CL Distinguished Reviewer Award

The Computational Linguistics Distinguished Reviewer Award (short form: CL Distinguished Reviewer Award) aims to highlight and promote high standards in peer review, and to acknowledge reviewers whose contributions have had a meaningful impact on the quality of the Computational Linguistics journal. The award was introduced in 2026.

About the Award

• Recognition: Awardees are featured on the Computational Linguistics website, as well as on social media platforms (LinkedIn and Bluesky), and receive a certificate.
• Presentation: The awards are announced and presented at the ACL conference each year.

Selection Process

1. Action editors of Computational Linguistics nominate potential candidates.
2. The Editor-in-Chief, together with colleagues from the editorial office, identifies qualifying candidates from the nominations.

Selection Criteria

• Quality of the review: for example, whether it offers insightful and well-articulated comments, or identifies major issues that help maintain the high standards of Computational Linguistics.
• Responsiveness of the reviewer.

Award Recipients

Class of 2026

The inaugural awards were announced at the ACL 2026 conference. Congratulations to the following reviewers (listed in alphabetical order), recognized for reviews that have had a meaningful impact on the quality of the journal:

Nate Chambers	Jason Eisner	Francis Ferraro	Ivan Habernal	Xianpei Han
Sophie Hao	Eduard Hovy	Fintan Mallory	Yevgen Matusevych	Tristan Miller
Agata Savary	Dominik Schlechtweg	Edward Stabler	Zhongyu Wei

Thank you for upholding the high standards of peer review at Computational Linguistics.

See Also

• CL High Impact Paper Award
• ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award