We are pleased to announce the outcome of the elections for new members of the ACL board for 2011:

• VP-Elect: Haifeng Wang
• Board Member: Renata Vieira
• Secretary: Dragomir Radev

We congratulate the elected candidates, and we thank all those members who voted in the election.

CICLing 2012, www.cicling.org/2012, will be held in New Delhi, India, on March 11–17, 2012. Submission deadline: October 31. Keynote speakers: Srinivas Bangalore, John Carroll, Salim Roukos, Bonnie Webber.

The ACL sadly received the message about the unexpected passing away of Professor Fred Jelinek, on Tuesday night. Fred was one of the pioneers and founders of modern research in speech recognition and statistical machine translation and made enormous contributions to our field. In recognition of his contributions he received the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. His death is a great loss for all those who knew him, and for the ACL community.

Here is a link to Fred's life and work in his own words:clsp.jhu.edu

Sincerely,
Ido Dagan
President of the ACL

Kathleen R. McKeown is the Women of Vision Award winner in the *Innovation* category. McKeown has made seminal contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) area, also called Computational Linguistics (CL), within the general areas of artificial intelligence, information extraction, and human machine interaction. More specifically, McKeown has made pioneering contributions to natural language generation; this field of research focuses on enabling computers to effectively utilize natural language.

http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/women-of-vision/
http://anitaborg.org/about/who-we-are/kathleen-mckeown/

COLING 2012, the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organized by IIT Bombay at Mumbai, India in December, 2012 under the auspices of the Natural Language Processing Society of India. We look forward to welcoming you to Mumbai, the financial, cultural and technological capital of India.

Committee (as of now):

• Martin Kay: Stanford University: Program Chair
• Christian Boitet: University of Grenoble: Program Co-chair
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay: Organizing Chair
• Rajeev Sangal: IIIT Hyderabad: Organizing Co-chair

Dear ACL members,

The Nominating Committee has chosen the following candidates for positions on the ACL executive committee (starting January 1, 2011):