Agenda for the ACL business meeting

Prague, June 26, 2007

ACL Business MeetingTuesday, June 26 13:00-14:30

Main Auditorium, TOP Hotel, Prague

13:00 ACL officer reportsBusiness manager (Priscilla Rasmussen)Vice president (Bonnie Dorr), 2009 site announcement, SIGsSecretary (Dragomir Radev), ACL Wiki, AAN, 2010 call for bids, NACLO/ILONominating Committee (Martha Palmer, Johanna Moore, Jun’ichi Tsujii)

13:40 New grassroots initiatives14:00 Discussion14:30 End

13:15 Conference reports2007 general (John Carroll)2007 local (Eva Hajicová)2007 PC (Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch)2007 SRW (Violeta Seretan, Chris Biemann, Ellen Riloff)2008 general (Kathy McKeown)2008 local (Chris Brew)

Secretary report – D. Radev• ACL wiki

• ACL Anthology

• Citation analysis of the ACL Anthology (http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/anthology)

• Spreading out workshops

• International linguistics olympiad

• New format for the business meeting

• Membership initiatives

www.aclweb.org

ACL Anthology (for Steven Bird)

• CLJ, EACL, ACL, NAACL, COLING, HLT, etc.• CLJ is one year in arrears• 12,500 papers. Stage one is over.• A mailing list has been set up:

– http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology• Future materials: use ACLPUB, bibs are generated

automatically.• DOIs are now available for all papers in the Anthology• AAN is available: network of citations

– http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/aan• Also: dAnth – OCRed text of the papers:

– http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~min/dAnth/acl• IJCNLP 08 and later will appear in the Anthology

(Springer loophole was closed)

ACL Anthology (for Steven Bird)

• ACM DL is creating high quality bibliometric data for each paper

• Need to establish a standard practice for timing new additions

• Send new CD-ROMs to Bernie Rous at ACM HQ• Topical indexes on the wiki – use persistent URLs• Long term maintenance – Min Yen Kan (NUS,

Singapore) has agreed to become the new Anthology Tzar

• Tasks: move the Anthology to the ACL site (Ali Hakim), integrate the high quality bibliometric metadata from ACM, assign well-documented tasks to the ACL webmaster under the supervision of the Anthology Tzar

ACL nominating committee

• Nominating cmte members: Johanna Moore, Martha Palmer, Jun’ich Tsujii

• Executive committee member– Yuji Matsumoto– Hwee Tou Ng

• ACL vice-president-elect– Jan Hajic– Ido Dagan

• ACL treasurer– Graeme Hirst– Alon Lavie

• Nominations from the floor – send mail to the ACL secretary by July 31, 2007. Two nominators are needed for each nominee.

ACL 2010 Call for Bids(for Steven Bird)

• Joint with EACL (three-year cycle)• Coordinating cmte created• Dates – June/July 2010• Geographical and national balance with regard to

meetings in the decade prior to 2010:– Saarbruecken (Coling 2000), Toulouse (ACL 2001), Budapest

(EACL 2003), Geneva (Coling 2004), Barcelona (ACL 2004), Trento (EACL 2006), Prague (ACL 2007), Manchester (Coling 2008), Athens (EACL 2009)

• http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html

• February 15, 2008 Draft proposals due• Contact Steven Bird at sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au

NACLO/ILO• Long history of competitions in Europe (1960es)• ILO started in 2003• NACLO 2007 in the USA: NSF, Google, NAACL, CUP, Linguist List• Three live sites and a remote site with 195 participants total

– Boston: James Pustejovsky– Ithaca: Lillian Lee and Claire Cardie– Pittsburgh: Lori Levin– Remote (11 states): Dragomir Radev

• Program committee• Booklet with 8 problems: Hmong orthography, Huishu phonology,

Ancient Greek translation, Adjective polarity, OCR postprocessing, sentence similarity, morphological analysis, Garden path sentences, 195 participants from 14 states

• 8 team members: from Ithaca (2), Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Pittsburgh, Boston, and New York

• This year’s ILO is in St. Petersburg, Russia• Volunteers needed: both in the USA and other places• NACLO ACL Flyer Draft 3.pdf www.namclo.org

Member initiatives

• Community projects

• Will benefit ACL members

• Not of the kind that you normally submit to a funding agency

• 4 picks: …

ACL Business MeetingTuesday, June 26 13:00-14:30

Main Auditorium, TOP Hotel, Prague

13:40 New grassroots initiatives

Linked Anthology(Brett Powley, Min-Yen Kan)

Video Archive(Reinhard Rapp, Chris Biemann)

Technical Report Archive(András Kornai)

Open Access Journal(Hal Daumé, Kevin Duh, Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira,

Stuart Shieber)

14:00 Discussion

14:30 End

Agenda for the ACL executive committee meeting

Prague, June 24, 2007

08:10 ACL office (Priscilla), 10'president's report (Mark), 5'secretary's report (Drago), 5'EACL report (Alex), 20'AFNLP report (Tsujii), 20'NAACL report (Owen), 20'

09:30 ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (Bonnie), 15'ACL Anthology (Drago for Steven), 20'handbook maintenance (Drago), 5'longer-term maintenance of web sites (Drago), 5'approving conf. org. slates (Drago), 10'journal (Robert), 20'

10:45 break

11:15 improving the conferences and journal (Robert and Owen) part I, 75'

12:30 lunch (at Bohemia Restaurant)

14:00 improving the conferences and journal (Robert and Owen) - part II, 45'SIGS/SIGANN (Bonnie), 15'

15:00 ACL 2007 (JOHN CARROLL), 20' ACL 2007 local (EVA HAJICOVA), 20'

15:45 break

16:10 ACL 2008 (KATHY MCKEOWN), 20'ACL 2007 PC (ANNIE and ANTAL), 20' reporting numerical scores with conference reviews (Bonnie?), 10'

Unresolved issues from previous meetings

• Updating the handbook. The three members at large need to do that: Nicoletta, Claire, and Keh Yih– Conference policies: Nicoletta– ???: Claire– ???: Keh Yih– Needed:

• Identify the current version• send it to the people most recently involved with this activity

and ask them for feedback• also read the most recent reports• send me the revised versions

Unresolved issues from previous meetings

• Database for LTA nominees

• Double submissions policy

• EMNLP and other similar events – plan in advance

• Permanent sponsorship chair

New discussion

• Clarify the policy on the approval of miscellaneous chairs for joint conferences.

• Clarify who is in charge of registering domains for new conferences.

Agenda for the ACL exec++ dinner

Prague, June 25, 2007

1. Management reports

1. President (Mark Steedman)

2. Secretary (Dragomir Radev)

3. Business office (Priscilla Rasmussen)

4. EACL (Alex Lascarides)

5. EACL treasurer (Mike Rosner)

6. NAACL (Owen Rambow)

7. Nominating Cmte

2. ACL 2007

1. General chair (John Carroll)

2. Program (Antal vdn Bosch, Annie Zaenen)

3. Local (Eva Hajicova)

4. Tutorials (Joakim Nivre)

5. Publications (Su Jian)

6. SRW (Chris Biemann, Violeta Seretan, Ellen Riloff)

7. Workshops (Simone Teufel)

8. Exhibits (Jaroslava Hlavacova, Pavel Pecina)

9. Sponsorship (Martha Palmer, Gabor Proszeky, Jan Hajic)

10. Demos/posters (Sophia Ananiadou)

11. Local demos (Miroslav Spousta)

12. Local posters (Zdenek Zabokrtsky)

13. Mentoring (Florence Reeder)

14. Publicity (Pavel Stranak, Jiri Mirosvky, Pavel Schlesinger)

3. Journals, publications, the Web, other initiatives

1. Journal (Robert Dale)

2. Book reviews (Graeme Hirst)

3. Squibs and comments (Pierre Isabelle)

4. ACL Anthology (Dragomir Radev for Steven Bird)

5. NLSR (Thierry Declerck)

6. Archivist (Dragomir Radev for Eric Fosler-Lussier)

7. ACL Wiki (Dragomir Radev for Peter Turney)

8. NACLO/ILO 2007 (Dragomir Radev)

4. Recent conferences

1. COLING-ACL 2006 (Nicoletta Calzolari)

2. HLT NAACL 2007 (Candace Sidner)

5. Future conferences

1. ACL 2008: HLT general chair (Kathy McKeown)

2. ACL 2008: HLT local chair (Chris Brew)

3. ACL-IJCNLP 2009 cc chair (Bonnie Dorr)

4. ACL 2010 cc chair (Dragomir Radev for Steven Bird)

6. SIGS (Bonnie Dorr Intro)

SIGDIAL (David Traum), SIGGEN (Charles Callaway), SIGHAN (Benjamin T’Sou), SIGLEX (Rada Mihalcea), SIGMEDIA (Elisabeth Andre), SIGMOL (Gerald Penn), SIGNLL (Antal vdn Bosch), SIGPARSE (Harry Bunt), SIGMORPHON (Jason Eisner), SIGSEM (Johan Bos), SEMITIC (Shuly Wintner), SIGWAC (Adam Kilgarriff), SIGDAT (Ken Church, David Yarowsky)

ACL Archives (for Eric Fosler-Lussier)

• Document labeling by year and category• New material:

– Missing exec reports– Archived versions of policies, procedural docs– Updated officers and editorial board listings– Expanded conference bids section

• New policy:– Materials for consideration should not contain external

links• Contact: (the archivist):one word –at – aclweb

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