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=== Membership ===
 
=== Membership ===
  
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The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2021. We expect to close 2021 with almost XXX members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.  
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The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2021. We expect to close 2021 with over 7000 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.  
  
 
=== Outgoing Exec Members ===
 
=== Outgoing Exec Members ===
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=== New Exec Members ===
 
=== New Exec Members ===
  
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We have four new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2022. These are:
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We have three new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2022. These are:
  
 
* Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)
 
* Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)
 
* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large)
 
* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large)
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* XXX (NAACL Chair)
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* Luciana Benotti (NAACL Chair)
  
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Welcome to Emily, Mohit, and XXX!
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Welcome to Emily, Mohit, and Luciana!
  
 
The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about
 
The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about
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For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Test-of-Time_Papers_Award_Recipients
 
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=== ACL Fellows ===
 
=== ACL Fellows ===
  
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The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2020:
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We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected eight ACL fellows for 2021:
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Philip Cohen (Openstream, Inc.)
 
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*For significant contributions to the study of communicative action and dialogue, and to the theory and practice of multimodal interaction.
 
  
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Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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*Joakim Nivre
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*For significant contributions toward statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans.
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**Uppsala University
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**For significant contributions to algorithms, models and data resources for dependency parsing, pushing the field to the forefront of multilingual syntactic analysis.
  
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Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
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*Qun Liu
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*For theoretical and practical contributions to deep learning models for NLP, and computational argumentation, and for services to the ACL and the German NLP Community.
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**Huawei
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**For significant contributions to machine translation and Chinese natural language processing.
  
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Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)
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*Luke Zettlemoyer
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*For contributions to computational linguistics that both broaden its societal impact and advance our understanding of human communication.
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**University of Washington
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**For significant contributions to grounded semantics, semantic parsing, and representation learning for natural language processing.
  
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Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University)
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*Anette Frank
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*For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition.
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**Heidelberg University
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**For integrative work in linguistically informed, technically well-founded semantics- and discourse-oriented natural language processing.
  
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Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)
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*Joyce Chai
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*For significant contributions to symbolic-statistical methods for natural language processing, multilinguality, and the interdisciplinary study of language.  
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**University of Michigan
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**For significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics.
  
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Donia Scott (University of Sussex)
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*Eneko Agirre
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*For significant contributions to natural language generation, particularly in the areas of discourse processing, multilinguality, and knowledge-editing.  
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**University of the Basque Country
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**For significant contributions to word sense disambiguation, semantic textual similarity, unsupervised machine translation, Basque resources and services to the ACL.
  
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Noah Smith (University of Washington)
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*Chengqing Zong
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*For significant contributions to linguistic structure prediction, computational social sciences, and improving NLP research methodology.  
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**Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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**For significant contributions to machine translation and sentiment analysis and sustained service to the growth of natural language processing in China.
  
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Kam-Fai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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*Amanda Stent
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*For significant contributions to social media processing, particularly in Chinese information retrieval, opinion mining, microblog processing and rumour detection.
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**Colby College
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**For significant contributions to computational models of multimodal and spoken dialogue, natural language generation and summarization.
  
 
Congratulations to the new fellows!
 
Congratulations to the new fellows!
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The list of current ACL fellows can be found here: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows
 
The list of current ACL fellows can be found here: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows
  
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=== EACL 2021 ===
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=== ACL 2022 ===
  
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EACL 2021 will be held from 19 to 23 of April, 2021. While we were planning to hold the conference in Kyiv, due to the current COVID situation the conference will be held entirely online.
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The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) is being organized and will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from May 22nd to 27th, 2022. It is planned to be a hybrid meeting, with as many as possible in Dublin.
  
 
'''Important Dates'''
 
'''Important Dates'''
  
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* Submission deadline (long and short papers): 7 October 2020
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*Deadline for submission to ACL Rolling Review: 15th November 2021
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* Tutorials and workshops: 19–20 April, 2021
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*Commitment deadline for ACL 2022: 15th January 2022
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* Main conference: 21–23 April, 2021
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*Notification of acceptance: 23rd February 2022
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*Deadline to withdraw papers: 26th February 2022
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*Camera-ready due: 15th March 2022
  
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For more information of EACL 2021: https://2021.eacl.org/
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For more information of the ACL 2022 conference: https://2022.aclweb.org/
  
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=== NAACL-HLT 2021 ===
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=== NAACL-HLT 2022 ===
  
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NAACL-HLT 2021 is currently scheduled to take place in Mexico City, Mexico from June 6th to June 11th, 2021. The Organizing Committee is monitoring the ongoing global pandemic and will update the conference plans (e.g. moving to a virtual or hybrid format) as needed closer to the conference dates.
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The 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT2022) will be held in Seattle, Washington from July 10 through July 15, 2022.
  
 
'''Important Dates'''
 
'''Important Dates'''
  
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* Author Response Period: January 20 – 25, 2021
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*Anonymity period begins: 1 month before submission
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* Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2021
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*Latest submission to ARR (main conference + industry): January 15, 2022
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* Camera ready papers due: April 11, 2021
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*Submission deadline for system demonstrations: February 11, 2022
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* Final notification for papers requiring ethics re-review: April 30, 2021
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*Commitment deadline for NAACL 2022: March 2, 2022
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* Publication date: May 24, 2021
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*Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2022
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* Conference date: June 6–11, 2021
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*Withdrawal deadline: April 11, 2022
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*Camera-ready version due: May 3, 2022
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*Conference date: July 10–15, 2022
  
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For more information of NAACL-HLT 2021: https://2021.naacl.org/
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More information about NAACL-HLT 2022 can be found here: https://2022.naacl.org/
  
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=== ACL-IJCNLP 2021 ===
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=== AACL-IJCNLP 2022 ===
  
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The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) is being organized and will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from August 1st to 6th, 2021. However, the format of the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 conference will depend on the situation of pandemic.  
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The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.
  
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'''Important Dates'''
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=== EMNLP 2022 ===
  
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* Anonymity period begins: January 1, 2021
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EMNLP 2022 will be held December 7-11 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.  It will be a hybrid conference and we plan to continue improving the hybrid experience.
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* Abstract deadline (long & short papers): January 25, 2021
 
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* Submission deadline (long & short papers): February 1, 2021
 
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* Author response period: March 25-31, 2021
 
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* Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2021
 
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* Camera-ready due: June 1, 2021
 
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* Tutorials: August 1, 2021
 
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* Main Conference: August 2–4, 2021
 
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* Workshops: August 5–6, 2021
 
  
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For more information of the ACL-IICNLP 2021 conference: https://2021.aclweb.org/
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=== ACL 2023 ===
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=== EMNLP 2021 ===
 
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EMNLP 2021 will take place from the 7th to the 11th of November 2021, hopefully in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, but possibly online depending on the development of the covid situation.
 
  
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For more information of the EMNLP 2021 conference: https://2021.emnlp.org/
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The venue of the ACL 2023 conference will be decided and announced in early 2022.
  
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=== ACL 2022 ===
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=== ACL 2024 ===
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ACL 2022 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, May 22-28, 2022.
 
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=== ACL 2023 ===
 
  
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ACL invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Americas in July or August 2023. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
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The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Asia-Pacific Region in July or August 2024. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
  
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ACL 2023 will be organized in collaboration with NAACL. The ACL 2023 Coordinating Committee will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals should identify Local Arrangements Chair(s), who will work with the General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed plan and budget.
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ACL 2024 will be organized in collaboration with AACL. The ACL 2024 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the ACL and representatives from the AFNLP, will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals should identify Local Arrangements Chair(s), who will work with the General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed conference plan and budget.
  
 
'''Important dates:'''
 
'''Important dates:'''
  
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* December, 2020: Call for bids
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* September, 2021: Call for bids
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* February 26, 2021: Notify intention to submit proposal
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* November 30, 2021: Notify intention to submit proposal
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* April 23, 2021: Draft proposals due
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* January 21, 2022: Draft proposals due
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* Through June 1, 2021: Feedback to bidders
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* Through March 1, 2022: Feedback to bidders
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* June 25, 2021: Final bids due
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* March 31, 2022: Final bids due
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* August, 2021: Bid selected and site announced during ACL 2021
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* May, 2022: Bid selected and site announced during ACL 2022
  
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For any queries please contact Tim Baldwin (tb@ldwin.net: ACL2023 Coordinating Committee Chair), or Priscilla Rasmussen (acl.rasmussen@gmail.com).
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For any queries please contact Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de): ACL2024 Coordinating Committee Chair, or Priscilla Rasmussen (acl.rasmussen@gmail.com).
  
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Please send notifications of intent and draft proposals to: Tim Baldwin (tb@ldwin.net)
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Please send notifications of intent and draft proposals to:
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*Iryna Gurevych, gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
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*Priscilla Rasmussen, acl.rasmussen@gmail.com
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*David Yarowsky, yarowsky@gmail.com
  
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Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-2023
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Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-2024
  
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=== 2020 Reports from ACL Officers ===
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=== 2021 Reports from ACL Officers ===
  
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Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q1_Reports
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Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q1_Reports
  
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Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q3_Reports
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Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports
  
 
=== ACL Resolutions ===
 
=== ACL Resolutions ===

Latest revision as of 20:42, 21 February 2022

Membership

The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2021. We expect to close 2021 with over 7000 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.

Outgoing Exec Members

The following people are leaving the exec:

  • Hinrich Schütze (ACL VP-elect (2018), VP (2019), President (2020), Past President (2021))
  • Nitin Madnani (ACL Member at-large, 2019-2021)
  • Colin Cherry (NAACL Chair, 2020-2021)

I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future endeavors!

New Exec Members

We have three new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2022. These are:

  • Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect)
  • Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large)
  • Luciana Benotti (NAACL Chair)

Welcome to Emily, Mohit, and Luciana!

The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2022.

New Exec-plus Positions and Directors

The ACL Exec approved the second term of Nitin Madnani as ACL Information Director, from 2022 to 2024.

The ACL Exec approved Donia Scott as PCC Chair (replacing Emily M. Bender) starting 1/1/2022 for a term of five years.

The full list of Exec-plus members can also be found here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

ACL Ethics Committee

ACL has established an Ethics Committee. The members of the committee are as follows:

  • Chairs:
    • Karën Fort, Min Yen Kan, Yulia Tsvetkov
  • Members:
    • Luciana Benotti, Mark Dredze, Pascale Fung, Dirk Hovy, Jin-Dong Kim, Malvina Nissim

The term of the co-chairs is five years, through the end of 2026, while the term of the members is three years, through the end of 2024.

The ACL Ethics Committee is formed to provide a continuous and consistent platform for dealing with potential ethical concerns raised within ACL events and the ACL community. The focus of this committee is to provide guidance and address considerations of what constitutes ethical research.

ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

The winner of the ACL 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Junichi Tsujii.

https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/junichi-tsujii-receives-2021-acl-lifetime-achievement-award

The 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2022 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

ACL Distinguished Service Award

The 2021 winner of the Distinguished Service Award is Lillian Lee, for continuous sustained and extended service to the Transactions of the ACL (TACL).

https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/lillian-lee-receives-2021-acl-distinguished-service-award

The 2022 Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2022 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients

ACL Test-of-Time Awards

The ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award recognizes up to four papers for their long-lasting impact on the field of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics: two papers from 25 years earlier, and two papers from 10 years earlier.

The 2021 winners of the 1996 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:

  • Adam Berger, Stephen Della Pietra, Vicent Della Pietra. A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing. Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 1, March 1996.
  • Jean Carletta. Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic. Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 2, June 1996.

The 2021 winners of the 2011 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:

  • Maite Taboada, Julian Brooke, Milan Tofiloski, Kimberly Voll, Manfred Stede. Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis. Computational Linguistics, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2011.
  • Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Jeff Hancock. Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Test-of-Time_Papers_Award_Recipients

ACL Fellows

We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected eight ACL fellows for 2021:

  • Joakim Nivre
    • Uppsala University
    • For significant contributions to algorithms, models and data resources for dependency parsing, pushing the field to the forefront of multilingual syntactic analysis.
  • Qun Liu
    • Huawei
    • For significant contributions to machine translation and Chinese natural language processing.
  • Luke Zettlemoyer
    • University of Washington
    • For significant contributions to grounded semantics, semantic parsing, and representation learning for natural language processing.
  • Anette Frank
    • Heidelberg University
    • For integrative work in linguistically informed, technically well-founded semantics- and discourse-oriented natural language processing.
  • Joyce Chai
    • University of Michigan
    • For significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics.
  • Eneko Agirre
    • University of the Basque Country
    • For significant contributions to word sense disambiguation, semantic textual similarity, unsupervised machine translation, Basque resources and services to the ACL.
  • Chengqing Zong
    • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • For significant contributions to machine translation and sentiment analysis and sustained service to the growth of natural language processing in China.
  • Amanda Stent
    • Colby College
    • For significant contributions to computational models of multimodal and spoken dialogue, natural language generation and summarization.

Congratulations to the new fellows!

For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program

The list of current ACL fellows can be found here: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows

ACL 2022

The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) is being organized and will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from May 22nd to 27th, 2022. It is planned to be a hybrid meeting, with as many as possible in Dublin.

Important Dates

  • Deadline for submission to ACL Rolling Review: 15th November 2021
  • Commitment deadline for ACL 2022: 15th January 2022
  • Notification of acceptance: 23rd February 2022
  • Deadline to withdraw papers: 26th February 2022
  • Camera-ready due: 15th March 2022

For more information of the ACL 2022 conference: https://2022.aclweb.org/

NAACL-HLT 2022

The 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT2022) will be held in Seattle, Washington from July 10 through July 15, 2022.

Important Dates

  • Anonymity period begins: 1 month before submission
  • Latest submission to ARR (main conference + industry): January 15, 2022
  • Submission deadline for system demonstrations: February 11, 2022
  • Commitment deadline for NAACL 2022: March 2, 2022
  • Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2022
  • Withdrawal deadline: April 11, 2022
  • Camera-ready version due: May 3, 2022
  • Conference date: July 10–15, 2022

More information about NAACL-HLT 2022 can be found here: https://2022.naacl.org/

AACL-IJCNLP 2022

The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) will be held in Taipei from November 21-24, 2022.

EMNLP 2022

EMNLP 2022 will be held December 7-11 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. It will be a hybrid conference and we plan to continue improving the hybrid experience.

ACL 2023

The venue of the ACL 2023 conference will be decided and announced in early 2022.

ACL 2024

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Asia-Pacific Region in July or August 2024. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.

ACL 2024 will be organized in collaboration with AACL. The ACL 2024 Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of the ACL and representatives from the AFNLP, will select the General Chair and the Program Committee Co-Chairs for the conference. Draft proposals should identify Local Arrangements Chair(s), who will work with the General Chair and the Coordinating Committee to develop a detailed conference plan and budget.

Important dates:

  • September, 2021: Call for bids
  • November 30, 2021: Notify intention to submit proposal
  • January 21, 2022: Draft proposals due
  • Through March 1, 2022: Feedback to bidders
  • March 31, 2022: Final bids due
  • May, 2022: Bid selected and site announced during ACL 2022

For any queries please contact Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de): ACL2024 Coordinating Committee Chair, or Priscilla Rasmussen (acl.rasmussen@gmail.com).

Please send notifications of intent and draft proposals to:

  • Iryna Gurevych, gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
  • Priscilla Rasmussen, acl.rasmussen@gmail.com
  • David Yarowsky, yarowsky@gmail.com

Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-bids-host-acl-2024

2021 Reports from ACL Officers

Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q1_Reports

Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports

ACL Resolutions

The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions


Sincerely,

Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary

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