2024Q1 Reports: AACL

Joint conferences of AACL and AFNLP

Upon the setup of AACL in 2018, AACL and AFNLP have committed to jointly host conferences in Asia Pacific to grow the common community.

AFNLP and AACL each will be responsible for all matters of the ‘joint conference’ once every two years. Party in charge will invite a member from another party to join the conference coordination committee (ccc). However, the party-in-charge will take care of the conference organization including call-for-bids, selection of chairs, and finance, while another party plays only a consultative role. This joint conference starts from AACL – IJCNLP 2020. The joint conferences are skipped when ACL conference is in Asia every 3 years, as with ACL – IJCNLP 2021 and ACL 2024. AACL supports both conferences as ACL Asia Pacific Chapter.

IJCNLP-AACL 2023

The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2023) was the 3rd edition of the joint conferences after AACL – IJCNLP 2022. It was held at Grand Hyatt Bali, Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia on 1-4 Nov 2023. AFNLP is the party – in – charge while AACL also has a representative, Huang Xuan Jing in ccc for the consultative role.

Besides, some other ACL colleagues also supported to / involved with the Program Committee activities, including Hwee Tou Ng (CL EiC), the ARR technical team, Yusuke Miyao (Conference Officer, ACL exe), Min-Yen Kan (the ACL Ethics Committee), Matt Post (ACL Anthology director).

The development of AACL exe board

As a new chapter with the executive board in its 3rd term, AACL continues to review the roles, process, institutional memory and etc at AACL executive board, AACL – IJCNLP conference practices, future conference planning in general, knowledge transfer to the next term as well as contributing to the resolution of issues raised at ACL exe. We also communicate with AFNLP on relevant information in parallel beyond IJCNLP – AACL 2023 through Huang Xuan Jing, AACL chair elect.