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The ACL Executive Committee is delighted to announce the establishment of the Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award.

This prestigious award, initiated by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), aims to recognize and promote outstanding doctoral research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Presented annually at the ACL conference, the award includes a monetary prize and funding to cover the recipient's travel expenses to attend the conference. Additionally, the recipient will deliver an oral presentation during a special session at the conference and receive a certificate presented by the current President of ACL. Each year, one winner will be selected, and there may be several runners-up.

Nominations should be submitted by the candidate's PhD advisor. For the inaugural award, the deadline for nominations is January 31, 2025 (at 11.59 pm, AOE). Further details, including submission guidelines, can be found at this link (https://bit.ly/cl-dissertation-award).

ACL has now established a policy on publication ethics. Our policy draws on existing practices and standards in the ACL, both explicit and de facto, and common standards in similar bodies. The policy covers issues such as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and what kind of content is suitable in papers at ACL venues. This policy is researched and written by the ACL publication ethics committee, a team of volunteers in the community, and voted in by the ACL. The committee will also manage relevant referred cases to the ACL. More information: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics

The ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual
each year for extraordinary service to the computational linguistics
community. Areas of service include, but are not limited to: association
service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of ACL
in other organizations, or influential service as a government agency
contract monitor or program director, that results in positive effects on the
field of computational linguistics.

The criteria for this award are:

Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years. The ACL Executive Committee is happy to welcome him on board, and wish him all the best in this very important role for the ACL community.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Hwee Tou Ng, who has been serving as the EiC of CL since 2018, for his great contribution to CL and ACL.