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2020Q3 Reports: EACL

2020-07-27T07:55:53Z

SharonGoldwater:

== Finances: ==

There has been no change in our financial position or the funds in our shadow account since the Q1 report. ACL continues to hold most of our finances, and since the ACL conference was not held in person, we have still been unable to transfer the signatories on the EACL account, which requires multiple signatures from people on various continents.

== Website: ==

As part of the ACL Information Officer's standardization work, we have now transferred the eacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer, with the 2021 conference website using the new standard URL https://2021.eacl.org.

== EACL 2021 Conference: ==

At present, we are still hoping to hold the conference in person in Kyiv. However, due to the current uncertainties we have delayed signing the venue contract. In the event that a hybrid or virtual conference becomes necessary, we hope to learn from the experience of ACL 2020.

The conference website and call for papers have gone out, and the programme chairs are proceeding with their plans.

The Local Organisers are still awaiting final guidance from the ACL Office about signing the PCO contract. We hope this will be forthcoming now that ACL 2020 is over.

== EACL Officers as of 1 July 2020: ==

Chair: Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair-elect: Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Secretary: Lucia Specia (Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer: Claudia Borg (University of Malta)

Past Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind, UK)
* Barbara Plank IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Preslav Nakov (QCRI, Qatar)
* Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nominating Committee:
* Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Lluís Màrquez (Amazon)
* Caroline Sporleder (GCDH, Göttingen)

Student Board:
* Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Ece Takmaz (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
* Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc (Pompeu Fabra University)

2020Q3 Reports: EACL

2020-07-27T07:41:52Z

SharonGoldwater: Created page with "== Finances: == There has been no change in our financial position or the funds in our shadow account since the Q1 report. ACL continues to hold most of our finances, and sin..."

== Finances: ==

There has been no change in our financial position or the funds in our shadow account since the Q1 report. ACL continues to hold most of our finances, and since the ACL conference was not held in person, we have still been unable to transfer the signatories on the EACL account, which requires multiple signatures from people on various continents.

== EACL 2021 Conference: ==

At present, we are still hoping to hold the conference in person in Kyiv. However, due to the current uncertainties we have delayed signing the venue contract. In the event that a hybrid or virtual conference becomes necessary, we hope to learn from the experience of ACL 2020.

The conference website and call for papers have gone out, and the programme chairs are proceeding with their plans.

The Local Organisers are still awaiting final guidance from the ACL Office about signing the PCO contract. We hope this will be forthcoming now that ACL 2020 is over.

== EACL Officers as of 1 July 2020: ==

Chair: Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair-elect: Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Secretary: Lucia Specia (Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer: Claudia Borg (University of Malta)

Past Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind, UK)
* Barbara Plank IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Preslav Nakov (QCRI, Qatar)
* Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nominating Committee:
* Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Lluís Màrquez (Amazon)
* Caroline Sporleder (GCDH, Göttingen)

Student Board:
* Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Ece Takmaz (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
* Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc (Pompeu Fabra University)

2020Q1 Reports: EACL

2020-03-04T09:17:32Z

SharonGoldwater:

== Finances: ==

The funds in our shadow account have not changed since Q1 2019. As discussed at the last ACL Exec meeting, ACL would prefer for now to keep our share of the Berlin surplus in ACL accounts and cover our expenditures from there.

As usual we agreed to provide EUR 8,500 for ESSLII student sponsorships.

We are still awaiting transfer of signatories on the EACL account, which has not happened since the new treasurer took over in 2018. This transfer proves to be difficult due to the paperwork and multiple signatures required from people in various international locations. We hope that it will be possible to get the paperwork done in Seattle when all the required signators are in one place.

== Website: ==

As part of preparations for EACL 2021, we are in the process of transferring the eacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer.

== EACL 2021 Conference: ==

We have been proceeding with plans for EACL 2021, and have appointed Paola Merlo as General Chair and Reut Tsarfaty and Joerg Tiedemann as Program Chairs. Paola has begun appointing other chairs.

Unfortunately, we are dealing with complications surrounding the venue. The original choice of venue changed ownership during the contract negotiation and became unavailable. The local organizers hosted a site visit for Priscilla, Paola, and Claudia Borg (EACL Treasurer) in November to scope out alternative venues and we have identified a new venue. The local organizers and PCO have been preparing updated budgets and contracts, and our main concerns at this point are to keep the budget within reasonable limits (though it is significantly higher than the original venue) and to get the contracts signed. We plan to announce the location publicly once the contract has been signed.

== Plans: ==

As noted in the last report, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find potential venues and hosts able and willing to provide the local conference organization; and problems such as those mentioned above are harder to deal with as size increases. It is still our plan to investigate alternatives to the traditional bidding and conference organization model, but unfortunately this project has taken a back seat to dealing with the more immediate concerns of sorting out the venue for 2021.

== EACL Officers as of 1 Mar 2019: ==

Chair: Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair-elect: Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Secretary: Lucia Specia (Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer: Claudia Borg (University of Malta)

Past Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind, UK)
* Barbara Plank IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Preslav Nakov (QCRI, Qatar)
* Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nominating Committee:
* Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Lluís Màrquez (Amazon)
* Caroline Sporleder (GCDH, Göttingen)

Student Board:
* Fernando Alva-Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

2020Q1 Reports: EACL

2020-03-02T17:23:44Z

SharonGoldwater: Created page with "== Finances: == The funds in our shadow account have not changed since Q1 2019. As discussed at the last ACL Exec meeting, ACL would prefer for now to keep our share of the B..."

== Finances: ==

The funds in our shadow account have not changed since Q1 2019. As discussed at the last ACL Exec meeting, ACL would prefer for now to keep our share of the Berlin surplus in ACL accounts and cover our expenditures from there.

As usual we agreed to provide EUR 8,500 for ESSLII student sponsorships.

== Website: ==

As part of preparations for EACL 2021, we are in the process of transferring the eacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer.

== EACL 2021 Conference: ==

We have been proceeding with plans for EACL 2021, and have appointed Paola Merlo as General Chair and Reut Tsarfaty and Joerg Tiedemann as Program Chairs. Paola has begun appointing other chairs.

Unfortunately, we are dealing with complications surrounding the venue. The original choice of venue changed ownership during the contract negotiation and became unavailable. The local organizers hosted a site visit for Priscilla, Paola, and Claudia Borg (EACL Treasurer) in November to scope out alternative venues and we have identified a new venue. The local organizers and PCO have been preparing updated budgets and contracts, and our main concerns at this point are to keep the budget within reasonable limits (though it is significantly higher than the original venue) and to get the contracts signed. We plan to announce the location publicly once the contract has been signed.

== Plans: ==

As noted in the last report, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find potential venues and hosts able and willing to provide the local conference organization; and problems such as those mentioned above are harder to deal with as size increases. It is still our plan to investigate alternatives to the traditional bidding and conference organization model, but unfortunately this project has taken a back seat to dealing with the more immediate concerns of sorting out the venue for 2021.

== EACL Officers as of 1 Mar 2019: ==

Chair: Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair-elect: Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Secretary: Lucia Specia (Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer: Claudia Borg (University of Malta)

Past Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind, UK)
* Barbara Plank IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Preslav Nakov (QCRI, Qatar)
* Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nominating Committee:
* Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Lluís Màrquez (Amazon)
* Caroline Sporleder (GCDH, Göttingen)

Student Board:
* Fernando Alva-Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

2019Q3 Reports: EACL

2019-07-24T07:48:52Z

SharonGoldwater: Created page with "== Finances: == Nothing has changed since the Q1 report. After 3 years, EACL is still awaiting the transfer of our share of the Berlin surplus to the European account. We wi..."

== Finances: ==

Nothing has changed since the Q1 report.

After 3 years, EACL is still awaiting the transfer of our share of the Berlin surplus to the European account. We will need these funds to pay for EACL 2021 preparations and for student sponsorships next year, as our account is now virtually empty. While ACL has offered to directly pay immediate costs such as the EACL 2021 venue down payment, this issue is now impacting our ability to operate independently in cases such as sponsorships, since our budget is not known and funds are not immediately available.

== Website: ==

The new website has now gone live at [http://eacl.org/ eacl.org], thanks to the efforts of our student members.

== EACL 2020 Conference: ==

(This item should have been included in the previous quarterly report.)

After considerable effort to get the EACL 2020 conference bid in shape, it ultimately became clear late last year that this bid could not go ahead. This was mainly due to the venue's restrictions on PCO, and the unresponsiveness and uncooperativeness of the required PCO. This left us in a very difficult position, as this was the only bid under consideration and we were already far behind schedule after spending time attempting to work with this bid. In the end the board decided that it was simply not feasible to find another location for EACL 2020 in time while also starting the bidding process for EACL 2021. Therefore we will not be holding a conference in 2020, but we are now making good progress with plans for EACL 2021 (see below).

This issue was partly created through a decision early on to curate only a single bid that looked promising, so as to avoid extra work and disappointment for some parties by soliciting competitor bids. We have therefore returned to the approach of multiple bids for EACL 2021. However this experience has also prompted a larger ongoing re-think of the conference bidding process -- see under Plans below.

== EACL 2021 Conference: ==

We assessed two final bids in early April and have chosen one of these as the site of EACL 2021. We have confirmed the dates and overall costs with the venue and are currently in the process of negotiating a contract. We plan to announce the location publicly once the contract has been signed. We have also begun the process of nominating and recruiting a General Chair.

== Plans: ==

As the size of the EACL conference has grown, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find potential venues and hosts willing to provide the local organization. We plan to investigate ways to improve this in the future, including alternatives to the traditional bidding and organization model.

== EACL Officers as of 1 July 2019: ==

Chair: Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair-elect: Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Secretary: Lucia Specia (Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer: Claudia Borg (University of Malta)

Past Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind, UK)
* Barbara Plank IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Preslav Nakov (QCRI, Qatar)
* Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nominating Committee:
* Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Lluís Màrquez (Amazon)
* Caroline Sporleder (GCDH, Göttingen)

Student Board:
* Fernando Alva-Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

2019Q3 Reports

2019-07-24T07:38:51Z

SharonGoldwater:

'''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]] (Sharon Goldwater)
* [[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)

'''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]] (Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio, Jill Burstein)

'''Future Conferences'''

* [[2019Q3 Reports: EMNLP-IJCNLP 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)]]

2019Q1 Reports: EACL

2019-03-13T12:22:31Z

SharonGoldwater: Created page with " == Financial Report == 2018 CHAPTER FINANCES UPDATE MAR 2019 (SHADOW ACCOUNTING, in EURO) 31-Dec-2017: 8,293 INCOME (from EACL2017 Valencia): 12,233 (Also see note bel..."

== Financial Report ==

2018 CHAPTER FINANCES UPDATE MAR 2019 (SHADOW ACCOUNTING, in EURO)

31-Dec-2017: 8,293

INCOME (from EACL2017 Valencia): 12,233
(Also see note below on income from ACL/EACL Berlin 2016)

EXPENSES

Sponsorships ESSLII -8,250
Bank charges -8

31-Dec-2018: 12,268

Claudia Borg 18.02.2019

'''Note:''' EACL is still expecting to receive a large surplus from the Berlin conference but again it has not been transferred to the European account. We expect this transfer to be around USD 50k, accounting for ACL's plans to set aside a large portion of the Berlin surplus to establish a European fund to hedge against future currency fluctuations. We hope that these plans and the transfer of funds can be completed by ACL soon.

== Sponsorship ==

* We have approved a sponsorship of EUR 8500 to ESSLI to fund around 15-20 students with grants of EUR 350-550 each.

== Plans: ==

* Reorganization of the website. The student board of EACL, with help from the EACL board, has nearly completed the new version of the EACL website which will be more modern, better updated, and better integrated with social media. This took longer than expected but we hope to launch the new website within the next few weeks.

* As the size of the EACL conference has grown, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find potential venues and hosts willing to provide the local organization. We plan to investigate ways to improve this in the future, including alternatives to the traditional bidding and organization model.

== EACL 2021 Conference: ==

* The Board has progressed two draft bids to the final bidding stage, with final bids due at the end of March.

== EACL Board: ==

* The EACL board elected a new student board member, Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium) to replace Uxoa Iñurrieta. We thank Uxoa for her service and Madhumita for her willingness to help EACL.

* Claudia Borg (University of Malta) has now taken over from Mike Rosner as treasurer, with Mike advising as past treasurer.

== EACL Officers as of 1 March 2019: ==

Chair: Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair-elect: Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Secretary: Lucia Specia (Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer: Claudia Borg (University of Malta)

Past Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Advisory Board:
* Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind, UK)
* Barbara Plank IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Preslav Nakov (QCRI, Qatar)
* Ivan Titov (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nominating Committee:
* Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
* Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Lluís Màrquez (Amazon)
* Caroline Sporleder (GCDH, Göttingen)

Student Board:
* Fernando Alva-Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* Madhumita Sushil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)