2022Q3 Reports: PCC Co-Chairs
PCC Report Q3 2022
PCC co-chair and Members:
Graeme Hirst’s term of office as co-chair to the PCC will end in December. We are considering our next steps towards finding a replacement. We also expect to be recruiting some new members to replace those whose terms of office expire in December.
Number of Cases:
Two cases were brought to our attention. In one case, the applicant decided not to pursue the complaint. The other case is in its final stages, and we will be reporting to the Exec shortly.
Policy update:
The PCC will over the next months be reviewing the Anti-Harassment Policy and the procedures document in the light of our experiences with its application.
Links between the PCC and other ACL committees:
We note that several of the published ACL policies and guidelines that precede the formation of the PCC require updating to make more explicit the necessary links to the PCC. One example is the Conference Handbook.
Outstanding Issues:
We await a response from the ACL Exec on the following issues raised in our Q3 report of last year:
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Conflicts of interest (CoI's) arise from previous collaborative or personal relationships. ACL's Conflict of Interest policy requires all reviewers, area chairs, and program chairs to determine and disclose potential CoI's in reviewing and decision making, and to not review or participate in the acceptance decision of any paper for which they have a conflict of interest.
We would like to ask the Exec to verify that the COI policy is efficiently implemented for TACL, the CL Journal, and the new rolling review set up. We ask that the Exec inform the PCC when this is complete.
- Record Keeping
- We have learned that the ACM has established a ‘violations database’ which tracks information about sanctions that is critical in their implementation of their anti-harassment policy. We propose that ACL should ask ACM for details of how they have set this up, to see what we can adopt. Further details: https://sigchi.org/2021/05/the-new-acm-violations-database/
- Inter-Society Information Sharing
- We think the ACL should consider whether to establish information sharing relationships with ACM (or other societies) and whether or under what circumstances sanctions imposed by another professional society should be mirrored by ACL (with or without further investigation) and whether or under what circumstances ACL should share information about sanctions with other professional societies.