2011Q3 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, June 2011

Rebecca Hwa - Chapter board chair

Owen Rambow - Past chapter board chair

Christopher Manning - Treasurer

Anoop Sarkar - Secretary

Executive Committee Meetings

The Board will meet on June 20th, at the ACL HLT 2011 conference in Portland, Oregon. Additionally, the Board converses regularly by e-mail.

North American conference in 2011

This year's NAACL conference is to be held jointly with ACL in Portland, Oregon (ACL HLT 2011). Dekang Lin (Google) is the General Chair, and Brian Roark and Richard Sproat (both OGI) are leading the local arrangements efforts.

North American conference in 2012

NAACL-HLT 2012 will be held in Montreal, Canada. It is scheduled to take place June 3 -- June 8 2012, at the Montreal Sheraton. Sabine Bergler (Concordia University) and Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal) have agreed to serve on the local arrangements advisory committee. Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM) is the general chair.

North American conference in 2013

No bid for hosting NAACL HLT 2013 has been received as of this writing. The exec board will follow the procedure established for NAACL 2012 and select a suitable site. This is a major agenda item for the 2011 NAACL board meeting.