2017Q3 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, July 2017

Emily M. Bender - Chapter board chair

Joel Tetreault - Treasurer

Executive Committee Meetings

The board will meet during ACL on 31 July 2017. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.

Treasurer's Report

[In progress]

North American conference in 2017

There is no separate meeting of NAACL this year, as ACL is being held in Vancouver, Canada.

NAACL Officers as of 1 Jan 2017

 Chair         Emily M. Bender	University of Washington
 Secretary     Colin Cherry	National Research Council Canada
 Treasurer     Joel Tetreault	Yahoo! Research
 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			University of Toronto (ex-officio, ACL representative)

We have elections this year for Chair, Secretary, two out-going members, plus one more member (see below). The nominating committee will be seeking candidates to fill these roles; this will go for a vote that concludes on 15 Dec 2017.

New and Continuing Initiatives

Last year, in light of the fact that it was difficult to find candidates for the role of Chair (restricted to individuals who have served on the board within the last five years), and in light of the growing size of our community, the NAACL board put forward to the membership an amendment to the Constitution increasing the number of board members by one. This amendment was approved. Accordingly, the 2017 election will seek to fill three board seats (plus Chair and Secretary).