2015Q3 Reports: EACL

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EACL 2015Q3 Report, July 2015

Lluís Màrquez, Chair

Walter Daelemans, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL 2017

Report by Lluís Màrquez

The winning bid for EACL 2017 was decided on April 30, 2015. After a very close competition, the selected bid is:

 Paolo Rosso (chair), Francisco Casacuberta (co-chair), Jon Ander Gómez (co-chair)
 Universitat Politècnica de València, PRHLT Research Centre (https://www.prhlt.upv.es)
 Valencia, Spain

The EACL conference will take place in April 2017.

The next steps in the timeline will be carried out in due time, e.g., signing the contract between local organizers and ACL, deciding the General Chair, etc.

Financial Report

Report by Mike Rosner

2014 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

 31-Dec-13 balance                        7,949
 INCOME
 EACL2014 Surplus                        20,869
 EXPENSES
 EACL Sponsorship                        -2,500
 Bank Charges                                -5
 31-Dec-14 balance                       26,313


EACL Sponsorships

  • EACL supports ESSLLI 2015 by sponsoring 5 students with a maximum amount of 550 Euros each.
  • EACL supports CLEF2015 by sponsoring 1 student

EACL shorts

  • The two EACL sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee are still to be appointed. We have indentified several good candidates and they are being approached during these days. We will try to appoint them as soon as possible.

EACL Elections

Two of our student board members, Desmond Elliott and Douwe Kiela, have just finished their 2-year term in June. After elections, which took place in early June 2015, the replacements fo their positions are:

  • Florian Kunneman, Radboud University Nijmegen
  • John Camilleri, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

The EACL welcomes the new members of the EACL Student Board and greatly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.

EACL Officers per July 1, 2015

Chair: Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Chair-Elect: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Secretary: Caroline Sporleder (Trier University, Germany)

Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:

  • Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
  • Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
  • Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Student Board:

  • Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
  • Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Trier University, Germany)

Nominating Committee

  • Sien Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Giorgio Satta and Kiril Simov came to the end of their term on the Nominating Committee. The EACL Board decided to nominate Stephen Clark and Vivi Nastase as new members of the Nominating Committee. The EACL welcomes the new members of the Nominating Committee and warmly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.