ACL Fellows 2021

We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected eight ACL fellows for 2021

  • Joakim Nivre




    Uppsala University

    For significant contributions to algorithms, models and data resources for dependency parsing, pushing the field to the forefront of multilingual syntactic analysis.



  • Qun Liu




    Huawei

    For significant contributions to machine translation and Chinese natural language processing.



  • Luke Zettlemoyer




    University of Washington

    For significant contributions to grounded semantics, semantic parsing, and representation learning for natural language processing.



  • Anette Frank




    Heidelberg University

    For integrative work in linguistically informed, technically well-founded semantics- and discourse-oriented natural language processing.



  • Joyce Chai




    University of Michigan

    For significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics.



  • Eneko Agirre




    University of the Basque Country

    For significant contributions to word sense disambiguation, semantic textual similarity, unsupervised machine translation, Basque resources and services to the ACL.



  • Chengqing Zong




    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    For significant contributions to machine translation and sentiment analysis and sustained service to the growth of natural language processing in China.



  • Amanda Stent




    Colby College

    For significant contributions to computational models of multimodal and spoken dialogue, natural language generation and summarization.