AFNLP-CCC Memo for IJCNLP-05 Organizers Feedback Meeting 10/13/2005

Memo forAFNLP Informal Official Meeting at Coling/ACL-06

Date: Breakfast, July21, 2006

Location:Novotel Darling Harbor Hotel, Sydney, Australia

Organizer:BenjaminTsou

Recorder: Keh-Yih Su

PARTICIPANTS LIST(total 11 persons attend the breakfast meeting)

(A) AFNLP Officers:

1. AFNLP Chair: BenjaminTsou

2. AFNLP Vice Chair: Jun’ichiTsujii

3. AFNLP Secretary General: Keh-YihSu

4. AFNLP Honorary Treasurer: Kai-FaiWong

5. AFNLP-CCC Chair: YujiMatsumoto

(B) Regional Representatives:

1. Korea: Gary Geunbae Lee and Hae-Chang Rim

2. Singapore: Haizhou Li, Hwee Tou Ng and Jian Su

3. Taiwan: Jason Chang

Agenda and Deliberations

1. Annual Report 2005-2006 (Benjamin Tsou):

1.1 Conference at Jeju, Korea (income about $20K, account not finalized yet)

1.2 ISO-TC-37 on Asian NLP:H Isahara (Leader, Japan); Key-Sun Choi (Secretary General and Leader, Korea); Maosong Sun (Leader, China) and Benjamin Tsou (National Expert, China); Appointment of AFNLP observer (Chu-Ren Huang);

1.3 Conference Sponsorship (without financial support):

(i) MT-Summit-05 (Thailand)

(ii) ICON 05, 06 (India)

(iii) PACLIC-05 (China)

(iv) COLING / ACL-06 (with Sighan) [see below] (Australia)

(v) Summer School ANLP-06 (Thailand)

(vi) ICPOL-06 (Singapore)

1.4 Coling/ACL-06:

(i) AFNLP-Nagao Fund (US$ 5K/5K = Total 10K).

(ii) AFNLP-COLS (US$ 1K/1K = Total 2K) for Best Paper Award on Asian NLP.

(iii) Panel on Asian NLP Chair: A Joshi, Panelists: P Battacharya, B Tsou, J Tsujii

(iv) Discussion of ACL/AFNLP membership link.

1.5 IJCNLP-08 (India):

(i) Honorary Conference Chair: Aravind Joshi.

(ii) Conference Chair: Jong-Hyeok Lee.

(iii) Program Committee Co-chairs: Ann Copestake and Yuji Matsumoto.

(iv) Local Organizing Chairs: Rajeev Sangal & Dr Braga

(v) Tsujii suggests to have two Sponsorship Co-chairs: one within India, and one outside India.

1.6 ACL / AFNLP links:

1.6.1IJCNLP-09: This will be organized as the first hopefully future joint conferences every 3 years with financial arrangements to be worked out. A local organizer search committee has been formed (Bonnie J. Dorr, Martha Palmer, Keh-Yih Su,Jun’ichiTsujii and Benjamin Tsou).

Members noted that: (1) Potential venues are China, India, Korea, SingaporeThailand, (2) BeijingUniversity in China has been informally approached by COLING for COLING 2010 or 2012 to be local organizer.

2. AFNLP Web Site: Haizhou Li will be the responsible person to set it up in Singapore. A vote of thanks to K S Choi for his work so far.

3. Term of Executive Members:Current terms will end at December 31, 2006.Subsequent term of office will be two years from January 1, 2007. To be classified as constitutional revision.

4. Constitutional revisions:form a task force (Jun’ichiTsujii, Benjamin Tsou, Kai-FaiWong, Keh-Yih Su and one person from China), and revision should be completed by September.

5. Activity for 2007: consider to have a summer school in Japan (Jun’ichiTsujii)

6. Other Issues not having enough time for discussion:

(i) Handbook.

(ii) Task Forces.

(iii) Executive Committee Membership.