Dear ACL members,
We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected nine ACL fellows for 2024:
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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.
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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.
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Jianfeng Gao
Microsoft
For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
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James Pustejovsky
Brandeis University
For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
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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.
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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.
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Jimmy Lin
University of Waterloo
For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
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Lucy Vanderwende
Microsoft
For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
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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