Committees

(A) Conference Coordinating Committee (CCC)

Chair: Yuji Matsumoto

This committee shall have the responsibilities to:

• coordinate the activities of the conferences under AFNLP.
• organise and supervise the AFNLP flagship conference.
• interact with other influential international conferences, and hold joint events when it is appropriate.
• make recommendations to the Board to approve the admission of new conferences under the AFNLP coordination, and
• make recommendations to the Board to remove inactive conferences from AFNLP.

(B) Asian Language Resources Committee (ALRC)

Chairs: Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich

This committee shall have the responsibilities to:

• Coordinate the activities of resource building activities in the region
• Interact with international initiatives of resource building and standardization activities
• To make recommendations to the Board to initiate Asian-wide cooperation on resource building and related research

(C) Communications and Liaison Committee (CLC)

Chair: Haizhou Li

This committee shall have the responsibilities to

• Promote the profile of the AFNLP in the international community
• Facilitate communication among members of the AFNLP and researchers in the region
• Maintain official records of activities of the AFNLP such as proceedings of academic gatherings in the region, minutes of AFNLP meetings

(D) Nominations and Constitutional Affairs Committee (NCAC)

Chair: Benjamin Tsou

This Committee shall have the following responsibilities to recommend to the Board for approval by two thirds majority upon the endorsement of the Executive Committee.

• To nominate at least one candidate for Vice-President
• To nominate candidates for the Chairs of the Committees.
• To propose new representative(s) to the Board.
• To propose removal of representatives from the Board.