Dear ACL members,
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:
- Nominee information: name, email address, and current affiliation, if applicable
- A nomination letter (maximum 1500 words; 500 words is the recommended length)
- Two additional letters of endorsement (maximum 500 words)
- Optionally, two additional pages of supporting documentation
All letter writers should be members of the ACL community, ideally from different institutions and relatively independent of the nominee. The nomination letter should describe the specific contributions of the nominee that merit the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, describe their impact, and provide a proposed award citation of 30 words or fewer. Self-nominations are not accepted. The letters of endorsement should provide first-hand knowledge that supports the statements in the nomination but does not merely repeat them.
The nominator should compile the nomination package and submit the complete package by **March 1** to secretary [at] aclweb.org. Nomination packages that arrive after the deadline will not be considered. The nominating committee will acknowledge receipt of the nominations but will not contact the nominees (to keep the nominations confidential). The award will be conferred at the upcoming ACL conference, which the award winner is expected to attend.
Nominators will be informed of the result of the decision for any nominations they made. A nominator will have the choice of withdrawing an unsuccessful nomination to wait for a more appropriate time, updating the nomination for the following year to strengthen the case, or leaving the nomination unchanged for consideration for next year.
For more information about the Lifetime Achievement Award, please visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Lifetime_Achievement_Award.
In case of questions, please contact the secretary of the ACL, secretary [at] aclweb.org.
Shiqi Zhao
ACL Secretary