2014Q3 Reports: ACL-IJCNLP 2015

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ACL-IJCNLP 2015 General Chair Progress Report

Yuji Matsumoto

  • When: August 16th - August 21st, 2015
  • Where: Beijing, P.R. China
  • Venue: China National Convention Center (CNCC) No.7 Tianchen East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100105 China
  • General Chair: Yuji Matsumoto
  • Program Chairs: Chengqing Zong, Michael Strube
  • Local Arrangement Chairs: Sun Le, Yang Liu
  • Workshop Chairs: Hang Li, Sebastian Riedel
  • Tutorial Chairs: Kevin Duh, Eneko Agirre
  • Demo Chairs: Hsin-Hsi Chen, Katja Markert(to be confirmed)
  • Publications Chairs: Che Wanxiang, Guodong Zhou
  • Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors: Khalil Sima'an, two more to be confirmed
  • Mentoring Chair: Francis Bond
  • Publicity Chairs: Xianpei Han, Kang Liu
  • Sponsorship Chairs: Yiqun Liu, two more to be appointed

Ongoing efforts:

Finalizing event chairs and area chairs

Important Dates:

  • February 27, 2015 Long Submission Deadline
  • April 12, 2015 Long Author Response Deadline
  • April 22, 2015 Long Paper Notification
  • May 29, 2015 Long Camera Ready Deadline
  • April 30, 2015 Short Submission Deadline
  • June 8, 2015 Short Paper Notification
  • June 28, 2015 Short Camera Ready Deadline
  • August 16, 2015 Conference Starts


Report by Yuji Matsumoto

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - report by Gertjan van Noord

In 2015 there will be a joint ACL-IJCNLP conference in Asia/Australasia/Oceania.

  • coordinating committee:

Dragomir Radev (ACL secr) radev@umich.edu

Graeme Hirst (ACL treas) gh@cs.toronto.edu

Gertjan van Noord (ACL past president in 2015) g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl

Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org

Jian Su (ACL board) sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Keh-Yih Su (AFNLP president) kysu@bdc.com.tw bdc.kysu@gmail.com

Yuji Matsumoto (AFNLP vice president) matsu@is.naist.jp

Haizhou Li (AFNLP secretary) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Gary Geunbae Lee (AFNLP treasurer) gblee@postech.ac.kr


  • email alias for this committee: acl15cc@aclweb.org
  • domain name: acl2015.org
  • call for bids has been sent out
  • two bids have been received (march 2013)
  • based on comments and suggestions by the coordinating committee, two final bids have been received (may 2013)
  • the bid from Beijing has been selected (I can say more about this in case there is interest, but since these reports may be accessible on the web, I do not want to include too much information here)
  • proposed location: Beijing, China National Convention Center
  • proposed dates: 20-25 July 2015, or 15-20 August 2015
  • important dates for the next six months:

T24 (now): select general chair - process has been initialized (coordinating committee)

T24: start creation of work plan (local chair)

T24: plan site visit (ACL office + local chair + coordinating committee)

T18: select program chair(s) (coordinating committee)

T18: select other chairs (general chair)