Newsletter 2022
Membership
The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2022. We expect to close 2022 with over XXXX members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.
Outgoing Exec Members
The following people are leaving the exec:
- Rada Mihalcea (ACL VP-elect (2019), VP (2020), President (2021), Past President (2022))
- Anna Korhonen (ACL member at-large, 2020-2022)
- Shuly Wintner (EACL Chair, 2021-2022)
- Keh-Yih Su (AACL Chair, 2021-2022)
I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!
New Exec Members
We have four new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2023. These are:
- Chengqing Zong (ACL VP-elect)
- Vera Demberg (ACL member at-large)
- Roberto Basili (EACL Chair)
- XXXX (AACL Chair)
Welcome to the new exec members!
David Yarowsky, who has finished his first term of ACL treasurer (2018-2022), is elected as the treasurer for a second term (2023-2027).
The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about
The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2023.
ACL Policies
In 2022, ACL has approved three new policies:
- ACL Conference Awards Policy
- It lays out a standard protocol for awards at ACL conferences.
- ACL Efficient NLP Policy
- It aims to promote ways that the ACL community can reduce the computational costs of NLP.
- ACL COVID Policy
- It will be revisited annually by the ACL exec so as to be responsive to changing pandemic conditions.
New SIGs
Two SIGs were created in 2022:
- SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing
- http://www.sigarab.org/
- president Nizar Habash, secretary Wassim El-Hajj
- SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages
- https://sigturk.github.io/
- president Duygu Ataman, secretary Sardana Ivanova