2019Q1 Reports: AACL

Officers and Board Members

• Chair (2018-2020): Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China
• Chair-elect (2018-2020): Keh-Yih Su, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan
• Secretary (2018-2020): Yang Liu, Tsinghua University, China
• Treasurer (2018-2020): Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University, Korea
• At-large (2018-2020): Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• At-large (2018-2020): Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• At-large (2018-2020): Mark Dras, Macquarie University, Australia

AACL/IJCNLP2020

The 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing will be held in the Asia-Pacific region in November or December of 2020. Call for bids have been announced. The important dates are as follows:

• October, 2018: Final call for bids
• December 20, 2018: Notify intention to submit proposal
• January 22, 2019: Draft proposals due
• Through February 26, 2019: Feedback to bidders
• March 26, 2019: Final bids due
• April 30, 2019: Bid selected

Conference Coordination Committee(CCC) Member：

• Haifeng Wang, (CCC chair, AACL Chair)
• Haizhou Li (AFNLP president)
• Mark Dras (AACL Conference Officer)
• Seung-won Hwang (AACL Treasurer)
• Yang Liu (AACL Secretary)

There is one bid received.

Issues:

• Distribution of surplus to be discussed among ACL, AACL, AFNLP and local team. Message has been sent to the ACL Treasurer.
• Coordinating the date of the NLP conferences in 2020. Message has been sent to the ACL Treasurer.

The selected location for AACL/IJCNLP 2020 will be announced at ACL 2019.