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 winners of the 1998 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:
Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight.
Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge.
Proceedings of ACL 1998.
Hinrich Schütze.
Automatic Word Sense Discrimination.
Computational Linguistics, 24(1). 1998.
The winners of the 2013 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:
Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage, Yoav Goldberg, Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Slav Petrov, Hao Zhang, Oscar Täckström, Claudia Bedini, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Jungmee Lee.
Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing.
Proceedings of ACL 2013.
Richard Socher, Alex Perelygin, Jean Wu, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Ng, Christopher Potts.
Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2013.
The winners were announced at ACL 2023. Congratulations!
ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award Nomination Committee: Mike Collins, Jason Eisner (co-chair), Anette Frank, Pascale Fung, Kevin Knight, Mirella Lapata (co-chair), Paola Merlo, Yue Zhang.