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Program Co-Chair Duties
The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. This includes:
- deciding on the areas/tracks (for reviewing purposes)
- selecting the Area Chairs
- overseeing the work of the Area Chairs, especially in selecting the program committee (reviewers)
- constructing and distributing the Call-for-Papers
- overseeing the reviewing process (taking into account the recent push by ACL and EACL to try and develop a more diverse program at conferences, including the use at ACL of different review forms for different categories)
- making the final selection of accepted papers (in close consultation with the Area Chairs)
- communicating the review results to authors
- overseeing the Best Paper Award
- selecting invited speakers
- creating the conference program
- constructing a program handout
- communicating with the General Chair and the Executive Committee
- providing updates to the Program Chair section of the Conference Handbook
Some suggestions made by Jan Wiebe and Su Jian (program chairs for ACL-AFNLP 2009): http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Program_chair_suggestions
See also the detailed set of notes from Jason Eisner on how to be a program chair: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jason/advice/how-to-chair-a-conference.html
Adapted from the ACL Handbook. Stephen Clark. October, 2013