2026Q3 Reports: Secretary
Exec elections
The elections to the following positions are ongoing:
- ACL Secretary. Candidates: Saif Mohammad and Derek Wong
- ACL Member. Candidates: Mausam and Roy Schwartz
- VP Elect. Candidates: Min Zhang and Yue Zhang.
Meetings
During the first half of 2026, we have had the following meetings:
- March 24: Q1 exec meeting. Minutes are here: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2026Q1_Minutes
- May 12: Meeting between the exec and EMNLP PCs to discuss the desk-rejection of papers with hallucinated references.
- May 21: Meeting between the exec, ARR, EMNLP and AACL PCs to discuss the reviewing situation for EMNLP and AACL.
- June 6: Meeting between the exec, ARR, and COLING and NAACL PCs to discuss whether COLING should be allowed to use ARR.
2026 reports from ACL officers
- Q1: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2026Q1_Reports
- Q3: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2026Q3_Reports
Coming conferences
- EMNLP 2026 (Budapest, Hungary)
- AACL (Hengqin, China)
- NAACL
- EACL 2027 (Athens, Greece)
- ACL 2027 (Japan)