Memo for AFNLP Executive Meeting at ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore

Date: 7:00-8:30, August 4, 2009
Location: M205 Suntec Conference Room

Participants

• AFNLP Officers (4):
  • 1. President: Choi, Key-Sun
  • 2. Vice President: Su, Keh-Yih
  • 3. Secretary General: Isahara, Hitoshi
  • 4. Hon Treasurer: Huang, Chu-Ren
• AFNLP Ex-Officers (2):
  • 5. Wong, Kam-Fai
  • 6. T¡¯sou, Benjamin
• Subcommittee Chairs (4):
  • 7. CCC Chair: Matsumoto, Yuji
• 8. ALRC Chair: Sornlertlamvanich, Virach
• 9. CLC Chair: Li, Haizhou
• 10. NCAC Chair: Tsujii, Jun¡¯ichi
• Others (3):
  • 11. ACL liaison member to AFNLP: Ng, Hwee Tou
  • 12. Sangal, Rajeev
  • 13. Zong, Chengqing

Agenda and Conclusions

• Report from the officers
  • President: Choi, Key-Sun
  • Vice President: Su, Keh-Yih
  • Secretary General: Isahara, Hitoshi
  • Hon Treasurer: Huang, Chu-Ren (Slide 1-1)

Conclusion:
Standard procedure for spending, validating and claiming AFNLP funds.
The bank account stays at CUHK

Kam-Fai will serve as the bursar/cashier. All claims must be validate properly before sending to him for record keeping and for reimbursement

Hon. Treasurer will be in charge of accounting, and perhaps some actual purchases; but not part of the validation process.

All expenses must be pre-approved by the president of the vice president, treasurer could help acquisition locally.

• ACL/IJCNLP-09 General Chair Report (Slide 1-2)
• President Report (Slide 1-3)
  - Possible Work Items
• Conferences
  • COLING 2010
  • IJCNLP 2011
  • LREC 2011 (Jointly with IJCNLP)
  • ACL 2012 (in Asia-Pacific)

Conclusion:
We will discuss more about IJCNLP/LREC.
Thailand is interested in hosting it, especially IJCNLP.

• Others

Condolence on Prof. Tanaka¡¯s passed away will be presented at the closing session of ACL/IJCNLP2009.