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.

NAACL 2016 Post-Conference Survey Results

Some highlights [N = 180]:

Options:

1. Childcare provided at the conference venue, paid for by the conference
2. Childcare provided at the conference venue, paid out of pocket
3. Childcare references available near the conference venue, reimbursed by conference
4. Childcare references available near the conference venue, paid out of pocket

Options (Likert):

1 = makes me less likely to attend
5 = makes me more likely to attend

Options (Likert):

1 = not at all
5 = very much so