2016Q3 Reports: EACL 2017

EACL-2017 Report, July 2016

The activity around the organization of EACL-2017 has ramped up since April 2017. Everything is going smoothly and things are progressing significantly and according to the planned schedule. The following information has been provided by the General Chair, Mirella Lapata. For updates extended infomation on the conference, venue, etc. please consult the EACL-2017 website: http://eacl2017.org/

Organizers

All EACL-2017 chair posts are now in place

• General Chair: Mirella Lapata
• Program Co-Chairs: Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller
• Publication Chairs: Maria Liakata, Chris Biemann
• Workshop Chairs: Laura Rimmel, Richard Johansson
• Student research workshop faculty advisor: Barbara Plank
• Tutorials co-chairs: Alex Klementiev, Lucia Specia
• Demo co-chairs: Anselmo Peñas, Andre Martins
• Publicity Chair: David Weir

Dates

• September 30, 2016: Long paper submission deadline
• December 16, 2016: Short paper submission deadline
• April 3-7, 2017: EACL 2017 in Valencia
• April 3-4, 2017: Tutorials and Workshops
• April 5-7, 2017: Main Conference

General Information

- Submission, and camera ready dates have been agreed for the main

conference and satellite events together with the publication
chairs.

- Calls have been out for the main conference and all satellite events

• except* for workshops. There is a meeting at ACL to decide the format

and the call dates (since the call is for all conferences). Also, my understanding is that this year they want to elicit a popularity vote for the workshop proposals which complicates matters.

- The student workshop guys have set up their own page

(https://sites.google.com/site/eaclsrw2017/) and everything seems to
be going smoothly on their end. 

- Our publication chairs will issue the ACL style files for the main

conference by the time ACL takes place.

- We decided not to make the demo papers anonymous as we felt it is

impossible to actually look at the systems without revealing the
identity of the authors (this was the same last year). 

- Phil and Alexander are working on the area chairs (they have a first

draft), they should be finalizing it by the end of this week. 

- Softconf has been set up for the conference and the satellite

events. 

- I will be asking the program chairs to come up with names for

invited speakers next (we are planning for three speakers, one per
day). 

- The local team have been absolutely great, very responsive to all our

requests. They have set up a twitter account for the conference:
https://twitter.com/EACL2017 

Lluís Màrquez, Chair of EACL