==Program Co-Chair Duties==

Conference Handbook - Program Chair Duties

The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. This includes

* selecting the Program Committee * constructing and distributing the Call-for-Papers * setting up the mentoring service for authors from countries where English is not the language of scientific exchange * overseeing the reviewing process * organizing the Program Committee Meeting * overseeing the selection of accepted papers * 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

Author List Clean-up Code may be helpful

Some suggestions made by Jan Wiebe and Su Jian (program chairs for ACL-AFNLP 2009): 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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ACL: Program chair duties