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=== Progress ===
 
=== Progress ===
  
Since  the last report, both the deadline for initial and final bids has passed. For both, we received three full bids.
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We received three draft bids by March 15, which were later resubmitted as final bids by May 15, after all bidders had received extensive feedback from the coordinating committee.
The committee provided encouraging and useful feedback to all bidders on their initial bids, and then discussed and carefully evaluated the final bids.  
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In the following discussion and evaluation of the bids, the committee quickly established that two bids were considerably stronger than the third and decided that site visits to the two top bidders would be needed to make the final decision. After the site visits had been completed, the committee discussed the bids again and a strong majority for one of the bids emerged. All three bidders have now been notified about the outcome, and the venue for ACL 2018 will be announced at the business meeting in Berlin.
TO BE CONTINUED
 
  
Important steps in the schedule for the next 6 months are:
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The most important immediate steps ahead of us are:
  
* August 2016 - Choose general chair for the conference.
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* Set up website (local chair in collaboration with ACL webmaster)
* August 2016 - Start creation of work plan (local chair)
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* Finalize dates and sign contracts (local chair, treasurer, coordinating committee)
* Dec 2016 - Select program chair(s) (coordinating committee)
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* Appoint general chair (coordinating committee)
* Dec 2016 - Select other chairs (general chair)
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These tasks should be completed as soon as possible. The next milestone after that is in January 2017, when the coordinating committee should appoint program chairs.

Latest revision as of 03:31, 15 July 2016

ACL 2018 - report by Joakim Nivre

In 2018 there will be an ACL conference in the Asia/Pacific region.

Coordinating Committee

The conference coordinating committee is:

  • Joakim Nivre (chair; ACL past president in 2018) joakim.nivre@lingfil.uu.se
  • Shiqi Zhao (ACL secretary) zhaoshiqi.acl@gmail.com
  • Graeme Hirst (ACL treasurer) gh@cs.toronto.edu
  • Yejin Choi (ACL board) yejin@cs.washington.edu
  • Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
  • Pascale Fung (AFNLP representative) pascale@ece.ust.hk
  • Haizhou Li (AFNLP representative) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
  • Yuji Matsumoto (AFNLP representative) matsu@is.naist.jp
  • Jong Park (AFNLP representative) park@cs.kaist.ac.kr

The committee email list address is: acl18cc@aclweb.org.

Progress

We received three draft bids by March 15, which were later resubmitted as final bids by May 15, after all bidders had received extensive feedback from the coordinating committee. In the following discussion and evaluation of the bids, the committee quickly established that two bids were considerably stronger than the third and decided that site visits to the two top bidders would be needed to make the final decision. After the site visits had been completed, the committee discussed the bids again and a strong majority for one of the bids emerged. All three bidders have now been notified about the outcome, and the venue for ACL 2018 will be announced at the business meeting in Berlin.

The most important immediate steps ahead of us are:

  • Set up website (local chair in collaboration with ACL webmaster)
  • Finalize dates and sign contracts (local chair, treasurer, coordinating committee)
  • Appoint general chair (coordinating committee)

These tasks should be completed as soon as possible. The next milestone after that is in January 2017, when the coordinating committee should appoint program chairs.