2018Q1 Reports: ACL 2019

Coordinating Committee

The conference coordinating committee is:

Marti Hearst (chair; ACL past president in 2019) hearst@berkeley.edu Shiqi Zhao (ACL secretary) zhaoshiqi.acl@gmail.com Graeme Hirst (ACL treasurer ex officio) gh@cs.toronto.edu David Yarowsky (ACL treasurer) yarowsky@gmail.com Barbara DiEugenio (ACL board) bdieugen@uic.edu Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org Walter Daelemans, (EACL representative) eacl-chair@aclweb.org Lucia Specia (EACL representative) eacl-secretary@aclweb.org Sharon Goldwater (EACL representative) sgwater@inf.ed.ac.uk Mike Rosner (EACL representative) eacl-treasurer@aclweb.org Claudia Borg (EACL representative) claudia.borg@um.edu.mt

Progress

At the ACL 2017 conference, we were very please to report the selection of Florence as the venue for ACL 2019.

The local chairs are Bernardo Magnini, magnini@fbk.eu Lenci Alessandro, alessandro.lenci@unipi.it, Simonetta Montemagni, simonetta.montemagni@ilc.cnr.it, and a professional conference organizer, Maria Cristina Schiavone, mariacristina.schiavone@promoleader.com

Since that report:

We are very pleased to report that Lluis Marquez has agreed to be general chair for the conference. We are very pleased to report that Anna Korhonen and Daniel Marco have agreed to be Program Co-chairs for the conference.

The contract has been signed with PLS Educational SRL.

There is currently a website at http://www.acl-2019.com/; we hope to get acl2019.org linked to it soon.

The other conference chairs will be selected by the general chair with support from the coordinating committee. Further ahead, they should start on collecting preliminary local information, preparing an initial conference announcement, and make contact with the ACL sponsorship committee.