Call for Nomination of ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

February 15, 2024 | BY webmaster

The ACL Lifetime Achievement award is, as its name indicates, a recognition
for widely recognized, sustained, and enduring contributions to our field
over a long period. It is not awarded merely for outstanding recent
contributions to a currently hot topic. Candidates for the award will
generally be senior, with a working lifetime of contributions, even though
they will often be active in research.

A nomination package should include the following material:

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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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