President Report

Key-Sun Choi2009-08-04

AFNLP

Possible Work Items• Business plan 2009 – 2010

– Annual schedule– How to keep the due date– Task force– Budget use

• Member benefits and management – advanced research – Journal – more introductory practical purpose

• Sharing– Wiki (or wikipedia) of AFNLP and its area (e.g., language resource, tools,

theory, etc.)– information sharing among AFNLP and its endorsed/non-endorsed

events/workshops/activities• Liaison with ACL, ISO, and other organization for scholarly liaison

as well as standards/industry/governmental liaison• Standardization (like IEEE)

– common infrastructure for AFNLP activities among Asian languages– field testing/feedback against standardized annotation/tools

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Business Plan and Action

• Business plan 2009 – 2010– Annual schedule• When VP nominate and voting• Conference bidding, etc.

– How to keep the due date– Task force– Budget use – Young Executive Committee member • recruiting?

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Membership

• Benefit– For Advancing the Academic R&D– For Helping and evangelizing the NLP to

Less-developed NLP region • Possible Work Items– Summer school/winter school – Tutorial for non-developed NLP region– Journal publication of AFNLP– Sharing

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Sharing

• Information and Tool Archive– Wiki (or wikipedia) of AFNLP and its area

(e.g., language resource, tools, theory, etc.)– information sharing among AFNLP and its

endorsed/non-endorsed events/workshops/activities

• Standardization (like IEEE)– common infrastructure for AFNLP activities

among Asian languages– field testing/feedback against standardized

annotation/tools

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Individual member service

• How to send message to individual members– Is it possible for AFNLP to have a

directory of individual members or aliasing?

– Do you like to have something like “elsenet”?

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Actions

• Taskforce or Classification of work items– Journal, Best Paper Award– Constitution– Information Sharing– Collaboration System (like EU project)– Standardization– Even-year events (summer/winter school,

tutorials)• Odd-year: flagship conference IJCNLP

– Fund raising– Budget use

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