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Subject: URGENT: Candidates for ACL-2001 Chairs
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:24:43 +0200
From: Wolfgang Wahlster <wahlster@dfki.de>



Folks,

I have compiled a list of candidates, who have been proposed for
the PC Co-Chair position and the General Chair position for ACL 2001.
I list them in alphabetical order with email and homepage info.

I realize that all of them are working in Europe right now, but please
note that Bonnie Webber and Pierre Isabelle spent most of their life
in North America.

In addition, we have had PC-Chairs from Asia and the US for ACL 2000 this year.
The General Chair was from Asia this year.

Anyway, good proposals for further candidates from the US or Asia are appreciated.

Personally, I think that Chris or Bonnie would be excellent General Chairs.
and that Blackburn/Satta or Reithinger/Grefenstette would be good PC Co-Chairs.


  Eneko Agirre, U of the Basque Country, Spain
  eneko@si.ehu.es
  http://www.ji.si.ehu.es/users/eneko/

  Patrick Blackburn, U. Saarbruecken (soon: Nancy), Germany/France
  patrick@coli.uni-sb.de
  http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~patrick/

  Laurence Danlos, U. of Paris 7, France
  Laurence.Danlos@linguist.jussieu.fr 
  http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~danlos/Bienvenue.html

  Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Grenoble, France
  gregory.grefenstette@xrce.xerox.com
  http://www.rxrc.xerox.com/people/grefenstette/

  Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Grenoble, France
  pierre.isabelle@xrce.xerox.com
  http://www.rxrc.xerox.com/people/isabelle/

  Chris Mellish, U of Edinburgh, UK
  chrism@aipna.edinburgh.ac.uk 
  http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/chrism/

  Norbert Reithinger, DFKI, Germany
  norbert.reithinger@dfki.de
  http://www.dfki.de/~bert/

  Giorgio Satta, Univ. of Padova, Italy
  satta@dei.unipd.it         
  http://www.dei.unipd.it/~satta/

  Bonnie Webber, U of Edinburgh, UK
  Bonnie.Webber@ed.ac.uk 
  http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/bonnie/

Please mark this list up with 30 points that you can distribute to the candidates
(10 points max. for a single candidate) and send them back (of course with possibe comments)
so that I get an overview of our ranking of these candidates by the Exec.

Please return your list as soon as possible and before Wednesday morning.

Thanks for the cooperation.

Best,

Wolfgang