2020Q3 Reports: EACL 2021

The 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) will be hosted in Kyiv, Ukraine. EACL 2021 will be held from 19 to 23 of April, 2021. While we are planning to hold the conference in Kyiv, we will provide suitable online options if need be. As in previous years, the program of the conference includes poster sessions, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations in addition to the main conference.

We have selected a site, after a trip to Kyiv by Paola, Priscilla and Claudia. We will announce the site if we decide to hold the conference physically or in hybrid format.

The website is up and running. The conference has been announced and the call for papers has been circulated. Paper submission deadline is 20th of September, 2020.

Organising committee includes Paola Merlo from University of Geneva as general chair, and Jorg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki) and Reut Tsarfaty (Bar Ilan University) as program chairs. Local chairs are colleagues from Grammarly and Ukrainian Catholic University. For the other chairs of the many functions, please see the web page at https://2021.eacl.org/ More chairs will be added for online infrastructure, if needed.

We are going to use a professional conference organiser and are also hoping to rely on the newly acquired expertise by Priscilla and other colleagues if we need to go online.