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	Below is the current list of fellows.		Below is the current list of fellows.

			== 2025 Fellows ==

			10 December, 2025

			The ACL Nominating Committee has selected 11 ACL fellows for 2025:

			*Rada Mihalcea
			**University of Michigan
			**For significant contributions to graph-based language processing, computational social science, and the advancement of NLP for social good.

			*Hanna Hajishirzi
			**University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI
			**For significant contributions to question answering, scientific applications, multimodal artificial intelligence, and fully open language models.

			*Heng Ji
			**University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
			**For significant contributions to information extraction, multimodal and multilingual knowledge extraction and AI for science.

			*Mohit Bansal
			**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
			**For significant contributions to multimodal NLP foundations, faithful language generation and summarization, and model interpretability methods.

			*Nizar Habash
			**New York University Abu Dhabi
			**For significant contributions to Arabic NLP, open-source tools and resources for Arabic and morphologically-rich languages, and community building and service.

			*Peter Clark
			**Allen Institute for AI
			**For pioneering contributions to knowledge-based NLP, question answering, and commonsense reasoning, including influential datasets and open AI systems.

			*Yue Zhang
			**Westlake University
			**For his contributions to structured prediction and generalization in NLP, services to the Chinese and global NLP communities, and NLP education.

			*Sadao Kurohashi
			**National Institute of Informatics
			**For significant contributions to Japanese NLP and MT, and advancement of the Asian NLP community.

			*Saif Mohammad
			**National Research Council Canada
			**For significant contributions to computational affective science, emotion detection and sentiment analysis, and responsible NLP.

			*Lori Levin
			**Carnegie Mellon University
			**For pioneering work on the use of phonetics, syntax, lexical semantics and dialogue modeling in machine translation and in the transfer of NLP technologies to low resource languages, as well as an enduring contribution to the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.

			*Alexander Koller
			**Saarland University
			**For foundational contributions to computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neurosymbolic architectures.

	== 2024 Fellows ==		== 2024 Fellows ==

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	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note: Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.''' If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note: Current ACL members can nominate up to two new candidates and write letters for up to two new additional candidates in a given year. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.''' If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	'''ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.'''		'''ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.'''

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	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note: Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.''' If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note: Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.''' If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.		'''ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.'''

	[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]		[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]

Y.feng at 04:46, 31 August 2025

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	The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. '''Note:~~'''~~ Members of the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee are not eligible to become Fellows while serving.		The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. '''Note: Members of the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee are not eligible to become Fellows while serving.'''


	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note:~~'''~~ Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note: Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee.''' If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.		ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.

Y.feng at 18:41, 30 August 2025

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	The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. Note: Members of the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee are not eligible to become Fellows while serving.		The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. '''Note:''' Members of the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee are not eligible to become Fellows while serving.

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	The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member.		The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. Note: Members of the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee are not eligible to become Fellows while serving.


	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note:''' Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note:''' Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

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	The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member.		The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member.

	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. '''Note:''' Current ACL members can nominate up to two candidates and write letters for up to two additional candidates. Members of the nominating committee are not allowed to contribute to new nominations (as nominators or recommenders) while serving on the committee. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.		ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.

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	The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member~~. Below is the current list of fellows~~.		The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member.

	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	~~The~~ gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following ~~figure:~~		ACL encourages diverse nominations for ACL Fellows and the gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following chart.

	[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]		[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]

			Below is the current list of fellows.

	== 2024 Fellows ==		== 2024 Fellows ==

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	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	The statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following figure:		The gender-based statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following figure:

	[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]		[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]

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	If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.		If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

	The statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following figure: [[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]		The statistics on ACL Fellows spanning from 2011 to 2024 are presented in the following figure:

			[[File: ACL-fellow-statistics.png]]

	== 2024 Fellows ==		== 2024 Fellows ==