2017Q1 Reports: ACL 2019

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In 2019 there will be an ACL conference in the European/Middle Eastern/African region.

Coordinating Committee

The conference coordinating committee is: Marti Hearst (chair; ACL past president in 2019) hearst@berkeley.edu Shiqi Zhao (ACL secretary) zhaoshiqi@baidu.com Graeme Hirst (ACL treasurer) gh@cs.toronto.edu Yejin Choi (ACL board) yejin@cs.washington.edu Lluis Marquez (EACL Chair) lmarquez@qf.org.qa Walter Daelemans (EACL Chair Elect) walter.daelemans@uantwerpen.de Caroline Sporleder (EACL Secretary) csporled@coli.uni-saarland.de Mike Rosner (EACL Treasurer) eacl-treasurer@coli.uni-saarland.de Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org


The committee email list address is: acl19cc@aclweb.org. Progress

The domain name http://acl2019.org/ has been reserved (but not yet populated).

Two calls for bids were distributed from August to December 2016. The deadline for the notification to submit proposals was January 31, 2017. By this date, we had received two (2) notifications of intention to submit a bid, both of which look like competitive bids. A third tentative bid dropped out at the notification date.

The next steps in the schedule are: March 15, 2017: Draft proposals due Through May 1, 2017: Feedback to bidders May 30, 2017: Final bids due July 1, 2017: Bid selected The selected location for ACL 2019 will be announced at the ACL 2017 conference (Vancouver, July 30--August 4, 2017).