2023Q1 Reports: EACL

EACL Officers as of February 2023

• Chair
  • Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy
• Secretary
  • Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany
• Treasurer
  • Claudia Borg, University of Malta, Malta
• Chair-elect
  • Preslav Nakov, QCRI, Qatar

• Advisory Board
  • François Yvon, Interdisciplinary Computer Science Laboratory (LISN), CNRS, France
  • Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University.
  • Veronique Hoste, Ghent University
  • Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources

• Nominating Committee
  • Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa.
  • Barbara Planck, LMU Munich and IT University of Copenhagen
  • Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Lucia Specia, Imperial College and University of Sheffield, UK

• Student Board
  • Alban Petit, Interdisciplinary Computer Science Laboratory (LISN), CNRS, France
  • Matthias Lindemann, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Elisa Bassignana, IT University of Copenhagen, (DK)

Conferences

EACL 2023, initially scheduled as an on-line conference, will be held in Dubrovnik, between the 2nd and 6th of May. The Conference includes 6 Tutorials and 12 Workshops (May 5-6). EACL 2023 received about 1200 valid submissions. It had a 23.9% of accepted regular papers, 17% accepted in as "findings" and a reject rate of 59.1%.

For the EACL 2024 the Conference will be held in April, and three bids are under evaluation by the EACL Board and by the ACL group including David Yarowsky and Jennifer Rachford. The target is to assess the quality of the bidding Conference location through an on-site visit. Visits are scheduled between the 13th and the 15th of March. The Board is also discussing the selection of the EACL 2024 General Chair and a decision is expected in the days just after March 15th, in line with the location decision.

Finances

The transfer of signatories on the EACL account is still in progress. This transfer proves to be difficult due to the paperwork and multiple signatures required from people in various international locations. Barbara Planck is working to this issue. The Board confirm the wish of making the ACL shadow account the main EACL account, as the need for a Europe-based bank account is still diminishing.

Other Issues

The EACL Board has decided to confirm the traditional sponsorship to the ESSLLI 2023 Summer School, that will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from July 31 to August 11, 2023. Barbara Planck, as the Treasurer, is in charge of this activity.