ACL INTERNET SITE (Dragomir Radev)
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	    The ACL Internet site (http://www.aclweb.org)

		  June 11, 1999 - September 20, 2000

		     Report by Dragomir R. Radev
			  (radev@umich.edu)



INTRODUCTION

o   The ACL Web site is getting more and more popular. From June 11,
    1990 to September 20, 2000, the top-level page has been accessed
    153,494 times. That is an average of 331 hits (accesses) per day
    (or an increase of 22.1% over last year).  


NEW ACTIVITIES

o   Democratization of ACL elections - two votes conducted:
    (1) Constitution changes - old name (Association for Computational
    Linguistics) stays (316 votes)
    (2) New officers - Member of the Exec, Vice-President in Waiting,
    and Secretary (274 votes as of 09/20/2000).

o   A page for NAACL has been created (Claire Cardie):
    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/naacl

o   An electronic membership and ordering form has been created:
    http://www.aclweb.org/reg/reg.cgi

o   The server will now automatically restart (Greg Silber)

o   A secure server has been set up for sensitive transactions (Greg
    Silber) 
    https://www.aclweb.org

o   ACL conference registration pages (Greg Silber):
    https://www.aclweb.org/aclreg00/aclreg00.html

o   Some SIGs have registered their own domains: SIGSEM and
    SIGSEM. Others are using redirects from the main ACL page: SIGGEN,
    SIGNLL. All SIGs have functioning Web pages.

o   An ACL archives section has been added (Richard Sproat, separate
    report):
    http://www.aclweb.org/archive/

o   A new version of the Software registry has been released (Thierry
    DeClerck): 
    http://registry.dfki.de/


CONTINUING FEATURES

o   The ACL NLP/CL Universe, the catalog of Web-based NLP/CL resources, has
    grown at a steady rate. Since last year there has been an 15.3%
    increase in the number of pointers, bringing their total from 1913
    to 2206. There are now 322 personal pages, 524 pointers to various
    resources (corpora, software, etc.), 323 academic or industrial labs,
    departments, and institutes, etc. 

o   The mailing list acl-news is used to announce new additions to the
    NLP/CL Universe. Currently, the list includes 566 subscribers (a
    30.1% increase from last year). The list is posted automatically
    to the only NLP-related newsgroup on Usenet - comp.ai.nat-lang. 
    Since ACL 1999, the newsletter has been published nine times.

o   The unofficial Natural Language Processing FAQ (list of Frequently
    Asked Questions and Answers) is still available through the ACL page.
    Volunteers are sought to contribute to the list. A new version of
    the FAQ was released in September of 1999.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

o   ACL members should make an attempt to announce all events,
    resources, or personal and lab pages to the aclweb.org site using
    the on-line URL submission mechanism.

Please feel free to send me mail with suggestions or comments
(radev@umich.edu)