Program chair duties

Program Co-Chair Duties

Conference Handbook - Program Chair Duties

The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. This includes

• managing the reviewing software
• communicating with the General Chair and the Executive Committee
• selecting area chairs
• reviewer selection: either done by program chairs (incl. load balancing) or area chairs
• constructing and distributing the Call-for-Papers
• selecting invited speakers
• overseeing the Best Paper Award (including making a best paper committee)
• overseeing the reviewing process
• finalizing the selection of accepted papers
• deciding on oral versus poster presentation
• communicating the review results to authors
• integrating TACL papers whose authors have chosen to present at this conference
• possibly setting up the mentoring service for authors from countries where English is not the language of scientific exchange
• creating the conference program, to be publicized by publication and handbook chairs
• recruiting session chairs
• compiling statistics on the conference for the ACL wiki and the business meeting
• providing updates to the Program Chair section of the Conference Handbook

Some suggestions made by Jan Wiebe and Su Jian (program chairs for ACL-AFNLP 2009): program chair suggestions

Revised: Joakim Nivre, based on input from Katrin Erk and Noah Smith, 2016