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After a rigorous evaluation process, the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award have been selected.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon Kathy McKeown, 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.
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.