2019Q3 Reports: AACL

Board Members

Chair: Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China

Chair-elect: Keh-Yih Su, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan

Secretary: Yang Liu, Tsinghua University, China

Treasurer: Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University, Korea

At-large: Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

At-large: Jian Su, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore

At-large: Mark Dras, Macquarie University, Australia

David Yarowsky, the ACL Treasurer, serves as an observer on the AACL board.

Chapter Board Meeting

The board holds online discussions regularly by email. The annual meeting will be jointly held with AACL/IJCNLP 2020 preparation meeting on July 29, 2019, during ACL 2019 at Florence.

AACL / IJCNLP 2020 Conference

Four board members joined the Conference Coordination Committee (CCC) of AACL/IJCNLP 2020. CCC released the call for bids in October, 2018. The important dates for bid selection are listed as follows:

October, 2018: Final call for bids

December 20, 2018: Notify intention to submit proposal

January 22, 2019: Draft proposal due

Through February 26, 2019: Feedback to bidders

March 26, 2019: Final bid due

April 30, 2019: Bid selected

CCC decided to select Suzhou, China as the location where AACL/IJCNLP 2020 will be held.

General Chair: Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Program Co-Chairs:

Kevin Knight, Didi Chuxing, USA

Hua Wu, Baidu, China

Local Arrangement Chair: Min Zhang, Soochow University, China

CCC will hold a meeting on July 29, 2019 at Florence to discuss the preparation of AACL/IJCNLP 2020. The attendees of the meeting include Conference Coordination Committee members, ACL Treasurer, and General, Program, and Local chairs.