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 registering domain names for conferences
• Policy on joint conferences
• actions and duties of the Exec in overseeing the conference
• Chairs and Sub-chairs for Conferences
• call for conference bids
• Bid Guidelines
• Selecting a General Chair
• Selecting a Program Co-Chair
• guidelines and policies
• typical schedule
• meetings held by Exec at conferences
• financing exhibits
• invited speakers
• policy on speaker reimbursement
• tutorial teacher payment policy
• tutorial teacher instructions
• tutorial notes
• Workshop-proceedings
• student session policies
• student travel funding
• Workshops at Conferences
• ACL Policy on Workshop Support and Sponsorship
• Types of ACL Workshops
• ACL General Policies on Workshops
• ACL Policies on Conference Workshops
• ACL Policies on SIG Workshops
• Satellite Events
• Conflict-of-interest policy
• Double Submission Policy for Conferences
• 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 poster presentations
• 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
• Software for producing conference schedules from ACLPUB output
• Best Paper Award Selection - ACL-05
• Instructions for Authors for Camera-Ready Final Versions of ACL-04 Main Conference Papers
• Copyright - 2004
• Policy for ACL conferences held jointly with local Chapters