Complex sentence: Elliot Macklovitch was the president of the AMTA1 in 2002, now he is the director of RALI (Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique) in Montreal.
Split into simpler sentences: Elliot Macklovitch was the president of the AMTA1 in 2002. He is currently the director of RALI (Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique) in Montreal.