We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected nine ACL fellows for 2020:
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Philip Cohen
Openstream, Inc.
For significant contributions to the study of communicative action and dialogue, and to the theory and practice of multimodal interaction. -
Pascale Fung
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
For significant contributions toward statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans. -
Iryna Gurevych
Technische Universität Darmstadt
For theoretical and practical contributions to deep learning models for NLP, and computational argumentation, and for services to the ACL and the German NLP Community. -
Dan Jurafsky
Stanford University
For contributions to computational linguistics that both broaden its societal impact and advance our understanding of human communication. -
Hermann Ney
RWTH Aachen University
For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition. -
Philip Resnik
University of Maryland
For significant contributions to symbolic-statistical methods for natural language processing, multilinguality, and the interdisciplinary study of language. -
Donia Scott
University of Sussex
For significant contributions to natural language generation, particularly in the areas of discourse processing, multilinguality, and knowledge-editing. -
Noah Smith
University of Washington
For significant contributions to linguistic structure prediction, computational social sciences, and improving NLP research methodology. -
Kam-Fai Wong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
For significant contributions to social media processing, particularly in Chinese information retrieval, opinion mining, microblog processing and rumour detection.