2019Q3 Reports: NAACL

Finances

As of 1/31/18 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was 88,797.07. We have yet to incorporate profit or loss from our portion of the ACL 2017 conference in Vancouver or NAACL 2018, as these totals are unknown. Given this uncertainty, the NAACL board has decided to cut its outlays to 13,000 USD (3,000USD for the Emerging Regions Fund, 5,000 USD for the NAACL Summer School Scholarships at the Jelinek Memorial Workshop On Speech And Language Technology (JSALT), and 5,000 USD for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad).

Past Conference

NAACL 2019 (Minneapolis, June 2-7) was successful, with over 1600 participants. We again had an industry track (like last year). We also had an extensive diversity and inclusion initiative.

Upcoming Conferences

There won't be an NAACL 2020, as ACL 2020 will be in Seattle. The next NAACL will be in Mexico City, June 6-11, 2021.

Officers and Board Members

Officers

Chair Julia Hockenmaier University of Illinois 2018-2019 Secretary Colin Cherry Google 2018-2019 Treasurer Jonathan May University of Southern California / ISI 2019-2020 Past Chair Emily M. Bender University of Washington 2018-2019

Executive Board

Board Member Marie-Catherine de Marneffe The Ohio State University 2018-2019 Board Member Marilyn Walker University of California at Santa Cruz 2018-2019 Board Member Luke Zettlemoyer University of Washington 2018-2019 Board Member Joyce Chai Michigan State University 2019-2020 Board Member Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University 2019-2020

===Ex-Officio Board Members===' ACL Treasurer David Yarowsky Johns Hopkins University 2018-2022