Conference Handbook

The handbook has recently been migrated from the ACL Wiki to the ACL Admin Wiki.

Policies and Guidelines

• Conference planning schedule
• Conference acronym
• Policy on joint conferences
• actions and duties of the Exec in overseeing the conference
• call for conference bids
• Bid Guidelines
• policy on speaker reimbursement
• policy on tutorial teacher payment
• selecting the general chair
• ACL policy on involvement of Exec members in conferences
• guidelines and policies
• typical schedule
• meetings held by Exec at conferences
• financing exhibits
• invited speakers
• tutorial teacher payment policy
• tutorial teacher instructions
• Overview page including policies
• *** student session policies
• tutorial notes
• workshop proceedings missing from old handbook
• student travel funding
• ACL General Policies on Workshops
• ACL Policies on Conference Workshops
• ACL Policies on SIG Workshops
• Overview page including policies
• ACL policy on who can hold major programmatic positions at ACL conferences
• Conflict-of-interest policy
• Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund
• Overview of repository organization
• Instructions on how to access the repository

Duties of Conference Officers

• Demo chair duties
• exhibits chair duties
• general (conference) chair duties
• local arrangements chair duties
• arranging the meeting rooms
• arranging the accommodations
• arranging the food
• arranging the social events
• arranging local support, registration, etc.
• webmaster
• How to be a program chair
• program chair duties
• publications chair duties
• publicity chair duties
• sponsorship chair duties
• student chair duties
• faculty advisor duties
• useful checklist of things to do (from a past student chair)
• tutorial chair duties
• workshop chair duties

Sample Documents

• example budgets
• sample conference paper calls
• paper style files
• camera ready instructions
• tutorial calls for proposals
• sample letter to panelists
• student workshop paper call
• Acl 2004 camera
• Acl 2005 camera
• Student workshop paper call
• Recent ACL calls for workshop proposals
• Sample workshop calls for papers
• Workshop-proceedings
• Sample Calls for Demos & Posters
• ACL 2007 Call for Demos and Posters
• ACL-07 Call For Workshop Proposals
• ACL-10 Workshop Instructions
• ACL-07 Call for Tutorial Proposals
• CFP for student session at ACL-07
• CFP for student session at ACL-05
• Sample invitation letter

Miscellany

• Handbook old
• Johanna Moore document