2020Q3 Reports: NAACL

Finances

As of 12/31/2018 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $71,164.59 As of 3/31/20 the NAACL Chapter’s bank account was $21,800.69. This includes:

• $36,265.36 payment to ACL for 2015 NAACL loss
• $3000 in ERF payments plus $125 in total wire transfer fees
• $3300 in JSALT payments
• $2500 in NACLO payments
• $2500 to reimburse the CLPsych speaker (temporary emergency outlay, due to be repaid from ACL master account)

ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, and NAACL 2019 profit or loss have not yet been calculated and this profit or loss have not been added to or subtracted from the NAACL bank account total. We must thus continue to outlay prudently throughout 2020.

Website

As part of preparations for NAACL 2021, we are in the process of transferring the naacl.org domain to the control of the ACL Information Officer.

Activities

Appointed two North American Sponsorship chairs:

• Mohit Bansal (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
• Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook, USA)

Voted to hold NAACL 2022 in Seattle, July 10 through July 15, 2022.

Voted to fund the following outlays in 2020:

• NAACL Emerging Regions Fund (ERF): $3,000.00
• North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO): $5,000.00

Four Emerging Regions Fund (ERF) awardees:

• Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) for NLP course development in Portuguese
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) for workshop on open corpora (OpenCor) attendance support
• Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) for virtual NLP conference (CILCC) support
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru) for summer school attendance support (Peruvian native languages focus).

NAACL 2021 Conference

The board has appointed the General and Program Chairs, who are assembling the rest of the committee. I believe they should have their own report.

• General Chair: Kristina Toutanova (Google, USA)

• Program Chairs:
  • Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
  • Anna Rumshisky (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
  • Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, USA)

NAACL Officers as of January 1, 2020

• Chair: Colin Cherry (Google, Canada)
• Secretary: Heng Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Treasurer: Jonathan May (University of Southern California / ISI, USA)
• Past Chair: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Board Members:
  • Joyce Chai (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)
  • Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA)
  • Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the University of Sheffield, UK)