Greetings.
On 2026-09-02 01:46, Ori Amir wrote:
Alright! The file is nearly complete, including the diversity statement. The application technically has everything, but we are not making full use of the permitted space (2 pages for everything excluding the organizers, committee, and references sections; 4 pages overall). I suggest we fill the extra space with a 3rd Scope and Purpose paragraph discussing this year's multi-model theme. If nobody objects, I'll write it tomorrow (unless someone else beats me to it).
I've made some further revisions to correct some claims that seem to have been copied over from last year's proposal but which no longer applied to the current proposal:
* The text claimed that the Organizing Committee was "geographically diverse", but this is no longer true as we're all in North America now. I fixed this by saying that it's the Organizing and Program Committees together that are geographically diverse.
* The text claimed that our invited speakers connect NLP methods with "established humor research outside the conference circuit", but one of our speakers doesn't do humor research at all and the other one does speak on the conference circuit. I reworded this to make it clearer that the speakers aren't common on the NLP conference circuit, and that they're involved in "the study and/or practice of humor".
* The text claimed that "half our invited panelists and PC members are women", but we have no panelists, and (at least with my trimmed PC list) less than half were women. I changed "invited panelists" to "proposed invited speakers" and replaced some names in the PC list so that 15 of 30 are women.
* The text claimed that we've already sent out invitations to the PC members, but IIRC we haven't yet, so I changed this to "have been or will be invited".
Regards, Tristan