2017Q1 Reports: NAACL
Report from NAACL, February 2017
[ NB - this is still under construction; I will remove this note when I am done editing ]
Emily M. Bender - Chapter board chair
Joel Tetreault - Treasurer
Executive Committee Meetings
The board had a meeting at NAACL on 12 June 2016. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.
Treasurer's Report
The NAACL Chapter's bank account held $73,581.78 as of January 31, 2017. In 2016, our expenditures totaled $28k and were comprised of outlays of $5k to NACLO, two Emerging Regions Fund awards at $1.5k apiece ($3k), $10k for the JSALT Summer School and $10k for video processing at NAACL 2016. (Though it is unclear to us at this time whether this cost was reallocated to ACL central funds, after the decision at the 2016 ACL exec meeting.) At the same time, NAACL 2015 incurred a loss of $36,265.36 which has not been factored into the balance and we are also waiting on how NAACL 2016 fared. To put these numbers in perspective, our bank account last year held just over $90k (our highest in four years) with similar outlays, and three years ago we carried a $41k balance.
NAACL Officers as of today
Chair Emily M. Bender University of Washington Secretary Colin Cherry National Research Council Canada Treasurer Joel Tetreault Yahoo! Labs Past Chair Hal Daume III University of Maryland
Board Members: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe The Ohio State University Julia Hockenmaier University of Illinois Philip Resnik University of Maryland Ellen Riloff University of Utah Graeme Hirst (ex-officio, ACL representative) University of Toronto
NAACL Issues Under Discussion
After the ACL adopted its anti-harassment policy, NAACL updated its policy to point to the ACL policy. The NAACL policy can be found here: http://naacl.org/policies/anti-harassment.html
North America Conference in 2017
There will be no separate NAACL in 2017, as ACL is to take place in Vancouver BC, Canada, July 30-August 4.