Message from the General Chair

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I am delighted to welcome you to the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP2021)! We are very grateful for many people. Fei Xia, Wenjie Li (Maggie) and Roberto Navigli, as the Program Chairs, have admirably guided the work of main conference organization and management. The calm and experienced Priscilla Rasmussen has done a lot of work for the signing of contracts with virtual platform company. Underline.io, calculation of registration fees and managing the entire registration process, and communication with sponsors and exhibitors. The amazing 68-person organizing committee, who all contributed so much to make the conference successful: Local Chairs (Priscilla Rasmussen, Thepchai Supnithi. Thanaruk Theeramunkong), Tutorial Chairs (David Chiang, Min Zhang), Workshop Chairs (Kentaro Inui, Michael Strube), Student Research Workshop Chairs (Jad Kabbara, Haitao Lin, Amandalynne Paullada, Jannis Vamvas), Faculty Advisors to the Student Workshop (Jing Jiang, Rico Sennrich, Derek F. Wong, Nianwen Xue), Audio-Video Chairs (Suchathit Boonnag, Rachasak Somyanonthanakul), Conference Handbook Chair (Krit Kosawat), Demonstration Chairs (Heng Ji, Jong C. Park. Rui Xia), Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chairs (Academic Inclusion Chairs: Avirup Sil, Kayathi Chandu, Lifu Huang, Sara Rosenthal; Accessibility Chairs: Minlie Huang, Vivian Chen, Yang Feng; Financial Access Chairs: Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Alexis Palmer, Ignatius Eziani, Manuel Mager, Nafise Moosavi: Socio-cultural Inclusion Chairs: Alvin Grissom, Xanda Schofield, Pedro Rodriguez), Local Sponsorship Chairs (Rachada Kongkrachantra, Jing Li, Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn. Zhongyu Wei), Publications Chairs (Yuki Arase, Jing-Shin Chang, Yvette Graham), Publicity Chair (Kai-Fam Wong), Remote Presentation Chairs (Zhongjun He. Nattapol Kritsuthikul, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh), Sustainability Chairs (Angeliki Lazaridou, Qi Zhang), Reviewer Mentoring Committe Chairs (Jing Huang, Antoine Bosselut, Christophe Gravier), Website and Conference App Chairs (Chutima Beokhaimook, Witchaworn Mankhong), Student Volunteer Coordinator (Dongyan Zhao). Ethic Advisory Committee Chairs (Malvina Nissim, Min-Yen Kan, Xanda Schofield), Social Media Committee Chairs (Luciana Benotti, Lidong Bing, Zhumin Chen, Rachele Sprugnoli, Mark Seligman), Virtual Infrastructure Committee Advisor (Hao Fang), Virtual Infrastructure Committee Chairs (Wei Lu, Krich Nasingkun, Alessandro Raganato, Shaonan Wang, Liang-Chih Yu, Jianfei Yu).