EACL Report, May 2007 ========================= Alex Lascarides, Chair Giorgio Satta, Chair-elect Anette Frank, Secretary Mike Rosner, treasuer 1. ACL 2007 in Prague ---------------------- There has been some confusion among the EACL board about ACL policies for joint conferences. We were in fact unaware that EACL and ACL are supposed to be jointly hosting ACL 2007 until May! We are grateful that the role we should take when ACL is in Europe has now been clarified, and we hope to have procedures in place to ensure that we contribute more to early stages in organising a conference (e.g., offering feedback on the bids to host ACL and contributing to decisions about PC chairs). Gertjan van Noord, Mike Rosner, Anette Frank and Alex Lascarides are on the organisation committee for ACL 2007. 2. EACL 2009 ------------- We have chosen to hold EACL 2009 in Athens, Greece, from March 30th to April 3rd. The structure is as follows: March 30th: Tutorials and workshops March 31st: Tutorials and workshops April 1st: Main conference April 2nd: Main conference April 3rd: Main conference This will be the main agenda item for our EACL board meeting, to be held in Prague. We hope to have a shortlist of names for general chair and PC chairs as an outcome of this meeting. 3. EACL Sponsorships --------------------- EACL expects to sponsor students attending ESSLLI 2007 in Dublin, valuing 3000 Euros in total. 4. Financial report: --------------------- To be supplied by Mike Rosner The above figures are not yet finalised. We are still waiting on the final outcome of ACL 2004, which made a loss. 5. EACL officers: Elections ---------------------------- Elections were finally held for new candidates on the board, three months late! We welcome Giorgio Satta as the new chair-elect, and Eric Gaussier, Kiril Simov and Josef van Genabith onto the advisory board. Gertjan van Noord and Felisa Verdejo have become members of the nominating committee. The current EACL is as follows: Chair: Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh Chair elect: Giorgio Satta University of Padua Treasurer: Mike Rosner University of Malta Secretary: Anette Frank DFKI Saarbrücken Advisory Board: Eric Gaussier Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble Paola Merlo University of Geneva Kiril Simov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Josef van Genabith Dublin City University Nominating committee: John Carroll University of Sussex Claire Gardent LORIA, Nancy Gertjan van Noord University of Groningen Felisa Verdejo Ciudad Universitaria Madrid We would like to thank everyone who has come to the end of their tenure for all the work and effort they have put into ensuring that EACL runs smoothly: Gertjan van Noord (Chair, 2005--2007), Galia Angelova, Ido Daga and Felisa Verdejo (advisory board), and Philippe Blache and Donia Scott (nominating committee). EACL Student Board ------------------ The EACL has elected two new members of the Student Board, who will take up their service in July 2007. They replace Jonathon Read and Violeta Seretan: Vera Demberg, University of Edinburgh, UK and Yanjun MA, Dublin City University, Ireland. We would like to thank Jonathon and Violeta for their stirling work over the last two years.