[Corpora-List] Call for Bids for EACL 2014

[Stephen Clark]

 			CALL FOR BIDS
 	14th Meeting of the European Chapter of the ACL
 			  EACL 2014

The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 
(EACL) invites proposals to host the 2014 EACL conference, to be held in 
Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April) 
2014. From 2014 the EACL conference will take place every 3 years. The 
2014 conference will be the 14th meeting of the EACL.

We seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation 
of the draft proposals received, promising bidders will be asked to 
provide additional information for the final selection.

The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the 
programme committee chair, and all other chairs (tutorial chair, workshop 
chair, etc.) except for the local arrangements chair.

Draft proposals should identify a local arrangements chair, who will be 
responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, 
refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet 
access, the reception, the banquet, and working with the other chairs and 
the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Achieving 
budget estimates will, in particular, involve liaising with the 
sponsorship committee.

The conference should take place during Spring 2014 (preferably April), 
avoiding national holidays of the EACL countries such as Western and 
Orthodox Easter and Jewish passover.

Draft proposals should include information on the following (each item to 
be explicitly addressed):

     - Location (accessibility; conference venue, e.g. hotel or
       university; accommodations, e.g. hotels, motels, student dorms;
       dining options)
     - Proposed dates
     - Local Arrangements team (chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer
       labour, registration handling)
     - Local Computational Linguistics community
     - Meeting venues: space for plenary sessions including 4
       conference rooms hosting respectively 750, 250, 250 and 100
       persons; a poster or exhibit room; 11 rooms on the
       workshops/tutorials days among which at least one hosts 200
       persons and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small
       meetings and registration
     - High-speed desktop and wireless Internet access
     - Audiovisual equipment
     - Printing of conference booklet and tutorial notes
     - Food and catering including breaks, receptions and banquet
     - Social events including infrastructure for banquets and
       receptions
     - Sponsorships
     - Budget estimates spreadsheet (template provided, linked from the
       Bid Guidelines)
     - Registration and payment procedure
     - Opportunities for co-location with other meetings.

Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection 
criteria (unordered):

      - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the
        anticipated number of registrants
      - Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services (in a
        range of price categories) and proximity to the conference
        facilities
      - Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus
      - Appropriateness of proposed dates
      - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL
        and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing
        conferences, held in EMEA
      - Experience of local arrangements team
      - Local CL community support
      - Local government and industry support
      - Appropriateness of expected registration fees
      - Accessibility of proposed site.

A budget template for EACL 2014 and successful bids for previous and 
current conferences are available at: 
http://eacl.coli.uni-saarland.de/contents/cfb14.html

The ACL conference handbook and more about ACL policies can be found at: 
http://www.aclweb.org/archive/

Successful bids for previous ACL conferences can be found at: 
http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html

Please send your draft proposal (including template form with estimated 
budget) electronically to the EACL Chair-elect:

Stephen Clark
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sc609/
stephen.clark at cl.cam.ac.uk

The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask 
questions about how to prepare the proposal.

Important Dates:

      - October 8, 2011: Deadline for draft bids
      - November 18, 2011: Feedback to bidders and announcement of
        shortlist of bidders
      - January 31, 2012: Deadline for final bids
      - March 30, 2012: Final bid chosen
      - April, 2014: EACL Conference.

--
Stephen Clark
University Senior Lecturer
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sc609/


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