2018Q1 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, February 2018

Julia Hockenmaier - Chapter board chair Emily M. Bender - past Chapter board chair Joel Tetreault - Treasurer

Executive Committee Meetings

The board had a meeting at ACL on July 31, 2017. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.

Treasurer's Report

(TO BE UPDATED) The NAACL Chapter's bank account held $73,581.78 as of January 31, 2017. In 2016, our expenditures totaled $28k and were comprised of outlays of $5k to NACLO, two Emerging Regions Fund awards at $1.5k apiece ($3k), $10k for the JSALT Summer School and $10k for video processing at NAACL 2016. (Though it is unclear to us at this time whether this cost was reallocated to ACL central funds, after the decision at the 2016 ACL exec meeting.) At the same time, NAACL 2015 incurred a loss of $36,265.36 which has not been factored into the balance and we are also waiting on how NAACL 2016 fared. To put these numbers in perspective, our bank account last year held just over $90k (our highest in four years) with similar outlays, and three years ago we carried a $41k balance.

NAACL Officers as of today

 Chair Julia Hockenmaier  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Secretary     Colin Cherry             National Research Council Canada
 Treasurer     Joel Tetreault           Grammarly
 Past Chair     Emily M. Bender      University of Washington 

 Board Members:
 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe     The Ohio State University
 Philip Resnik	                               University of Maryland
 Ellen Riloff	                               University of Utah
 Marilyn Walker                             University of California Santa Cruz
 Luke Zettlemoyer                         University of Washington/Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
 David Yarowsky (ex-officio, ACL representative) Johns Hopkins University

NAACL Issues Under Discussion

[ TO BE ADDED]

North America Conference in 2018

NAACL 2018 will take place June 1--June 6 2019 in New Orleans. Marilyn Walker (UC Santa Cruz) is the General Chair. Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Amanda Stent (Bloomberg) are the Program Chairs.