2022Q1 Minutes (public version)

• Emergency situation of EACL 2023 in Kyiv
  • Todo: Will be in touch with the EACL board about the possibility of moving EACL2023 a virtual conference.
  • Todo: Will contact the general chair, PC chairs, local organizers and Underline people to move forward the organization of the conference.

• ACL engagement with Russian organisations
  • Todo: Will draft a statement ASAP and release the statement next week. (Tim, Iryna, Shuly, Luciana)

• The retirement and replacement plans of Priscilla
  • Todo: Work out site for ACL2023 (Tim, Priscilla, David)
  • Todo: Interview PCO for NAACL2022 ASAP, and have the PCO on board in a couple of weeks. (David, Priscilla)

• COI of ACL conferences and journals
  • To construct a central database of COI information, which can be shared across different conferences and journals.
  • Todo: Emily will keep moving on that, talking to the ARR editor Amanda stent and the ACL Information director Nitin Madnani. Hwee Tou will collaborate, representing the CL journal.

• ACL academic misconduct policy
  • Todo: Will recruit representatives from each chapter to form a committee for making the academic misconduct policy.
  • Diversity of the committee is important. It should include members from different regions, from the industry, and also include student members.

• Paper awards policies
  • There are two main concerns: (1) if we should have a larger number of awards, and (2) how to improve the anonymity in the process of selecting papers for the awards.
  • Todo: wait for Jonathan's final report. (Mohit)

• ACL Cloud GPU program for underserved communities
  • Main idea: an infrastructure program promoted by ACL that provides support to those underserved communites.
  • There have already been such programs, which we can partner with or learn from.
  • It will be an international program, which is not limited in the US.
  • Todo: collect more NSF info on GPU programs. (Mohit)