2016Q1 Reports: EACL

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). The EACL welcomes the new chairs their service to the community.

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

EACL Officers per February 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 (Trier 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)