Conference Handbook

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

Policies and Guidelines

• Conference acronym

• Policy
  • Policy on registering domain names for conferences
  • Policy on joint conferences
  • ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy
  • Double Submission Policy for Conferences
  • policy on speaker reimbursement

• Schedule
  • Conference planning schedule
  • typical schedule

• ACL Executive Committee
  • actions and duties of the Exec in overseeing the conference
  • meetings held by Exec at conferences

• Conference Bid
  • call for conference bids
  • Bid Guidelines

• Chairs
  • Selecting a General Chair
  • Selecting a Program Co-Chair
  • guidelines and policies
  • Chairs and Sub-chairs for Conferences

• Tutorial
  • tutorial teacher payment policy
  • tutorial teacher instructions
  • tutorial notes

• Workshops
  • Workshop-proceedings
  • 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

• Student Sessions & Student Fund
  • student session policies
  • student travel funding
  • Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund

• Repository
  • Overview of repository organization
  • Instructions on how to access the repository

• Others
  • financing exhibits
  • invited speakers
  • Satellite Events

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
• handbook 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