ACL Fellows 2024

December 11, 2024 | BY webmaster

Dear ACL members,

We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected nine ACL fellows for 2024:

  • Philipp Koehn - Johns Hopkins University
  • Scott Wen-tau Yih - Meta Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)
  • Jianfeng Gao - Microsoft
  • James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tur - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Massimo Poesio - Queen Mary University of London
  • Jimmy Lin - University of Waterloo
  • Lucy Vanderwende - Microsoft
  • Min Zhang - Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

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What is computational linguistics?

Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. Computational linguists are interested in providing computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena. These models may be "knowledge-based" ("hand-crafted") or "data-driven" ("statistical" or "empirical"). Work in computational linguistics is in some cases motivated from a scientific perspective in that one is trying to provide a computational explanation for a particular linguistic or psycholinguistic phenomenon; and in other cases the motivation may be more purely technological in that one wants to provide a working component of a speech or natural language system. Indeed, the work of computational linguists is incorporated into many working systems today, including speech recognition systems, text-to-speech synthesizers, automated voice response systems, web search engines, text editors, language instruction materials, to name just a few.

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