About the ACL

The Association for Computational Linguistics is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. Membership includes the ACL quarterly journals, Computational Linguistics and Transactions of the ACL, reduced registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, discounts on ACL-sponsored publications, and participation in ACL Special Interest Groups.

An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out.

Regional associations related to the ACL include:

  • EACL : The European Chapter of the ACL
  • NAACL : The North American Chapter of the ACL
  • AACL: The Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ACL

Executive Committee (2024)

(Information about past committees can be found in the ACL Officers page.)

President Emily M. Bender, University of Washington
Vice President Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vice-President-Elect Barbara Plank, LMU Munich
Past President Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Treasurer (2023 - 2027) David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University
Secretary (2021 - 2025) Shiqi Zhao, Huawei
At-large (2022 - 2024) Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill
At-large (2023 - 2025) Vera Demberg, Universität des Saarlandes
At-large (2024 - 2026) Yuki Arase, Osaka University
CL Journal editor (2024 - 2029) Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design
EACL chair Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Tor Vergata
NAACL chair Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University
AACL Chair Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research
Business Manager Jenn Rachford, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Non-Executive Officers (2024)

Equity Director Lu Wang, University of Michigan
Information Director Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
Anthology Director Matt Post, Microsoft
Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Donia Scott, University of Sussex
Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) Co-Chair Daniel Bikel, Meta AI
Publicity Director Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO
Sponsorship Director Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania
TACL Co-editor-in-chief Asli Celikyilmaz, Facebook AI Research
TACL Co-editor-in-chief Roi Reichart, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Ethics Committee Co-chair Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore
Ethics Committee Co-chair Karën Fort, Sorbonne University
Ethics Committee Co-chair Yulia Tsvetkov, University of Washington