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How to Chair a Conference

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I was recently program chair (PC) of a moderately large CS conference, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, which received about 400 submissions, with an acceptance rate of 27% (under 17% for talks). To avoid duplication of effort, I saved various materials and am making them available via this page to future program chairs of ACL-style conferences. This page concerns mainly the responsibilities of the program chair, who organizes reviewing and has final say on the program. There's obviously lots more to running a conference — local arrangements, sponsorship, publications, etc. — which is not covered here. Many items on this page will also be useful to workshop chairs, especially if they're using the START online conference management system. The most time-consuming thing for me was writing all the invitations, policies, advice, and detailed instructions. I kept an archive of all those emails — ask me for it. You can edit the emails as you see fit, of course. Most of my advice is actually contained in th

How to Chair a Conference How to Serve as Program Chair of a Conference by Jason Eisner (2007) I was recently program chair (PC) of a moderately large CS conference, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 , which received about 400 submissions , with an acceptance rate of 27% (under 17% for talks). To avoid duplication of effort, I saved various materials and am making them available via this page to future program chairs of ACL -style conferences. This page concerns mainly the responsibilities of the program chair, who organizes reviewing and has final say on the program . There's obviously lots more to running a

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