2016Q3 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, July 2015

Emily M. Bender - Chapter board chair

Joel Tetreault - Treasurer

Executive Committee Meetings

The board had a meeting at NAACL on 12 June 2016. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.

Treasurer's Report

More details at: http://naacl.org/minutes/2016/NAACL_Treasurer_Report_2016_Business.pdf

As of June 2016, our budget balance was approx $61,000, though the results of NAACL 2015 are not yet fully reflected. We had approximately $18,500 in outlays, including $5000 to NACLO, $3000 through our Emerging Regions Fund, and $10,500 to the Jelinek Summer Workshop. For more information on the NAACL Emerging Regions Fund and supported events, see: http://naacl.org/calls/emerging_regions/index.html

North American conference in 2016

NAACL was held in San Diego CA, USA this year, from 12-17 June. There were 878 attendees (comparable in size to last year's record-breaking NAACL with 901 attendees), representing 41 countries and including 330 students. It featured two keynote addresses, by Regina Barzilay and Ehud Reiter, 6 tutorials, 15 one-day workshops, and SemEval (a 2 day workshop). Ani Nenkova and Owen Rambow were the program chairs and Kevin Knight was the general chair. Nenkova and Rambow developed a thoughtful and innovative approach to recruiting, assigning and supporting reviewers. Preliminary survey results suggest that this was very well received by authors.

NAACL Officers as of 1 Jan 2016

 Chair         Emily M. Bender	University of Washington
 Secretary     Colin Cherry	National Research Council Canada
 Treasurer     Joel Tetreault	Yahoo! Research
 Past Chair    Hal Daume III	University of Maryland

 Board Members:
 Matt Post			Johns Hopkins University
 Fei Xia			University of Washington
 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe	The Ohio State University
 Julia Hockenmaier		University of Illinois
 Graeme Hirst			University of Toronto (ex-officio, ACL representative)	

We have elections this year for three outgoing members: Joel (treasurer) and Matt and Fei (board members). The nominating committee is actively seeking candidates to replace these members; this will go to a vote that concludes on 15 Dec 2016.

New Initiatives

The board is currently exploring three main initiatives:

• Backend in START (subcommittee chair: Matt Post).

• NAACL in South America (chair: Fei Xia).

NAACL is conducting a post-conference survey (see https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvHCQUcS2dG3fu9SOIIIVwUm3w4rh_ykK_I7kAZaNuGWlUrw/viewform); we will make the results available to ACL once they are in.

North America Conference in 2017

ACL 2017 will take place at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver BC, Canada, 30 July-5 August, 2017. The general chair is Chris Callison-Burch and the program co-chairs are Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan.