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 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.
The winners were announced at ACL 2025.
Congratulations!
ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award Nomination Committee
Co-chairs: Yue Zhang, Joyce Chai, Michael Strube
Claire Gardent, Philipp Koehn, Paola Merlo, Hwee-Tou Ng,
Barbara Plank, Owen Rambow, Xiaojun Wan, Luke Zettlemoyer