NEALT Executive Committee (EC)

Members elected to the Executive Committee for the period ending at the end of the next business meeting of NEALT to be held at Nodalida-2007 in Tartu: Kimmo Koskenniemi as President, Eirikur Rögnvaldsson (from Reykjavik, Iceland) as Vice-president, Janne Bondi Johannessen (from Oslo, Norway) as Secretary, Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, Sweden) as Treasurer, Mare Koit (from Tartu, Estonia) as Editor in Chief and Inguna Skadina (from Riga, Latvia) as member of the committee

Minutes of the 1st meeting of the EC of the NEALT

Place: Electronic meeting

Time: Wednesday 14th - Thursday 15th March 2007 at 12:00 EET.

Present: Kimmo Koskenniemi, Joakim Nivre, Eirikur Rögnvaldsson, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Mare Koit, Inguna Skadina.

  1. The EC decided to establish a Special Interest Group (SIG) for teaching (SIG Teaching) and appointed Kimmo Koskenniemi its chairman. The SIG will organize its activities further and report to the EC. The first task of this SIG is to collect a consortium to submit a proposal for a Nordic Master Program of Language Technology for the call by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
  2. Janne Bondi Johannessen has established a web site for the NEALT at http://omilia.uio.no/nealt which can be used as an official web site for the association.
  3. Joakim Nivre has opened a bank account in Handelsbanken, which can be used for NEALT's transactions, e.g., for the payment of membership dues by supporting members. Information about payment procedures can be found on the NEALT web page.