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ACL Newsletter

December 31, 2015

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the ACL exec, I would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season and and an exciting New Year.

I want to share some of the exciting news related to ACL this year.

1. Thanks to the outgoing members of the ACL exec

Min-Yen Kan, Gertjan van Noord, and Hal Daume left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2015 after their terms
expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future
endeavors.

2. Four new members of the ACL exec

Four new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2016.

http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/458

These are:

Marti Hearst (vp-elect, replacing Gertjan van Noord)
Jing-Shin Chang (information officer, replacing Min-Yen Kan)
Shiqi Zhao (secretary, taking over for me; I will remain on the exec as past secretary in 2016)
Emily Bender (the new NAACL chair, ex officio, replacing Hal Daume)

Welcome to Marti, Jing-Shin, Shiqi, and Emily!

The full list of exec members is here:
http://www.aclweb.org/website/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2017 include vp-elect and SIG chair (special interest group
coordinator).

3. ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/445

The winner of the ACL 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Li Sheng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.

The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced in August in Berlin.

For a list of past winners, visit:
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

4. ACL Fellows

I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected four new ACL Fellows for 2015.

http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/457

Claire Cardie (Cornell University)
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine
learning methods in natural language processing.

Kenneth W. Church (IBM)
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT
community.

Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.

Salim Roukos (IBM)
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.

Congratulations to these established ACL members!

Nominations for 2016 can be made through this page:
http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations

5. NAACL HLT 2016 will be in San Diego, California

This conference will take place from June 12 to June 17, 2016.

http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/

General Chair
Kevin Knight, ISI
Program Chairs
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Local Arrangements Chair
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

6. ACL 2016 will be in Berlin, Germany

ACL 2016 will take place from August 7 to August 12, 2016.

http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/452

General Chair
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen
Program Co-Chairs
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Noah Smith, University of Washington
Local Organizing Committee
Valia Kordoni (co-chair), Humboldt University
Markus Egg (co-chair), Humboldt University
Kostadin Cholakov, Humboldt University
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University
Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University

7. EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin, Texas

EMNLP 2016 will be in Austin from November 2 to November 6, 2016. More information TBA.

8. ACL 2017 will be in Vancouver, Canada

http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/456

The Association for Computational Linguistics is pleased to announce that ACL 2017, its 55th Annual Meeting, will be
held in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July 2017 to 4 August 2017. The conference will take place in the Westin Bayshore
Hotel. The conference chairs will be announced shortly.

9. ACL 2018 call for bids

http://www.aclweb.org/website/node/448

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the
Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we 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 deadline for bids is March 15, 2016, with obligatory notification before January 31, 2016.

10. Upcoming events

http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html

11. 2015 reports from ACL officers

Winter reports:

http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q1_Reports

Summer reports:

http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports

12. ACL volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACL Web site, ACL Anthology, ACL Wiki
(http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), and some other initiatives.

Please contact Shiqi Zhao, the new ACL Secretary, at secretary@aclweb.org if you are interested in volunteering.

Sincerely,

Dragomir Radev
Past Secretary (2006-2015)