2014Q3 Reports: Conference Officer

-1- Explaining the conference guidelines or established practices to ACL 2014 organizers

Serving as an acl corporate memory of conference related issues.

-2- Oassing on good practices or experiences to the conference organizers

Eg. ACL 2013 PC chairs commented the set of emails sent by PC chairs can be stored in START system and have some automatic setting. I passed the set of emails Jan and I sent to ACs, authors and etc in ACL-IJCNLP 2009 to ACL 2014 PC chairs, which was also passed to ACL 2010 PC chairs as well as IJCNLP 2011 PC chair.

I've suggested ACL 2014 PC Chairs check afterwards whether some if not all emails used by PC chairs can be stored in START for future PC chairs to use, which may or may not be under a fully automated setting.

There were some discussion on the Best Paper Selection with ACL 2013. I shared the practice with ACL-IJCNLP 2009 to ACL 2014 PC chairs as well.

-3- Documenting conference related discussions

By the end of this year, all the further updated files conclusive and non-conclusive will be passed to the next conference officer.

-4- Supporting new initiatives

I'm glad to see new initiatives like ACL paper presentation video recording, anti-harrassment policy being adopted in ACL 2014 with the efforts from NAACL exe, ACL exe, and ACL 2014 organizers.

-5- I also serves as a member of coordination committee for ACL-IJCNLP 2015 as well as ACL 2016.

Jian