2019Q3 Reports: AACL

Board Members

• Chair: Haifeng Wang, Baidu
• Chair-elect: Keh-Yih Su, Institute of Information Science
• Secretary: Yang Liu, Tsinghua University
• Treasurer: Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University
• At-large: Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics
• At-large: Jian Su, Institute of Infocomm Research
• At-large: Mark Dras, Macquarie University
• David Yarowsky, the ACL Treasurer, serves as an observer on the AACL board.

Chapter Board Meeting

The board holds online discussions regularly by email. The annual meeting will be jointly held with AACL/IJCNLP 2020 preparation meeting on July 29, 2019, during ACL 2019 at Florence.

AACL / IJCNLP 2020 Conference

Four AACL board members and one AFNLP board member joined the Conference Coordination Committee (CCC) of AACL/IJCNLP 2020. CCC released the call for bids in October, 2018. The important dates for bid selection are listed as follows:

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

CCC decided to select Suzhou, China as the location where AACL/IJCNLP 2020 will be held.

• General Chair: Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Program Co-Chairs:
  • Kevin Knight, Didi Chuxing
  • Hua Wu, Baidu
• Local Arrangement Chair: Min Zhang, Soochow University

CCC will hold a meeting on July 29, 2019 at Florence to discuss the preparation of AACL/IJCNLP 2020. The attendees of the meeting include Conference Coordination Committee members, ACL Treasurer, and General, Program, and Local chairs.