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== Membership==

The ACL membership continues to grow rapidly in 2022. We expect to close 2022 with over XXXX members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.

== Outgoing Exec Members ==

The following people are leaving the exec:

*Rada Mihalcea (ACL VP-elect (2019), VP (2020), President (2021), Past President (2022))
*Anna Korhonen (ACL member at-large, 2020-2022)
*Shuly Wintner (EACL Chair, 2021-2022)
*Keh-Yih Su (AACL Chair, 2021-2022)

I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!

== New Exec Members ==

We have four new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2023. These are:

*Chengqing Zong (ACL VP-elect)
*Vera Demberg (ACL member at-large)
*Roberto Basili (EACL Chair)
*Jian Su (AACL Chair)

Welcome to the new exec members!

David Yarowsky, who has finished his first term of ACL treasurer (2018-2022), is elected as the treasurer for a second term (2023-2027).

The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2023.

== ACL Policies ==

In 2022, ACL has approved three new policies:

* [[ACL Conference Awards Policy]]
** It lays out a standard protocol for awards at ACL conferences.
* [[Media:ACL_Efficient_NLP_Policy.pdf|ACL Efficient NLP Policy]]
** It aims to promote ways that the ACL community can reduce the computational costs of NLP.
* [[ACL COVID Policy]]
** It will be revisited annually by the ACL exec so as to be responsive to changing pandemic conditions.

== New SIGs ==

Two SIGs were created in 2022:

* SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing
** http://www.sigarab.org/
** president Nizar Habash, secretary Wassim El-Hajj
* SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages
** https://sigturk.github.io/
** president Duygu Ataman, secretary Sardana Ivanova

== ACL Rolling Review ==

ACL has established an ARR board that will oversee the activities of ARR. The founding members of the ARR Board:

*Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
*Yusuke Miyao, The University of Tokyo, Japan
*Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA
*Thamar Solorio, University of Houston, USA

Several new EICs have started their service in 2022. The current ARR EICs are:

*Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo
*Mausam, IIT Delhi
*Sebastian Riedel, Facebook AI and University College London
*Thamar Solorio, Bloomberg LP and University of Houston
*Viviane Moreira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==

The winner of the ACL 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Martha Evens, for being a path blazer in a multitude of ways.

https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/martha-evens-receives-2022-acl-lifetime-achievement-award

The 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2023 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

== ACL Distinguished Service Award ==

The 2022 winner of the Distinguished Service Award is Dragomir Radev, for his longstanding and sustained service to the ACL in a variety of leadership and service roles.

https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/dragomir-radev-receives-2022-acl-distinguished-service-award

The 2023 Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2023 conference.

For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients

== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==

The 2022 winners of the 1997 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:

* Kevin Knight, Jonathan Graehl. Machine Transliteration. Proceedings of ACL 1997.
* Michael Collins. Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing. Proceedings of ACL 1997.

The 2022 winners of the 2012 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:

* Mausam, Michael Schmitz, Stephen Soderland, Robert Bart, Oren Etzioni. Open Language Learning for Information Extraction. Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2012.
* Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Kota Yamaguchi, Karl Stratos, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Alex Berg, Tamara Berg, Hal Daumé III. Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections. Proceedings of EACL 2012.

== ACL Fellows ==

The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2022:

*Hinrich Schütze
**University of Munich (LMU)
**For significant contributions to statistical and neural language representation models below, beyond and above the word level.

*Marti Hearst
**University of California Berkeley
**For significant contributions to semantics, discourse structure and text data mining.

*Claire Gardent
**Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications (LORIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
**For significant contributions to linguistically informed computational models for natural language generation, and the curation of NLG benchmarking and evaluation resources.

*James F Allen
**University of Rochester
**For significant contributions to natural language dialogue research, planning and plan recognition.

*Owen Rambow
**Stony Brook University
**For significant contributions to syntax, Tree Adjoining Grammars, dependency processing, natural language generation, and Arabic language processing.

*Yejin Choi
**University of Washington and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
**For significant contributions to research in natural language generation, language and vision, and commonsense reasoning.

*Maosong Sun
**Tsinghua University
**For significant contributions to Chinese NLP, and sustained service to the growth of computational linguistics in China.

*Tomek Strzalkowski
**Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
**For significant contributions to computational sociolinguistics, metaphor extraction, interactive question answering, and natural language information retrieval.

== Coming Conferences ==

* ACL 2023
** The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'23) will take place in Toronto, Canada from July 9th to July 14th, 2023.
* EACL 2023
** The 17th EACL conference will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 2 to 6 of May, 2023.
* EMNLP 2023
** TBD

== 2022 Reports from ACL Officers ==

Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2022Q1_Reports

Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2022Q3_Reports

== ACL Resolutions ==

The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

Sincerely,

Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary

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