View source for 2018Q1 Reports: ACL 2019

===Coordinating Committee===

The conference coordinating committee is:

*Marti Hearst (chair; ACL past president in 2019) hearst@berkeley.edu
*Shiqi Zhao (ACL secretary) zhaoshiqi.acl@gmail.com
*Graeme Hirst (ACL treasurer ex officio) gh@cs.toronto.edu
*David Yarowsky (ACL treasurer) yarowsky@gmail.com
*Barbara DiEugenio (ACL board) bdieugen@uic.edu
*Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
*Walter Daelemans, (EACL representative) eacl-chair@aclweb.org
*Lucia Specia (EACL representative) eacl-secretary@aclweb.org
*Sharon Goldwater (EACL representative) sgwater@inf.ed.ac.uk
*Mike Rosner (EACL representative) eacl-treasurer@aclweb.org
*Claudia Borg (EACL representative) claudia.borg@um.edu.mt
*Lluis Marquez (ACL 2019 General Chair) lluismv@amazon.com.

===Progress===
At the ACL 2017 conference, we were very please to report the selection of Florence as the venue for ACL 2019. 

The local chairs are Bernardo Magnini, magnini@fbk.eu
Lenci Alessandro, alessandro.lenci@unipi.it, 
Simonetta Montemagni, simonetta.montemagni@ilc.cnr.it, and a professional conference organizer, 
Maria Cristina Schiavone, mariacristina.schiavone@promoleader.com


Since that report:

*We are very pleased to report that Lluis Marquez has agreed to be general chair for the conference.
*We are very pleased to report that Anna Korhonen and David Traum have agreed to be Program Co-chairs for the conference.

*The contract has been signed with PLS Educational SRL.

Next on the schedule:
*We need to get contracts signed with the conference venues
*There is currently a website at http://www.acl-2019.com/; we hope to get acl2019.org linked to it soon.
*The other conference chairs will be selected by the general chair with support from the coordinating committee.
* Further ahead, they should start on collecting preliminary local information, preparing an initial conference announcement, and make contact with the ACL sponsorship committee.