We are delighted to announce that EMNLP 2022 will be held December 7-11 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. It will be a hybrid conference and we plan to continue improving the hybrid experience.
The ACL is pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2022 Test-of-Time (ToT) paper awards. In 2022, the ToT paper awards will honor up to four influential papers from ACL events from 25 and 10 years ago, namely, up to two papers from 1997 ACL events and up to two papers from 2012 ACL events.
We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected eight ACL fellows for 2021:
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.
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.
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.
During its 59th annual meeting, the Association for Computational Linguistics awarded its 2021 Distinguished Service Award to Professor Lillian Lee.
Lillian Lee is a professor of computer science and of information science at Cornell University. She received her undergraduate degree at Cornell in math and computer science and her Ph.D. in computer science at Harvard in 1997.
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the annual ACL conference in the Asia-Pacific Region in July or August 2024. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
