Program chair duties
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Program Co-Chair Duties
Conference Handbook - Program Chair Duties
The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. This includes
- managing the reviewing software
- communicating with the General Chair and the Executive Committee
- selecting area chairs
- reviewer selection: either done by program chairs (incl. load balancing) or area chairs
- constructing and distributing the Call-for-Papers
- selecting invited speakers
- overseeing the Best Paper Award (including making a best paper committee)
- overseeing the reviewing process
- finalizing the selection of accepted papers
- deciding on oral versus poster presentation
- communicating the review results to authors
- integrating TACL papers whose authors have chosen to present at this conference
- possibly setting up the mentoring service for authors from countries where English is not the language of scientific exchange
- creating the conference program, to be publicized by publication and handbook chairs
- recruiting session chairs
- compiling statistics on the conference for the ACL wiki and the business meeting
- providing updates to the Program Chair section of the Conference Handbook
Some suggestions made by Jan Wiebe and Su Jian (program chairs for ACL-AFNLP 2009): program chair suggestions
Revised: Joakim Nivre, based on input from Katrin Erk and Noah Smith, 2016