2016Q3 Reports: Secretary

Resolutions

Four resolutions have been passed since the winter teleconference, which can be found here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

Events during ACL-2016

• Exec meeting: August 7, Sunday.
  • All the reports can be found here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q3_Reports
• Business meeting: August 10, Wednesday
• Exec++ dinner: August 10, Wednesday, Bundestag
• Post-conference breakfast: August 11, Thursday

Some important items from the minutes of ACL/IJCNLP-2015 post-conference breakfast have been checked, to make sure that we have learned from the experience of the last year and avoided some common mistakes.

Nomination

The nominating committee has picked the following candidates for this year's elections:

• President-Elect Candidates
  • Kam-Fai Wong, CUHK, http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/kfwong/
  • Ming Zhou, Microsoft, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mingzhou/

• Member-at-large Candidates (SIG officer, 2017-2019):
  • Eneko Agirre, UBC, http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/eneko/
  • Jennifer Foster, DCU, http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jfoster/

The above nominees will be announced at ACL-2016 conference. Additional nominations can be sent to the secretary (secretary@aclweb.org) within one month after the conference. The elections will take place later in the fall.

I would like to give my deepest thanks to Drago, for the great help he rendered to me!