Newsletter 2019
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
The winner of the ACL 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Dr. Ron Kaplan.
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/announcement-2019-acl-lifetime-achievement-award-lta
The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during ACL 2020 in Seattle.
For a list of past winners, visit: https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients
ACL 2020
The 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place in Seattle, Washington at the Hyatt Regency Seattle in downtown Seattle from July 5th through July 10th, 2020.
Organizing Committee
- General Chair
- Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University
- Program Chairs
- Joyce Chai, University of Michigan
- Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Joel Tetreault, Dataminr, USA
- Local Chairs
- Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research
- Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL
- Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
Important Dates
- Paper review rebuttal period: February 12 – 17, 2020
- Student Research Workshop Submission deadline: March 6, 2020
- Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): April 3, 2020
- Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): April 24, 2020
- Proceedings publication: June 19, 2020
- Tutorials: July 5, 2020
- Main conference: July 6 – 8, 2020
- Workshops and Co-located conferences: July 9 – 10, 2020
EMNLP 2020
EMNLP 2020 will take place at Bavaro Convention Centre in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from November 8th through November 12th, 2020.
Organizing Committee
- General Chair:
- Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Program Chairs:
- Trevor Cohn (University of Melbourne, Australian);
- Yulan He (University of Warwick, UK);
- Yang Liu (Laix Inc. USA)
AACL-IJCNLP 2020
The AACL, Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the AFNLP, Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, invite you to participate in the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) in Suzhou, China from December 4th through December 7th, 2020.
Organizing Committee
- General Chair
- Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Program Co-Chairs
- Kevin Knight, Didi Chuxing
- Hua Wu, Baidu
- Local Arrangement Chair
- Min Zhang, Soochow University
Important Dates
- Anonymity period begins: May 26, 2020
- Submission due (long & short): June 26, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: Sept 11, 2020
- Camera ready papers due: Sept 30, 2020
ACL-IJCNLP 2021
The ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Conference will take place in Bangkok, Thailand.
ACL 2022
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the Europe/Middle East/Africa region in July or August 2022. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
Important dates:
- November, 2019: Final call for bids
- January 31, 2020: Notify intention to submit proposal
- March 15, 2020: Draft proposals due
- Through May 1, 2020: Feedback to bidders
- May 30, 2020: Final bids due
- July 5-10, 2020: Bid selected and site announced during ACL 2020
For any queries please contact Rada Mihalcea (mihalcea@umich.edu), the ACL2022 Coordinating Committee Chair, or Priscilla Rasmussen (acl.rasmussen@gmail.com).
Please send notifications and draft proposals to: Rada Mihalcea (mihalcea@umich.edu)
Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/reminder-call-bids-host-acl-2022
2019 Reports from ACL Officers
Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q1_Reports
Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports
ACL Resolutions
The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions
Sincerely,
Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary