Call for Nomination of ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award

The ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual
each year for extraordinary service to the computational linguistics
community. Areas of service include, but are not limited to: association
service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of ACL
in other organizations, or influential service as a government agency
contract monitor or program director, that results in positive effects on the
field of computational linguistics.

The criteria for this award are:

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What is computational linguistics?

Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. Computational linguists are interested in providing computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena. These models may be "knowledge-based" ("hand-crafted") or "data-driven" ("statistical" or "empirical"). Work in computational linguistics is in some cases motivated from a scientific perspective in that one is trying to provide a computational explanation for a particular linguistic or psycholinguistic phenomenon; and in other cases the motivation may be more purely technological in that one wants to provide a working component of a speech or natural language system. Indeed, the work of computational linguists is incorporated into many working systems today, including speech recognition systems, text-to-speech synthesizers, automated voice response systems, web search engines, text editors, language instruction materials, to name just a few.

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