To: hovy@isi.edu, nerbonne@let.rug.nl, mccoy@mail.eecis.udel.edu, pcohen@cse.ogi.edu, sgp@cam.sri.com, dekai@cs.ust.hk, felisa@ieec.uned.es, yarowsky@blaze.cs.jhu.edu, julia@research.att.com, donia.scott@itri.bton.ac.uk, diane@research.att.com, acl@aclweb.org
cc: wahlster@dfki.de
Subject: URGENT: Draft Agenda for ACL Executive Meeting
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:53:58 +0200
From: Wolfgang Wahlster <wahlster@dfki.de>



Dear Members of the ACL Executive Committee,

Here is the draft agenda for our meeting in Honk Kong. Please send me your possible additions.

I assume that all of us will attend the meeting except Steven Pulman, who has just moved
to Oxford.

Please confirm that you join us for breakfast on Monday morning in the Century hotel.

I will arrive at the Century around noon on Sunday.

Looking forward to meeting you soon,


Wolfgang Wahlster
ACL President

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                        ACL Executive Committee Meeting


Date and Time:  Monday, 2 October 2000, 8.45 am - 16.45 pm

Venue:          Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
                
                I suggest that we all meet for breakfast in the Century Hotel,
                where we have a table reserved for the Executive Committee at 7.30 am.
                After breakfast we make our way over from there to HKUST.

           

Agenda:

1. ACL Finances (McCoy, Rasmussen) 

 - Final Budget 2000
 - Budget Plan for 2001/2002

2. Review of NAACL/ANLP Financial Results and Problems with Convention Service (McCoy, Rasmussen)

3. Results of ACL 2000 Electronic Elections (McCoy)

4. Results of ICCL-ACL Meeting at COLING 2000 and Conference Rotation Scheme (Wahlster)

5. Reports on ACL-2000 

 - Report of the General Chair (Iida)
 - Report of the Program Chairs (Huang, Vijay-Shanker)
 - Report of the Local Arrangement Chair (Dekai Wu)
 - Report of the Publications Chair (Yarowsky)

6. Status of ACL-2001

 - Local Arrangement Progress (Saint-Dizier/Wahlster)
 - Nominations for General Chair, PC Chairs and other CC members (Wahlster)

7. Status of NAACL-2001 (Levin)

8. Status of ACL-2002 (Hovy)

 - Evaluation of the two bids: Milwaukee and Edmonton
 - Celebration of ACL's 40th Anniversary in 2002

9. ACL Chapters

 - NAACL (Litman)
 - EACL (Scott)
 - Strategy for Asian-Pacific Chapter

10. Conference Planning Handbook (Hovy) and Future Conferences (ACL-2003 and 2004)

11. Policies for Sponsor Relations, Sponsorship Schemes and Benefits

12. Policy for Student Sessions at ACL Conferences (Scott, Hovy)

13. Conference Planning Handbook (Hovy)

14. Status of ACL Webpage and Archive (Radev, Sproat)

15. The Journal, Subscription Rates and Electronic Access to CL (Hirschberg)

16. Revised Task Descriptions for ACL Exec Members

17. Agendas for Executive Dinner and Business Meeting at ACL-2000

18. Next Meetings
  
  - Spring Executive Meeting 2001
  - Executive Committee Meeting at ACL-2001
  - Business Meeting at ACL-2001