2016Q3 Reports: EACL

EACL 2016Q3 Report, July 2016

Lluís Màrquez, Chair

Walter Daelemans, Chair-Elect

Caroline Sporleder, Secretary

Mike Rosner, Treasurer

EACL-2017

The activity around the organization of EACL-2017 has ramped up since April 2017. Everything is going smoothly and things are progressing significantly and according to the planned schedule. Some highlights are the following:

• All EACL-2017 chair posts are now in place
• Main deadlines have been agreed for the main conference and satellite events together with the publication chairs.
• Calls have been out for the main conference and all satellite events except for workshops
• The Student Research Workshop chairs have set up their own page (https://sites.google.com/site/eaclsrw2017/)

For updates and extended infomation on the conference see the EACL-2017 website There is also an extended EACL-2017 conference report in the ACL wiki with 2016Q3 reports

Financial Report

2016 Chapter Finances (shadow accounting)

 31-Dec-15                               23,559€

 INCOME                                       0€

 EXPENSES
 SEM Workshop Sponsorship                   -97€
 EACL Sponsorship ESSLLI                 -2,750€ (anticipated)
 Bank Charges                               -14€

 21-Jul-16 balance                       20,698€

Mike Rosner 21.07.2016

EACL Sponsorship

In 2016, EACL is sponsoring:

• 5 students to attend the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2016)
• One European invited speaker for *SEM 2016

We have kept the 2016 expenses modest in order to save for the sponsorship of the EACL-2017 conference and its associated Student Research Workshop.

EACL shorts

• Several EACL Board members are arriving at the end of their terms by the end of 2016: Lluís Màrquez (Chair), Caroline Sporleder (Secretary), and Frank Keller (Advisory Board member). The Nominating Committee will have to think of candidates for these three positions.

• EACL has to elect a new student board member, as Mariona Coll Ardanuy has reached the end of her term. She is currently one of the Student Chairs for the EACL 2017 SRW.

• The EACL Board is analyzing the status of the EACL conference and discussing measures to better promote and to increase its visibility. The current 3-year cycle of the conference is perceived as a problem in this direction.

EACL Officers per February 15, 2016

The EACL boards remained stable since the last report (2016Q1). The current officers are the following:

Chair: Lluís Màrquez (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Chair-Elect: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Secretary: Caroline Sporleder (Trier University, Germany)

Treasurer: Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)

Advisory Board:

• Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
• Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, Italy)
• Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Student Board:

• Florian Kunneman (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• John Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
• Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Trier University, Germany)

Nominating Committee

• Sien Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)