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| The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the
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| Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th
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| International Joint Conference on Natural Language
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| Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) will be held in Bangkok,
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| Thailand, August 1-6, 2021. See the conference homepage:
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| https://2021.aclweb.org/.
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| We have built 18 committees and there are 60 chairs in
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| total. It is really a great set of chairs! Up to now all
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| things on organization of ACL-IJCNLP’2021 have been well
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| processed and everything is going smoothly. The
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| following summarizes the progress in 2021:
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| We received over 3500 submissions, a new record.
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| Following advice from last year and referring to other
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| conferences, including COLING’2020 and NAACL’2021, we have
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| built an Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC). The three co-chairs are
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| from Europe, US and Singapore. They are Malvina
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| Nissim from University of Groningen, Xanda Schofield from
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| Harvey Mudd College and Min-Yen Kan from National University
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| of Singapore.
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| Considering it is not very easy that PC Chairs communicate
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| with authors by using Softconf system (START), we have built
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| a message board in the conference home page. All news,
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| especially those important and emergent news and notices are
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| announced in the message board. In addition, we have built
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| the Social Media Committee. The five Social Media Committee
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| chairs are from North America, Europe and
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| Asia. They help the conference, especially the PC Chairs,
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| distribute news as widely as possible in cooperation with
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| the publicity chair by using Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, Weibo
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| and many other social media platforms.
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| In good cooperation with NAACL’2021 and EACL’2021, our
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| Workshop Chairs, Kentaro Inui and Michael Strube, have
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| selected 23 workshops, which have been announced on the
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| conference home page.
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| Also in good cooperation with NAACL’2021 and EACL’2021, our
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| Tutorial Chairs, Min Zhang and David Chiang have selected 6
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| tutorials, which are shown on the conference home page.
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| The Demo Chairs, Heng Ji, Jong C. Park and Rui Xia, have
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| announced the demo CFP on the conference home page (and via
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| the ACL mailing list). The submission deadline is March 25,
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| 2021. According to the request from Heng and Jong, I invited
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| Prof. Rui Xia to join the committee.
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| With the great help of Priscilla Rasmussen and Chris
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| Callison-Burch, the new version of the Sponsorship booklet has
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| been prepared and announced on the conference
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| homepage. In addition, to enhance the local sponsorship
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| committee, two researchers, Jing Li and Zhongyu Wei, have
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| been invited to join the committee.
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| The SRW chairs did good work under the supervision of four
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| Faculty Advisors. The paper submission deadline for SRW is
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| April 2, 2021.
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