2015Q1 Reports: ACL 2016
ACL 2016 - report by Christopher Manning
In 2016 there will be a joint ACL and EACL conference in Berlin, with local arrangements organized by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Coordinating Committee
The current, just updated conference coordinating committee is:
- Lluís Màrquez, EACL chair <lluism@lsi.upc.edu>
- Caroline Sporleder, EACL secretary <secretary@eacl.org>
- Mike Rosner, EACL treasurer <treasurer@eacl.org>
- Walter Daelemans, EACL chair-elect <walter.daelemans@ua.ac.be>
- Christopher Manning, ACL past president in 2016, chair <manning@stanford.edu>
- Drago Radev, ACL secretary <radev@umich.edu>
- Graeme Hirst, ACL treasurer <gh@cs.toronto.edu>
- Yejin Choi, ACL conference officer <yejin@cs.washington.edu>
Additional non-voting members of the committee are:
- Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL business manager <acl@aclweb.org>
- Stephen Clark, EACL past chair <sc609@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Jian Su, past ACL information officer <sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg>
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya, ACL past president in 2017 <pushpakbh@gmail.com>
- Joakim Nivre, ACL past president in 2018 <joakim.nivre@lingfil.uu.se>
- Antal van den Bosch, general chair, <a.vandenbosch@let.ru.nl>
- Markus Egg, local chair <markus.egg@rz.hu-berlin.de>
- Valia Kordoni, local chair <evangelia.kordoni@anglistik.hu-berlin.de>
- Kostadin Cholakov, local chair <kostadin.cholakov@anglistik.hu-berlin.de>
The committee email list address is: acl16cc@aclweb.org .
Progress
In the last report, we reported the selection of Humboldt University to host ACL 2016. We thank the local organizers for preparing a fantastic bid and Humboldt University for their generous support of the bid. The proposed location is in the central campus buildings of Humboldt University, which are very well situated with respect to the Berlin city center. The dates are: 7-12 August 2016.
Since that report:
- We are very pleased to report that Antal van den Bosch accepted our entreaties to be general chair for the conference.
- In early July 2014, Graeme Hirst, Priscilla Rasmussen and Antal van den Bosch visited Humboldt U. and met with the local organizers. They made good progress on working out the shape of a contract with con gressa, the professional conference organizer (PCO). They made good progress on a contract with Humboldt U., and settled on a nearby hotel with enough space for our poster session. They developed a shortlist of hotels for room blocks, and decided that boats on the Spree River should be workable for a social event, whatever precise shape it takes.
- Subsequently, the treasurer, Graeme Hirst has signed contracts with Humboldt University, con gressa (the PCO), the Maritim Hotel (for the poster session), and for blocks of rooms at two nearby hotels.
- The local organizers ....
Upcoming tasks
We hope to finish these goals in the next couple of months:
- The domain name http://acl2016.org/ has been reserved, but not yet populated. Launching an initial conference website should happen. (Responsibility: Local organizers.)
- Identify a webmaster (Responsibility: Local organizers.)
- We have begun discussion of Program Chair candidates. We should decide the program chairs. (Responsibility: Coordinating Committee.)
- We need to select Student Workshop Chair(s) and Faculty Advisor, Publications Chair(s), Tutorial Chair(s), Workshop Chair(s), and Demo Chair(s), Exhibits Coordinator, and Publicity Chair(s) soon. (Responsibility: General Chair.)
- Set up an email address for conference chairs
Further ahead, we should start on finding a local sponsorship chair, and collecting preliminary local information, and preparing an initial conference announcement.