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Dragomir Radev Receives the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award

May 25, 2022 | BY webmaster


We are delighted to award the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award to Professor Dragomir (Drago) Radev, professor at Yale University and longtime member of the ACL, for his longstanding and sustained service to the ACL in a variety of leadership and service roles. Professor Radev received his PhD in 1999 from Columbia University and his areas of research in NLP include graph-based analysis, text summarization, and social science applications. Radev is a Fellow of the ACL, the ACM, AAAI, and the AAAS.

Martha Evens Receives the 2022 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

May 25, 2022 | BY webmaster


We are delighted to award the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award to Martha Evens, Professor Emeritus at Illinois Institute of Technology in Computer Science and a long-time member of ACL, for being a path blazer in a multitude of ways. First as an outstanding professor and mentor in Computer Science, with over 300 publications and over 100 PhD students, and for her pioneering research contributions in lexical databases and intelligent tutoring systems for medical students. Professor Evens received a BS in Mathematics from Bryn Mawr, summa cum laude, in 1955, an MS in Mathematics from Radcliffe in 1957, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern in 1975.

ACL COVID policy

May 19, 2022 | BY webmaster

It is the policy of ACL conferences that attendees wear high-quality, well-fitting masks while attending indoor functions at ACL events, removing their masks only the minimal amount necessary to eat and drink. This policy is in force even if local regulations are less strict, but may be superseded by stricter local regulations. Furthermore, the ACL strongly encourages attendees to be cautious with masking in indoor space outside the conference venue (e.g. on public transit or while eating away from the venue) to avoid bringing COVID to the venue.

Vale Lauri Karttunen

April 02, 2022 | BY webmaster

It is with great sadness that I share the news of Lauri Karttunen's untimely passing. A
recipient of the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and a founding ACL Fellow, Lauri
was a famously understated but extremely influential figure in computational linguistics.
He made foundational contributions to diverse areas including discourse referents,
presupposition plugs/holes/filters, implicative verbs, finite state methods, computational
morphophonology, and natural language inference.

ACL Statement on the Ukraine situation

March 11, 2022 | BY webmaster

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) condemns in the strongest possible
terms the actions of the Russian Federation government in invading the sovereign state of
Ukraine and engaging in war against the Ukrainian people. We stand together with Ukrainian
NLP colleagues, the Ukrainian people, Russian NLP colleagues and Russian people who
condemn the actions of the Russian Federation government, and all those around the world
who have been impacted by the invasion.

ACL Establishes Its Ethics Committee

October 06, 2021 | BY webmaster

The ACL Executive Committee is glad to announce that ACL has established an Ethics Committee. The members of the committee are as follows:

Chairs:
- Karën Fort, Min Yen Kan, Yulia Tsvetkov

Members:
- Luciana Benotti, Mark Dredze, Pascale Fung, Dirk Hovy, Jin-Dong Kim, Malvina Nissim

The term of the co-chairs is five years, through the end of 2026, while the term of the members is three years, through the end of 2024.

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