2010Q1 Reports: ACL 2011
Progress report for ACL 2011 – March 2010
Most activity till now was at the local organization level, which progresses by the plan. Some recent updates:
Local organizing committee:
Committee formed, including:
- Richard Sproat - local sponsorship
- Peter Heeman - local publicity
- Christian Monson - a post-doc, student volunteer program
- Kim Basney - local financial contact.
- Nate Bodenstab - a graduate student, webmaster.
Next actions: Peter and Nate will work to get more information on the website over the next few months, and Richard will make contact with Srini and others on the non-local sponsorship committee.
Contracts:
The contract with the hotel has been signed. Contracts for auxiliary locations for parallel session and poster session and the banquet/catering will be signed very soon. We are working to finalize dormspace arrangements with Portland State University, which looked very nice (and cheap!) during the site visit.
Other actions:
Initial website formed, specifying broad details of conference: dates and site. Work in progress to collect more publicity info and put on website.
General Chair selected: Dekang Lin
Immediate next steps: Select program chairs and all other chairs.
Action item to be endorsed by Exec:
Update and adopt policy for joint committee for workshops at all conferences of a given year, with early solicitation of large SIG workshops. For 2011 it’s only ACL and EMNLP (EMNLP workshops were not handled in the 2010 cross-conference committee, but may be included in 2011 if their plans are clarified soon). This action to be coordinated with SIG chair.