The ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award recognizes up to four papers for their long-lasting impact on the field of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics: two papers from 25 years earlier, and two papers from 10 years earlier.
The 2022 winners of the 1997 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:
Kevin Knight, Jonathan Graehl.
Machine Transliteration.
Proceedings of ACL 1997.
Michael Collins.
Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing.
Proceedings of ACL 1997.
The 2022 winners of the 2012 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:
Mausam, Michael Schmitz, Stephen Soderland, Robert Bart, Oren Etzioni.
Open Language Learning for Information Extraction.
Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2012.
Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Kota Yamaguchi, Karl Stratos, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Alex Berg, Tamara Berg, Hal Daumé III
Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections.
Proceedings of EACL 2012.
The winners were announced at ACL 2022. Congratulations!
ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award Nomination Committee: Joyce Chai, Trevor Cohn, Jason Eisner (co-chair), Mirella Lapata (co-chair), Hang Li, Lluís Màrquez, Mari Ostendorf, Mark Steedman.