We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected nine ACL fellows for 2020:
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL Executive Committee:
During its 58th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics awarded its 2020 Distinguished Service Award to Prof. Graeme Hirst.
Prof. Hirst is Professor and Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
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:
