Program chair duties

Program Co-Chair Duties

Conference Handbook - Program Chair Duties

The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. This includes

managing the reviewing software
communicating with the General Chair and the Executive Committee
selecting area chairs
reviewer selection: either done by program chairs (incl. load balancing) or area chairs
constructing and distributing the Call-for-Papers
selecting invited speakers
overseeing the Best Paper Award (including making a best paper committee)
overseeing the reviewing process
finalizing the selection of accepted papers
deciding on oral versus poster presentation
communicating the review results to authors
integrating TACL papers whose authors have chosen to present at this conference
possibly setting up the mentoring service for authors from countries where English is not the language of scientific exchange
creating the conference program, to be publicized by publication and handbook chairs
recruiting session chairs
compiling statistics on the conference for the ACL wiki and the business meeting
providing updates to the Program Chair section of the Conference Handbook

Some suggestions made by Jan Wiebe and Su Jian (program chairs for ACL-AFNLP 2009): program chair suggestions