ACL Establishes Its Ethics Committee

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.

Vale Martin Kay

It is with a profound sense of loss that, on behalf of the ACL Exec, I announce the passing of Martin Kay on August 7, 2021.

Martin was a pioneer and visionary of computational linguistics, in the truest sense of those terms. He made seminal contributions to the field in areas including parsing, unification grammars, finite state methods, and machine translation.

Announcement of the 2021 ACL Test-of-Time Paper 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 2021 winners of the 1996 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:

Adam Berger, Stephen Della Pietra, Vicent Della Pietra.
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing.
Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 1, March 1996.

Lillian Lee Receives the 2021 ACL Distinguished Service Award

During its 59th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics awarded its 2021 Distinguished Service Award to Professor Lillian Lee.

Lillian Lee is a professor of computer science and of information science at Cornell University. She received her undergraduate degree at Cornell in math and computer science and her Ph.D. in computer science at Harvard in 1997.

Call For Bids to Host ACL 2024

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Asia-Pacific Region in July or August 2024. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.

Remembering Makoto Nagao

It is with deep sadness that we share the news of Prof. Makoto Nagao’s passing on May 23, 2021. A recipient of the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), Prof. Nagao was one of the pioneers of computational linguistics. He made significant contributions to several major research topics, including machine translation, corpus-based linguistics, electronic dictionaries, and digital libraries. He also endeavored the establishment of the International Association for Machine Translation, and became the organization's first president. Prof.

Call For Bids to Host ACL 2023

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Americas in July or August 2023. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.

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