2018Q3 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, July 2018

Julia Hockenmaier (Chapter board chair) and Joel Tetreault (Treasurer)

Board Members

Officers

Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois)
Secretary: Colin Cherry (Google)
Treasurer: Joel Tetreault (Grammarly)

Executive Board Members

Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)
Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Ohio State University)
Marilyn Walker (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington)

Ex-Officio Board Member

David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University)

Chapter Board Meeting

The board converses regularly by email. It held its annual meeting on June 3 2018, during NAACL 2018 in New Orleans.

Treasurer's Report

(Incomplete) The NAACL Chapter's bank account is on track to hold $34,000 by the end of this summer. This is based on our balance going into this year and our planned outlays of $18,000: $5k for NACLO (as we have done since 2012), $3k for the Emerging Regions Fund (third year in a row at this amount) and $10k to support six students to attend the JSALT Summer School. We are currently in the process of fulfilling these outlays.

NAACL 2018 Conference

The 2018 Conference was held at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, June 1- June 6, 2018. The General Chair was Marilyn Walker. The Program Chairs were Amanda Stent and Heng Ji. The chairs created a number of new initiatives: a Test-of-Time award, and an industrial track, both of which were received very positively by the conference participants. The conference also offered childcare through KiddieCorp (like ACL 2017 in Vancouver). Although a significant amount of sponsorship was brought in specifically for this purpose, and this was advertised heavily, only three children were signed up. We believe that alternative approaches to offering or subsidizing childcare should be explored in the future.

NAACL 2019 Conference

The 2019 Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, June 2-June 7 2019. The General Chair is Jill Burstein. The Program Chairs are Christy Doran, Ted Pedersen and Thamar Solorio.

New and Continuing Initiatives

We continue to sponsor NACLO ($5K/year), the Emerging Regions Fund ($3K/year) and scholarships for undergraduate students to attend the JSALT summer school ($10K/year).