2018Q3 Reports: Secretary

ACL Officers of 2018

• President:
  • Marti A. Hearst, UC Berkeley, USA
• Past President:
  • Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Vice President:
  • Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• VP-elect:
  • Hinrich Schütze, LMU Munich, Germany
• Treasurer:
  • David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University, USA
• Past Treasurer:
  • Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
• secretary:
  • Shiqi Zhao, Baidu, China
• Information Chair:
  • Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
• SIG Chair:
  • Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Conference Chair:
  • Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
• CL Editor
  • Paola Merlo (2014-2018 July), University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Hwee Tou Ng (2018 July - ), National University of Singapore
• EACL Chair:
  • Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• NAACL Chair:
  • Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• AACL Chair:
  • Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China

Election of 2019 will take place in the fall. The opening positions are VP-elect and Information Chair.

Exec Meetings

There are two exec meetings in 2018:

• winter teleconference
  • March 10, 2018
  • Minutes: 2018Q1 Minutes (public version)
• summer in-person meeting
  • July 15, 2018, Melbourne
  • Agenda: 2018Q3 Agenda

Nominating Committee of 2018

• Three ACL Past Presidents:
  • Chris Manning (male, Americas) (2017-2018) (General Chair of the committee)
  • Pushpak Bhattacharyya (male, APAC) (2017-2019)
  • Joakim Nivre (male, EMEA) (2018-2020)
• Six existing ACL Fellows:
  • Michael Collins (male, Americas) (2017-2018)
  • Eva Hajicová (female, EMEA) (2017-2018) (LTA nomination subchair of 2018)
  • Julia Hirschberg (female, Americas) (2017-2019) (Fellows selection subchair of 2018)
  • Yuji Matsumoto (male, APAC) (2017-2019) (Exec nominations subchair of 2018)
  • Eduard Hovy (male, Americas) (2018-2020)
  • Candace Sidner (female, Americas) (2018-2020)