2016Q1 Reports: EACL

EACL 2016Q1 Report, February 2016

Lluís Màrquez, Chair

Walter Daelemans, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL 2017

The organization of EACL 2017 has continued with two important highligts. First, the contracts between ACL and the local organizers were all signed in October-November 2015. A PCO (Grupo Pacifico) has been used as an intermediary body because it was simpler on several aspects compared to signing the contracts directly with the University of Valencia. Second, the Coordinating Committee appointed the main chairs of the conference. The General Chair will be Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh), and the Program Co-Chairs will be Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford) and Alexander Koller (University of Potsdam). This is a very strong team. We are confident on a very successful conference in 2017.

The local organizers (Paolo Rosso and colleagues from the University of Valencia) already prepared an initial website for EACL 2017 where you can consult the main information and dates about the conference: http://www.eacl2017.org/

The real organization work will start in April 2016, one year before the conference.

Financial Report

2015 CHAPTER FINANCES (SHADOW ACCOUNTING)

 31-Dec-15 balance                        26,313

 INCOME                                        0

 EXPENSES
 EACL Sponsorship ESSLLI                 -2,750
 Bank Charges                                -4

 31-Dec-15 balance                       23,559

Mike Rosner 14.02.2015

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.