2014Q3 Reports: EACL

EACL Report, June 2014

Stephen Clark, Chair

Lluís Màrquez, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL 2014

Report by Stephen Clark

The General Chair, Shuly Wintner, has provided a separate report. All I will add here, in general terms, is that Shuly did a fantastic job in overseeing the conference, as did the Program Chairs, Stefan Riezler and Sharon Goldwater, in preparing the program. The Local Chairs also deserve a lot of credit, and overall I would say that EACL 2014 was a complete success.

More specifically, one area that needs to be looked at before EACL 2017 is the joint organisation of the workshops. EACL tends to suffer in the joint timetable, since it is always the earliest conference of the year, resulting in a very tight schedule for the EACL workshops. Lluís, the Chair-Elect, is in an excellent position to investigate this further since Lluís was the workshops co-chair for ACL this year.

The call for bids for EACL 2017 is currently being prepared by the Chair-Elect, and the first call will be sent out in Autumn 2014.