EACL 2021 -- Call for affinity group socials
As part of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021, 19th – 23th April 2021), we would like to call for expressions of interest to host affinity group socials.
Affinity group socials are meant to serve the purpose of cohort and community building, and can both be fora for scientific and social exchange. The format of virtual affinity group socials has been successful in 2020, at ACL, EMNLP and COLING, where groups like Queer in AI (https://sites.google.com/view/queer-in-ai/home) and Black in AI (https://blackinai.github.io/) organised events. Another example could be “Linguists at EACL”, “Professors in NLP”, or anything we missed that is not primarily technical.
Note that purely scientific events, such as sessions on “machine translation”, will also take place at EACL 2021 in the form of Birds of a Feather sessions. Expressions of interest to organise such events should thus not be made via this call.
Affinity groups hosting socials will decide on the content, timing and length of socials themselves, and will also handle sign-up to these events. EACL 2021 will promote the socials on the conference website, virtual conference platform and social media and, if desired, create virtual conference rooms and promote links for those.
To express interest in organising an affinity group social, please fill in the following form by 24 March: https://forms.gle/7159FMuW7MbuZSxu5
Affinity group socials have to abide by ACL’s code of conduct: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics
Requests for affinity group socials which are in conflict with the above, or not in line with the goals of an affinity group social, will be rejected.
Enquiries can be made to the EACL 2021 Diversity & Inclusions chairs: eacl2021diversity [at] gmail.com