February 03, 2024 | BY webmaster
Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years. The ACL Executive Committee is happy to welcome him on board, and wish him all the best in this very important role for the ACL community.
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Hwee Tou Ng, who has been serving as the EiC of CL since 2018, for his great contribution to CL and ACL.
January 27, 2024 | BY webmaster
Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL journal Transaction of the ACL for the staged three year term 2024-2026. She joins Asli Celikyilmaz (Meta) and Roi Reichart (Technion) to work together at the TACL helm. The ACL Exec and the TACL Steering Committee are happy to welcome her on board, and wish her all the best in this very important role for the ACL community!
January 13, 2024 | BY webmaster
December 12, 2023 | BY webmaster
We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected five ACL fellows for 2023:
- Mona Diab
- Barbara di Eugenio
- Anna Korohnen
- Roberto Navigl
- Ming Zhou
December 04, 2023 | BY webmaster
Computational Linguistics is the longest running premier journal in the areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It is an open-access, electronic-only journal with a high impact factor, published by the MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Computational Linguistics achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021.
December 04, 2023 | BY webmaster
The ACL is seeking nominations (self-nominations are permitted and encouraged), for a co-Editor-in-Chief (henceforth “EiC”, with the “co-” understood) of the journal Transactions of the ACL (TACL), serving a three-year term. The successful candidate should be able to start in the beginning of 2024 (or as early as possible).
November 09, 2023 | BY webmaster
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL Executive Committee:
+ Barbara Plank (LMU Munich, Germany) has been elected as VP-Elect.
+ Yuki Arase (Osaka University, Japan) has been elected as a member at-large.
Shiqi Zhao, ACL Secretary
September 23, 2023 | BY webmaster
The use of an ARR-only submission process has been agreed by Program Chairs (PCs), and General Chairs of the upcoming conferences in 2024 (EACL, NAACL and ACL, referred to in this document as *CL conferences), with feedback from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Initiative, the ARR board, and the ACL Exec. There will be no direct submission option. This decision was announced during the ACL 2023 business meeting. The purpose of this communication is to update those that were not present, and to provide more details about the coordinated plan.
July 21, 2023 | BY webmaster
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.
Winners of 1998 and 2013 Test-of-Time papers are announced below.
July 21, 2023 | BY webmaster
We are delighted to award the 2023 ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to Joakim Nivre, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University and Senior Researcher at the RISE Research Institute of Sweden. He has served in many different capacities in the ACL leadership and exemplifies the dedication over his over two decades of contribution to computational linguistics.
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