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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

Report by Mike Rosner

2014 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

 31-Dec-13 balance                        7,949

 INCOME
 EACL2014 Surplus                        20,869

 EXPENSES
 EACL Sponsorship                        -2,500
 Bank Charges                                -5

 31-Dec-14 balance                       26,313

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 they are being approached during these days. We will try to appoint them as soon as possible.

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
John Camilleri, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

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)
John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Trier University, Germany)

Nominating Committee

Sien Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Giorgio Satta and Kiril Simov came to the end of their term on the Nominating Committee. The EACL Board decided to nominate Stephen Clark and Vivi Nastase as new members of the Nominating Committee. The EACL welcomes the new members of the Nominating Committee and warmly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.

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 ==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:
-Polytechnical
+  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
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 -Dec-13 balance                        7,949
+  INCOME
+  EACL2014 Surplus                        20,869
    EXPENSES
+  EACL Sponsorship                        -2,500
    Bank Charges                                -5
-  EACL Sponsorship                        -2,500
--Dec-14 balance                        5,444
-CHAPTER FINANCES			(SHADOW ACCOUNTING)
+-Dec-14 balance                       26,313
-  INCOME
-  Estimated surplus EACL2014              20,700
--Jan-15 (estimated balance)           26,144
 ==EACL Sponsorships==
-Nothing new since last report 2014Q3.
+* EACL supports ESSLLI 2015 by sponsoring 5 students with a maximum amount of 550 Euros each.
-Student sponsorship is expected for 2015 following the usual EACL Sponsorship Policy. Candidates are ESSLII and ACL.
+* EACL supports CLEF2015 by sponsoring 1 student
 ==EACL shorts==
-* A newsletter was produced describing computational linguistics events and conferences held in Europe during 2013 and 2014 (www.eacl.org/contents/newsletter19.html)
+* The two EACL sponsorship chairs for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee are still to be appointed. We have indentified several good candidates and they are being approached during these days. We will try to appoint them as soon as possible.
-* A new EACL sponsorship chair is needed for the ACL International Sponsorship Committee. Should be appointed as soon as possible
-* EACL is studying adopting an anti-harrasment policy, similar to those of NAACL/ACL. This should be in place for the next EACL conference
-==EACL Website==
-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==
-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==
-Elections  for the EACL Board were held in autumn 2014. The list of
+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:
-nominated candidates was sent to the Chapter in early November. By
-December 1, no additional nominations had been received. The new EACL
-Board for the period 2015-2016 is as follows:
-* Chair: Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
+* Florian Kunneman, Radboud University Nijmegen
-* Chair-Elect: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
+* John Camilleri, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
-* 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), and Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
-The EACL welcomes the new members of the EACL Board and greatly thanks the outgoing members for their years of service to the CL community.
+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 January 1, 2015==
+==EACL Officers per July 1, 2015==
 Chair:
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 Student Board:
-* Desmond Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
+* Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
-* Douwe Kiela (University of Cambridge, UK)
+* John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
 * Mariona Coll Ardanuy 	(Trier University, Germany)
-Nominating Committee (in the process of being renewed)
+Nominating Committee
 * Sien Moens 	(KU Leuven, Belgium)
 * Joakim Nivre 	(Uppsala University, Sweden)
-* Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)
+* Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
-* Kiril Simov 	(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
+* Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
+Giorgio Satta and Kiril Simov came to the end of their term on the Nominating Committee. The EACL Board decided to nominate Stephen Clark and Vivi Nastase as new members of the Nominating Committee. The EACL welcomes the new members of the Nominating Committee and warmly thanks the outgoing members for their service to the CL community.