2016Q1 Reports: ACL 2018

ACL 2018 - report by Joakim Nivre

In 2018 there will be an ACL conference in the Asia/Pacific region.

Coordinating Committee

The conference coordinating committee is:

• Joakim Nivre (chair; ACL past president in 2018) joakim.nivre@lingfil.uu.se
• Shiqi Zhao (ACL secretary) zhaoshiqi.acl@gmail.com
• Graeme Hirst (ACL treasurer) gh@cs.toronto.edu
• Yejin Choi (ACL board) yejin@cs.washington.edu
• Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
• Pascale Fung (AFNLP representative) pascale@ece.ust.hk
• Haizhou Li (AFNLP representative) hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
• Yuji Matsumoto (AFNLP representative) matsu@is.naist.jp
• Jong Park (AFNLP representative) park@cs.kaist.ac.kr

The committee email list address is: acl18cc@aclweb.org.

Progress

The domain name http://acl2018.org/ has been reserved (but not yet populated).

Three calls for bids were distributed from August to November 2015. The deadline for the notification to submit proposals was January 31, 2016. By this date, we had received four (4) notifications of intention to submit a bid, so the hope is that we are in a good position to have multiple competitive bids.

The next steps in the schedule are:

• March 15, 2016: Draft proposals due
• Through May 1, 2016: Feedback to bidders
• May 30, 2016: Final bids due
• July 1, 2016: Bid selected

The selected location for ACL 2018 will be announced at the ACL 2016 conference (Berlin, August 7--12, 2016).