2024Q3 Reports: AACL

Joint conference formation of AACL and AFNLP

• Grow the common community in Asia Pacific
  • Each will be responsible for all matters of the ‘joint conference’ once every two years
    • taking care of the conference organisation including call-for-bids, selection of chairs, and finance,
    • with a member being invited from the other party to join the ccc for a consultative role
  • Starts from AACL – IJCNLP 2020 with 3 editions organised so far
    • AACL-IJCNLP 2022, IJCNLP-AACL 2023
  • Skipped when ACL conference is in Asia every 3 years
    • as with ACL – IJCNLP 2021 and ACL 2024
    • AACL supports both conferences as ACL Asia Pacific Chapter.

AACL’s support to ACL in the organisation of ACL 2024

• since the formation of conference coordination committee in 2021
  • with 6 members of ACL and 4 members of AACL then:
    • AACL:
      • Keh-Yih Su, AACL Chair
      • Jian Su, AACL Chair-elect
      • Wanxiang Che, AACL secretary
      • Mark Dras, AACL Treasurer
    • ACL:
      • Iryna Gurevych, ACL VP-elect (Chair of ccc)
      • Shiqi Zhao, ACL Secretary
      • David Yarowsky, ACL Treasurer
      • Yusuke Miyao, ACL Conference Officer
      • Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Manager
      • Natalie Schluter, ACL Equity Director

IJCNLP - AACL 2025

• The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• The 4th edition of the joint conferences
  • after IJCNLP - 2023, AACL - IJCNLP 2022 and AACL - IJCNLP 2020
• Call for bid has been released
• AFNLP is the party – in – charge
• AACL has a representative, Huang Xuan Jing in ccc for the consultative role now.