2026Q1 Reports: Secretary

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Outgoing Exec Members

The following people are leaving the exec:

  • Emily M. Bender (ACL VP-elect (2022), VP (2023), President (2024), Past President (2025))
  • Shiqi Zhao (ACL Secretary (2015-2024), Past-Secretary (2025))
  • Vera Demberg (Member at-large (2023-2025))
  • Graham Neubig (NAACL Chair (2024-2025))

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.


New Exec Members

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

  • 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, 2026. Openings for 2027 include vp-elect, secretary and member at-large.


Changes to Exec Plus Members

  • Sponsorship Director
    • Joel Tetrault, Senior Director of Research at Dataminr, has been selected as Sponsorship Director, succeeding Chris Callison-Burch.
  • Ethics Committee Co-chairs
    • Aurélie Névéol, a CNRS Researcher at Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Numerical Sciences (LISN), will succeed Karën Fort as Ethics Committee co-chair, serving alongside Min-Yen Kan and Luciana Benotti.
  • Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs
    • Leon Derczynski, Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen, has stepped down from his role as Publication Ethics Committee co-chair, and Kokil Jaidka (Associate Professor at National University of Singapore) and Aoife Cahill (a director of AI research at Dataminr) will continue serving as Publication Ethics Committee co-chairs.

New SIGs

A new sig group was created in 2025:

  • SIGIL (SIG on Image and Language)


ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

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: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients


Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award

The Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award is presented to Julia Hirschberg, honoring her 35 years of dedicated and sustained service to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and to its associated journal Computational Linguistics – including serving as Editor in Chief of Computational Linguistics and on the ACL Executive Committee from 1993 to 2003 -- and to the fields of natural language processing and speech processing as a whole.

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 2025 winner of the 2000 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:

  • Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky. 2000. Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 512–520, Hong Kong. Association for Computational Linguistics.

The 2025 winner of the 2015 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:

  • Thang Luong, Hieu Pham, and Christopher D. Manning. 2015. Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1412–1421, Lisbon, Portugal. Association for Computational Linguistics.


ACL Fellows

The Fellow selection committee has selected 11 new ACL Fellows for 2025.

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.

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


Coming Conferences

  • EACL 2026
    • EACL 2026 will be held 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
  • 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
  • EMNLP 2026
    • EMNLP 2026 will take place in Budapest from October 24-29, 2026.
  • AACL-IJCNLP 2026
    • AACL-IJCNLP 2026 will be held in Macau, China from November 6–9, 2026.


Upcoming events

http://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl_sponsored_events


2025 reports from ACL officers

Winter reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports

Summer reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q3_Reports


ACL resolutions

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

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