ACL Establishes Its Ethics Committee

The ACL Executive Committee is glad to announce that ACL has established an Ethics Committee. The members of the committee are as follows:

Chairs:
- Karën Fort, Min Yen Kan, Yulia Tsvetkov

Members:
- Luciana Benotti, Mark Dredze, Pascale Fung, Dirk Hovy, Jin-Dong Kim, Malvina Nissim

The term of the co-chairs is five years, through the end of 2026, while the term of the members is three years, through the end of 2024.

The ACL Ethics Committee is formed to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee is to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research.

A detailed description of the roles of the ethics committee can be found here:
Formation of the ACL Ethics Committee - Admin Wiki (aclweb.org)

Rada Mihalcea, ACL President