Test-of-Time Papers Award
Frequency: once/year.
Name of award: Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics
Candidate papers: All papers published in venues under the auspices of ACL (including both journal and conference papers)
How many: max. 4 per year; max. two for papers published exactly 10 years back, and max. two for those published exactly 25 years back, from the time of the announcement of the award.
Who nominates: Test-of-Time paper award nomination committee
The committee will have two co-chairs, who are nominated by the ACL exec, and will be composed of at least six members (including co-chairs). The selection of co-chairs and other committee members should consider diversity, equity, and inclusion (see Promoting Diversity and Avoiding Bias). Committee members may be selected from (but not limited to) the following categories.
- Editors of Computational Linguistics, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and ACL Rolling Review
- Chapter presidents/chairs
- Presidents/chairs of SIGs
- Program and general chairs of relevant conferences (*ACL conferences 25 and 10 years earlier)
- Program and general chairs of recent conferences (*ACL conferences up to 5 years back)
- ACL fellows
Announcement: A session with winning paper presentations will be held at ACL.