Bonnie Webber receives the 2020 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
During its 58th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) awarded its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Bonnie Webber.
During its 58th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) awarded its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Bonnie Webber.
Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. Computational linguists are interested in providing computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena. These models may be "knowledge-based" ("hand-crafted") or "data-driven" ("statistical" or "empirical"). Work in computational linguistics is in some cases motivated from a scientific perspective in that one is trying to provide a computational explanation for a particular linguistic or psycholinguistic phenomenon; and in other cases the motivation may be more purely technological in that one wants to provide a working component of a speech or natural language system. Indeed, the work of computational linguists is incorporated into many working systems today, including speech recognition systems, text-to-speech synthesizers, automated voice response systems, web search engines, text editors, language instruction materials, to name just a few.
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