Test-of-Time Papers Award

Frequency: once/year.

Name of award and types of papers:

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: 4 per year, two for papers published exactly 10 year back, two for those published exactly 25 years back

Who nominates: Award committee: this committee should decide criteria (to be nominated by exec for two years)

Award committee will have two co-chairs, who may be nominated by the ACL exec outside of the categories mentioned below; and will be composed of

• editors of CL and TACL
• the chapter presidents/chairs (other than ACL president)
• the presidents of all the SIGs, which had a workshop either 25 or 10 years earlier, and are still active
• program and general chairs of the relevant conferences (ie ACL 25 and 10 years earlier, and any other relevant chapter conferences / EMNLP)
• 5 ACL fellows

Who judges: Expert committee: all ACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and ACL presidents in the interval ([current year-5]- [current year-1]); plus 5 ACL fellows. The committee will have two co-chairs. The co-chairs at their discretion can add ad hoc experts to cover specific areas not represented on the committee. Preferably those ad hoc experts would be chosen among ACL fellows.

At ACL: a session with winning paper presentations will be held.