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EACL 2016Q1 Report, February 2016

Lluís Màrquez, Chair

Walter Daelemans, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL 2017

The organization of EACL 2017 has continued with two important highligts. First, the contracts between ACL and the local organizers were all signed in October-November 2015. A PCO (Grupo Pacifico) has been used as an intermediary body because it was simpler on several aspects compared to signing the contracts directly with the University of Valencia. Second, the Coordinating Committee appointed the main chairs of the conference. The General Chair will be Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh), and the Program Co-Chairs will be Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford) and Alexander Koller (University of Potsdam). This is a very strong team. We are confident on a very successful conference in 2017.

The local organizers (Paolo Rosso and colleagues from the University of Valencia) already prepared an initial website for EACL 2017 where you can consult the main information and dates about the conference: http://www.eacl2017.org/

The real organization work will start in April 2016, one year before the conference.

Financial Report

2015 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

 31-Dec-15                               26,313

 INCOME                                       0

 EXPENSES
 EACL Sponsorship ESSLLI                 -2,750
 Bank Charges                                -4

 31-Dec-15 balance                       23,559

Mike Rosner 14.02.2015

EACL Sponsorship

No more sponsorship activities have been carried out by EACL since the last report (2015Q3). For 2016, EACL plans to keep sponsoring some students to attend ESSLLI 2016, and maybe other related events as per our sponsorship policy (http://www.eacl.org/page.php?id=Sponsorship). In any case, these will be small amounts. We have to save a substantial part of our money to sponsor the EACL 2017 conference and its associated Student Research Workshop.

EACL shorts

EACL has appointed two sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee for the period 2016-2017. They are Chris Biemann (Technische Universität Darmstadt) and Suzan Verberne (Radboud University Nijmegen). EACL warmly welcomes the new chairs.

The EACL Conference Handbook is now publicly available from the EACL website.

EACL Officers per July 15, 2016

The EACL boards remained stable since the last report (2015Q3). The current officers are the following:

Chair: Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Chair-Elect: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Secretary: Caroline Sporleder (Göttingen University, Germany)

Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:

Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Student Board:

Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Trier University, Germany)

Nominating Committee

Sien Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

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 ==EACL 2017==
-Report by Lluís Màrquez
+The organization of EACL 2017 has continued with two important highligts. First, the contracts between ACL and the local organizers were all signed in October-November 2015. A PCO (Grupo Pacifico) has been used as an intermediary body because it was simpler on several aspects compared to signing the contracts directly with the University of Valencia. Second, the Coordinating Committee appointed the main chairs of the conference. The General Chair will be '''Mirella Lapata''' (University of Edinburgh), and the Program Co-Chairs will be '''Phil Blunsom''' (University of Oxford) and '''Alexander Koller''' (University of Potsdam). This is a very strong team. We are confident on a very successful conference in 2017.
-The organization of EACL 2017 has continued with two important highligts. First, the contracts between ACL and the local organizers were all signed in October-November 2015. A PCO (Grupo Pacifico) has been used as an intermediary because it was more convenient than signing the contracts with the University of Valencia. Second, the Coordinating Committee started appointing the main chairs of the conference. The General Chair will be Mirella Lapata ()
+The local organizers ('''Paolo Rosso''' and colleagues from the University of Valencia) already prepared an initial website for EACL 2017 where you can consult the main information and dates about the conference: http://www.eacl2017.org/
+The ''real'' organization work will start in April 2016, one year before the conference.
-  Paolo Rosso (chair), Francisco Casacuberta (co-chair), Jon Ander Gómez (co-chair)
-  Universitat Politècnica de València, PRHLT Research Centre (https://www.prhlt.upv.es)
-  Valencia, Spain
-The EACL conference will take place in April 2017.
-The next steps in the timeline will be carried out in due time, e.g., signing the contract between local organizers and ACL, deciding the General Chair, etc.
 ==Financial Report==
-Report by Mike Rosner
+CHAPTER FINANCES			(SHADOW ACCOUNTING)
-CHAPTER FINANCES			(SHADOW ACCOUNTING)
--Dec-13 balance                        7,949
+-Dec-15                               26,313
-   INCOME
+   INCOME                                       0
-  EACL2014 Surplus                        20,869
    EXPENSES
-   EACL Sponsorship                        -2,500
+   EACL Sponsorship ESSLLI                 -2,750
-   Bank Charges                                -5
+   Bank Charges                                -4
--Dec-14 balance                       26,313
+-Dec-15 balance                       23,559
+Mike Rosner 14.02.2015
-==EACL Sponsorships==
-* EACL supports ESSLLI 2015 by sponsoring 5 students with a maximum amount of 550 Euros each.
+==EACL Sponsorship==
-* EACL supports CLEF2015 by sponsoring 1 student
+No more sponsorship activities have been carried out by EACL since the last report (2015Q3). For 2016, EACL plans to keep sponsoring some students to attend ESSLLI 2016, and maybe other related events as per our sponsorship policy (http://www.eacl.org/page.php?id=Sponsorship). In any case, these will be small amounts. We have to save a substantial part of our money to sponsor the EACL 2017 conference and its associated Student Research Workshop.
 ==EACL shorts==
-* The two EACL sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee are still to be appointed. We have indentified several good candidates and they are being approached during these days. We will try to appoint them as soon as possible.
+* EACL has appointed two sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee for the period 2016-2017. They are '''Chris Biemann''' (Technische Universität Darmstadt) and '''Suzan Verberne''' (Radboud University Nijmegen). EACL warmly welcomes the new chairs.
-==EACL Elections==
-Two of our student board members, Desmond Elliott and Douwe Kiela, have just finished their 2-year term in June. After elections, which took place in early June 2015, the replacements fo their positions are:
-* Florian Kunneman, Radboud University Nijmegen
+* The EACL Conference Handbook is now publicly available from the EACL website.
-* John Camilleri, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
-The EACL welcomes the new members of the EACL Student Board and greatly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.
+==EACL Officers per July 15, 2016==
-==EACL Officers per July 1, 2015==
+The EACL boards remained stable since the last report (2015Q3). The current officers are the following:
 Chair:
 Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
 Chair-Elect:
 Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
 Secretary:
-Caroline Sporleder (Trier University, Germany)
+Caroline Sporleder (Göttingen University, Germany)
 Treasurer:
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 * Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
 * Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
-Giorgio Satta and Kiril Simov came to the end of their term on the Nominating Committee. The EACL Board decided to nominate Stephen Clark and Vivi Nastase as new members of the Nominating Committee. The EACL welcomes the new members of the Nominating Committee and warmly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.