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Vale Lauri Karttunen

April 02, 2022 | BY webmaster

It is with great sadness that I share the news of Lauri Karttunen's untimely passing. A
recipient of the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and a founding ACL Fellow, Lauri
was a famously understated but extremely influential figure in computational linguistics.
He made foundational contributions to diverse areas including discourse referents,
presupposition plugs/holes/filters, implicative verbs, finite state methods, computational
morphophonology, and natural language inference.

ACL Statement on the Ukraine situation

March 11, 2022 | BY webmaster

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) condemns in the strongest possible
terms the actions of the Russian Federation government in invading the sovereign state of
Ukraine and engaging in war against the Ukrainian people. We stand together with Ukrainian
NLP colleagues, the Ukrainian people, Russian NLP colleagues and Russian people who
condemn the actions of the Russian Federation government, and all those around the world
who have been impacted by the invasion.

ACL Establishes Its Ethics Committee

October 06, 2021 | BY webmaster

The ACL Executive Committee is glad to announce that ACL has established an Ethics Committee. The members of the committee are as follows:

Chairs:
- Karën Fort, Min Yen Kan, Yulia Tsvetkov

Members:
- Luciana Benotti, Mark Dredze, Pascale Fung, Dirk Hovy, Jin-Dong Kim, Malvina Nissim

The term of the co-chairs is five years, through the end of 2026, while the term of the members is three years, through the end of 2024.

Vale Martin Kay

August 22, 2021 | BY webmaster

It is with a profound sense of loss that, on behalf of the ACL Exec, I announce the passing of Martin Kay on August 7, 2021.

Martin was a pioneer and visionary of computational linguistics, in the truest sense of those terms. He made seminal contributions to the field in areas including parsing, unification grammars, finite state methods, and machine translation.

Announcement of the 2021 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award

August 17, 2021 | BY webmaster

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.

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