Test-of-Time Papers Award

Frequency: once/year.

Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics

Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including journal, conference, and workshop papers)

How many: max. 4 per year; max. two for papers published exactly 10 years back, and max. two for those published exactly 25 years back, from the time of the announcement of the award.

Who nominates: Test-of-Time paper award nomination committee

The committee will have two co-chairs, who are nominated by the ACL exec, and will be composed of at least six members (including co-chairs). The selection of co-chairs and other committee members should consider diversity, equity, and inclusion (see Promoting Diversity and Avoiding Bias). Committee members may be selected from (but not limited to) the following categories.

• Editors of Computational Linguistics, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and ACL Rolling Review
• Chapter presidents/chairs
• Presidents/chairs of SIGs
• Program and general chairs of relevant conferences (*ACL conferences 25 and 10 years earlier)
• Program and general chairs of recent conferences (*ACL conferences up to 5 years back)
• ACL fellows

Announcement: A session with winning paper presentations will be held at ACL.

Benefits: Recipients of the ACL Test-of-Time (ToT) Paper Award receive:

• Monetary Prize: USD $1,000 per awarded paper, in recognition of sustained contributions to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Recipients may elect to donate part or all of the prize to designated ACL funds.
• Conference Registration Waiver: One complimentary registration to the ACL conference at which the award is recognized, for one author of each awarded paper. The waiver covers registration fees only.

ACL Test-of-Time Papers Award Recipients