2015Q3 Reports: EACL

EACL 2015Q3 Report, July 2015

Lluís Màrquez, Chair

Walter Daelemans, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL 2017

Report by Lluís Màrquez

The winning bid for EACL 2017 was decided on April 30, 2015. After a very close competition, the selected bid is:

 Paolo Rosso (chair), Francisco Casacuberta (co-chair), Jon Ander Gómez (co-chair)
 Universitat Politècnica de València, PRHLT Research Centre (https://www.prhlt.upv.es)
 Valencia, Spain

The EACL conference will take place in April 2017.

The next steps in the timeline will be carried out in due time, e.g., signing the contract between local organizers and ACL, deciding the General Chair, etc.

Financial Report

[to be updated with the current numbers (Mike)]

Report by Mike Rosner

2014 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

 31-Dec-13 balance                        7,949

 EXPENSES
 Bank Charges                                -5
 EACL Sponsorship                        -2,500

 31-Dec-14 balance                        5,444

2015 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

 INCOME
 Estimated surplus EACL2014              20,700

 31-Jan-15 (estimated balance)           26,144

EACL Sponsorships

• EACL supports ESSLLI 2015 by sponsoring 5 students with a maximum amount of 550 Euros each.
• EACL supports CLEF2015 by sponsoring 1 student

EACL shorts

• The two EACL sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee are still to be appointed. We have indentified several good candidates and there are being approached during these days. We will try to appoint them as soon as possible

EACL Website

[Caroline: anything new done on the website? If not the section should be eliminated; the text below is from the last report]

As already reported in 2014Q3, we initiated a process to revamp the EACL web pages, to make them more up-to-date and maintainable. Alexander Koller and Douwe Kiela led this initiative in 2014. The new site is now up and running. The EACL Board will keep working on polishing the current content during the upcoming months.

EACL Conference Handbook

[Caroline: anything new done on the conference handbook? If it's already available on-line we should say it and give the link; the text below is just from the last report]

As already reported in 2014Q3 we have created a new Conference Handbook, based on the ACL model and sharing much of its content, but tailored towards EACL. This initiative was led by Stephen Clark and Vivi Nastase, with input from the other members of the EACL Board, and Shuly Wintner, the General Chair of EACL 2014. The new Handbook is complete and ready to go online. This will happen during the first months of 2015. It will be publicly available, maintained by the Board and should be already followed by the coming EACL 2017 organisers.

EACL Elections

Two of our student board members, Desmond Elliott and Douwe Kiela, have just finished their 2-year term in June. After elections, which took place in early June 2015, the replacements fo their positions are:

• Florian Kunneman, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Philip Gorinski, University of Edinburgh

The EACL welcomes the new members of the EACL Student Board and greatly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.

EACL Officers per July 1, 2015

Chair: Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Chair-Elect: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Secretary: Caroline Sporleder (Trier University, Germany)

Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:

• Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
• Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
• Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Student Board:

• Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Philip Gorinski (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Trier University, Germany)

Nominating Committee (in the process of being renewed)

• Sien Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)
• Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)