Call for Nomination of ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award

February 15, 2024 | BY webmaster

The ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual
each year for extraordinary service to the computational linguistics
community. Areas of service include, but are not limited to: association
service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of ACL
in other organizations, or influential service as a government agency
contract monitor or program director, that results in positive effects on the
field of computational linguistics.

The criteria for this award are:

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What is computational linguistics?

Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. Computational linguists are interested in providing computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena. These models may be "knowledge-based" ("hand-crafted") or "data-driven" ("statistical" or "empirical"). Work in computational linguistics is in some cases motivated from a scientific perspective in that one is trying to provide a computational explanation for a particular linguistic or psycholinguistic phenomenon; and in other cases the motivation may be more purely technological in that one wants to provide a working component of a speech or natural language system. Indeed, the work of computational linguists is incorporated into many working systems today, including speech recognition systems, text-to-speech synthesizers, automated voice response systems, web search engines, text editors, language instruction materials, to name just a few.

Popular computational linguistics textbooks include:

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