2017Q1 Reports: EACL

EACL 2017Q1 Report, February 2017

Walter Daelemans, Chair

Sharon Goldwater, Chair-Elect

Lucia Specia, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL-2017

The organization of EACL-2017 is now at full speed. Everything is going smoothly and according to plan. Some highlights are the following:

• Around 200 long and 120 short papers were accepted.
• Invited speakers: David Blei, Hinrich Schuetze, Devi Parikh.
• Programme will be created by end of February.
• Workshops have been decided and are listed on the conference website. One workshop did not receive enough submissions, even for a half day workshop.

For updates and extended information on the conference see the EACL-2017 website

Financial Report

2017 Chapter Finances (shadow accounting)

 31-Dec-16                               

 INCOME                                       

 EXPENSES
 SEM Workshop Sponsorship                   
 EACL Sponsorship ESSLLI                 
 EACL Sponsorship EACL conference
 Bank Charges                               

 Feb-17 balance                       

Mike Rosner

EACL Sponsorship

In 2017, EACL sponsorship has already been assigned to the EACL-2017 conference. In 2016, expenses were kept modest in order to save for the sponsorship of the EACL-2017 conference and its associated Student Research Workshop (SRW). The call was open to all students presenting at EACL, and not limited to SRW presenters. It was possible to finance 13 grants (from 27 applications). Barbara Plank (as faculty advisor), and the SRW committee (consisting of the EACL student board) carefully ranked and commented on the applications and proposed funding the first 13. The EACL board checked the proposal and accepted it.

EACL shorts

• EACL has elected a new student board member, Uxoa Inurrieta, to replace Mariona Coll Ardanuy and a new advisory board member, Ivan Titov, to replace Frank Keller. We thank Mariona and Frank for the excellent work they did for EACL, and Uxoa and Ivan for their willingness to serve.

EACL conference cycle

With Lluís Màrquez as chair, the EACL Board started analyzing the status of the EACL conference and discussing measures to better promote and to increase its visibility. The current 3-year cycle of the conference was perceived as a problem in this direction.

EACL Officers per February 10, 2017

The current officers are the following:

Chair:

• Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Chair-Elect:

• Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)

Secretary:

• Lucia Specia (University of Sheffield, UK)

Treasurer:

• Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:

• Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
• Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
• Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Ivan Titov (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Student Board:

• Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
• Uxoa Inurrieta (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Nominating Committee

• Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
• Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
• Caroline Sporleder (Trier University, Germany)