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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 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 organizers of IJCNLP - AACL 2025 are delighted to announce the dates and venue of the conference:
Date: 20th - 24th December 2025
Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Map Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Cd9JPMaiWr7TDjy46
Dear ACL members,
We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected nine ACL fellows for 2024:
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL Executive Committee:
Congratulations to the new members of the ACL Executive Committee. Their terms start on January 1, 2025.
Thanks to all members who voted in the elections.
Sincerely,
Shiqi Zhao, ACL Secretary
The ACL Executive Committee is delighted to announce the establishment of the Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award.
This prestigious award, initiated by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), aims to recognize and promote outstanding doctoral research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Presented annually at the ACL conference, the award includes a monetary prize and funding to cover the recipient's travel expenses to attend the conference. Additionally, the recipient will deliver an oral presentation during a special session at the conference and receive a certificate presented by the current President of ACL. Each year, one winner will be selected, and there may be several runners-up.
Nominations should be submitted by the candidate's PhD advisor. For the inaugural award, the deadline for nominations is January 31, 2025 (at 11.59 pm, AOE). Further details, including submission guidelines, can be found at this link (https://bit.ly/cl-dissertation-award).
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 2024 winner of the 1999 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
Lillian Lee. 1999. Measures of Distributional Similarity.
In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 25–32, College Park, Maryland, USA.
The 2024 winner of the 2014 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher, and Christopher Manning. 2014. GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation.
In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1532–1543, Doha, Qatar.
ACL has now established a policy on publication ethics. Our policy draws on existing practices and standards in the ACL, both explicit and de facto, and common standards in similar bodies. The policy covers issues such as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and what kind of content is suitable in papers at ACL venues. This policy is researched and written by the ACL publication ethics committee, a team of volunteers in the community, and voted in by the ACL. The committee will also manage relevant referred cases to the ACL. More information: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics
The ACL has convened a new Publication Ethics Committee, with inaugural co-chairs Dr. Leon Derczynski, Dr. Kokil Jaidka and Dr. Aoife Cahill. This committee will be charged with developing policies and procedures related to publication ethics, including such issues as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and how to handle issues raised about papers post-publication.
Thank you to Drs. Derczynski, Jaidka and Cahill for taking on this important work!