Conference Officer
The conference officer is an at-large executive member position focusing on development, coordination, and management of various conference initiatives.
Term
The position was inaugurated in 2012. The term runs for three calendar years and is renewed at the same cycle as the other two at-large positions.
Duties
The primary role of the conference officer is integration of the different ACL-wide activities related to conference organization and management, for example, timeline coordination across different conferences, improving current practices and policies of paper reviews and selection, coordination with the SoftConf support team to improve conference management systems, and initiative development in support of diversity and equity of the ACL community.
More specifically, the duties of the conference officer include:
- Working closely with conference organizing committees to initiate, develop, and support conference initiatives to improve the scientific, technical, and educational impact of the ACL conference activities while also ensuring continual support for diversity and equity of the ACL community.
- Maintaining consistency across conferences by coordinating conference initiatives and sharing experiences across different conferences.
- Developing conference-related and program-related initiatives.
- Tracking initiatives and work with conference organizers to ensure that successful initiatives are continued.
- Maintaining updated and accessible conference guidelines.
- Reporting to the ACL Executive Committee on conference developments.
- Attending biannual ACL exec meetings. The summer meeting takes place at the ACL conference, typically on the day of tutorials. The winter meeting is based on teleconferencing.
Current and Past IO Officers
- Yejin Choi (University of Washington, USA) - 2015-2017
- Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapor) - 2012-2014