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.