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New NAACL Board Members 28 Jan 2013

The results of the NAACL Board elections are in. The newly elected Board members for 2013 are:

• Katrin Erk
• Julia Hirschberg

Also joining the Board in 2013 is our new Treasurer:

• Joel Tetreault

Thanks to David Chiang, Dan Gildea and Chris Manning, who have finished their service on the NAACL executive board.

Take a look at the 2013 NAACL Board.

Thanks to everyone who voted in this year’s NAACL Board elections.

NLP workshop at Montevideo: Nov 2012 27 Nov 2012

Information about the NLP workshop at Montevideo in November 2012. This workshop was partially supported by funds from the NAACL Emerging Regions Fund.

NAACL Board Elections 2013-2014 17 Nov 2012

Dear NAACL members,

The Nominating Committee for the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) has chosen the following candidates for the open positions on the NAACL board with two year terms beginning January 2013. Additional nominations can be made until November 20th, 2012.

Treasurer (one opening):

• Joel Tetreault
  Nuance Communications

• Michael White
  The Ohio State University

Board Member nominees (two openings):

• Katrin Erk
  University of Texas at Austin

• Julia Hirschberg
  Columbia University

• Julia Hockenmaier
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Diana Inkpen
  University of Ottawa

• Greg Kondrak
  University of Alberta

• Ani Nenkova
  University of Pennsylvania

• Vincent Ng
  University of Texas at Dallas

• Chris Quirk
  Microsoft Research

• William Schuler
  The Ohio State University

• Luke Zettlemoyer
  University of Washington

Candidate Statements

All the candidate statements are posted at www.naacl.org/elections/2013.

Additional nominations:

Additional nominations can be submitted until November 20th, 2012. To make a nomination, three or more NAACL members should send email to Anoop Sarkar, the NAACL secretary, expressing support for the nominee and giving evidence that he or she will serve if elected. (It is recommended that this evidence consist of a forwarded email from the nominee containing a candidate statement, a biographical sketch, homepage URL, and a brief affirmation of intent to serve if elected.) In addition, the nominees for Chair should meet the criteria set out in the NAACL constitution.

Election process:

The voting period will begin once the final slate of candidates and voting instructions are announced (soon after November 20th), and is scheduled to close on December 15th.

Many thanks to the Nominating Committee — Hal Daume (Chair), Ted Pedersen, Suzanne Stevenson, Chris Brew, Kristina Toutanova, Owen Rambow — for doing the hard work of putting together an excellent slate of nominees.

For more information about the NAACL, NAACL officer responsibilities, and NAACL election procedures, please see the NAACL home page, www.naacl.org, and the NAACL constitution, which is available there.

Sincerely,

Anoop Sarkar
NAACL Secretary
(anoop at cs.sfu.ca)

NAACL HLT 2013 Breaking News: Update 1 13 Oct 2012

ANNOUNCING the 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies!

This breaking news update contains:

1. Main Conference Web Page Now Live! NAACL HLT will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on June 9-14, 2013!
2. Main Conference Call for Papers Now Posted. The call for conference papers has now been posted, and papers are due December 10, 2012.
3. Calling for Workshop Proposals. Workshop proposals are now invited for NAACL-HLT, ACL, and EMNLP! Workshop submissions are due November 30, 2012.
4. Follow NAACL on Twitter! NAACL news and updates will now be posted on Twitter! Follow @naacl. Tweet about NAACL HLT 2013 with #naacl2013.

WPLN 2012 - Montevideo, Uruguay 10 Oct 2012

WPLN 2012 – Workshop on Natural Language Processing – Montevideo, Uruguay.

As part of the STIC-AmSud Scientific Seminar, to be held in Montevideo on 8 and 9 November 2012, the NLP group at the Universidad de la República is organizing a workshop on Natural Language Processing.
The aim of the event is to exchange knowledge and experiences in the area between participants from different countries in the region, promoting future possible cooperation projects.

This event was sponsored by the NAACL Emerging Regions Fund.