Publicity Chairs]] (Felice Dell'Orletta, Lucia Passaro, Sara Tonelli )
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Conference Handbook Chair]] (Elena Cabrio, Rachele Sprugnoli)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: Mentorship Co-Chairs]] (Rada Mihalcea, Robert Frederking, Aakanksha Naik)

'''Journals, Publications, and the Web'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]] (Hwee Tou Ng)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (Lillian Lee, Mark Johnson, and Brian Roark)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: ACL Anthology]] (Matt Post)

'''Recent Conferences'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2018]] (Ellen Riloff)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: NAACL 2019]] (Jill Burstein)

'''Future Conferences'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: EMNLP 2019]] (Kentaro Inui)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: ACL 2020]] (Ming Zhou)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: ACL 2021]] (Hinrich Schuetze)

'''SIG & BIG'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGANN]] (Nancy Ide)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]] (Kevin Bretonnel Cohen)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]] (Jian Su)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]] (Gabriel Skantze)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGEDU]] (Jill Burstein)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]] (Andreas Maletti)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]] (Ehud Reiter)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]] (Min Zhang)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]] (Caroline Sporleder)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]] (Anna Korhonen)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]] (Philippe de Groote)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]] (Jason Eisner)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGMT]] (Philipp Koehn)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]] (Julia Hockenmaier)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]] (Stephan Oepen)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGRREP]] (Isabelle Augenstein)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]] (Katrin Erk)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGSLAV]] (Tomaž Erjavec)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]] (Frank Rudzicz)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGUR]] (Tommi A. Pirinen)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]] (Roland Schafer)
* [[2019Q3 Reports: EquiCL]] (Marine Carpuat)

'''Exec Meeting'''
* [[2019Q3 Agenda]]
* [[2019Q3 Minutes (public version)]]

2014Q3 Reports: NAACL 2015

2014-06-06T14:56:12Z

RadaMihalcea: Created page with "NAACL 2015 General Chair Progress Report Rada Mihalcea When: May 31st - June 5th, 2015 Where: Denver, Colorado Venue: [http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/over..."

NAACL 2015 General Chair Progress Report

Rada Mihalcea

When: May 31st - June 5th, 2015

Where: Denver, Colorado

Venue: [http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3205 Sheraton Denver Downtown], 1550 Court Place, Denver, CO

General Chair: Rada Mihalcea

Program Chairs: Joyce Chai, Anoop Sarkar

Local Arrangements Chair: Priscilla Rasmussen

Ongoing efforts:
* Recruitment of event chairs and area chairs
* Currently finalizing timeline
* Currently engaged in knowledge transfer from previous chairs - there is a meeting planned at ACL'14 to facilitate that