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ShiqiZhao at 02:42, 22 February 2022

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	The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.		The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.








	=== EMNLP 2022 ===		=== EMNLP 2022 ===

	EMNLP 2022 will ~~take place from~~ the ~~XXX~~		EMNLP 2022 will be held December 7-11 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. It will be a hybrid conference and we plan to continue improving the hybrid experience.





	=== ACL 2023 ===		=== ACL 2023 ===

ShiqiZhao at 23:17, 20 January 2022

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	=== New Exec Members ===		=== New Exec Members ===

	We have ~~four~~ new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2022. These are:		We have three new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2022. These are:

	* Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)		* Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)

ShiqiZhao at 23:16, 20 January 2022

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	=== Membership ===		=== Membership ===

	The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2021. We expect to close 2021 with ~~almost XXX~~ 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.		The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2021. We expect to close 2021 with over 7000 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 ===		=== Outgoing Exec Members ===

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	* Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)		* Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)
	* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large)		* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large)
	* ~~XXX~~ (NAACL Chair)		* Luciana Benotti (NAACL Chair)

	Welcome to Emily, Mohit, and ~~XXX~~!		Welcome to Emily, Mohit, and Luciana!

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

ShiqiZhao at 00:43, 6 January 2022

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 === ACL Fellows ===
-The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2021:
+We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected eight ACL fellows for 2021:
-XXX
+*Joakim Nivre
 Congratulations to the new fellows!

ShiqiZhao at 07:01, 19 December 2021

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	Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-2024		Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-2024

	=== ~~2020~~ Reports from ACL Officers ===		=== 2021 Reports from ACL Officers ===

	Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q1_Reports		Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q1_Reports

ShiqiZhao at 07:00, 19 December 2021

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	The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.		The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.

	~~=== EMNLP 2022 ===~~

	~~EMNLP 2022 will take place from the XXX~~


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			=== EMNLP 2022 ===

			EMNLP 2022 will take place from the XXX


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	=== ACL 2023 ===		=== ACL 2023 ===

	ACL ~~2022~~ will be ~~held~~ in ~~Dublin, Ireland, May 22-28,~~ 2022.		The venue of the ACL 2023 conference will be decided and announced in early 2022.

	=== ACL ~~2023~~ ===		=== ACL 2024 ===

	ACL invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the ~~Americas~~ in July or August ~~2023~~. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.		The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Asia-Pacific Region in July or August 2024. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.

	ACL ~~2023~~ will be organized in collaboration with ~~NAACL~~. The ACL ~~2023~~ Coordinating Committee will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals should identify Local Arrangements Chair(s), who will work with the General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed plan and budget.		ACL 2024 will be organized in collaboration with AACL. The ACL 2024 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the ACL and representatives from the AFNLP, will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals should identify Local Arrangements Chair(s), who will work with the General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed conference plan and budget.

	'''Important dates:'''		'''Important dates:'''

	* ~~December~~, ~~2020~~: Call for bids		* September, 2021: Call for bids
	* ~~February 26~~, 2021: Notify intention to submit proposal		* November 30, 2021: Notify intention to submit proposal
	* ~~April 23~~, ~~2021~~: Draft proposals due		* January 21, 2022: Draft proposals due
	* Through ~~June~~ 1, ~~2021~~: Feedback to bidders		* Through March 1, 2022: Feedback to bidders
	* ~~June 25~~, ~~2021~~: Final bids due		* March 31, 2022: Final bids due
	* ~~August~~, ~~2021~~: Bid selected and site announced during ACL ~~2021~~		* May, 2022: Bid selected and site announced during ACL 2022

	For any queries please contact ~~Tim Baldwin~~ (tb@~~ldwin~~.~~net~~: ~~ACL2023~~ Coordinating Committee Chair), or Priscilla Rasmussen (acl.rasmussen@gmail.com).		For any queries please contact Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de): ACL2024 Coordinating Committee Chair, or Priscilla Rasmussen (acl.rasmussen@gmail.com).

	Please send notifications of intent and draft proposals to: ~~Tim Baldwin (tb~~@~~ldwin~~.~~net)~~		Please send notifications of intent and draft proposals to:
			*Iryna Gurevych, gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
			*Priscilla Rasmussen, acl.rasmussen@gmail.com
			*David Yarowsky, yarowsky@gmail.com

	Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-~~2023~~		Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-2024

	=== 2020 Reports from ACL Officers ===		=== 2020 Reports from ACL Officers ===

	Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=~~2020Q1_Reports~~		Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q1_Reports

	Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=~~2020Q3_Reports~~		Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports

	=== ACL Resolutions ===		=== ACL Resolutions ===

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






	=== ACL Fellows ===		=== ACL Fellows ===
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	More information about NAACL-HLT 2022 can be found here: https://2022.naacl.org/		More information about NAACL-HLT 2022 can be found here: https://2022.naacl.org/

			=== AACL-IJCNLP 2022 ===

			The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.

			=== EMNLP 2022 ===

			EMNLP 2022 will take place from the XXX




	~~=== EMNLP 2021 ===~~

	~~EMNLP 2021 will take place from the 7th to the 11th of November 2021, hopefully in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, but possibly online depending on the development of the covid situation.~~

	~~For more information of the EMNLP 2021 conference: https://2021.emnlp.org/~~

	=== ACL ~~2022~~ ===


			=== ACL 2023 ===

	ACL 2022 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, May 22-28, 2022.		ACL 2022 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, May 22-28, 2022.

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	=== ACL Fellows ===		=== ACL Fellows ===

	The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for ~~2020~~:		The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2021:

	~~Philip Cohen (Openstream, Inc.)~~		XXX
	*For significant contributions to the study of communicative action and dialogue, and to the theory and practice of multimodal interaction.

	~~Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)~~
	*For significant contributions toward statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans.

	~~Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt)~~
	*For theoretical and practical contributions to deep learning models for NLP, and computational argumentation, and for services to the ACL and the German NLP Community.

	~~Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)~~
	*For contributions to computational linguistics that both broaden its societal impact and advance our understanding of human communication.

	~~Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University)~~
	*For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition.

	~~Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)~~
	*For significant contributions to symbolic-statistical methods for natural language processing, multilinguality, and the interdisciplinary study of language.

	~~Donia Scott (University of Sussex)~~
	*For significant contributions to natural language generation, particularly in the areas of discourse processing, multilinguality, and knowledge-editing.

	~~Noah Smith (University of Washington)~~
	*For significant contributions to linguistic structure prediction, computational social sciences, and improving NLP research methodology.

	~~Kam-Fai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)~~
	*For significant contributions to social media processing, particularly in Chinese information retrieval, opinion mining, microblog processing and rumour detection.

	Congratulations to the new fellows!		Congratulations to the new fellows!
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	The list of current ACL fellows can be found here: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows		The list of current ACL fellows can be found here: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows

	=== ~~EACL 2021~~ ===		=== ACL 2022 ===

	~~EACL 2021~~ will be held from 19 to ~~23 of April~~, ~~2021~~. ~~While we were planning~~ to ~~hold the conference~~ in ~~Kyiv, due to the current COVID situation the conference will be held entirely online~~.		The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) is being organized and will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from May 22nd to 27th, 2022. It is planned to be a hybrid meeting, with as many as possible in Dublin.

	'''Important Dates'''		'''Important Dates'''

	* ~~Submission~~ deadline ~~(long and short papers)~~: ~~7 October 2020~~		*Deadline for submission to ACL Rolling Review: 15th November 2021
	* ~~Tutorials and workshops~~: ~~19–20 April, 2021~~		*Commitment deadline for ACL 2022: 15th January 2022
	* ~~Main conference~~: ~~21–23 April, 2021~~		*Notification of acceptance: 23rd February 2022
			*Deadline to withdraw papers: 26th February 2022
			*Camera-ready due: 15th March 2022

	For more information of ~~EACL 2021~~: https://~~2021~~.~~eacl~~.org/		For more information of the ACL 2022 conference: https://2022.aclweb.org/

	=== NAACL-HLT ~~2021~~ ===		=== NAACL-HLT 2022 ===

	NAACL-~~HLT 2021 is currently scheduled to take place~~ in ~~Mexico City~~, ~~Mexico~~ from ~~June 6th to June 11th~~, ~~2021. The Organizing Committee is monitoring the ongoing global pandemic and will update the conference plans (e.g. moving to a virtual or hybrid format) as needed closer to the conference dates~~.		The 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT2022) will be held in Seattle, Washington from July 10 through July 15, 2022.

	'''Important Dates'''		'''Important Dates'''

	* ~~Author Response Period~~: January ~~20 – 25~~, ~~2021~~		*Anonymity period begins: 1 month before submission
	* ~~Notification of acceptance~~: March 10, ~~2021~~		*Latest submission to ARR (main conference + industry): January 15, 2022
	* ~~Camera ready papers due~~: April 11, ~~2021~~		*Submission deadline for system demonstrations: February 11, 2022
	* ~~Final notification for papers requiring ethics re-review~~: April 30, ~~2021~~		*Commitment deadline for NAACL 2022: March 2, 2022
	* ~~Publication date~~: May 24, ~~2021~~		*Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2022
	* Conference date: ~~June 6–11~~, ~~2021~~		*Withdrawal deadline: April 11, 2022
			*Camera-ready version due: May 3, 2022
	~~For more information of NAACL-HLT 2021: https://2021.naacl.org/~~		*Conference date: July 10–15, 2022

	~~=== ACL-IJCNLP 2021 ===~~

	~~The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL~~-~~IJCNLP 2021) is being organized and will~~ be ~~held in Bangkok, Thailand, from August 1st to 6th, 2021~~. ~~However, the format of the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 conference will depend on the situation of pandemic~~.		More information about NAACL-HLT 2022 can be found here: https://2022.naacl.org/

	~~'''Important Dates'''~~

	* Anonymity period begins: January 1, 2021
	* Abstract deadline (long & short papers): January 25, 2021
	* Submission deadline (long & short papers): February 1, 2021
	* Author response period: March 25-31, 2021
	* Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2021
	* Camera-ready due: June 1, 2021
	* Tutorials: August 1, 2021
	* Main Conference: August 2–4, 2021
	* Workshops: August 5–6, 2021

	~~For more information of the ACL-IICNLP 2021 conference: https://2021.aclweb.org/~~

	=== EMNLP 2021 ===		=== EMNLP 2021 ===

ShiqiZhao at 04:07, 12 December 2021

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