2022Q3 Reports: NAACL
Report from NAACL, July 2022
Contributions to this report by:
- Luciana Benotti (NAACL chair)
Executive Committee Meetings
The board had a meeting on March 28, and the last business meeting was on July 12 at NAACL 2022. The next meeting is scheduled for July 27.
Treasurer's Report
The current bank account balance is $125,470.54. It does not include yet 2021 modifications shown in the table. The approximate direct expenses in 2022 were $18,000 (for RAF, NAACLO and JSALT). The treasurer recommends a minimum balance to offset unexpected loss of $100,000 and says we’re in good shape and can expand efforts modestly.
| Conference | Income | Expense | Surplus / (Loss) | NAACL share | NAACL chapter exp | Effect on NAACL account |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACL 2017 (Vancouver) | 1,386,982 | 1,106,678 | 280,204 | 119,352 | (7,176) | 112,176 |
| NAACL 2018 (New Orleans) | 885,562 | 954,092 | (68,530) | (62,894) | (14,569) | (77,463) |
| NAACL 2019 (Minneapolis) | 882,826 | 942,660 | (59,834) | (55,828) | (7,500) | (63,328) |
| ACL 2020 (Virtual) | 690,747 | 350,789 | 339,958 | 152,499 | (295) | 151,574 |
| NAACL 2021 (Virtual) – new! | 303,025 | 96,381 | 206,644 | 191,236 | (4,000) | 187,236 |
Regional Americas Fund
The RAF committee is formed by Eduardo Blanco, Jonathan May and Amittai Axelrod. In 2022, grants of up to 1500 dollars were available for NLP/CompLing initiatives across the Americas. The committee selected six awardees this year. Two in Brazil, two in Argentina, one in Perú and one in Mexico.
- Edgar Altszyler, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1st Argentine NLP workshop
- Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico: annotating Hate Speech data in social media texts in Spanish and English
- Laura Alonso Alemany, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina: public challenge to provide counternarratives for hate speech
- Blanda Mello, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil: BARNLP: Building up an Academic Research journey on NLP workshop
- Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru: SIMBig: International Conference on Information Management and Big Data
- André V. Lopes Coneglian, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil: Portuguese online dependency syntax course
JSALT Summer School Scholarship
JSALT Goal is to send 3rd or 4rth year undergraduates from the Americas to a 2-week summer school at JHU, which takes place as the first two weeks of the JSALT Summer Workshop (June 13 - 24).
- call: https://naacl.org/calls/summerschool/2022/index.html
- workshop: https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/2022-eighth-frederick-jelinek-memorial-summer-workshop/
The winners this year were 3 students (one from Brasilia, and two from Buenos Aires) out of 10 applicants. The total number of awards was reduced to give (almost) full travel reimbursement.
NAACL Conference in 2022
NAACL 2022 was a hybrid conference hosted in Seattle and Underline in July 10 - 15, 2022.
- General Chair: Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Program Chairs:
- Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland, USA)
- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (The Ohio State University, USA)
- Ivan Vladimir Meza-Ruiz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
Approximately 3K people registered at NAACL 2022. Two-thirds participated in person and the rest participated online. People affiliated in 63 different countries registered. From these 63 countries, 20 countries are represented only with virtual participants. The percentage of virtual participation varies among the 6 most represented countries at NAACL 2022: US 12%, China 99%, Canada 70%, Germany 48%, UK 37%, Korea, 27%.
The PCs and DEI committee participated in the business meeting in July 12 2022, and there was some discussion about the reviewing process. Details are available in the conference blog:
- https://2022.naacl.org/blog/review-process/
- https://2022.naacl.org/blog/affinity-workshops-welcome/
- https://2022.naacl.org/blog/welcome-to-structured-socials/
ACL Conference in 2023
ACL will be in the Americas in 2023 so there is no NAACL 2023. ACL 2023 will be in Toronto in July 9-14.
NAACL Conference in 2024
NAACL 2024 will be in Mexico City in June 16-21 2024. The board will soon select a GC.
NAACL Conference in 2025
The board will soon issue the call for Bids for NAACL 2025.
NAACL Officers as of July, 2022
- Chair: Luciana Benotti
- Secretary: Heng Ji
- Treasurer: Jonathan May
- Past Chair: Colin Cherry
- Executive Board Members:
- Eduardo Blanco
- Graham Neubig
- Anna Rumshisky
- Thamar Solorio
- Diyi Yang