2018Q1 Reports: ACL 2019

Coordinating Committee

The conference coordinating committee is:

• Marti Hearst (chair; ACL past president in 2019) hearst@berkeley.edu
• Shiqi Zhao (ACL secretary) zhaoshiqi.acl@gmail.com
• Graeme Hirst (ACL treasurer ex officio) gh@cs.toronto.edu
• David Yarowsky (ACL treasurer) yarowsky@gmail.com
• Barbara DiEugenio (ACL board) bdieugen@uic.edu
• Priscilla Rasmussen (ACL business officer) acl@aclweb.org
• Walter Daelemans, (EACL representative) eacl-chair@aclweb.org
• Lucia Specia (EACL representative) eacl-secretary@aclweb.org
• Sharon Goldwater (EACL representative) sgwater@inf.ed.ac.uk
• Mike Rosner (EACL representative) eacl-treasurer@aclweb.org
• Claudia Borg (EACL representative) claudia.borg@um.edu.mt
• Lluis Marquez (ACL 2019 General Chair) lluismv@amazon.com.

Progress

At the ACL 2017 conference, we were very pleased to report the selection of Florence as the venue for ACL 2019.

The local chairs are Bernardo Magnini, magnini@fbk.eu Lenci Alessandro, alessandro.lenci@unipi.it, Simonetta Montemagni, simonetta.montemagni@ilc.cnr.it, and a professional conference organizer, Maria Cristina Schiavone, mariacristina.schiavone@promoleader.com

Since that report:

• We are very pleased to report that Lluis Marquez has agreed to be general chair for the conference.
• We are very pleased to report that Anna Korhonen and David Traum have agreed to be Program Co-chairs for the conference.

• The contract has been signed with PLS Educational SRL.

• The initial website can be seen at acl2019.org

Next on the schedule:

• We need to get contracts signed with the conference venues
• The other conference chairs will be selected by the general chair with support from the coordinating committee.
• Further ahead, they should start on collecting preliminary local information, preparing an initial conference announcement, and make contact with the ACL sponsorship committee.