2025Q3 Reports: AACL
Results of the AACL Board Elections 2025-2026
The new AACL Executive Board for the 2025-2026 term has been successfully elected by AACL members. The elected members are as follows:
- Chair: Xuanjing Huang
- Chair-elect: Maggie, Wenjie Li
- Secretary: Thepchai Supnithi
- Treasurer: Mark Dras
- At Large: Daisuke Kawahara, Lun-Wei Ku, Taro Watanabe
AACL Exec meeting
The AACL Exec Meeting was held in 23th June. The agenda for the meeting included:
- self-introductions by executive committee members.
- discussion on work for the next phase (especially the need to release the call for bid for AACL-IJCNLP 2026).
- updates on IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
- job distribution among the executive committee.
Call for Bids - AACL/IJCNLP 2026
The all for Bids for AACL/IJCNLP 2026 is about to be released. AACL will invite proposals to host the conference in the Asia-Pacific region in November or December of 2026. At the current stage, we will seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
The AACL/IJCNLP 2026 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the AACL and representatives from the AFNLP, will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. The tentative schedule is as follows:
- July, 2025: Call for bids
- August 15, 2025: Notify intention to submit proposal
- August 25, 2025: Draft proposals due
- Through September 19, 2025: Feedback to bidders
- October 3, 2025: Final bids due
- October 27, 2025: Bid selected
The selected location for AACL/IJCNLP 2026 will be announced at EMNLP 2025 (November 5-9, Suzhou, China https://2025.emnlp.org/).