Announcement of the 2019 ACL Test-of-Time Awards (ToT)

August 12, 2019 | BY webmaster

The ACL Test-of-Time awards recognize two papers each year for their lasting
impact on the Computational Linguistics field: one paper from 25 years earlier,
and one paper from 10 year earlier.

2019 is the first year that these awards are officially presented by the ACL,
building on a grass-roots initiative at NAACL 18.

I am delighted to announce that the following two papers have respectively won
the 1994 and 2009 ToT award. The motivation for the honor is also included.

The 2019 winner of the 1994 Test-of-Time Award is:

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What is computational linguistics?

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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