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2025-02-20T14:13:33Z

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Professor at University of Washington. VP Elect in 2025.

2025Q1 Reports: Secretary

2025-02-18T09:17:12Z

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== Membership==

We closed 2024 with over 10400 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.

== Outgoing Exec Members ==

The following people are leaving the exec:

* Iryna Gurevych (ACL VP-elect (2021), VP (2022), President (2023), Past President (2024))
* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large, 2022-2024)
* Roberto Basili (EACL Chair, 2023-2024)
* Jian Su (AACL Chair, 2023-2024)

I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!

== New Exec Members ==

We will have five new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2025. These are:

* Luke Zettlemoyer (ACL VP-elect)
* Yang Feng (ACL secretary)
* Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber (ACL member at-large)
* Preslav Nakov (EACL Chair)
* Xuanjing Huang (AACL Chair)

Welcome to the new exec members!

The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2025.

== Workshop Officers ==

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each:
* Zeerak Talat
* Terra Blevins

== ACL Publication Ethics Committee ==

The ACL has convened a new Publication Ethics Committee, with inaugural co-chairs Dr. Leon Derczynski, Dr. Kokil Jaidka and Dr. Aoife Cahill. This committee will be charged with developing policies and procedures related to publication ethics, including such issues as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and how to handle issues raised about papers post-publication.

The ACL Policy on Publication Ethics can be found here:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics

== CL and TACL ==

Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years.

Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL journal Transaction of the ACL for the staged three year term 2024-2026. She joins Asli Celikyilmaz (Meta) and Roi Reichart (Technion) to work together at the TACL helm.

== New SIGs ==

The following new SIGs were created in 2024:

* SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
** https://www.sigsea.org/
** president: Holy Lovenia, secretary: Fajri Koto
* SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP)
** https://sigfintech.github.io/
** Founder: Chung-Chi Chen

== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==

The winner of the ACL 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Ralph Grishman. Prof. Ralph Grishman is a world-leading pioneer in Computational Linguistics. Among his many contributions, the most impactful one is the central role he played in defining Information Extraction (IE) research over the past 35+ years. Research on IE has led to many real-world applications used in daily life, including knowledge base construction and population, question answering, smart health, financial knowledge extraction and prediction, situation report generation and knowledge-guided dialog systems.

The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

== Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award ==

There was no awardee of Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award in 2024.

The 2025 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients

== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==

The 2024 winner of the 1999 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Lillian Lee. 1999. Measures of Distributional Similarity. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 25–32, College Park, Maryland, USA.

The 2024 winner of the 2014 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher, and Christopher Manning. 2014. GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1532–1543, Doha, Qatar.

== Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award ==

The ACL Executive Committee is delighted to announce the establishment of the Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award. This prestigious award, initiated by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), aims to recognize and promote outstanding doctoral research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

More information can be found here: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-nominations-inaugural-computational-linguistics-doctoral-dissertation-award-0

== ACL Fellows ==

The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2024:

* Philipp koehn
** For significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, MT evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
* Scott Wen-tau Yih
** For significant contributions to information extraction and question answering, neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
* Jianfeng Gao
** For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
* James Pustejovsky
** For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur
** For significant contributions to Conversational Dialogue Modeling, Spoken Language Understanding, and Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue Systems.
* Massimo Poesio
** For significant contributions to the theory and practice of anaphora and reference resolution, and to sound methodologies of corpus development.
* Jimmy Lin
** For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
* Lucy Vanderwende
** For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
* Min Zhang
** For significant contributions to MT, Parsing and sustained service to the growth of NLP in China and Southeast Asia.

We would like to remind ACL members of the ACL Fellows program and to encourage them to
nominate appropriate colleagues for possible selection as Fellows. Nominations, which require two recommenders beyond the nominator are due October 1. Nominations can be made through this page:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows

== Coming Conferences ==

* NAACL2025
** https://2025.naacl.org/
** 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025) will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 29–May 4, 2025.

* ACL 2025
** https://2025.aclweb.org/
** The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27 to August 1st, 2025.

* IJCNLP-AACL 2025
** The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2025) will be held in October, November, or December 2025. The location of the conference will be announced later.

* EMNLP 2025
** The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) will take place in Suzhou, China, from November 5 to 9, 2025.

== 2024 Reports from ACL Officers ==

Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports

Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports

== ACL Resolutions ==

The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

Sincerely,

Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary

ACL Resolutions

2025-01-02T05:11:39Z

ShiqiZhao:

=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== December 18, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the anti-harassment policy.

== December 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2024.

== November 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing).

== November 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the PEC implementation procedures.

== September 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP).

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

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==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

ACL Officers

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= ACL Officers (1989 - ) =

== 2025 ==

=== Executive Committee (2025) ===

*President Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences
*Vice President Barbara Plank, LMU Munich
*VP-elect Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
*Past President Emily M. Bender, University of Washington
*Treasurer (2023 - 2027) David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University
*Secretary (2025 - 2029) Yang Feng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
*Past Secretary (2025) Shiqi Zhao, Baidu
*At-large (2023 - 2025) Vera Demberg, Universität des Saarlandes
*At-large (2024 - 2026) Yuki Arase, Osaka University
*At-large (2025 - 2027) Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland
*CL Journal editor (2024 - 2029) Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design
*EACL chair Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI
*NAACL chair Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University
*AACL Chair Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University
*Business Manager Jenn Rachford, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

=== Non-Executive Officers (2025) ===

*Equity Director Lu Wang, University of Michigan
*Information Director Nitin Madnani, Duolingo
*Anthology Director Matt Post, Microsoft
*Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Donia Scott, University of Sussex
*Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Daniel Bikel, Meta AI
*Publicity Director Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO
*Sponsorship Director Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania
*TACL Co-editor-in-chief Asli Celikyilmaz, Facebook AI Research
*TACL Co-editor-in-chief Roi Reichart, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
*TACL Co-editor-in-chief Dilek Hakkani Tur, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*Ethics Committee Co-chair Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore
*Ethics Committee Co-chair Karën Fort, Sorbonne University
*Ethics Committee Co-chair Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
*Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen
*Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Kokil Jaidka, National University of Singapore
*Publication Ethics Committee co-chair Aoife Cahill, Dataminr
*Associate Treasurer Jonathan May, ISI, USC
*Workshop Officer Zeerak Talat, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
*Workshop Officer Terra Blevins, University of Vienna

== 2024 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Emily M. Bender (President)

Chengqing Zong (Vice President)

Barbara Plank (VP-elect)

Iryna Gurevych (Past President)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)

Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)

Vera Demberg (Member At-large)

Yuki Arase (Member At-large)

Wei Lu (CL Editor)

Roberto Basili (Chair of the EACL)

Jian Su (Chair of the AACL)

Graham Neubig (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===

Lu Wang (Equity Director)

Matt Post (Anthology Director)

Nitin Madnani (Information Director)

Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)

Daniel Bikel (PCC Co-chair)

Sarvnaz Karimi (Publicity Director)

Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)

Asli Celikyilmaz (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Roi Reichart (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

== 2023 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Iryna Gurevych (President)

Emily M. Bender (Vice President)

Chengqing Zong (VP-elect)

Tim Baldwin (Past President)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)

Yusuke Miyao (Member At-large)

Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)

Vera Demberg (Member At-large)

Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)

Roberto Basili (Chair of the EACL)

Jian Su (Chair of the AACL)

Luciana Benotti (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===

Matt Post (Anthology Director)

Nitin Madnani (Information Director)

Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)

Daniel Bikel (PCC Co-chair)

Sarvnaz Karimi (Publicity Director)

Lu Wang (Equity Director)

Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)

Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Asli Celikyilmaz (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Roi Reichart (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

== 2022 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Tim Baldwin (President)

Rada Mihalcea (Past President)

Iryna Gurevych (Vice President)

Emily M. Bender (VP-elect)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary)

Anna Korhonen (Member At-large)

Yusuke Miyao (Member At-large)

Mohit Bansal (Member At-large)

Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)

Shuly Wintner (Chair of the EACL)

Keh-Yih Su (Chair of the AACL)

Luciana Benotti (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===

Matt Post (Anthology Director)

Nitin Madnani (Information Director)

Donia Scott (PCC Co-chair)

Graeme Hirst (PCC Co-chair)

Barbara Plank (Publicity Director)

Natalie Schluter (Equity Director)

Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)

Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Pascale Fung (ARR Editors in Chief)

Sebastian Riedel (ARR Editors in Chief)

Amanda Stent (ARR Editors in Chief)

Min-Yen Kan (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

Karën Fort (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

Yulia Tsvetkov (Ethics Committee Co-chair)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Ming Zhou (general chair of 2022)

Rada Mihalcea

Ronald M. Kaplan

Martha Palmer

Junichi Tsujii

Paola Merlo

Mirella Lapata

Kam-Fai Wong

Walter Daelemans

== 2021 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Rada Mihalcea (President)

Hinrich Schütze (Past President)

Tim Baldwin (Vice President)

Iryna Gurevych (VP-elect)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 21-25)

Nitin Madnani (At-large, 19-21)

Anna Korhonen (At-large, 20-22)

Yusuke Miyao (At-large, 21-23)

Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)

Shuly Wintner (Chair of the EACL)

Keh-Yih Su (Chair of the AACL)

Colin Cherry (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NON-EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ===

Matt Post (Anthology Director)

Emily M. Bender (PCC Co-chair)

Graeme Hirst (PCC Co-chair)

Barbara Plank (Publicity Director)

Natalie Schluter (Equity Director)

Chris Callison-Burch (Sponsorship Director)

Mark Johnson (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Brian Roark (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

Ani Nenkova (TACL Co-editor-in-chief)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Marti Hearst (Chair)

Ming Zhou

Hinrich Schütze

Mark Johnson

Lauri Karttunen

Kathleen R. McKeown

Mark Steedman

Ronald M. Kaplan

Martha Palmer

== 2020 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Hinrich Schütze (President)

Ming Zhou (Past President)

Rada Mihalcea (Vice President)

Tim Baldwin (VP-elect)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)

Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)

Nitin Madnani (Executive Committee, 19-21)

Anna Korhonen (Executive Committee, 20-22)

Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)

Sharon Goldwater (Chair of the EACL)

Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)

Colin Cherry (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Joakim Nivre (Chair)

Marti Hearst

Ming Zhou

Eduard Hovy

Mark Johnson

Lauri Karttunen

Kathleen R. McKeown

Mark Steedman

Candace Sidner

== 2019 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Ming Zhou (President)

Marti Hearst (Past President)

Hinrich Schütze (Vice President)

Rada Mihalcea (VP-elect)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)

Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)

Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)

Nitin Madnani (Executive Committee, 19-21)

Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor)

Sharon Goldwater (Chair of the EACL)

Julia Hockenmaier (Chair of the NAACL)

Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Chair)

Joakim Nivre

Marti Hearst

Julia Hirschberg

Eduard Hovy

Lauri Karttunen

Yuji Matsumoto

Mark Steedman

Candace Sidner

== 2018 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Marti Hearst (President)

Joakim Nivre (Past President)

Ming Zhou (Vice President)

Hinrich Schütze (Vice President-elect)

David Yarowsky (Treasurer, 18-22)

Graeme Hirst (Past Treasurer, 18)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)

Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)

Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)

Barbara Di Eugenio (Executive Committee, 18-20)

Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-18/07)

Hwee Tou Ng (CL Editor, 18/07-)

Walter Daelemans (Chair of the EACL)

Julia Hockenmaier (Chair of the NAACL)

Haifeng Wang (Chair of the AACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Christopher D. Manning (Chair)

Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Joakim Nivre

Michael Collins

Eva Hajičová

Julia Hirschberg

Eduard Hovy

Yuji Matsumoto

Candace Sidner

== 2017 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Joakim Nivre (President)

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Past President)

Marti Hearst (Vice President)

Ming Zhou (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer, 13-17)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)

Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)

Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)

Jennifer Foster (Executive Committee, 17-19)

Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)

Walter Daelemans (Chair of the EACL)

Emily M. Bender (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Gertjan van Noord (Chair)

Christopher D. Manning

Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Nicoletta Calzolari

Eugene Charniak

Michael Collins

Eva Hajičová

Julia Hirschberg

Yuji Matsumoto

== 2016 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (President)

Chris Manning (Past President)

Joakim Nivre (Vice President)

Marti Hearst (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer, 13-17)

Shiqi Zhao (Secretary, 16-20)

Dragomir Radev (Past Secretary)

Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)

Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)

Jing-Shin Chang (Executive Committee, 16-18)

Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)

Lluís Màrquez (Chair of the EACL)

Emily M. Bender (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)

Gertjan van Noord (Nominating Committee, 15-17)

Chris Manning (Nominating Committee, 16-18)

== 2015 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Chris Manning (President)

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Vice President)

Joakim Nivre (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Gertjan van Noord (Past-President)

Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)

Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)

Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)

Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)

Lluís Màrquez (Chair of the EACL)

Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)

Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)

Gertjan van Noord (Nominating Committee, 15-17)

== 2014 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Gertjan van Noord (President)

Chris Manning (Vice President)

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Haifeng Wang (Past-President)

Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)

Hermann Ney (Executive Committee, 14-16)

Yejin Choi (Executive Committee, 15-17)

Paola Merlo (CL Editor, 14-)

Stephen Clark (Chair of the EACL)

Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)

Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)

Haifeng Wang (Nominating Committee, 14-16)

== 2013 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Haifeng Wang (President)

Gertjan van Noord (Vice President)

Chris Manning (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Ken Church (Past-President)

Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)

Jian Su (Executive Committee, 12-14)

Min-Yen Kan (Executive Committee, 13-15)

Steven Bird (CL Editor, 04-)

Stephen Clark (Chair of the EACL)

Hal Daumé III (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)

Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)

Ken Church (Nominating Committee, 13-15)

== 2012 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Ken Church (President)

Haifeng Wang (Vice President)

Gertjan van Noord (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Kevin Knight (Past-President)

Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)

Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)

Jian Su (Executive Committee, 12-14)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Marie-Francine Moens (Chair of the EACL)

Chris Callison-Burch (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)

Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)

Kevin Knight (Nominating Committee, 12-14)

== 2011 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Kevin Knight (President)

Ken Church (Vice President)

Haifeng Wang (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Ido Dagan (Past-President)

Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)

Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)

Renata Vieira (Executive Committee, 11-13)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Marie-Francine Moens (Chair of the EACL)

Rebecca Hwa (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)

Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)

Ido Dagan (Nominating Committee, 11-13)

== 2010 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Ido Dagan (President)

Kevin Knight (Vice President)

Ken Church (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Steven Bird (Past-President)

Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)

Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)

Paola Merlo (Executive Committee, 10-12)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Giorgio Satta (Chair of the EACL)

Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)

Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)

Steven Bird (Nominating Committee, 10-12)

== 2009 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Steven Bird (President)

Ido Dagan (Vice President)

Kevin Knight (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Bonnie Dorr (Past-President)

Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)

Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)

Lori Levin (Executive Committee, 09-11)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Giorgio Satta (Chair of the EACL)

Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)

Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)

Bonnie Dorr (Nominating Committee, 09-11)

== 2008 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Bonnie Dorr (President)

Steven Bird (Vice President)

Ido Dagan (Vice President-elect)

Graeme Hirst (Treasurer)

Kathleen McCoy (Past Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Mark Steedman (Past-President)

Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)

Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)

Hwee Tou Ng (Executive Committee, 08-10)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Alex Lascarides (Chair of the EACL)

Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)

Mark Steedman (Nominating Committee, 08-10)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Alex Lascarides (EACL Chair, 07-08)

Giorgio Satta (EACL Chair-elect, 07-08)

Anette Frank (EACL Secretary, 07-08)

Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer, 07-08)

Eric Gaussier (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

Paola Merlo (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

Kiril Simov (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

Josef van Genabith (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

John Carroll (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Claire Gardent (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Gertjan van Noord (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)

Felisa Verdejo (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 08-09)

Suzanne Stevenson (NAACL Secretary, 08-09)

Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 08-09)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-09)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)

Bill Dolan (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)

Hal Daume III (NAACL Exective Board, 08-09)

Rebecca Hwa (NAACL Exective Board, 08-09)

Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Andy Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)

Regina Barzilay (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)

Lillian Lee (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)

Mary Harper (NAACL Nominating Committee, 08-10)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 2007 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Mark Steedman (President)

Bonnie Dorr (Vice President)

Steven Bird (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Jun'ichi Tsujii (Past-President)

Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)

Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)

Nicoletta Calzolari (Executive Committee, 07-09)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Alex Lascarides (Chair of the EACL)

Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Jun'ichi Tsujii (Nominating Committee, 07-09)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Alex Lascarides (EACL Chair, 07-08)

Giorgio Satta (EACL Chair-elect, 07-08)

Anette Frank (EACL Secretary, 07-08)

Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer, 07-08)

Eric Gaussier (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

Paola Merlo (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

Kiril Simov (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

Josef van Genabith (EACL Advisory Board, 07-08)

John Carroll (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Claire Gardent (EACL Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Gertjan van Noord (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)

Felisa Verdejo (EACL Nominating Committee, 07-10)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 06-07)

Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 06-07)

Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 06-07)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-07)

Regina Barzilay (NAACL Executive Board, 06-07)

Mary Harper (NAACL Executive Board, 06-07)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)

Bill Dolan (NAACL Exective Board, 07-08)

Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Andy Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Nominating Committee, 07-09)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 2006 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Junichi Tsujii (President)

Mark Steedman (Vice President)

Bonnie Dorr (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Dragomir Radev (Secretary)

Martha Palmer (Past-President)

Sandra Carberry (Past-Secretary)

Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)

Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)

Claire Cardie (Executive Committee, 06-08)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Gertjan van Noord (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)

Owen Rambow (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Martha Palmer (Nominating Committee, 06-08)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair, 05-06)

Alex Lascarides (ACL-E Chair-elect, 05-06)

Anette Frank (ACL-E Secretary, 05-06)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)

Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Paola Merlo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 05-06)

Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

John Carroll (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Sebastian Pado (ACL-E Student Board)

Jonathon Read (ACL-E Student Board)

Violetta Seretan (ACL-E Student Board)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Owen Rambow (NAACL Chair, 06-07)

Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 06-07)

Christopher Manning (NAACL Treasurer, 06-07)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Past Chair, 06-07)

Andrew Kehler (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)

Regina Barzilay (NAACL Exective Board, 06-07)

Mary Harper (NAACL Exective Board, 06-07)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Diane Litman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Ellen Riloff (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 06-08)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 2005 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Martha Palmer (President)

Junichi Tsujii (Vice President)

Mark Steedman (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Sandra Carberry (Secretary)

Johanna Moore (Past-President)

Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)

Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)

Keh-Yih Su (Executive Committee, 05-07)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Gertjan van Noord (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)

Graeme Hirst (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)

Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Johanna Moore (Nominating Committee, 05-07)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair, 05-06)

Alex Lascarides (ACL-E Chair-elect, 05-06)

Anette Frank (ACL-E Secretary, 05-06)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)

Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Paola Merlo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 05-06)

Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

John Carroll (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 05-08)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Chair, 04-05)

Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 04-05)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 04-05)

Diane Litman (NAACL Past Chair, 04-05)

Ellen Riloff (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)

Andrew Kehler (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (NAACL Executive Board, 05-06)

Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Owen Rambow (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Dekang Lin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Robert Frederking (NAACL Nominating Committee, 05-07)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member

== 2004 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Johanna Moore (President)

Martha Palmer (Vice President)

Junichi Tsujii (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Sandra Carberry (Secretary)

Mark Johnson (Past-President)

Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)

Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)

Walter Daelemans (Executive Committee, 04-06)

Robert Dale (CL Editor, 04-)

Claire Gardent (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)

Graeme Hirst (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)

John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)

Mark Johnson (Nominating Committee, 04-06)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair, 03-04)

Gertjan van Noord (ACL-E Chair-elect, 03-04)

John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)

Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)

Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Chair, 04-05)

Lillian Lee (NAACL Secretary, 04-05)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 04-05)

Diane Litman (NAACL Past Chair, 04-05)

Dekang Lin (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)

Robert Frederking (NAACL Executive Board, 2004)

Ellen Riloff (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 04-05)

Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Owen Rambow (NAACL Nominating Committee, 04-06)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 2003 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Mark Johnson (President)

Johanna Moore (Vice President)

Martha Palmer (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Sandra Carberry (Secretary)

John Nerbonne (Past-President)

Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)

Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)

Annie Zaenen (Executive Committee, 03-05)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

Claire Gardent (Chair of the EACL, 03-04)

Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)

John Nerbonne (Nominating Committee, 03-05)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair, 03-04)

Gertjan van Noord ACL-E Chair-elect, 03-04)

John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-)

Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)

Galia Angelova (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Ido Dagan (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

Felisa Verdejo (ACL-E Advisory Board, 03-06)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

Philippe Blache (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

Donia Scott (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 03-06)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 02-03)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 02-03)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 02-03)

Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)

Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)

Dekang Lin (NAACL Executive Board, 03-04)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Nominating Committee, 03-05)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 2002 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

John Nerbonne (President)

Mark Johnson (Vice President)

Johanna Moore (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Sandra Carberry (Secretary)

Eduard Hovy (Past-President)

Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)

David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)

Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)

Hiroshi Nakagawa (Executive Committee, 02-04)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 01-02)

Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 02-03)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)

Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Eduard Hovy (Nominating Committee, 02-04)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-02)

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Chair-elect, 02)

John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-02)

Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)

Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)

Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)

Piek Vossen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-02)

Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)

Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 02-03)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 02-03)

Dragomir Radev (NAACL Treasurer, 02-03)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)

Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)

Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)

Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)

Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Ralph Grishman (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Martha Palmer (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Philip Resnik (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Nominating Committee, 02-04)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

==2001 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Eduard Hovy (President)

John Nerbonne (Vice President)

Mark Johnson (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Treasurer)

Sandra Carberry (Secretary)

Wolfgang Wahlster (Past-President)

Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)

Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)

David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)

Steven Bird (Executive Committee, 01-03)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 99-00)

Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 00-01)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)

Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)

Wolfgang Wahlster (Nominating Committee, 01-03)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-02)

John Carroll (ACL-E Secretary, 01-04)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-02)

Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)

Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-02)

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-01)

Hans Uszkoreit (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-04)

Piek Vossen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 01-02)

Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)

Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 99-02)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 01-04)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 00-01)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 00-01)

Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Treasurer, 00-01)

Ralph Grishman (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Martha Palmer (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Philip Resnik (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Graeme Hirst (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)

Daniel Jurafsky (NAACL Executive Board, 01-02)

Lynette Hirschman (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)

Owen Rambow (NAACL Executive Board, 02-03)

Andrew Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-01)

Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 2000 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Wolfgang Wahlster (President)

Eduard Hovy (Vice President)

John Nerbonne (Vice President-elect)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)

Philip R. Cohen (Past-President)

Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)

Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)

Felisa Verdejo (Executive Committee, 00-02)

David Yarowsky (Executive Committee, 00-02)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

Donia Scott (Chair of the EACL, 99-00)

Diane Litman (Chair of the NAACL, 00-01)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)

Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)

Philip R. Cohen (Nominating Committee, 00-02)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-00)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 99-00)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-00)

Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

=== NORTH AMERICAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Diane Litman (NAACL Chair, 00-01)

Claire Cardie (NAACL Secretary, 00-01)

Barbara Di Eugenio (NAACL Treasurer, 00-01)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)

Eduard Hovy (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)

Marilyn Walker (NAACL Executive Board, 2000)

Ralph Grishman (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Martha Palmer (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Philip Resnik (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Janyce Wiebe (NAACL Executive Board, 00-01)

Daniel Marcu (NAACL Nominating Committee, 2000)

Andrew Kehler (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-01)

Lori Levin (NAACL Nominating Committee, 00-02)

Sandra Carberry (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Eduard Hovy (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Marilyn Walker (NAACL Nominating Committee, 01-03)

Kathleen F. McCoy (NAACL Ex-Officio Board Member)

== 1999 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Philip R. Cohen (President)

Wolfgang Wahlster (Vice President)

Kathleen McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)

Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)

Henry Thomspon (Executive Committee, 97-99)

Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)

Dekai Wu (Executive Committee, 99-01)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-99)

Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)

Eva Hajicova (Nominating Committee, 99-01)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Donia Scott (ACL-E Chair, 99-00)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 99-00)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-00)

Philippe Blanche (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Tomaz Erjavec (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Claire Gardent (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Board, 99-00)

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Kemal Oflazer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Walter Daelemans (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

== 1998 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Eva Hajicova (President)

Philip R. Cohen (Vice President)

Kathleen F. McCoy (Secretary-Treasurer)

Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98)

Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)

Henry Thompson (Executive Committee, 97-99)

Stephen Pulman (Executive Committee, 98-00)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)

Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-99)

Mitch Marcus (Nominating Committee, 98-00)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Chair, 97-98)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 97-98)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-98)

Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Patrick Saint-Dizier (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Donia Scott (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Dan Tufis (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)

Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

== 1997 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Mitchell Marcus (President)

Eva Hajicova (Vice-President)

Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)

Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)

Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98)

Bonnie Dorr (Executive Committee, 97-99)

Henry Thompson (Executive Committee, 97-99)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)

Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)

Oliviero Stock (Nominating Committee, 97-98)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Chair, 97-98)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 97-98)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-98)

Lauri Karttunen (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Patrick Saint-Dizier (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Donia Scott (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Dan Tufis (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Advisory Board, 97-98)

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)

Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 97-00)

== 1996 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Oliviero Stock (President)

Mitchell Marcus (Vice President)

Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)

Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-96)

Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)

Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)

Paul Jacobs (Executive Committee, 96-98; CL Editor, 94-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Fernand Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)

Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)

Douglas E. Appelt (Nominating Committee, 96-98)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Chair, 95-96)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 92-96)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-96)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)

Anne de Roeck (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)

Jan Hajic (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Executive Committee 95-96)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Jan Hajic (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)

Leonid Iondin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 95-98)

== 1995 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Douglas E. Appelt (President)

Oliviero Stock (Vice President)

Kathleen McKeown (Secretary-Treasurer)

Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)

Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)

Kathleen McCoy (Executive Committee, 95-97)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)

Fernando Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)

Karen Sparck Jones (Nominating Committee, 95-97)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Erhard Hinrichs (ACL-E Chair, 94-95)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 94-95)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-95)

Anne Abeille (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Jan Hajic (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

John Nerbonne (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Leonid Iomdin (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

== 1994 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Karen Sparck Jones (President)

Douglas E. Appelt (Vice President)

Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)

Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)

Stuart Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)

Eduard Hovy (Executive Committee, 94-96)

James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-93)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 94-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)

Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)

Fernando Pereira (Nominating Committee, 94-96)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Chair, 93-94)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 93-94)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-94)

Igor M. Boguslavsky (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Harold L. Somers (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 93-94)

Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

== 1993 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Fernando Pereira (President)

Karen Sparck Jones (Vice President)

Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)

Martha Pollack (Executive Committee, 92-93)

Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)

Stuart M. Shieber (Executive Committee, 93-95)

James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-93)

Julia Hirschberg (CL Editor, 93-)

Aravind K. Joshi (Book Series Editor, 82-)

Judith Klavans (Associate Secretary-Treasurer, 92-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)

Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)

Kathleen McKeown (Nominating Committee, 93-95)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Chair, 93-94)

Susan Armstrong (ACL-E Secretary, 93-94)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-94)

Igor M. Boguslavsky (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)

Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)

Harold L. Somers (ACL-E Executive Committee, 93-94)

Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee Chair, 91-94)

Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

Nicoletta Calzolari (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 93-96)

== 1992 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Kathleen McKeown (President)

Fernando Pereira (Vice President)

Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)

Martha Stone Palmer (Executive Committee, 91-92)

Martha Pollack (Executive Committee, 92-93)

Bente Maegaard (Executive Committee, 92-94)

James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)

Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)

Ralph Grishman (Nominating Committee, 92-94)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Christian Roher (ACL-E Chair, 91-92)

Beat Buchman (ACL-E Secretary, 86-92)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-92)

Margaret King (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)

Juergen Kuenze (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)

Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

== 1991 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Ralph Grishman (President)

Kathleen McKeown (Vice President)

Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)

Wolfgang Wahlster (Executive Committee, 89-91)

Martha Stone Palmer (Executive Committee, 91-92)

Fernando Pereira (Executive Committee, 91-93)

James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)

Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)

Jerry R. Hobbs (Nominating Committee, 91-93)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Chair, 91-92)

Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 86-92)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-92)

Margaret King (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)

Ewan Klein (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)

Juergen Kunze (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 91-92)

Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-90)

Henrik Holmboe (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

Petr Sgall (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 91-94)

== 1990 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Jerry R. Hobbs (President)

Ralph Grishman (Vice President)

Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)

Bruce W. Ballard (Executive Committee, 88-90)

Wolfgang Wahlster (Executive Committee, 89-91)

Kathleen McKeown (Executive Committee, 90-92)

James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

William C. Mann (Nominating Committee, 88-90)

Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)

Candy Sidner (Nominating Committee, 90-92)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Margaret King (ACL-E Chair, 87-90)

Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 87-90)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-90)

Maurice Gross (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)

Eva Hajicova (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)

Gerard Kempen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)

Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

Anna Sagvall-Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

== 1989 ==

=== EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ===

Candy Sidner (President)

Jerry R. Hobbs (Vice President)

Donald E. Walker (Secretary-Treasurer, CL Managing Editor)

Karen Sparck Jones (Executive Committee, 87-89)

Bruce W. Ballard (Executive Committee, 88-90)

Ralph Grishman (Executive Committee, 89-91)

James F. Allen (CL Editor, 83-)

Aravind K. Joshi (Book Series Editor, 82-)

=== NOMINATING COMMITTEE ===

Ralph M. Weischedel (Nominating Committee, 87-89)

William C. Mann (Nominating Committee, 88-90)

Alan W. Biermann (Nominating Committee, 89-91)

=== EUROPEAN CHAPTER OFFICIALS ===

Margaret King (ACL-E Chair, 87-90)

Beat Buchmann (ACL-E Secretary, 87-90)

Michael Rosner (ACL-E Treasurer, 82-90)

Maurice Gross (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 87-90)

Christian Rohrer (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 87-90)

Dominico Parisi (ACL-E Advisory Committee, 89-90)

Eva Hajicova (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)

Gerard Kempen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 87-90)

Jan Landsbergen (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

Anna Sagvall Hein (ACL-E Nominating Committee, 89-92)

= Pre-1989 ACL Presidents =

1962 (no President within this first half year)

1963: Vic Yngve

1964: David Hays

1965: Winfred Lehmann

1966: Paul Garvin

1967: Susumo Kuno

1968: Don Walker

1969: Martin Kay

1970: Warren Plath

1971: Joyce Friedman

1972: Robert Simmons

1973: Barnes

1974: Bill Woods

1975: Aravind Joshi

1976: Stan Petrick

1977: Paul Chapin

1978: Jonathan Allen

1979: Ron Kaplan

1980: Bonnie Webber

1981: Norm Sondheimer

1982: Jane Robinson

1983: Ray Perrault

1984: Martha Evens

1985: Madeleine Bates

1986: Ralph Weischedel

1987: William Mann

1988: Alan Biermann

(The archive of the 1989-2016 ACL officers: https://www.aclweb.org/archive/officers_new.html)

ACL Nominating Committee - 2025

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The members of the Nominating Committee (as of January 2025) are:

The existing Fellows:
* from Americas (2025-2026)
* from Americas (2025-2026)
* Hang Li (2024-2025)
* Qun Liu (2024-2025)
* Bonnie Webber (2024-2025)
* Hermann Ney (2024-2025)

The ACL past presidents:
* Tim Baldwin (2023-2025) (chair of the committee, 2025)
* Iryna Gurevych (2024-2026)
* Emily M. Bender (2025-2027)

Procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee

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The new nominating committee shall consist of the three most recent past ACL presidents, each serving for the three years following their own presidency, and six ACL fellows. The committee shall be chaired by the past ACL president whose term is about to expire (for a duration of one year).

ACL fellows will serve for up to two consecutive years. At the time they are recruited to join the Nominating Committee, they will be informed of the expectations of the committee and required to state that they are willing and able to participate in the required activities in a timely manner. At the end of the first year of their appointment, the ACL Secretary will inquire if the fellow is willing and able to fully serve out the second year of the appointment, and if not, a replacement fellow will be recruited to serve a new two-year term.

Fellows are appointed as follows:

1. A fellows roster is to be maintained by the ACL Secretary listing all fellows along with metadata about those fellows that indicate demographic and other relevant information, including but not limited to:

*If the fellow has served on the nominating committee previously, or has indicated they do not wish to serve in future.

*Gender

*Year of highest degree obtained

*Geographic location of their current or most recent professional appointment

2. Each year an invitation to join the committee is issued to the fellows in the roster that have not yet served on the nominating committee, that have not served on the ACL executive committee during the past five years, and that are compatible with the requirements that the committee should contain:

*a. at least 2 men, ideally 3 men.

*b. at least 2 women, ideally 3 women.

*c. at least 2 members from each of the three major geographical regions.

*d. members spanning the range of seniority levels within the fellows ranks

If a candidate declines the invitation, new invitations are issued in such a manner as to fill the constraints of demographic diversity and fellow availability. If the end of the roster is reached without having filled all positions on the committee, it is up to the ACL executive committee to invite suitable candidates, who are not fellows, so that as many of the requirements as possible are fulfilled.

* [[ACL Nominating Committee - 2025]]
* [[ACL Nominating Committee - 2024]]
* [[ACL Nominating Committee - 2023]]
* [[ACL Nominating Committee - 2022]]
* [[ACL Nominating Committee - 2021]]
* [[ACL Nominating Committee - 2020]]

2025Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs

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== Committee Achievements ==

=== Policy Implementation ===
The committee successfully drafted and secured approval from the ACL Exec for the [[Process for ACL Publication Ethics Review]] which covers the implementation of the [[ACL Policy on Publication Ethics]], including items related to the timeline, process, and proposed sanctions for violation of the policy.

=== Complaint Management ===
To facilitate the resolution of publication-related complaints, the committee created and released a complaint submission form. Onboarding to a Freshdesk-based case management system is underway, allowing for systematic handling of complaints. In the interim, the committee has begun reviewing the complaints documented thus far.

=== Policy Updates ===
The ACL Exec ++ is reviewing a proposed update to the policy to address coordinated vulnerability disclosure. This revision considers the cases when ACL publishes research identifying weaknesses in LLMs or NLP artifacts, and proposes to balance the need for transparency with the responsibility to mitigate risks by allowing artifact producers to address vulnerabilities prior to public disclosure.

== Ongoing Initiatives ==
The committee continues to explore and refine the implementation of its policies, including finalizing the case management system. Collaboration with the ACL Ethics Committee remains a priority to ensure effective information exchange and alignment across related committees.

2025Q1 Reports

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* [[2025Q1 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Leon Derczynski, Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)

Reports

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* [[2025Q1 Reports]]
* [[2024Q3 Reports]]
* [[2024Q1 Reports]]

== Instructions for Q4 Reporting ==

* Please request a wiki account from webmaster@aclweb.org, find the link to the report on the previous Q3 page, and start editing
* If your report includes contributions from others, they can edit the report directly or send contributions for you to collate
* Don't include sensitive information in the public report; instead please email any additional reports in plain text format to secretary@aclweb.org

== Older Reports ==
* 2023: [[2023Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2023Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2022: [[2022Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2022Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2021: [[2021Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2021Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2020: [[2020Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2020Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]]; [[2020Q4 Reports|Q4 Reports]].
* 2019: [[2019Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2019Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2018: [[2018Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2018Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]]; [[2018Q4 Reports|Q4 Reports]].
* 2017: [[2017Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2017Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2016: [[2016Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2016Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2015: [[2015Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2015Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2014: [[2014Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2014Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2013: [[2013Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2013Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2012: [[2012Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2012Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2011: [[2011Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2011Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2010: [[2010Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2010Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2009: [[2009Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2009Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* 2008: [[2008Q1 Reports|Q1 Reports]]; [[2008Q3 Reports|Q3 Reports]].
* [http://www.aclweb.org/archive/reports.html Archive of Reports for 1993-2007]

Newsletter 2024

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== Membership==

We expect to close 2024 with over 10400 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.

== Outgoing Exec Members ==

The following people are leaving the exec:

* Iryna Gurevych (ACL VP-elect (2021), VP (2022), President (2023), Past President (2024))
* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large, 2022-2024)
* Roberto Basili (EACL Chair, 2023-2024)
* Jian Su (AACL Chair, 2023-2024)

I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!

== New Exec Members ==

We will have five new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2025. These are:

* Luke Zettlemoyer (ACL VP-elect)
* Yang Feng (ACL secretary)
* Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber (ACL member at-large)
* Preslav Nakov (EACL Chair)
* Xuanjing Huang (AACL Chair)

Welcome to the new exec members!

The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2025.

== Workshop Officers ==

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each:
* Zeerak Talat
* Terra Blevins

== ACL Publication Ethics Committee ==

The ACL has convened a new Publication Ethics Committee, with inaugural co-chairs Dr. Leon Derczynski, Dr. Kokil Jaidka and Dr. Aoife Cahill. This committee will be charged with developing policies and procedures related to publication ethics, including such issues as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and how to handle issues raised about papers post-publication.

The ACL Policy on Publication Ethics can be found here:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics

== CL and TACL ==

Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years.

Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL journal Transaction of the ACL for the staged three year term 2024-2026. She joins Asli Celikyilmaz (Meta) and Roi Reichart (Technion) to work together at the TACL helm.

== New SIGs ==

The following new SIGs were created in 2024:

* SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
** https://www.sigsea.org/
** president: Holy Lovenia, secretary: Fajri Koto
* SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP)
** https://sigfintech.github.io/
** Founder: Chung-Chi Chen

== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==

The winner of the ACL 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Ralph Grishman. Prof. Ralph Grishman is a world-leading pioneer in Computational Linguistics. Among his many contributions, the most impactful one is the central role he played in defining Information Extraction (IE) research over the past 35+ years. Research on IE has led to many real-world applications used in daily life, including knowledge base construction and population, question answering, smart health, financial knowledge extraction and prediction, situation report generation and knowledge-guided dialog systems.

The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

== Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award ==

There was no awardee of Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award in 2024.

The 2025 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients

== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==

The 2024 winner of the 1999 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Lillian Lee. 1999. Measures of Distributional Similarity. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 25–32, College Park, Maryland, USA.

The 2024 winner of the 2014 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher, and Christopher Manning. 2014. GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1532–1543, Doha, Qatar.

== Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award ==

The ACL Executive Committee is delighted to announce the establishment of the Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award. This prestigious award, initiated by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), aims to recognize and promote outstanding doctoral research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

More information can be found here: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-nominations-inaugural-computational-linguistics-doctoral-dissertation-award-0

== ACL Fellows ==

The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2024:

* Philipp koehn
** For significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, MT evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
* Scott Wen-tau Yih
** For significant contributions to information extraction and question answering, neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
* Jianfeng Gao
** For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
* James Pustejovsky
** For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur
** For significant contributions to Conversational Dialogue Modeling, Spoken Language Understanding, and Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue Systems.
* Massimo Poesio
** For significant contributions to the theory and practice of anaphora and reference resolution, and to sound methodologies of corpus development.
* Jimmy Lin
** For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
* Lucy Vanderwende
** For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
* Min Zhang
** For significant contributions to MT, Parsing and sustained service to the growth of NLP in China and Southeast Asia.

We would like to remind ACL members of the ACL Fellows program and to encourage them to
nominate appropriate colleagues for possible selection as Fellows. Nominations, which require two recommenders beyond the nominator are due October 1. Nominations can be made through this page:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows

== Coming Conferences ==

* NAACL2025
** https://2025.naacl.org/
** 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025) will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 29–May 4, 2025.

* ACL 2025
** https://2025.aclweb.org/
** The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27 to August 1st, 2025.

* IJCNLP-AACL 2025
** The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2025) will be held in October, November, or December 2025. The location of the conference will be announced later.

* EMNLP 2025
** The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) will take place in Suzhou, China, from November 5 to 9, 2025.

== 2024 Reports from ACL Officers ==

Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports

Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports

== ACL Resolutions ==

The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

Sincerely,

Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary

Newsletter 2024

2024-12-26T00:42:59Z

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== Membership==

We expect to close 2024 with over 7200 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.

== Outgoing Exec Members ==

The following people are leaving the exec:

* Iryna Gurevych (ACL VP-elect (2021), VP (2022), President (2023), Past President (2024))
* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large, 2022-2024)
* Roberto Basili (EACL Chair, 2023-2024)
* Jian Su (AACL Chair, 2023-2024)

I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!

== New Exec Members ==

We will have five new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2025. These are:

* Luke Zettlemoyer (ACL VP-elect)
* Yang Feng (ACL secretary)
* Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber (ACL member at-large)
* Preslav Nakov (EACL Chair)
* Xuanjing Huang (AACL Chair)

Welcome to the new exec members!

The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2025.

== Workshop Officers ==

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each:
* Zeerak Talat
* Terra Blevins

== ACL Publication Ethics Committee ==

The ACL has convened a new Publication Ethics Committee, with inaugural co-chairs Dr. Leon Derczynski, Dr. Kokil Jaidka and Dr. Aoife Cahill. This committee will be charged with developing policies and procedures related to publication ethics, including such issues as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and how to handle issues raised about papers post-publication.

The ACL Policy on Publication Ethics can be found here:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics

== CL and TACL ==

Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years.

Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL journal Transaction of the ACL for the staged three year term 2024-2026. She joins Asli Celikyilmaz (Meta) and Roi Reichart (Technion) to work together at the TACL helm.

== New SIGs ==

The following new SIGs were created in 2024:

* SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
** https://www.sigsea.org/
** president: Holy Lovenia, secretary: Fajri Koto
* SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP)
** https://sigfintech.github.io/
** Founder: Chung-Chi Chen

== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==

The winner of the ACL 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Ralph Grishman. Prof. Ralph Grishman is a world-leading pioneer in Computational Linguistics. Among his many contributions, the most impactful one is the central role he played in defining Information Extraction (IE) research over the past 35+ years. Research on IE has led to many real-world applications used in daily life, including knowledge base construction and population, question answering, smart health, financial knowledge extraction and prediction, situation report generation and knowledge-guided dialog systems.

The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

== Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award ==

There was no awardee of Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award in 2024.

The 2025 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients

== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==

The 2024 winner of the 1999 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Lillian Lee. 1999. Measures of Distributional Similarity. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 25–32, College Park, Maryland, USA.

The 2024 winner of the 2014 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher, and Christopher Manning. 2014. GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1532–1543, Doha, Qatar.

== Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award ==

The ACL Executive Committee is delighted to announce the establishment of the Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award. This prestigious award, initiated by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), aims to recognize and promote outstanding doctoral research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

More information can be found here: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-nominations-inaugural-computational-linguistics-doctoral-dissertation-award-0

== ACL Fellows ==

The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2024:

* Philipp koehn
** For significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, MT evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
* Scott Wen-tau Yih
** For significant contributions to information extraction and question answering, neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
* Jianfeng Gao
** For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
* James Pustejovsky
** For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur
** For significant contributions to Conversational Dialogue Modeling, Spoken Language Understanding, and Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue Systems.
* Massimo Poesio
** For significant contributions to the theory and practice of anaphora and reference resolution, and to sound methodologies of corpus development.
* Jimmy Lin
** For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
* Lucy Vanderwende
** For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
* Min Zhang
** For significant contributions to MT, Parsing and sustained service to the growth of NLP in China and Southeast Asia.

We would like to remind ACL members of the ACL Fellows program and to encourage them to
nominate appropriate colleagues for possible selection as Fellows. Nominations, which require two recommenders beyond the nominator are due October 1. Nominations can be made through this page:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows

== Coming Conferences ==

* NAACL2025
** https://2025.naacl.org/
** 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025) will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 29–May 4, 2025.

* ACL 2025
** https://2025.aclweb.org/
** The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27 to August 1st, 2025.

* IJCNLP-AACL 2025
** The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2025) will be held in October, November, or December 2025. The location of the conference will be announced later.

* EMNLP 2025
** The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) will take place in Suzhou, China, from November 5 to 9, 2025.

== 2024 Reports from ACL Officers ==

Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports

Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports

== ACL Resolutions ==

The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

Sincerely,

Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary

Newsletters

2024-12-26T00:42:44Z

ShiqiZhao:

* [[Newsletter 2024]]
* [[Newsletter 2023]]
* [[Newsletter 2022]]
* [[Newsletter 2021]]
* [[Newsletter 2020]]
* [[Newsletter 2019]]
* [[Newsletter 2018]]
* [[Newsletter 2017]]
* [[Newsletter 2016]]
* [[Newsletter 2015]]
* [[Newsletter 2008]]

Anti-Harassment Policy

2024-12-19T04:51:50Z

ShiqiZhao:

The open exchange of ideas, the freedom of thought and expression, and respectful scientific debate are central to the aims and goals of the ACL. These require a community and an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person and group, that fosters dignity, understanding, and mutual respect, and that embraces diversity. For these reasons, ACL is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for all the members, as well as participants at our events and in our programs.

Harassment and hostile behavior are unwelcome at any ACL conference, associated event, or in ACL-affiliated on-line discussions. This includes: speech or behavior that intimidates, creates discomfort, or interferes with a person's participation or opportunity for participation in a conference or an event. We aim for ACL-related activities to be an environment where harassment in any form does not happen, including but not limited to: harassment based on race, gender, religion, age, color, appearance, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Harassment includes degrading verbal comments, deliberate intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. The policy is not intended to inhibit challenging scientific debate, but rather to promote it through ensuring that all are welcome to participate in shared spirit of scientific inquiry. Vexatious complaints and willful misuse of this procedure will render the complainant subject to the same sanctions as a violation of the anti-harassment policy.

It is the responsibility of the community as a whole to promote an inclusive and positive environment for our scholarly activities. In addition, anyone who experiences harassment or hostile behavior may contact any current member of the ACL Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) or contact Megan Haddad (megs@aclweb.org) who is usually available at the registration desk desk during ACL conferences or Jennifer Rachford (jennifer@aclweb.org), who is usually found in the ACL staff room. Members of the PCC are instructed to keep any such contact in strict confidence, and those who approach the committee will be consulted before any actions are taken.

=== Implementation ===

This policy should be posted prominently on all ACL conference and workshop webpages, with a notice of a list of people who can be contacted by community members with concerns or complaints, which will be forwarded to the [[Professional_Conduct_Committee|Professional Conduct Committee]] for investigation.

The PCC's procedures are described here: [[Enforcement of the ACL Anti-Harassment Policy - Implementation]]

Approved by ACL Executive Committee, 2016

Revised by ACL Executive Committee, July 15, 2018

ACL Resolutions

2024-12-11T06:09:02Z

ShiqiZhao:

=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== December 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2024.

== November 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing).

== November 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the PEC implementation procedures.

== September 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP).

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

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[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes

By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

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== Recipients and their acceptance speeches ==

* Ralph Grishman (2024) -
* Martha Palmer (2023) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/50/1/1/118388/My-Big-Fat-50-Year-Journey My Big, Fat 50-Year Journey]
* Martha Evens (2022) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/48/4/765/112790/Martha-Palmer-and-Barbara-Di-Eugenio-Interview Martha Palmer and Barbara Di Eugenio Interview Martha Evens]
* Junichi Tsujii (2021) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/47/4/707/107177/Natural-Language-Processing-and-Computational Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics]
* Bonnie Webber (2020) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/47/1/1/97330/Kathy-McKeown-Interviews-Bonnie-Webber Kathy McKeown Interviews Bonnie Webber]
* Ron Kaplan (2019) - [https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/coli_a_00359 Computational Psycholinguistics]
* Mark Steedman (2018) - [https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00328 The Lost Combinator]
* Barbara Grosz (2017) - [https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/COLI_a_00313 Smart Enough to Talk With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Dialogue Capable AI Systems]
* Joan Bresnan (2016) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/COLI_a_00260 Linguistics: The Garden and the Bush]
* Sheng Li (2015) - [http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COLI_a_00240 Translating Today into Tomorrow]
* Robert L. Mercer (2014) - [http://techtalks.tv/talks/closing-session/60532/ (Video) A Computational Life]
* Jerry Hobbs (2013) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00171#.U7QAdqiT5C0 Influences and Inferences]
* Charles Fillmore (2012) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00129#.U7QAt6iT5C0 Encounters with Language] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrHQjkGmz0 Video])
* Eugene Charniak (2011) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00080#.U7QBF6iT5C0 The Brain as a Statistical Inference Engine—and You Can Too]
* William A. Woods (2010) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli_a_00018 The Right Tools: Reflections on Computation and Language]
* Fred Jelinek (2009) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2009.35.4.35401 The Dawn of Statistical ASR and MT]
* Yorick Wilks (2008) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2008.34.4.471 On Whose Shoulders?]
* Lauri Karttunen (2007) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2007.33.4.443 Word Play]
* Eva Hajicova (2006) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.457 Old Linguists Never Die, They Only Get Obligatorily Deleted]
* Martin Kay (2005) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089120105775299159 A Life of Language]
* Karen Sparck Jones (2004) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/0891201053630237 Some Points in a Time]
* Makoto Nagao (2003)
* Aravind Joshi (2002)

== Of related interest ==

A sampling of other papers that touch on the history of computational linguistics:
* Some of the [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/compling/lastwords.html "Last Words"] opinion essays in the journal ''Computational Linguistics'':
** Mark Steedman - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2008.34.1.137 On Becoming a Discipline] (ACL presidential address, 2008)
** Karen Sparck Jones - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2007.33.3.437 Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?] (2007)
** Ehud Reiter - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.283 The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics] (2007)
* W. John Hutchins (ed.) - [http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiHoLS%2097 Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and Biographies of Pioneers] (2000).
** [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089120102762671990 Book review] by Warren J. Plath
** [http://www.springerlink.com/content/u708514030045585/ Book review] by Jörg Schütz
* Aravind Joshi and Philip Hopely - [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=319805 A Parser from Antiquity] (1999)

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Terra Blevins is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and an incoming assistant professor at Northeastern University. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, where she was advised by Luke Zettlemoyer and worked as a visiting researcher at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Her research focuses on multilingual NLP and analyzing the linguistic knowledge of language models.

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I am an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the NLP Department at MBZUAI. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at MBZUAI, working with Prof. Timothy Baldwin and collaborating closely with Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Preslav Nakov. I hold a PhD in Engineering (Natural Language Processing) from The University of Melbourne, where I was supervised by Prof. Timothy Baldwin and Prof. Jey Han Lau. During my PhD, I was awarded the prestigious Australia Awards Scholarship.

ACL Resolutions

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=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== November 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing).

== November 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the PEC implementation procedures.

== September 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP).

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes

By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

ACL Resolutions

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ACL Resolutions

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=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== November 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the PEC implementation procedures.

== September 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP).

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes

By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

User talk:S.degaetano

2024-10-22T01:01:09Z

ShiqiZhao: Welcome!

User:S.degaetano

2024-10-22T01:01:08Z

ShiqiZhao: Creating user page for new user.

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University and President of the ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM). My research interests lie in text mining and data analytics for research questions within the Digital Humanities, in particular from sociolinguistics, register/language variation as well as change in language use. My recent focus has been on modeling variation and change in language use considering linguistic as well as other possible variables that might be at play by using probabilistic models.

ACL Resolutions

2024-09-28T13:07:53Z

ShiqiZhao:

=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== September 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the formation of SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP).

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes

By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

2024Q3 Minutes

2024-08-23T15:31:27Z

ShiqiZhao:

=== topic 1: ARR support requirements & general update of ARR ===
The exec will vote on the following resolutions: (1) ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs, (2) Conference registration waivers, (3) Invitation to thank you dinner, and (4) Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026.

=== topic 2: Conference pricing ===

# Add industry rate to the following *ACL conferences. Will need a volunteer to look through the list of affiliations + countries from ACL2024, so as to determine the definition of “industry”. Will also look to definitions of other communities, e.g., ICML and NeurlPS.
# Need a point person (who is consistent and across the year) to answer Megan’s questions on conference pricing and would also be in touch with Exec/others to gather and document answers. The Exec will vote on this and recruit the person.

=== topic 3: Matters related to CL and beyond ===

# Matters related to CL: (1) Explore how to share infrastructure between TACL and CL; (2) Publicity: physical mail probably not great, but use email, social media (talk to publicity chair), use topic modeling to figure out who to advertise papers to; (3) Next CL EIC should overlap for at least one year with Wei.
# CL PhD thesis award: (1) For authorship of resulting publication, list of authors should follow ACL policy on authorship, as given in these two policies: "Authorship Changes Policy for ACL Conference Papers" and "ACL Policy on Publication Ethics". (2) ELLIS and FoLLI both do dissertation awards -- look to how their committees are structured. (3) Look at how best paper committees structure. (4 ) Suggestion: Window of two years starting a submission, one chance to submit. (5) Goal is raising visibility of the journal, so good to get going soon if possible.

=== topic 4: Discussing issues raised in committee/chair reports ===

# MIT Press increase request: (1) look at the delta for a few sample papers, (2) ask for better marketing.
# Anthology director: Communication from Ryan with knowledge about publication chair processes, got dropped. Iryna will forward communication from last year.
# Sponsorship director: (1) Need overlapping term. Confirm when in 2026 CCB’s term ends. (2) Budget for admin assistance for next sponsorship director. Ask if Lily might continue, even when Chris’s term ends.
# Ethics chairs: Ethics chairs suggest having the ethics tutorial at every ACL event for which it is staffable (communicate with tutorials chairs). The committee suggested also exploring options such as a one-hour event at the conference and/or longer online events.
# ACL2024 GC: (1) There are two online sets of guidelines (github, wiki) but github is not complete. Yuki will look into this and update (Yuki). (2) GC has two fundamental roles: Recruiting team, and Managing team & making sure balls are not being dropped. Need JD for the GC position, plus on-boarding discussion. (3) Github project is meant to be a living document. Need clear procedure for how people can contribute.

2024Q3 Minutes

2024-08-23T15:30:00Z

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=== topic #1: ARR support requirements & general update of ARR ===
The exec will vote on the following resolutions: (1) ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs, (2) Conference registration waivers, (3) Invitation to thank you dinner, and (4) Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026.

=== topic #2: Conference pricing ===

# Add industry rate to the following *ACL conferences. Will need a volunteer to look through the list of affiliations + countries from ACL2024, so as to determine the definition of “industry”. Will also look to definitions of other communities, e.g., ICML and NeurlPS.
# Need a point person (who is consistent and across the year) to answer Megan’s questions on conference pricing and would also be in touch with Exec/others to gather and document answers. The Exec will vote on this and recruit the person.

=== topic #3: Matters related to CL and beyond ===

# Matters related to CL: (1) Explore how to share infrastructure between TACL and CL; (2) Publicity: physical mail probably not great, but use email, social media (talk to publicity chair), use topic modeling to figure out who to advertise papers to; (3) Next CL EIC should overlap for at least one year with Wei.
# CL PhD thesis award: (1) For authorship of resulting publication, list of authors should follow ACL policy on authorship, as given in these two policies: "Authorship Changes Policy for ACL Conference Papers" and "ACL Policy on Publication Ethics". (2) ELLIS and FoLLI both do dissertation awards -- look to how their committees are structured. (3) Look at how best paper committees structure. (4 ) Suggestion: Window of two years starting a submission, one chance to submit. (5) Goal is raising visibility of the journal, so good to get going soon if possible.

=== topic #4: Discussing issues raised in committee/chair reports ===

# MIT Press increase request: (1) look at the delta for a few sample papers, (2) ask for better marketing.
# Anthology director: Communication from Ryan with knowledge about publication chair processes, got dropped. Iryna will forward communication from last year.
# Sponsorship director: (1) Need overlapping term. Confirm when in 2026 CCB’s term ends. (2) Budget for admin assistance for next sponsorship director. Ask if Lily might continue, even when Chris’s term ends.
# Ethics chairs: Ethics chairs suggest having the ethics tutorial at every ACL event for which it is staffable (communicate with tutorials chairs). The committee suggested also exploring options such as a one-hour event at the conference and/or longer online events.
# ACL2024 GC: (1) There are two online sets of guidelines (github, wiki) but github is not complete. Yuki will look into this and update (Yuki). (2) GC has two fundamental roles: Recruiting team, and Managing team & making sure balls are not being dropped. Need JD for the GC position, plus on-boarding discussion. (3) Github project is meant to be a living document. Need clear procedure for how people can contribute.

ACL Resolutions

2024-08-17T05:30:37Z

ShiqiZhao:

=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and has non-transferrable copyright

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and the government reserves the right to reproduce the work for government purposes

By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

ACL Resolutions

2024-08-17T05:30:16Z

ShiqiZhao:

=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
- 8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
- Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
- Conference wavers, $7,800/year
- Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference

- '''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

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By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

ACL Resolutions

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ACL Resolutions

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=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
Conference wavers, $7,800/year
Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
'''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

[ ] The work has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment and is not copyrighted 

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By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized to sign this form on their behalf.

Signature (type your name):

Your job title (if not one of the authors):

Name and address of your organization:

==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

ACL Resolutions

2024-08-17T05:28:17Z

ShiqiZhao:

=ACL Resolutions=

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

== August 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the following resolutions:

# '''ARR EiCs as ARR Guest PCs''': it should become an official policy that ARR EiCs working on a cycle are also considered ARR Guest PCs in the conference for which they serve in the primary cycle. They become listed on the website of the corresponding conference (as 'ARR guest program chairs'), but do not become co-authors on proceedings volumes (unless they significantly contribute to the decision-making process as well). They are expected to contribute a report on the review process for the business meeting of the corresponding conference, and can present it themselves if they attend the conference. They can help to present opening/closing remarks, by agreement with PCs. This adds a little more prestige and visibility to the role.
# '''Conference registration waivers''': The people serving in high-workload ARR roles (EiCs, CTO, Ethics co-chairs, support director) should get a complimentary conference registration of their choice for each year of service. Team eligible for this: Eight EiCs, two Ethics co-chairs, two CTOs, one support director (total 13 ppl a year). Amount request is ~13*$600= $7,800/year. ARR manages the process of arranging who is going and communicating with Jenn to receive the necessary registration waivers for each conference (up to a total of 13 registrations per year).
# '''Invitation to thank you dinner''': This has been done in recent conferences but it’s not done consistently. ARR creates a list of names attending a given conference in-person, and communicates that list to Jenn for invitations. Eligible ARR members for this include EiCs, Ethics co-chairs, CTO, and support director (for a max of five people per conference).
#'''Total of the annual investment request for infrastructure support for the next two years 01.09.2024-31.08.2026'''
*8Freshdesk, $7,000-$8,000
*Clerical support, $12,000-$15,000/year for a 2-year commitment
*Workflow management support, $30,000-$40,000/year for a 2-year commitment
*Conference wavers, $7,800/year
*Max of five thank you dinner attendees: $100/per person for a total of $500 per conference
*'''Total''' ~$57,300-$71,300/year

== August 6, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of updating ACL ToT paper award rewards.

== July 26, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each. The first to start in 2024 and run through 2026, the second to start in 2025 and run through 2027.

== June 19, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal of establishing the ACL Peer Review Standing Committee.

== June 13, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL LTA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== April 28, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the recommendation of 2024 ACL Dragomir Radev DSA award proposed by the nominating committee.

== March 22, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved ACL author registration policy.

== March 14, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved: (1) implementation of non-publicized awards, (2) updates on the regular award policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the ACL Conference Authorship Policy.

== February 3, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to establish a publication ethics committee.

== January 29, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved Wei Lu as the new CL editor.

== January 17, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the TACL EiC candidates by the EiC TACL Search Committee.

== January 12, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the final report and recommendations of the Working Group on the ACL anonymity policy.

== January 11, 2024 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approved the PCC membership proposal.

== December 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

ACL exec approves the [[ACL Name Change Policy]].

== December 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2023.

== October 19, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approves the Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).

== October 11, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the funding request from the ACL Anthology director for about 1k USD per month long-term.

== September 27, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].

== September 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that we provide awarded reviewers a voucher for virtual attendance as well as for discounting in-person attendance in EMNLP2023.

== August 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal to open up new accounts (checking, money market, CD’s and merchant accounts) for the Association for Computational Linguistics with both David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford as signers.

== August 14, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved SIG on NLP Security (SIGSEC) as a new SIG.

== July 20, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the [[Policy on Memorial Services]].

== June 16, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the changes to SIG compliance.

== April 12, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to [name withheld].

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 6, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the proposal to change the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.

== March 23, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the proposal on equity directors:

*Future Equity Directors will be appointed to overlapping terms, such that no later than Jan 1 of the current Director’s third year the next Director will be appointed. (The new Equity Director that we are searching for right now will have as their term 2023-2025, the next 2025-2027, etc.) We may elect to appoint the incoming director sooner to have more overlap.
*The current Equity Director is responsible for all reporting, is the main point of contact for conference organizers, etc.
*Both current and incoming Equity Director are non-voting members of the Exec. This means that they attend all Exec meetings and are on the Exec mailing list, with the remit of observing discussions and raising perspectives related to improving DEI relevant to those discussions as they see fit, as well as raising any independent DEI topics.
*In recruiting people to the Equity Director role, we prioritize rotating among regions, so that over time all regions are represented in that role.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the amendment of the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members.

== March 3, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We accepted SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization) as a new SIG.

== January 4, 2023 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the motion that ACL contributes $8K to the ACL 60-60 initiative for speech translation.

== December 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2022.

== November 15, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the process for finalizing registration fees for a conference:
The general chair, the treasurer and the business officer produce a proposed fee schedule and share it with the ACL exec and relevant chapter board or SIG (AACL, EACL, NAACL or SIGDAT, currently) together with an updated report on the conference budget and current state of affairs. Members of the exec will have a week to discuss by email. The general chair, treasurer and business officer then finalize the fee structure based on this input.

== October 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Viviane Moreira's role as a new ARR EiC.

== October 8, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the PCC membership proposal.

== September 14, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Executive Committee resolves to update the bidding process as follows:

#Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities.
#Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc.
#When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.

== September 7, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved Lilja Øvrelid as the new editor-in-chief of ARR.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec approved the proposal to establish an ARR advisory board. The board would be responsible for approving ARR initiatives and procedure changes, approving ARR EiC nominees, and making sure there is collaboration between ARR and conferences. The board consists of five people:
* a member of the ACL Exec
* one ARR EiC
* two members of the community who have served in senior roles at conferences (namely a program chair of an ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP in the 3 years prior to them taking on this role).
* one additional member with important expertise or perspective and serve a term of three years.

== August 11, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

The exec passed the motion of expanding the number of EiCs with the inclusion of the diversity statement.

The diversity statement is as follows:

The selection of Editors in Chief should aim to maintain balance of gender, region (across the three regions represented by the ACL chapters), and industry vs. academic affiliation.

== July 26, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidate list of TACL Editor-in-Chief.

== July 8, 2022==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]].

== May 18, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL COVID Policy]].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== May 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== April 12, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the establishment of the SIG for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK).

== April 3, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the amendments to the proposal on peer reviewing data collection at *ACL conferences.

== April 2, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the ACL Efficient NLP Policy.

== January 20, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the NAACL's appointment of Eduardo Blanco to fill a vacancy as an NAACL board member, with his term beginning in January 2022 and ending in December 2022.

== January 16, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal of SIGARAB.

== January 4, 2022 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2021.

== December 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[CL Journal COI Policy]].

== December 11, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposed language changes for the formation of the ACL Nomination Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Procedure_for_composing_the_new_Nominating_Committee

== November 28, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following statement on name change policy:

The ACL will appoint an ad-hoc committee that will discuss the merits and implementation details of the following proposals:

1. A name change policy,

2. A process to proactively avoid deadname citations during the paper submission,

3.A process through which authors can ask for their videos to not be made public.

The committee will make one or more implementation recommendations that will be submitted to the ACL Executive committee for approval.

== November 5, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

ACL supports the International Linguistic Olympiad at the $10K level for 2022 and on a default continuing annual basis unless the exec votes otherwise in the future.

== October 12, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

== September 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the chairs and members of the ACL Ethics Committee.

== September 19, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of Ani Nenkova's TACL editor term to June 2024.

== August 24, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approved the following proposal on improving the diversity of ACL fellows:

We propose to the ACL Exec: ask the ACL Chapter leads to facilitate more diverse nominations from their chapters, i.e. encourage them to be more proactive. For example suggest specific names to their boards; or recruit board members (and others) who could encourage members to nominate diverse candidates. Ask the Nomination committee for ACL fellows to pay attention to diversity (for example, gender and geographical diversity) in their decision-making process.

== August 2, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]].

== June 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the new policy of [[Test-of-Time Papers Award]].

== May 8, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) to [name withheld].

== May 6, 2021==

(PASSED)

We accept the ACL Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2021 Distinghished Service Award (DSA) to [name withheld].

== April 15, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the statement on the [[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]].

== April 1, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted [[ACL Conference Consistency policy]].

== March 29, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accepted the [[Review Data Collection at *ACL]].

== March 18, 2021 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the change to the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation).

''ACL explicitly allows updates to preprints, at all times, for the sole purpose of correcting people’s names. If the change falls within the required anonymous period of a conference, the PC Chairs should be notified of the correction.''

==January 7, 2021==

(PASSED)

The Exec approved the extension of Brian Roark's TACL editor term to the end of 2022.

==November 18, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2020.

== November 11, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the [[ACL Privacy Policy]].

== June 17, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec passed the resolution of making a Statement on Racial Injustice.

== June 10, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec accpets the proposal for ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation.

== June 8, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the short-term proposals passed by the ACL Reviewing Committee in the meeting on 2020-04-08.

[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

== March 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec adopts the budget plan for D&I at ACL2020.

== March 5, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows

"4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACL. Each ACL member should encourage and support adherence by all members of the CL/NLP community regardless of ACL membership. ACL members who recognize a breach of the Code should consider reporting the violation to the ACL, which may result in remedial action."

== March 4, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to Computational Linguistics (CL) will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference in Seattle, WA, USA.

== February 24, 2020 ==

(PASSED)

We approve modifications to the ACL Test-Of-Time Papers Award.
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Test-of-Time_Papers_Award)

== December 27, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGTYP (SIG on Linguistic Typology) as a new SIG.

== November 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2019.

== October 2, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept SIGEL (SIG on Endangered Languages) as a new SIG.

== August 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec extends the appointment of Graeme Hirst and Emily M. Bender as PCC co-chairs through 2022.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Submissions to CL will be divided to two categories:
* Extended version of past conference paper(s): single-blind reviewing, no conference presentation
* New material not previously published: double-blind reviewing, given oral or poster presentation at *ACL/EMNLP conferences

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

For EMNLP 2019, the maximum compensation for each tutorial is capped at $5000 US dollars. The formula for EMNLP 2019 tutorial payments otherwise remains unchanged, up to this per-tutorial maximum.

== July 28, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

Tutorial compensation for *ACL conferences henceforth will be up to three free conference registrations for those presenting the tutorials.

== June 1, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We accept EquiCL as an ACL Broad Interest Group.

== May 23, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the motion to establish the ACL test-of-time award

'''Frequency''': once/year.

'''Name of award and types of papers''':

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)

'''How many''': 2 per year, one for papers published exactly 10 year back, one for those published exactly 25 years back.

'''Who nominates''': Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

'''Who judges''': Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year]) who don’t have COIs with the nominated papers.

'''At ACL''': a session with winning paper presentations will be held

== May 7, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the following proposal concerning ACL members at-large:

* According to the ACL Constitution, the ACL Executive Committee has three members at-large, elected for terms of three years by the members of the Association.
* The ACL Exec recommends that the ACL Nominating Committee strive to nominate members-at-large from the three major geographic regions on an annual rotating basis.
* The roles for the members-at-large will be assigned by the current ACL President on an as-needed basis, and may change throughout their terms. These roles will not require specialized knowledge beyond that of a well-informed, active member of the ACL community.
* As set forth in the Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Process_for_Ad_Hoc_ACL_Leadership_Roles), the ACL Exec will appoint additional positions that require specialized expertise.

== April 19, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We approve the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) awardee [name withheld] selected by the Nominating Committee.

== April 13, 2019 ==

(PASSED)
We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== March 15, 2019 ==

(PASSED)

We pass the resolution that Graeme Hirst and Emily Bender are the co-chairs of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of 2019.

== December 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the [[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]].

== December 12, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved: (1) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure, in the version of 2018-08-08, be adopted except for the first line of the section on handling complaints (page 4), and (2) the ACL anti-harassment policy implementation procedure be amended such that complaints will be considered only if received within 365 days of the alleged incident, or if the alleged incident occurred between 2016-10-18 and 2018-11-30.

== December 3, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2018.

== November 1, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We remove the policy on funding workshops not held at one of the *ACL conferences.

== October 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the creation of ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP).

== June 25, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt a [[Distinguished Service Award]].

== June 6, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the following motion:

* the exec requests that the nominating committee select candidates for the next member at large that are uniquely qualified to serve as information chair, independent of geographic region.
* The exec further requests that the nominating committee interview potential nominees to assess their qualifications, and only nominate members that have the time, willingness, and the experience to lead a software team to procure new digital services as well as maintain exiting legacy software, and oversee the transition from legacy software to newer software solutions.

== May 2, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the constitution and the initial slate of board members of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL (AACL)

== March 14, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the candidates of CL editor. The candidates will be asked in order.

== February 23, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the three candidates for a new TACL editor-in-chief, which will be approached by the search committee.

== February 16, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the proposal for training for harassment complaint responders:

(a) we accept Anne Grant's proposal;

(b) Emily M. Bender and Graeme Hirst liaise with Anne Grant to develop the course;

(c) we boot up a complaints committee forthwith so that as many of its members as possible can attend the training at ACL in Melbourne on the day before the tutorial day and Exec meeting.

== February 7, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following rules concerning conflicts of interest in the nominating committee when electing new fellows:

1. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.

2. Members who have earlier contributed to nominations that remain in the system should if possible ask other people to replace them (as nominator or recommender). If this is not possible, the concerned member should declare that they have a conflict of interest and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination (see point 3 below).

3. Members who have a conflict of interest with respect to a nomination should declare this and not take part in the evaluation of that nomination. Conflicts of interest are assumed to exist if committee members have contributed to the nomination (see point 2 above), if they have a close family relationship to the nominee, if they have co-authored a paper or collaborated with the nominee in the previous five years, if they are employed at the same company or institution as the nominee, or if they have other relations to the nominee that can be seen to constitute a conflict of interest.

4. If one or more conflicts of interest exist, the nominating committee shall first evaluate and rank the nominees for which no conflicts exist. The remaining nominees shall then each be evaluated and inserted into the ranking by the subset of the committee that does not have a conflict for that nominee.

== January 24, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

The Exec approve the following proposal concerning rules and procedures for electing Fellows:

1. Members of the Exec and the Nominating Committee are not be eligible to become Fellows while serving. People should be informed about this before being nominated to the Exec.

2. Nominators should be informed about the outcome of their nominations but without specific information about why a particular nominee was not elected.

3. Information about criteria and conditions for selection (including the 0.2% rule) should be provided in the instructions for nominators.

== January 13, 2018 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the following two changes concerning ACL membership registration/renewal: (1) We open the registration for the next membership year on December 1, instead of January 1. (2) For all members who registered after December 1, 2017, their memberships can be rolled over to 2018.

== December 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec will publish the the diversity statistics of 2017.

== December 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the offer from MIT Press to give ACL members a discount.

== December 2, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from the nominating committee concerning new fellows for 2017.

== November 29, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We accept the proposal from MIT Press to publish both CL and TACL (for an annual flat fee + expenses as specified in the proposal).

== November 22, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the proposal for creating the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL.

== October 30, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We approved the amendment to the policy, by changing the first paragraph from:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing.

to:

The following policies are adopted for *ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL) and the TACL journal in the interest of maintaining and protecting double-blind review without sacrificing the positive effects of preprint publishing. We recommend conferences and workshop that are co-located with *ACL conferences and use double-blind review to adopt the same policies unless this conflicts with other policies they have.

== October 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

Recommendations for submission, review and citation for *ACL conferences and TACL:

We accept the proposal for new policies and guidelines and charge the working group with making necessary changes to the document based on the comments from the exec.

== September 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approved the extension of the deadline for fellows nominations by one month, to November 1, 2017.

== September 7, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the amendment of the resolution on the search committee for the TACL editors by replacing

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

with

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

The resolution after the amendment is as follows:

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint to new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + the CL editor + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 31, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We adopt the following plan for finding a new editor for CL with Lori Levin as the chair of the search committee:

1. Form a search committee: The search committee should consist of people who are knowledgeable about a broad range of areas in computational linguistics and human language technologies and are committed to the genre of long, comprehensive journal articles as valuable documents in a research community.

1a. All past CL editors are invited to be on the search committee.

1b. TACL editors are invited to join the search committee.

1c. Members of the ACL exec are invited to join the search committee.

1d. If not enough members of the ACL exec are available to join the search committee, or if not enough people with experience from the CL editorial board have joined, we will extend the invitation to NAACL and EACL boards.

1e. If the committee does not meet our new diversity requirements, the CL editor will be asked to propose additional people with experience from the CL editorial board who can be invited to balance the representation.

2. Formulate a job description: The CL editor will be asked to provide a first draft, which the search committee can review and possibly modify.

3. Send the job description to the ACL mailing list and ask for nominations/volunteers with a deadline one month after the call (but preferably not later than November 1).

4. Identify additional candidates and ask all candidates to submit a vision statement.

5. Rank all candidates by email vote.

6. Contact candidates starting from the top ranked candidate.

== August 21, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint new editors in chief for TACL, to replace the resigning editors.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering committee + the current editors-in-chief + Graeme Hirst + Yejin Choi + Joakim Nivre (all three representatives of the ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until two have accepted. Should less than two invitees accept, the search process will restart with step 4.

== August 18, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We appointed a working group to work out revised policies and guidelines for handling preprint papers in the review process for *ACL conferences.

The working group is composed of twelve people:

Jennifer Foster (ACL Exec)

Marti Hearst (ACL Exec)

Ming Zhou (ACL Exec)

Joakim Nivre (ACL Exec)

Paola Merlo (ACL Exec, CL editor)

Lillian Lee (TACL editor)

Iryna Guryvech (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Yusuke Miyao (ACL2018 program co-chair)

Amanda Stent (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Heng Ji (NAACL2018 program co-chair)

Chris Manning

Jason Eisner

1. The working group shall submit a proposal for policies and guidelines that can be adopted for the 2018 conferences no later than October 1, 2017. The proposal shall specify under what conditions preprint papers (and other papers that have already been published in some form) can be submitted to *ACL conferences. It shall also provide guidelines for the citation of such papers and for the review of the papers themselves as well as papers that cite or fail to cite them.

2. The working group may in addition propose actions to be implemented as part of a long-term strategy to evolve our publishing and reviewing models over time.

3. The working group shall be chaired by Joakim Nivre.

== August 13, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the extention of Lillian Lee's term as the co-editor-in-chief of TACL to the end of 2019.

== April 17, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the guideline on remote conference participation: [[ACL Guidelines on Remote Conference Participation]].

== April 9, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

(1) We approve revising the SIG creation guidelines, changing "hold elections for these positions every two years" to "hold elections for these positions at least every three years".

(2) We approve the creation of the special interest group on NLP and Education (SIG EDU).

== April 1, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the ACL policy on political statements and actions (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policy_on_Political_Statements_and_Actions)

== March 15, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec adopts the new rules and criteria for ACL fellows.

== February 4, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL Exec approves the statement about the immigration ban.

== January 25, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

We approve the [[procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

== January 8, 2017 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL shall create an Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures for the 2017-18 period,
including representatives of the ACL Exec as well as each chapter board, with a remit as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee on Anti-Harassment Procedures

The charge of the committee is to research and document best practices for handling complaints
under the new anti-harassment policy and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive
on what procedures should be followed. The ACL Exec requests that a preliminary report
be made to by June 30, 2017 in order to support discussion at the 2017 ACL Exec meeting with
a final report by June 30, 2018.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec accepts the recommendations of the 2016 Fellows Selection Committee.

== November 24, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

ACL adopts the [[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]], [[Whistleblower Policy]] and [[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]].

== October 18, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

The ACL exec approves the Anti-Harassment Policy: [[Anti-Harassment Policy]].

== September 14, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

We approve that the ACL Executive Committee proposes to the Membership that the ACL Constitution is amended by replacing the current Article V, Item 5, reading as follows:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency. The member whose term is about to expire shall chair the Committee. In case of a vacancy the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the appropriate period.

with the following text:

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of the three most recent Past Presidents, each serving for the three years following their own Presidency, and six ACL Fellows selected subject to diversity requirements set forth by the Executive. The Past President whose term is about to expire shall chair the Nominating Committee for a period of one year. In case of a vacancy on the committee, the Executive shall appoint a member to serve for the remainder of the term of the vacating committee member.

== September 12, 2016 ==

(PASSED)

In order to better disseminate the outcomes of ACL Executive meetings to the ACL Membership and ACL Exec Members, for future meetings, the ACL Exec will make available public minutes of its meetings. These minutes may exclude portions covering discussion of matters that are deemed sensitive, personal or confidential. For ACL Exec members, the Secretary shall make known to new members of the Exec how they can access the archive of minutes of ACL Exec meetings. In addition, resolutions and agreed decisions (of policy or practice, even though they do not have the formal status of a resolution) made at ACL Exec meetings will be extracted and placed on public web pages. This extraction of resolutions and decisions (only) will be applied retrospectively, beginning with the ACL Exec meetings of 2011.

== September 8, 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approved adding Stuart Shieber as a member of the TACL Steering Committee.

== August 23 2016 ==

(PASSED) The ACL exec decides (i) that talks at the ACL, NAACL, EACL and EMNLP conferences shall be video-recorded, (ii) that the recordings shall be given persistent storage and made available through links in the ACL anthology, and (iii) that the cost for making and storing the recordings shall be covered by the ACL as an organization outside the specific conference budgets.

== August 19 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the criteria for selecting the General Chair and Program Co-Chair:

[[Selecting a General Chair]]

[[Selecting a Program Co-Chair]]

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) ACL no longer gives best student paper award.

== August 7 2016 ==

(PASSED) The exec accepts the report of the ad hoc committee on actions for equity and diversity and agrees with all seven recommendations in principle. The exec directs the ad hoc committee to proceed with an implementation plan for the recommendations to be presented to the exec for discussion and approval.

== May 29 2016 ==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

== May 8 2016 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the policy on COI handling: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conflict-of-interest_policy.

== March 21 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that TACL editors-in-chief are allowed to be appointed for a third term of up to three years.
#Lillian Lee is appointed to a second term of 1 year and 9 months (January 2017 to September 2018)

== March 17 2016 ==

(PASSED)
#The ACL exec approves the policy that all ACL conferences and sub-events must use START.
#We will make a deal with Softconf that covers all ACL events for a single annual payment.

== November 25 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nominating Committees and ACL Fellows

The charge of the committee is to re-examine ACL policies and practices on the make-up of and procedures of nominating
committees and the ACL Fellows program, and to make concrete recommendations to the ACL Executive on whether and how
the current policies and practices should be changed. The remit encompasses the lifetime achievement awards election
committee, the ACL Executive Nominating Committee, the ACL Fellows selection committee, and the ACL Fellows program. A
primary concern is to consider whether there are appropriate ways of improving the actual or perceived openness,
inclusiveness, diversity, and impartiality of these programs. The committee may also want to consider roles and
responsibilities for ACL Fellows. The ACL Exec requests that the committee make a final report by June 30, 2016, so that
any changes can be considered at the 2016 ACL Exec meeting, and put in place for the following year.
== August 17 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# We approve the creation of SIGUR, a Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages.

== June 26, 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to appoint a new editor in chief for TACL, to join the current editor(s)-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + the current editor(s)-in-chief
+ Graeme Hirst + Gertjan van Noord + Chris Manning (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts.
Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== May 20, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Until 2020, Transactions of the ACL shall have three co-editors in chief in order to complete the work needed to bring TACL out of start-up mode into a fully established state.

== May 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)

# We approve the CL publication agreement change proposed by Oracle for an article authored by Oracle employees. In summary, this replaces the second sentence of the agreement:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article.

by:

By your signature below you hereby grant to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, a five-year exclusive license in and to the Article according to the terms of this Agreement.

Later parts of the agreement already give ACL non-exclusive rights to publish the article without time limit. The full red-lined agreement is attached.

I propose this on the understanding that we will move expeditiously towards providing a similar (but likely not identically worded) arrangement, not involving copyright transfer, for all authors, following further discussion by the Executive.

== March 3, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# ACL will split the surplus or loss on ACL 2015 with AFNLP

== February 10, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# Pushpak Bhattacharyya is hereby appointed as the representative of the ACL executive committee to AFNLP (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing) for the duration of his term on the ACL executive committee.

== January 2015 ==

1. An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Michael Collins as TACL co-editor-in-chief.

2. The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Lillian Lee (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).

3. The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.

4. The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.

5. The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.

6. The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

== January 15, 2015 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics expresses its gratitude to Chiaki Nemoto for her work as bookkeeper for the Association for the last five years. Chiaki has been instrumental in bringing order to the Association's bookkeeping and financial records, and we are deeply appreciative of her work.

== November 26, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLAV Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing

== August 15, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The ACL exec appoints Hwee Tou Ng from the National University of Singapore as book review editor for Computational Linguistics. The position has a term of five years.

== June 1, 2014 ==

(PASSED)
# The Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Inc., a not-for-profit organization registered in New Jersey as
charity number CH-0820600, hereby confirms that it has authorized the
Treasurer of its European Chapter to operate and be responsible for
all its euro-denominated bank and investment accounts in Europe. The
Board further confirms that the present Treasurer of its European
Chapter is Dr Michael Rosner of the University of Malta.

== January 10, 2014==

(PASSED)
# An ad hoc search committee shall be formed to find a replacement for Dekang Lin as TACL co-editor-in-chief.
# The search committee shall consist of the 6 members of the existing TACL steering cmte + Michael Collins (TACL co-editor-in-chief) + Graeme Hirst + Gertan van Noord + Haifeng Wang (all three as representatives of the current ACL exec).
# The search committee shall be chaired by Ido Dagan.
# The search committee shall discuss names and come up with a ranked list of acceptable suggestions to the ACL exec.
# The exec shall then vote on the ranked list.
# The chair of the search committee shall contact the people on the ranked list, in order, until one accepts. Should all invitees decline, the search process will restart with step 4.

==July 16, 2013==

(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.

==June 10, 2013==

(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013
[http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html]

==May 7, 2013==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions

# ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
## Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
# ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
## Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
## Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.

==Oct 16, 2012==

(PASSED) The editors of any ACL journal may submit to that journal, but in such
cases the submitted paper will be handled by a third party. The same
procedure will be followed for any papers submitted by those who work
in the editor's laboratory, or who are otherwise closely associated
with the editor in such a way that a conflict of interest might arise
or be perceived.

For the purposes of this proposal, the third party handling the
submitted paper will generally be one of the other editors. In the
case of Computational Linguistics, the panel of editors consists of
the editor-in-chief, the squibs editor and the book review editor; in
the case of TACL, the panel of editors consists of the two
editors-in-chief. In any circumstances agreed as exceptional by the
relevant panel of editors, some other party may be asked to handle the
submitted paper; the guiding principle is that there should be no
perceived conflict of interest.

==Aug 20, 2012==

(PASSED) A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a
20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.

==June 15, 2012==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language
Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
(SIGHUM).

==Mar 18, 2012==

(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of
ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double
blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of
the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access
to the author identities.

==Dec 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures
of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional
officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The
first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be
introduced when necessary.

==Nov 23, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest
group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.

==Aug 2, 2011==

(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website

Background:
Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We
either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some
maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.

Proposal:

1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a
student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website)
and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per
week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total
cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.

2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting
of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the
activities of the portal maintainer.

==Jun 28, 2011==

(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR
just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).

We hereby approve 1 and 2.

(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL

(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000

==Jun 3, 2011==

(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to
AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.

==Dec 17, 2010==

(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:

Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.

Reduced rates: All other countries.

==Dec 15, 2010==

(PASSED)

1 Background

Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements:
the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production
work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance
costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett,
our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting,
proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing
and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of
US$45-50k per annum.

2 The New Model

We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs.
There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are
that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware
copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its
management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost
is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This
figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages
per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page
production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include
a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost
based on # of pages).

3 The Proposed Package

My proposal consists of two elements.

[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and
[2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k
per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open
Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.

The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with
two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in
particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing
conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will
make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third
party publishers, should we choose to do that.

4 Risks and Benefits

I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is
that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week
production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of
that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky,
since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but
under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored
hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who
it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test
editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press
again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable,
it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.

==Nov 5, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.doc Word Doc]
[http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/ACLSponsorshipCommitteeProcedures.pdf PDF]

==Apr 14, 2010==

#(PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.

==Mar 22, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.

==Mar 11, 2010==

#(PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members: Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs Robert Dale - as CL editor Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary Paola Merlo and Ken Church

==Jan 27, 2010==

#(PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.

==November 13, 2009==

#(PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met: 
##It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
##Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
##The conference appears to be competently organized
##ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
##Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology

In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at [mailto:secretary@aclweb.org secretary@aclweb.org]. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.

==October 21, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.

==July 7, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods. Ido Dagan

==March 11, 2009==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation. Ido Dagan

==September 3, 2008==

#(PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal Robert Dale 6th August 2008 This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.

==August 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP. Steven Bird

==June 10, 2008==

#(PASSED) Shadow Account Practices Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04) Goal To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs). 1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts 1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary. 1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations. 1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL. 1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved. 2. Signature Authority and Usage 2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization. 2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account. 2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive. 2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used. 3. Satellite Shadow Accounts 3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts. 3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences). 3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization. 4. Reporting 3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts. 4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year. 5. Maintaining a Minimum 5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts. 5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0. 6. Income and Loss 6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account. 6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters. 6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities. 6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion. 7. Definitions 1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics 2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL) 3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted 4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG 5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL 6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter 7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only 
==May 31, 2008==

#(PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
#(PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.

==April 14, 2008==

#(PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement

Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. 

Exceptions: Some of the foregoing conditions will not apply if the work is not copyrighted or has a non-transferrable copyright, because it has been produced by government employees acting within the scope of their employment. In this case, exceptions can be made by ticking the appropriate box below:

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==April 9, 2008==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.

==September 14, 2007==

#(PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.

==June 24, 2007==

#(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.

==June 18, 2007==

#(PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons. 

==June 8, 2007==

#(PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
#(PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.

==May 16, 2007==

Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:

# (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
#(PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".

==May 2007==
Free registration for some conference officials

#(PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).

==July 2006==

Internet access at conferences

# (PASSED) Some recent conferences have not provided quality internet access. It was either too slow or limited. It was proposed that future conferences should provide easy access to fast internet (either as part of registration or for a separate fee). It is important that internet access is not restricted to a small number of ports (e.g., port 80) but rather to allow all ports normally used by mainstream internet protocols, including ssh, vpn, and remote desktop access.

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Dr. Gözde Gül Şahin is an Asst. Prof. at Koç University Computer Science Department, with a joint affiliation with KUIS AI. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Her research spans over the fields of linguistics and machine learning. In particular, her research goals are to develop robust and interpretable natural language processing (NLP) systems that can function under low-resource for a variety of languages. She completed her PhD studies in Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) Computer Engineering department in 2018. During her PhD studies, she has visited the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) of University of Edinburgh for 6 months, where she has worked with Prof. Mark Steedman. Before her PhD, she received her Masters and Bachelor degrees from Sabancı University in 2011 and İTÜ in 2009, respectively. She regularly serves as a PC member for *ACL conferences and is a standing reviewer for Computational Linguistics journal. She is a co-organizer of the Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) at EMNLP 2021-204. She also serves as publication chair and virtual chair at recent top-tier NLP conferences. Her research is funded by Tübitak 2232 and Wikimedia Research Foundation.

ACL Peer Review Standing Committee

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In the past years, peer review at *ACL venues has undergone numerous experiments with peer review forms, process, policies, tutorials, and incentives. Ideally, the results of all these experiments would be used for the benefit of the community, ensuring that any future policies are evidence-based and address real problems with peer review that we have. However, in practice the people serving in editorial roles are so overwhelmed, that even in-depth reports from one event are extremely rare. Furthermore, while ACL has the right to pull the internal data from different venues to improve its organization, there is currently no process or precedent for actually doing so.

We propose to establish the ACL Peer Review Committee: a working group dedicated to the development of peer review policies across ACL venues. This group would consider and help to develop proposals relevant to the peer review process, which originate either from ACL venues or the community. It would also monitor the implementation of any proposals, and ensure that the venues implementing them would consistently report on the results of any changes.

=== Purpose of the committee===

This committee will have a broad mandate to analyze internal peer review data from ACL venues for the purposes of developing evidence-based policies and improving the peer review process (but not for independent research by the committee members). For the sake of transparency, any results of such analysis will be made available as public reports.

This committee will be composed to represent ACL venues (conferences and journals), as well as ACL members from its three geographical chapters. It will also consult other relevant ACL committees and institutional bodies of ACL on a case-by-case basis.

=== Proposed Initial composition of the committee===

This committee will include two people representing *CL conferences and ARR (point 1 below), two people from the existing review venue types (point 2 below), at least three consulting members from the broader community to represent three geographical Chapters of ACL (point 3 below), two representatives of the ACL exec (points 4 and 5 below).

=== Committee composition (=9 people): ===

# Two former and current program co-chairs, or ARR EiC
# One person each from members of the existing reviewing venue types in the *CL community.
# One member from the broader *CL community from each of the three ACL chapters. These committee members should have dedicated expertise in peer-review, acquired either through service as PCs, EiC or through research activities.
# a representative of the ACL exec presidential chain
# the ACL conference officer, also in the ARR Advisory Board

The committee should work in an inclusive manner, flexibly accommodating additional advising members whose expertise is important in specific tasks.

The committee will elect two (co-)chairs who will serve regular terms on the committee and will be replaced by new (co-)chairs after their term is over.

The co-chairs may not represent the same region (as defined by the ACL chapters).

=== Term of service===

The co-chairs representing ACL bodies will serve for 2 years, with staggered terms. (In the initial committee, 50% of the members would ideally commit to serve for 3 years to accommodate the knowledge transfer to the second batch in 2 years.) The consulting members would rotate similarly every two years, so as to work with the co-chairs on the current issues while representing the relevant stakeholder group(s). E.g. policies related to handling of non-anonymous reviews could benefit from input from the underrepresented minorities, who could be the most affected by them.

=== Current committee composition as of 1.08.2024===
* Roy Schwartz (co-chair)
* Thamar Solorio (co-chair)
* Anna Rogers (designated co-chair)
* Steven Bethard
* Roi Reichart
* Yuki Arase
* Vivian Chen
* Barbara Plank
* Noah Smith

ACL Policies

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== Policies ==

*[[ACL Conference Awards Policy]]

*[[ACL COVID Policy]]

*[[ACL Privacy Policy]]

*[[Anti-Harassment Policy]]

*[[ACL Whistleblower Protection Policy]]

*[[ACL Conflict-of-interest policy]]

*[[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]]

*[[ACL Conference Consistency policy]]

*[[ACL Document Retention and Destruction Policy]]

*[[ACL Policy on Political Statements and Actions]]

*[[ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation]]

*[[Policy on Memorial Services]]

*[[ACL Sponsorship COI Policy]]

*[[CL Journal COI Policy]]

*[[Media:ACL_Efficient_NLP_Policy.pdf|ACL Efficient NLP Policy]]

*[[ACL Name Change Policy]]

*[[Authorship Changes Policy for ACL Conference Papers]]

* [[ACL Policy on Publication Ethics]]

== Proposals ==

*[[Short-Term Reform Proposals for ACL Reviewing]]

*[[ACL Rolling Review Proposal]]

*[[Review Data Collection at *ACL]]

*[[Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee]]

*[[ACL Peer Review Standing Committee]]

== Awards ==

*[[Test-of-Time Papers Award]]

*[[Lifetime Achievement Award]]

*[[Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award]]

== Procedures ==

*[[Test-of-Time Papers Process]]

*[[Procedure for composing the new Nominating Committee]]

*[[Fellows Program]]

*[[Process for Ad Hoc ACL Leadership Roles]]

== Guidelines ==

*[[ACL Author Guidelines]]

*[[ACL Reviewer Guidelines]]

2024Q3 Reports: PCC Co-Chairs

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We conducted two investigations over the reporting period:

* There was a complaint of harassment at board level. The actions of the respondent were judged not to have risen to the level of harassment. The PCC deemed that a fulsome apology for the distress caused was appropriate but we understand that it has not been forthcoming.
*In the period while the new committee on Publication Ethics was being established, the PCC investigated a complaint of plagiarism on behalf of the Exec. The finding was that no plagiarism occurred.

We are about to begin recruiting new members; a significant number of members will be leaving at the end of 2026, so we will need there to be sufficient overlap.

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2024Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

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1. We are pleased to announce the completion of our recruitment process for a new
editorial assistant. We would like to welcome Yesari Tolga Eden to our team.
Tolga will be joining our founding editorial assistant, Cindy Robinson. We are
confident that Tolga will play a vital role in helping us manage our ever-growing
number of submissions.

2. Review policy change, in order to smooth the resubmission process (as of May
2024):

* Reviewers should now distinguish between mandatory and
non-mandatory comments.
* Action editors should augment a (C) (revise and resubmit) decision with a
final list of mandatory comments and if authors succeed in addressing
these comments the paper is accepted.

3. TACL is growing fast:

The publication volume is constantly growing, as can be seen in the following graph,
presenting the number of published pages per year.

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4. InMarch2023wepresentedanewdesk-rejectionpolicy,accordingtowhich
action editors are actively encouraged to screen papers for desk rejection based on their content. According to this policy, if both the handling AE and EiC agree that the paper does not meet the TACL standards, they jointly phrase a rejection message which is then sent to the authors from the TACL formal office account.

The following graph presents the desk rejections statistics since this policy has been presented. As can be seen the rate of content-based desk-rejections is typically 10-30%.

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[[File: TACL 2024 Q3 Report.pdf]]

2024Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

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2024Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

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2024Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

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2024Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

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