2016Q3 Reports: Secretary

Resolutions

Four resolutions have been passed since the winter teleconference, which can be found here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

Events during ACL-2016

• Exec meeting: August 7, Sunday.
  • All the reports can be found here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q3_Reports
• Business meeting: August 10, Wednesday
• Exec++ dinner: August 10, Wednesday, Bundestag
• Post-conference breakfast: August 11, Thursday

Some important items from the minutes of ACL/IJCNLP-2015 post-conference breakfast have been checked, to make sure that we don’t make the same mistakes this year.

Nomination

The nominating committee has picked the following candidates for this year's elections:

• President-Elect Candidates
  • Kam-Fai Wong, CUHK, http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/kfwong/
  • Ming Zhou, Microsoft, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mingzhou/

• Member-at-large Candidates (SIG officer, 2017-2019):
  • Eneko Agirre, UBC, http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/eneko/
  • Jennifer Foster, DCU, http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jfoster/

The above nominees will be announced at ACL-2016 conference. Additional nominations can be sent to the secretary (secretary@aclweb.org) within one month after the conference. The elections will take place later in the fall.

I would like to give my deepest thanks to Drago, for the great help he rendered to me!