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=== Program Co-Chair Duties ===
 
The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. Duties include:

 * 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
 * deciding on how posters are to be used; how many poster sessions to have
 * deciding on whether to have separate deadlines for long and short papers; what the split between long and short should be in the final program
 * 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)
 * overseeing any author response period as part of the reviewing process
 * 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 (if the chairs decide to have one); creating the process by which any awards are decided (e.g. form a separate committee to make the decision)
 * selecting invited speakers
 * creating the conference program, including how short papers/posters are to be presented (e.g. "one minute madness talks")
 * potentially introducing new innovations to the conference program (e.g. "NLP idol" talks at NAACL-12)
 * regularly communicating with the General Chair

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

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[[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Program_chair_duties|ACL: Program chair duties]]
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Adapted from the ACL Handbook. Stephen Clark. October, 2013