Bonnie Webber receives the 2020 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
During its 58th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) awarded its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Bonnie Webber.
During its 58th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) awarded its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Bonnie Webber.
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the appointment of our new ACL
Sponsorship Director:
- Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Congratulations to Chris, whose term is from August 1, 2020 through
December 31, 2023.
Hinrich Schütze, ACL President
Each year, the ACL Test-of-Time awards recognize up to four papers for their lasting impact on the Computational Linguistics field: two papers from 25 years earlier, and two papers from 10 years earlier.
The 2020 winners of the 1995 Test-of-Time Award are:
Barbara J. Grosz, Aravind K. Joshi, Scott Weinstein. Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 21(2), June
Dear ACL members,
TL;DR: In addition to the short-term proposals, we are now
also releasing the long-term proposal. Please provide your
feedback on the proposals here:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9028kaqAQ0OMdrEjlJf7...
Dear ACL members,
In light of recent worldwide uproar which has cast a spotlight on the ongoing injustice experienced first-hand by members of our community, the ACL has issued a statement to make explicit its solidarity.
Dear ACL members,
ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows:
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the ACL Equity Director:
- Natalie Schluter (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Congratulations to Natalie, whose term is effective now through December 31, 2022. Thank you to the other candidate for running, and to the working group led by Rada Mihalcea for searching for the Equity Director.
Hinrich Schütze, ACL President
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL Executive Committee:
- Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) has been elected as VP-Elect.
We are delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected six new ACL fellows for 2019: