2009Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Chairs

Sponsorship Chairs Report (Isahara, Hitoshi and Lua, Kim-Teng)

Sponsorship (Hitoshi Isahara)

Due to the bad global economic situation, we could not recruit enough sponsors this time. Our sponsorships this time are as follows;

Gold Sponsor CNGL (Centre for Next Generation Localisation) Silver Sponsor AT&T Research Microsoft Research Fujitsu R&D Center CO., LTD. Bronze Sponsor Yahoo! Labs Supporter Xerox Research Centre Europe

Local Sponsorship (Lua Kim-Teng)

The local sponsorship chair works with the local organizing committee to have recruited several local sponsors that provide in-kind support to ACL-IJCNLP 2009 as follows:

1) Wholetree Pte Ltd 2) Toshiba China R&D Center 3) Lee Foundation 4) Nanyang Technological University 5) National University of Singapore

The items that are sponsored include

1) Entertainment in welcome reception and banquet 2) Conference souvenirs (Special edition of Singapore stamps) 3) Asian student travel grants 4) Each university sponsor supports 15 paid registrations for staff/students.