Dear ACL members,
We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected nine ACL fellows for 2024:
Philipp koehn
- Johns Hopkins University
- For significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, MT evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Meta Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)
- For significant contributions to information extraction and question answering, neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
Jianfeng Gao
- Microsoft
- For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
James Pustejovsky
- Brandeis University
- For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
Dilek Hakkani-Tur
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- For significant contributions to Conversational Dialogue Modeling, Spoken Language Understanding, and Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue Systems.
Massimo Poesio
- Queen Mary University of London, and the University of Utrecht
- For significant contributions to the theory and practice of anaphora and reference resolution, and to sound methodologies of corpus development.
Jimmy Lin
- University of Waterloo
- For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
Lucy Vanderwende
- Microsoft
- For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
Min Zhang
- Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
- For significant contributions to MT, Parsing and sustained service to the growth of NLP in China and Southeast Asia.
Shiqi Zhao, ACL Secretary