2022Q3 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

(This report is still in progress)

N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 3 2022 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.

Efforts

After Q1, the Ethics Committee has made slower progress on its internal initiatives.

• #Ethics Survey
• #Ethical Reviewing Guidelines
• Ethics Education and Outreach
• #Committee Scope
• Committee Procedure

The Ethics Education and Outreach and Committee Procedure subcommittees currently have not met due to the summer conference scheduling and various members' unavailability. We expect more progress to be made as the academic semesters start again in the autumn.

Ethics Survey

We continue to process the results of this survey and are compiling the basic aggregated results as of the current time (July 2022), looking to release per-question aggregate information soon and a more detailed cross-question analysis result later. We have delegated the analysis of the various questions to the individual geographical subcommittees to allow for synchronous discussion between members.

Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort co-chair this subcommittee.

Ethical Reviewing Guidelines

We continue to work towards a three-part harmonized recommendations for authoring and reviewing. We note that there have been a few important milestones reached by committees in other fields and are digesting those recommendations for incorporation and modification for ACL.

This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.

Committee Scope

This subcommittee has several parts that relate to each of the Ethics Committee's different roles, coordinated overall by the chairs. Luciana Benotti, acts for AEC's relationships with Diversity and Inclusion; Malvina Nissim and Dirk Hovy act for the AEC's relationship with the PCC.

• For the Diversity and Inclusion role, Luciana has worked to draft a policy for per-conference, minimal guaranteed funding for D&I initiatives. Her work is awaiting further discussion and subsequent vote by the ACL exec.