ACL Fellows

The ACL Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for the past three consecutive years and be nominated by a current ACL member.

A small group of new Fellows is announced each year. If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination at http://www.aclweb.org/portal/nominations. 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, and submitted forms will be kept confidential.

2011 Fellows

• 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.