ACL Fellows

The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination procedures have been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. Below is the current list of fellows.

If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows. If you are unsure about a candidate's eligibility, please send a query to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. For more information about the ACL Fellows Program, please refer to https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Fellows_Program.

2017 Fellows

12 December 2017

The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows this year:

Regina Barzilay

• For ground-breaking contributions to language generation, text summarization, reinforcement learning for language applications and multi-lingual core technology.

Ralph Grishman

• For significant contributions to information extraction and in particular his leadership role in defining the architecture of modern information extraction.

Lillian Lee

• For significant wide-ranging contributions to the rigorous analysis of human social communication and for advancing the field of computational social science.

Diane Litman

• For key contributions to dialog systems research, especially the application of reinforcement learning and multimodal analysis to tutoring dialog.

Fernando Pereira

• For wide-ranging contributions to sequence modeling, finite-state methods, and dependency and deductive parsing.

Stuart Shieber

• For significant contributions to constraint-based grammar formalisms, synchronous grammars, parsing algorithms, and understanding of the formal properties of natural languages.

2016 Fellows

28 November 2016

The ACL Fellows selection committee has selected the following new fellows this year:

Bonnie J. Dorr (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC))

• For significant contributions to machine translation, summarization and human evaluation.

Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz)

• For fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog.

Haifeng Wang (Baidu)

• For significant contributions to MT, NLP and search engines in both academia and industry, and to the growth of the ACL in Asia.

Ralph Weischedel (Raytheon BBN Technologies)

• For significant contributions in information extraction technologies and for quiet but effective and wide-ranging strategic leadership

2015 Fellows

9 December 2015

The ACL Fellows selection committee has selected the following new fellows this year:

Claire Cardie

• For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine learning methods in natural language processing.

Kenneth Church

• For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT community.

Salim Roukos

• For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.

Janyce Wiebe

• For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.

2014 Fellows

9 December 2014

We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2014 who are:

Walter Daelemans

• For significant contributions to the theory, methodology, and applications of machine learning of language.

Kevin Knight

• For significant contributions to statistical machine translation, automata for natural language processing, and decipherment of historical manuscripts.

Daniel Marcu

• For significant contributions to discourse parsing, summarization, and machine translation and to kickstarting the statistical machine translation industry.

Raymond Mooney

• For significant contributions to machine learning for semantic parsing, language generation, and multimodal integration.

Martha Palmer

• For significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora.

Junichi Tsujii

• For significant contributions to MT, parsing by unification-based grammar and text mining for biology.

2013 Fellows

5 November 2013

We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2013 who are:

Dekang Lin

• For significant contributions to natural language parsing and lexical semantics.

Candace Sidner

• For seminal contributions to discourse focus and collaborative dialog.

Ido Dagan

• For initiating and developing the textual entailment paradigm, contributions to lexical semantics, and leading the creation of the TACL journal.

David Yarowsky

• For significant contributions to word-sense disambiguation, the SIGDAT community, and the development of the decision-list learning method.

2012 Fellows

18 February 2013

We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2012 who are:

Hwee Tou Ng

• For significant contributions to coreference resolution and semantic processing, and for the development of semantic corpora.

Dan Roth

• For significant contributions to machine learning and inference in natural language processing.

Richard Sproat

• For significant contributions to computational morphology, text normalization, text-to-speech synthesis, Chinese language processing, and computational approaches to writing systems.

Mark Steedman

• For the development of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and for significant contributions to grammar induction and parsing.

Bonnie Webber

• For significant contributions to discourse structure and discourse-based interpretation.

2011 Fellows

We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2011 who are:

Nicoletta Calzolari

• For significant contributions to computational lexicography, and for the creation and dissemination of language resources.

Eugene Charniak

• For significant contributions to natural language parsing.

Michael Collins

• For significant contributions to natural language parsing and discriminative training.

Eva Hajičová

• For significant contributions to theoretical linguistics and topic-focus models of discourse structure.

Julia Hirschberg

• For significant contributions to intonation, discourse, text-to-speech systems, and labeling standards for speech corpora.

Eduard Hovy

• For significant contributions to natural language generation, summarization and ontologies.

Mark Johnson

• For significant contributions to natural language parsing and its applications to text and speech processing.

Aravind Joshi

• For significant contributions to the mathematics of natural language and for the development of TAGs (tree-adjoining grammars).

Ronald M. Kaplan

• For significant contributions to augmented transition networks, lexical functional grammar, and finite-state models of morphology and phonology.

Lauri Karttunen

• For significant contributions to finite-state morphology and parsing.

Christopher D. Manning

• For significant contributions to the probabilistic modeling of natural language syntax and semantics.

Mitch Marcus

• For significant contributions to deterministic parsing and The Penn Treebank.

Yuji Matsumoto

• For significant contributions to ChaSen and bottom-up parsing.

Kathleen R. McKeown

• For significant contributions to natural language generation and multi-document summarization.

Robert L. Mercer

• For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition.

Robert C. Moore

• For significant contributions to unification-based grammar and machine translation.

Dekai Wu

• For significant contributions to machine translation and the development of inversion-transduction grammar.