The ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award recognizes up to four papers for their long-lasting impact on the field of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics: two papers from 25 years earlier, and two papers from 10 years earlier.
The 2021 winners of the 1996 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:
Adam Berger, Stephen Della Pietra, Vicent Della Pietra.
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing.
Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 1, March 1996.
Jean Carletta.
Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic.
Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 2, June 1996.
The 2021 winners of the 2011 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:
Maite Taboada, Julian Brooke, Milan Tofiloski, Kimberly Voll, Manfred Stede
Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis
Computational Linguistics, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2011.
Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Jeff Hancock
Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.
The winners were announced at ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Congratulations!
ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award Nomination Committee: Julia Hockenmaier (co-chair), Donia Scott (co-chair), Ido Dagan, Mark Johnson, Dan Jurafsky, Diane Litman, Preslav Nakov, Chengqing Zong.