2018Q3 Reports: AACL

Haifeng Wang (Chapter Board Chair)

Board Members

1. Chair: Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China
2. Chair-elect: Keh-Yih Su, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan
3. Secretary: Yang Liu, Tsinghua University, China
4. Treasurer: Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University, Korea
5. At-large: Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
6. At-large: Jian Su, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore
7. At-large: Mark Dras, Macquarie University, Australia

Recent Work

• Creating a mailing list for the AACL executive board. The board members converse regularly using the mailing list.
• Creating the AACL website: http://aaclweb.org/. The website contains the introduction of AACL, the list of board members, the AACL constitution, and links to ACL and other chapters.
• Opening a financial account for AACL.

Plans

The first chapter board meeting will be held on July 17, 2018 at Melbourne. The following topics will be discussed at the meeting:

• Collaboration with local societies.
• Organizing the first AACL conference.
• AACL website.
• Mailing list for ACL members in Asia-Pacific
• Financial management.