2025Q3 Reports: AACL

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Results of the AACL Board Elections 2025-2026

The new AACL Executive Board for the 2025-2026 term has been successfully elected by AACL members. The elected members are as follows:

  • Chair: Xuanjing Huang
  • Chair-elect: Maggie, Wenjie Li
  • Secretary: Thepchai Supnithi
  • Treasurer: Mark Dras
  • At Large: Daisuke Kawahara, Lun-Wei Ku, Taro Watanabe

AACL Exec meeting

The AACL Exec Meeting was held in 23th June. The agenda for the meeting included:

  • self-introductions by executive committee members.
  • discussion on work for the next phase (especially the need to release the call for bid for AACL-IJCNLP 2026).
  • updates on IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
  • job distribution among the executive committee.

After discussion, the board appointed members to various positions. Maggie, Wenjie Li will serve as representatives at AFNLP. Sepchai Supnithi will act as the secretary, handling AACL affairs, and maintaining AACL policies and procedures. Mark Dras will continue in the role of treasurer, responsible for receiving, depositing, and disbursing funds on behalf of AACL. Lun-Wei Ku will take on the role of conference officer. Daisuke Kawahara will serve as the information officer, and Taro Watanabe as the sponsorship officer. Yi R. (May) Fung is invited to volunteer to assist with organizational matters, and Xinchi Chen is invited to be the webmaster.

Call for Bids - AACL/IJCNLP 2026

The all for Bids for AACL/IJCNLP 2026 is about to be released. AACL will invite proposals to host the conference in the Asia-Pacific region in November or December of 2026. At the current stage, we will seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.

The AACL/IJCNLP 2026 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the AACL and representatives from the AFNLP, will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. The tentative schedule is as follows:

  • July, 2025: Call for bids
  • August 15, 2025: Notify intention to submit proposal
  • August 25, 2025: Draft proposals due
  • Through September 19, 2025: Feedback to bidders
  • October 3, 2025: Final bids due
  • October 27, 2025: Bid selected

The selected location for AACL/IJCNLP 2026 will be announced at EMNLP 2025 (November 5-9, Suzhou, China https://2025.emnlp.org/).