ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
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Recipients and their acceptance speeches
- Eugene Charniak (2011)
- William A. Woods (2010)
- Fred Jelinek (2009) - The Dawn of Statistical ASR and MT
- Yorick Wilks (2008) - On Whose Shoulders?
- Lauri Karttunen (2007) - Word Play
- Eva Hajicova (2006) - Old Linguists Never Die, They Only Get Obligatorily Deleted
- Martin Kay (2005) - A Life of Language
- Karen Sparck Jones (2004) - Some Points in a Time
- Makoto Nagao (2003)
- Aravind Joshi (2002)
A sampling of other papers that touch on the history of computational linguistics:
- Some of the "Last Words" opinion essays in the journal Computational Linguistics:
- Mark Steedman - On Becoming a Discipline (ACL presidential address, 2008)
- Karen Sparck Jones - Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics? (2007)
- Ehud Reiter - The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics (2007)
- W. John Hutchins (ed.) - Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and Biographies of Pioneers (2000).
- Book review by Warren J. Plath
- Book review by Jörg Schütz
- Aravind Joshi and Philip Hopely - A Parser from Antiquity (1999)