2022Q1 Minutes (public version)
- Emergency situation of EACL 2023 in Kyiv
- Todo: Will be in touch with the EACL board about the possibility of moving EACL2023 a virtual conference. - Todo: Will contact the general chair, PC chairs, local organizers and Underline people to move forward the organization of the conference.
- ACL engagement with Russian organisations
- Todo: Will draft a statement ASAP and release the statement next week. (Tim, Iryna, Shuly, Luciana)
- The retirement and replacement plans of Priscilla
- Todo: Work out site for ACL2023 (Tim, Priscilla, David) - Todo: Interview PCO for NAACL2022 ASAP, and have the PCO on board in a couple of weeks. (David, Priscilla)
- COI of ACL conferences and journals
- To construct a central database of COI information, which can be shared across different conferences and journals. - Todo: Emily will keep moving on that, talking to the ARR editor Amanda stent and the ACL Information director Nitin Madnani. Hwee Tou will collaborate, representing the CL journal.
- ACL academic misconduct policy
- Todo: Will recruit representatives from each chapter to form a committee for making the academic misconduct policy. - Diversity of the committee is important. It should include members from different regions, from the industry, and also include student members.
- Paper awards policies
- There are two main concerns: (1) if we should have a larger number of awards, and (2) how to improve the anonymity in the process of selecting papers for the awards. - Todo: wait for Jonathan's final report. (Mohit)
- ACL Cloud GPU program for underserved communities
- Main idea: an infrastructure program promoted by ACL that provides support to those underserved communites. - There have already been such programs, which we can partner with or learn from. - It will be an international program, which is not limited in the US. - Todo: collect more NSF info on GPU programs. (Mohit)