2017Q1 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, February 2017

[ NB - this is still under construction; I will remove this note when I am done editing ]

Emily M. Bender - Chapter board chair

Joel Tetreault - Treasurer

Executive Committee Meetings

The board had a meeting at NAACL on 12 June 2016. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.

Treasurer's Report

TO BE UPDATED

The NAACL Chapter's bank account held $90,017.12 as of December 31, 201​5​. This figure takes into account the surplus from ACL 2014, but does not yet reflect the impact of the NAACL 2015 conference. To give context for that balance, this is the highest level it has been since June 2012. The balance for 2014 was $34k and for 2013 it was $29k. In 2015, our expenditures were once again the sponsorship of external events: NACLO ($5k), two Emerging Regions Fund awards at $1.5k apiece ($3k) and the Summer Workshop ($6k) for a total of $14k. In short, 2016 begins on a very strong note for NAACL. That being said, we should continue to seek out new sources of sponsorship as many fields not previously connected with NLP, such as finance and gaming, were major sponsors for last year's NAACL.

NAACL Officers as of today

 Chair         Emily M. Bender             University of Washington
 Secretary     Colin Cherry             National Research Council Canada
 Treasurer     Joel Tetreault           Yahoo! Labs
 Past Chair    Hal Daume III            University of Maryland

 Board Members:
 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe            The Ohio State University
 Julia Hockenmaier 	                 University of Illinois
 Philip Resnik	                                 University of Maryland
 Ellen Riloff	                                 University of Utah
 Graeme Hirst (ex-officio, ACL representative) University of Toronto

North America Conference in 2017

There will be no separate NAACL in 2017, as ACL is to take place in Vancouver BC, Canada, July 30-August 4.