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ACL Publicity Director Barbara Plank and Deputy Sarvnaz Karimi

July 31, 2019 | BY webmaster

Dear ACL members,

I am happy to announce the ACL Publicity Director and Deputy Director:

- Director: Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Deputy Director: Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)

Congratulations to Barbara and Sarvnaz, whose term starts from the date of announcement. Thank you to the other candidates for running, and to the working group for searching for the Publicity Director and Deputy Director.

Ming Zhou, ACL President

New Editor-in-Chief of the TACL journal and changes in the TACL Steering Committee

June 26, 2019 | BY webmaster

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has appointed Ani Nenkova, of University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, the new Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL-sponsored journal, Transactions of the ACL (https://www.transacl.org). Her term starts July 1, 2019 and runs for three years. She is replacing Lillian Lee, whose term expires at the end of 2019, and joining Brian Roark and Mark Johnson, who continue to serve as TACL EiCs.

Remembering Richard Kittredge

April 21, 2019 | BY webmaster

Richard Kittredge passed away in early April, 2019. Richard had been a long-standing member of the ACL community. He obtained his PhD in 1969 at the University of Pennsylvania with Zellig Harris and Henry Hiz, working on tense and aspect. He subsequently became a professor at the Université de Montréal, where he spent his entire academic career. In the 1970s, Richard became a member of the TAUM research group on machine translation. The TAUM effort enabled one of the first commercial applications of machine translation, the METEO system in Canada.

Remembering Janyce M. Wiebe, ACL Fellow

December 20, 2018 | BY webmaster

With sadness, the ACL exec announces the premature passing of one of our own, Janyce M. Wiebe, ACL Fellow 2015. Jan was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a former director of the Pitt Intelligent Systems Program. She was a pioneer in the now burgeoning fields of sentiment, affect and subjectivity. Her PhD thesis (1990) -Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text- was an early computational investigation of subjectivity in NLP.

The New ACL Anthology Director: Matt Post

December 18, 2018 | BY webmaster

Dear ACL members,

I am happy to announce the new ACL Anthology Director:

- Matt Post (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Congratulations to Matt, whose term starts on January 1, 2019. Thank you to the other candidates for running, and to the ACL Anthology Advisory Board, headed by Dragomir Radev, for their hard work on this process.

Marti Hearst, ACL President

Beware Scammers and Phishers Targeting the ACL Community

August 15, 2018 | BY webmaster

To the ACL Community,

Scammers are targeting the ACL community, using fake emails to impersonate ACL officers, especially the current ACL President. The scammers sometimes follow up the emails with phone calls.

ACL never requests transfers of money in this way. Please do NOT pay money and do NOT respond to the individuals trying to conduct this fraud.

Marti Hearst and David Yarowsky

Sad News: R.I.P. Aravind Joshi

January 02, 2018 | BY webmaster

The ACL sadly received the message about the passing away of Professor Aravind Joshi on New Year’s Eve 2017. Aravind was one of the pioneers of computational linguistics and made enormous contributions to our field, in particular related to syntax and discourse. In recognition of his contributions he received the first ACL Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. He also served as ACL President in 1975. His death is a great loss for the many of us who have known and worked with him over his long career, and for the ACL community.

Sincerely,
Marti Hearst
President of ACL

Call for Bids - ACL 2020

December 27, 2017 | BY webmaster

58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the America region in July or August 2020. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.

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