The newsletter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Dear ACL members,
Our annual conference, ACL-08:HLT (Human Language Technologies) is still two months away so let me take the time in this newsletter to send you some updates about ACL. Please contact me at
(spellcheck and unscramble before writing) by April 30 if you have any suggestions for interesting activities. I will bring them to the ACL exec for discussion.
This promises to be an exciting conference! We hope you will join us in Columbus!
NAACL HLT 2009
NAACL HLT 2009 will take place in Boulder, Colorado from May 31 to June 5, 2009. The general chair of the conference is Mari Ostendorf, and the local arrangement co-chairs are Martha Palmer and Jim Martin.
The website for the CICLing 2008 Conference is now available at www.CICLing.org/2008.
ACL Video Archive
The ACL Video Archive is a pilot program with the aims of making teaching materials freely available to facilitate scientific communication, and to document history and progress in our field. The initiative has been started in June 2007 at the ACL's 45th Annual Meeting in Prague, with the technical infrastructure currently being built up by volunteers. The archive is available at http://www.aclweb.org/videoarchive.
Upcoming changes to the ACL executive committee
I am happy to announce that all votes in the ACL executive committee elections have been counted. The winners are...