Conference Officer
The conference officer is an at-large executive member position. The position runs for three years and is renewed at the same cycle as the other two at-large positions. It was inaugurated in 2012.
The primary role of the conference officer is integration of the different ACL-wide activities related to conference organization and management, for example, timeline coordination across different conferences, improving current practices and policies of paper reviews and selection, coordination with SoftConf to improve conference management systems, and developing initiatives in support of diversity and equity of the ACL community.
The conference officer will work closely with conference organizing committees to initiate, develop, and support conference initiatives to improve the scientific, technical, and educational impact of the ACL conference activities while also ensuring continual support for diversity and equity of the ACL community. More specifically, the conference officer will:
- Maintain consistency across conferences by coordinating conference initiatives and sharing experiences across different conferences.
- Develop conference-related and program-related initiatives.
- Track initiatives and work with conference organizers to ensure that successful initiatives are continued.
- Maintain updated and accessible conference guidelines.
- Report to the ACL Executive Committee on conference developments.
- Attend biannual ACL exec meetings. The summer meeting takes place at the ACL conference, typically on the day of tutorials. The winter meeting is based on teleconferencing.
Current and Past IO Officers
- Yejin Choi (University of Washington, USA) - 2015-2017
- Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapor) - 2012-2014