The ACL Executive Committee has voted to significantly change ACL's approach to protecting anonymous peer review.
To learn about the details of the policy change and the reasons behind it, please read the report at:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy
We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected five ACL fellows for 2023:
- Mona Diab
- Barbara di Eugenio
- Anna Korohnen
- Roberto Navigl
- Ming Zhou
Computational Linguistics is the longest running premier journal in the areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It is an open-access, electronic-only journal with a high impact factor, published by the MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Computational Linguistics achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021.
The ACL is seeking nominations (self-nominations are permitted and encouraged), for a co-Editor-in-Chief (henceforth “EiC”, with the “co-” understood) of the journal Transactions of the ACL (TACL), serving a three-year term. The successful candidate should be able to start in the beginning of 2024 (or as early as possible).
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL Executive Committee:
+ Barbara Plank (LMU Munich, Germany) has been elected as VP-Elect.
+ Yuki Arase (Osaka University, Japan) has been elected as a member at-large.
Shiqi Zhao, ACL Secretary
The use of an ARR-only submission process has been agreed by Program Chairs (PCs), and General Chairs of the upcoming conferences in 2024 (EACL, NAACL and ACL, referred to in this document as *CL conferences), with feedback from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Initiative, the ARR board, and the ACL Exec. There will be no direct submission option. This decision was announced during the ACL 2023 business meeting. The purpose of this communication is to update those that were not present, and to provide more details about the coordinated plan.
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.
Winners of 1998 and 2013 Test-of-Time papers are announced below.
We are delighted to award the 2023 ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award to Joakim Nivre, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University and Senior Researcher at the RISE Research Institute of Sweden. He has served in many different capacities in the ACL leadership and exemplifies the dedication over his over two decades of contribution to computational linguistics.
We are delighted to award the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award to Martha Palmer, Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction for Linguistics and former Helen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has made tremendous contributions to NLP, multilingual resources, and supervised ML in lexical-semantic processing. Her work in computational semantics has been hugely influential in the field, both through the semantic representations that she has developed and through the annotated resources that she has created.
In recognition of the outstanding contributions of Dragomir Radev to the ACL and the whole NLP community, the ACL Executive Committee has decided to rename the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.