2022Q3 Minutes

Item-1: ACL D&I funding policy.

• Will summarize the questions and get back by email (Luciana).

Item-2: Alignment of TACL with other initiatives and priorities of the organization

• The Exec agreed that it is important to improve the automation level of submission reviewing & processing of TACL.
• The ACL exec will facilitate the discussions between ARR and TACL to start working with TACL, to set up a TACL sand box and clarify requirements. The same person working on new ARR features will work with TACL to develop additional functionality, in order to minimize the possibility for duplicated effort.
• A concern was expressed about putting all ACL workflows in OpenReview because OpenReview has recently conveyed that they expect increased financial support in order to work on ACL needs. Clarifying the exact expectations is advisable.
• The TACL EiCs will have a meeting with the exec later this year, once the new EiC is in place. The topic of discussion will be how TACL and the exec’s current ARR initiative interact given their similarity and reliance on the same pool of ACL members, as well as the exec’s commitment to TACL more broadly.
• TACL is now indexed in Scopus, Web of Science (WoS) and the Directory of Open Access Journals. By virtue of being indexed in the WoS, the journal received its first impact factor for the year 2021: 9.194.

Item-3: Making a quality hybrid experience.

• Will constitute a working group to push forward the initiative, and send an email to invite people who are interested to the working group. (Emily)

Item-4: Business Office Transition.

• The exec generally agreed that the prior job description of Priscilla is divided into multiple specialist functions.
• The definition of each specialist function will be discussed via email.

Item-5: ACL SIG compliance.

• The SIGs must meet some basic requirements, i.e., elections of the board, annual reports, and the number of members.
• ACL should support the elections of the SIGs.
• Anna will propose amendment to the SIG compliance.

Item-6: Best papers (incl. anonymity, etc.).

• Will encourage the next conferences to follow the ACL best paper awards policy, and committee came up with multiple concrete suggestions to give to them on how to handle the anonymity issues based on pre- or post-camera-ready versions.

Item-7: Progress and problems of ARR.

• The ARR team will send an email to the ACL exec to propose "ARR given responsibility for recruiting EiCs", which needs to be voted and approved by the exec.
• The ARR team will contact the PC chairs of the next conferences, i.e., EACL2023 (Shuly will help facilitate the selection of PCs asap), and ACL2023 (check with Tim about the progress).