2014Q3 Reports: ACL-IJCNLP 2015

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)

• also see http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_planning_schedule