2018Q1 Reports: NAACL

Report from NAACL, February 2018

Julia Hockenmaier (Chapter board chair), Emily M. Bender (Past Chapter board chair)

Executive Committee Meetings

The board had a meeting at ACL on July 31, 2017. Additionally the Board converses regularly by email.

Treasurer's Report

(TO BE UPDATED) 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         Julia Hockenmaier   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Secretary     Colin Cherry        National Research Council Canada
 Treasurer     Joel Tetreault      Grammarly
 Past Chair    Emily M. Bender     University of Washington 
 
 Board Members:
 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe                      The Ohio State University
 Philip Resnik	                                  University of Maryland
 Ellen Riloff	                                  University of Utah
 Marilyn Walker                                   University of California Santa Cruz
 Luke Zettlemoyer                                 University of Washington/Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
 David Yarowsky (ex-officio, ACL representative)  Johns Hopkins University

NAACL Issues Under Discussion

[ TO BE ADDED]

North America Conference in 2018

NAACL 2018 will take place June 1--June 6 2019 in New Orleans. Marilyn Walker (UC Santa Cruz) is the General Chair. Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Amanda Stent (Bloomberg) are the Program Chairs.