2018Q3 Reports: EACL

EACL 2018Q3 Report, July 2018

Walter Daelemans, Chair

Sharon Goldwater, Chair-Elect

Lucia Specia, Secretary

Claudia Borg, Treasurer

Mike Rosner, Past Treasurer

EACL-2020

The University of Malta is in the last phase of submitting a complete bid for EACL 2020. EACL 2020 will be the first in our new rhythm or conference organization (twice every three years, on years ACL main conference is not in Europe). Currently, the expected period for the conference is late March, 2020.

Financial Report

[to be provided]

EACL Sponsorship

• EACL has funded 19 students with a grant for ESSLLI 2018 (8250 EURO total).

EACL Plans

• Reorganization of the website. The student board of EACL, is still working on a new version of the EACL website which will be more modern, better updated, and better integrated with social media. The basic website structure is in place and content is being added.

• Better outreach to the Middle East and Africa is still on the agenda.

• Better outreach and cooperation with European organizations. EACL is the process of contacting the local, regional, national, and European organizations on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in order to achieve two goals: better representation of the whole of the European research community at ACL, and creating opportunities for joint organization of events (for example the EACL conferences when not co-organized with ACL). A structure will be proposed in which this cooperation can be institutionalized.

EACL Board

• The EACL nominating committee will elect new board members by the end of this year for the period 2019-2022 to replace Iryna Gurevych, Roberto Navigli, and Stephan Oepen.

• The search for researchers to join the conference sponsorship committee for EACL has resulted in the appointment of Georg Rehm (DFKI) to this committee. Next year, an additional member will be appointed.

• Fernando Alva Manchego (EACL student board) will be the member of the ACL SRW for EACL.

• From 2018 onwards, the Student Board is invited to be represented at the meetings of the EACL board.

EACL Officers per July 1, 2018

The current officers are the following:

Chair:

• Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Chair-Elect:

• Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)

Secretary:

• Lucia Specia (University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer:

• Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta)

Past Treasurer:

• Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:

• Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
• Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
• Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Ivan Titov (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Student Board:

• Uxoa Iñurrieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
• Fernando Alva Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Nominating Committee:

• Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK) [chair]
• Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
• Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
• Caroline Sporleder (Goettingen University, Germany)