2020Q1 Reports: ACL 2020

General Chair

Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University

The 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place in Seattle, Washington at the Hyatt Regency Seattle in downtown Seattle from July 5th through July 10th, 2020.

We have a great set of chairs! We are continuing 2019's new roles (Diversity and Inclusion chairs, Remote Presentation Chairs, AV Chairs) and adding new ones: (Sustainability chair), and we are doing well in demographic representation among our chairs (gender and region).

Following advice from last year, we have been using Slack for most intra-committee communication (and we put the Slack channel into the ACL pro space, so it can be preserved for future years), and using email only when absolutely necessary.

As usual, the growing size of the conference (both in papers and attendees) is a challenge, but both in papers and space we have been doing well (see the individual chair summaries below).

[this summary in progress]

Program Chairs

Joyce Chai, University of Michigan

Natalie Schluter, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Joel Tetreault, Dataminr, USA

Local Organisation Chairs

Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

With advice from:

Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research

Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington

Tutorial Chairs

Agata Savary, University of Tours, France

Yue Zhang, Westlake University

Workshop Chairs

Milica Gašić, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI

Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

Ves Stoyanov, Facebook AI

Student Research Workshop Chairs and Faculty Advisors

Rotem Dror, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Jiangming Liu, The University of Edinburgh

Shruti Rijhwani, Carnegie Mellon University

Omri Abend, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sujian Li, Peking University

Zhou Yu, University of California, Davis

Audio-Video Chairs

Hamid Palangi, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Lianhui Qin, University of Washington

Conference Handbook Chair

Nanyun Peng, University of Southern California

Demo Chairs

Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Shawn Wen, PolyAI

Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Chairs

Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Rochester Institute of Technology

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Google

Local Sponsorship Chairs

Hoifung Poon, Microsoft

Kristina Toutanova, Google

Publication Chairs

Steven Bethard, University of Arizona

Ryan Cotterrell, University of Cambridge

Rui Yan, Peking University

Publicity Chair

Emily M. Bender, University of Washington

Remote Presentation Chairs

Hao Fang, Microsoft Semantic Machines

Yi Luan, Google AI Language

Sustainability Chairs

Ananya Ganesh, Educational Testing Service

Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service

Website & Conference App Chairs

Sudha Rao, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Yizhe Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond

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