2018Q3 Reports: ACL 2019

ACL 2019 - report by Marti Hearst

In 2019 there will be an ACL conference in Florence, Italy. The conference will take place at the 'Fortezza da Basso' from July 28th to August 2nd, 2019.

Coordinating Committee

Key Organizers:

• General Chair:
  • Lluis Màrquez - Amazon

• Program Co-Chairs:
  • Anna Korhonen - University of Cambridge
  • David Traum - University of South California

• Local Organisation Co-Chairs:
  • Alessandro Lenci - University of Pisa
  • Bernardo Magnini - Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento
  • Simonetta Montemagni - ILC-CNR, Pisa

Progress

Since the last report:

• The general chair has recruited additional conference chairs, including workshop chairs, tutorial chairs, demo chairs, publication chairs, and faculty advisors for the SRW.
• The general chair reports the contracts have been signed and completed for the venue.
• The President has initiated monthly video conference meetings with the GC to answer questions and keep everything on track.
• Discussions about co-operation with (somewhat) co-located SIGIR has begun.

Upcoming tasks

We hope to finish these goals in the next couple of weeks to months:

• Have the local co-chairs appoint a publicity chair, a handbook chair, local sponsorship chairs, and an exhibits coordinator.
• Presentation and video of ACL 2019 for presentation at ACL 2018 (responsible: local co-chairs).
• Set up an email address for conference chairs (responsible: general chair).
• Make contact with the international sponsorship committee (responsible: local co-chairs).
• Finalize program chairs' timetable of calls, paper due dates etc. (responsible: program co-chairs).

After that, key tasks are:

• Develop conference budget. Estimate registration dates and costs (responsible: general chair, local chairs, and Priscilla).
• Create call for papers, work on finding area chairs and invited speakers (responsible: program chairs).