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	All ACL resolutions can be found here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions		All ACL resolutions can be found here: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions


	~~Best regards,~~

	~~Yang Feng, ACL Secretary~~

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	==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==		==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==

	The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon ""Kathy McKeown"" from Columbia University in USA, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding, creative, and prolific research in the field of Natural Language Processing, in the areas of natural language generation, summarization, and the analysis of social media.		The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon '''Kathy McKeown''' from Columbia University in USA, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding, creative, and prolific research in the field of Natural Language Processing, in the areas of natural language generation, summarization, and the analysis of social media.

	For a list of past winners, visit:		For a list of past winners, visit:

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	==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==		==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==

	The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon Kathy McKeown from Columbia University in USA, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding, creative, and prolific research in the field of Natural Language Processing, in the areas of natural language generation, summarization, and the analysis of social media.		The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon ""Kathy McKeown"" from Columbia University in USA, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding, creative, and prolific research in the field of Natural Language Processing, in the areas of natural language generation, summarization, and the analysis of social media.

	For a list of past winners, visit:		For a list of past winners, visit:

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	==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==		==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==

	The ~~winner of the ACL 2025~~ Lifetime Achievement Award ~~(LTA) was Kathleen~~ McKeown from Columbia University in USA.		The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon Kathy McKeown from Columbia University in USA, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding, creative, and prolific research in the field of Natural Language Processing, in the areas of natural language generation, summarization, and the analysis of social media.

	For a list of past winners, visit:		For a list of past winners, visit:
	http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients		http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients


	==ACL Fellows 2025==		==ACL Fellows 2025==

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ACL Fellows

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	==ACL Fellows==		==ACL Fellows 2025==

	~~I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee~~ has selected 11 ~~new~~ ACL ~~Fellows~~ for 2025.		The ACL Nominating Committee has selected 11 ACL fellows for 2025:

	Rada Mihalcea		*Rada Mihalcea
	- University of Michigan		**University of Michigan
	~~- https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mihalcea/index.html~~		**For significant contributions to graph-based language processing, computational social science, and the advancement of NLP for social good.
	- For significant contributions to graph-based language processing, computational social science, and the advancement of NLP for social good.

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

	Heng Ji		*Heng Ji
	- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		**University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	~~- https://blender.cs.illinois.edu/hengji.html~~		**For significant contributions to information extraction, multimodal and multilingual knowledge extraction and AI for science.
	- For significant contributions to information extraction, multimodal and multilingual knowledge extraction and AI for science.

	Mohit Bansal		*Mohit Bansal
	- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	~~- https://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbansal/~~		**For significant contributions to multimodal NLP foundations, faithful language generation and summarization, and model interpretability methods.
	- For significant contributions to multimodal NLP foundations, faithful language generation and summarization, and model interpretability methods.

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

	Peter Clark		*Peter Clark
	- Allen Institute for AI		**Allen Institute for AI
	~~- https://pclark425.github.io/~~		**For pioneering contributions to knowledge-based NLP, question answering, and commonsense reasoning, including influential datasets and open AI systems.
	- For pioneering contributions to knowledge-based NLP, question answering, and commonsense reasoning, including influential datasets and open AI systems.

	Yue Zhang		*Yue Zhang
	- Westlake University		**Westlake University
	~~- https://frcchang.github.io/index.html~~		**For his contributions to structured prediction and generalization in NLP, services to the Chinese and global NLP communities, and NLP education.
	- For his contributions to structured prediction and generalization in NLP, services to the Chinese and global NLP communities, and NLP education.

	Sadao Kurohashi		*Sadao Kurohashi
	- National Institute of Informatics		**National Institute of Informatics
	~~- https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/member/kuro/~~		**For significant contributions to Japanese NLP and MT, and advancement of the Asian NLP community.
	- For significant contributions to Japanese NLP and MT, and advancement of the Asian NLP community.

	Saif Mohammad		*Saif Mohammad
	- National Research Council Canada		**National Research Council Canada
	~~- https://www.saifmohammad.com/~~		**For significant contributions to computational affective science, emotion detection and sentiment analysis, and responsible NLP.
	- For significant contributions to computational affective science, emotion detection and sentiment analysis, and responsible NLP.

	Lori Levin		*Lori Levin
	- Carnegie Mellon University		**Carnegie Mellon University
	~~- https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/levin-lori.html~~		**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.
	- 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		*Alexander Koller
	- Saarland University		**Saarland University
	~~- https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~koller/~~		**For foundational contributions to computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neurosymbolic architectures.
	- For foundational contributions to computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neurosymbolic architectures.

	~~For a list of past-year ACL fellows, please visit:~~
	~~https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows~~

	~~Nominations for 2026 can be made through this page:~~
	~~https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows~~

	==ACL Policies==		==ACL Policies==

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Upcoming Conferences

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	General Chair		General Chair

	Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University		Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University


	Program Chairs		Program Chairs

	Maria Liakata, Queen Mary University of London		Maria Liakata, Queen Mary University of London

	Viviane P. Moreira, Institute of Informatics at UFRGS, Brasil		Viviane P. Moreira, Institute of Informatics at UFRGS, Brasil

	Jiajun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences		Jiajun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

	David Jurgens, University of Michigan		David Jurgens, University of Michigan

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	General Chair		General Chair

	Aline Villavicencio, University of Exeter		Aline Villavicencio, University of Exeter

	Program Chairs		Program Chairs

	Vera Demberg, Saarland University		Vera Demberg, Saarland University

	Kentaro Inui, MBZUAI/Tohoku University/RIKEN		Kentaro Inui, MBZUAI/Tohoku University/RIKEN

	Lluís Marquez Villodre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya		Lluís Marquez Villodre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

	Local Organization Chairs		Local Organization Chairs

	Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammadia School of Engineers		Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammadia School of Engineers

	Si Lhoussain AOURAGH, Mohammed V University		Si Lhoussain AOURAGH, Mohammed V University

	Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA		Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA

Y.feng: Created page with "==ACL Exec Members== Emily M. Bender, Shiqi Zhao, Vera Demberg and Graham Neubig left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2025 after their terms expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future endeavors. Three new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2026. These are: VP-elect: Jing Jiang, Australian National University, Australia (replacing Emily M. Bender) Member-at-large: Raffaella..."

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Created page with "==ACL Exec Members== Emily M. Bender, Shiqi Zhao, Vera Demberg and Graham Neubig left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2025 after their terms expired. I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future endeavors. Three new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2026. These are: VP-elect: Jing Jiang, Australian National University, Australia (replacing Emily M. Bender) Member-at-large: Raffaella..."

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==ACL Exec Members==

Emily M. Bender, Shiqi Zhao, Vera Demberg and Graham Neubig left the ACL executive committee at the end of 2025 after their terms expired.

I would like to thank all of you for your hard work as members of the exec and wish you luck in your future endeavors.

Three new members will join the exec as of January 1, 2026.

These are:

VP-elect: Jing Jiang, Australian National University, Australia (replacing Emily M. Bender)
Member-at-large: Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (replacing Vera Demberg)
NAACL chair: Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA (replacing Graham Neubig)

Welcome to Jing, Raffaella, and Anna!

The full list of exec members is here:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/about

The next elections will take place in the Fall. Openings for 2027 include vp-elect, secretary and member-at-large

==ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Winner==

The winner of the ACL 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Kathleen McKeown from Columbia University in USA.

For a list of past winners, visit:
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients

==ACL Fellows==

I am happy to announce that the Fellow selection committee has selected 11 new ACL Fellows for 2025.

Rada Mihalcea
- University of Michigan
- https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mihalcea/index.html
- 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
- https://hannaneh.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
- https://blender.cs.illinois.edu/hengji.html
- For significant contributions to information extraction, multimodal and multilingual knowledge extraction and AI for science.

Mohit Bansal
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- https://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbansal/
- For significant contributions to multimodal NLP foundations, faithful language generation and summarization, and model interpretability methods.

Nizar Habash
- New York University Abu Dhabi
- https://www.nizarhabash.com/
- 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
- https://pclark425.github.io/
- For pioneering contributions to knowledge-based NLP, question answering, and commonsense reasoning, including influential datasets and open AI systems.

Yue Zhang
- Westlake University
- https://frcchang.github.io/index.html
- 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
- https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/member/kuro/
- For significant contributions to Japanese NLP and MT, and advancement of the Asian NLP community.

Saif Mohammad
- National Research Council Canada
- https://www.saifmohammad.com/
- For significant contributions to computational affective science, emotion detection and sentiment analysis, and responsible NLP.

Lori Levin
- Carnegie Mellon University
- https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/levin-lori.html
- 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
- https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~koller/
- For foundational contributions to computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neurosymbolic architectures.

For a list of past-year ACL fellows, please visit:
https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows

Nominations for 2026 can be made through this page:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows

==ACL Policies==

All ACL resolutions can be found here:

http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions

==Upcoming Conferences==

*ACL 2026
ACL 2026 will take place in San Diego, California from July 2-7, 2026.

https://2026.aclweb.org/

General Chair
Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University
Program Chairs
Maria Liakata, Queen Mary University of London
Viviane P. Moreira, Institute of Informatics at UFRGS, Brasil
Jiajun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Jurgens, University of Michigan

*EACL 2026

EACL 2026 will be in B Rabat in Rabat, Morocco from March 24-29, 2026.

General Chair
Aline Villavicencio, University of Exeter
Program Chairs
Vera Demberg, Saarland University
Kentaro Inui, MBZUAI/Tohoku University/RIKEN
Lluís Marquez Villodre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Local Organization Chairs
Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammadia School of Engineers
Si Lhoussain AOURAGH, Mohammed V University
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA

*EMNLP 2026

EMNLP 2026 will be in Budapest from October 24-29, 2026. More information TBA.