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June 15, 2020 | BY webmaster
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ACL Code of Ethics
March 13, 2020 | BY webmaster
ACL adopts the ACM Code of Ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) in the version adopted June 22nd, 2018, by the ACM Council. In its application to ACL, it is to be read in the contextually appropriate interpretation, e.g., "ACM member" is to be read as "ACL member". Sec 4.2 should be read as follows:
ACL Equity Director Natalie Schluter
February 21, 2020 | BY webmaster
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the ACL Equity Director:
- Natalie Schluter (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Congratulations to Natalie, whose term is effective now through December 31, 2022. Thank you to the other candidate for running, and to the working group led by Rada Mihalcea for searching for the Equity Director.
Hinrich Schütze, ACL President
ACL 2019 Election Results: Congratulations to Tim Baldwin and Anna Korhonen
December 06, 2019 | BY webmaster
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL Executive Committee:
- Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) has been elected as VP-Elect.
ACL Fellows 2019
November 25, 2019 | BY webmaster
We are delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected six new ACL fellows for 2019:
- Barbara Grosz
Announcement of the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA)
August 12, 2019 | BY webmaster
Announcement of the 2019 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA)
August 12, 2019 | BY webmaster
The ACL Lifetime Achievement Award was instituted in 2002 and has been given every year since. The award is conferred to recognize the work of a researcher who has made sustained and impactful contributions to the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Announcement of the 2019 ACL Test-of-Time Awards (ToT)
August 12, 2019 | BY webmaster
The ACL Test-of-Time awards recognize two papers each year for their lasting
impact on the Computational Linguistics field: one paper from 25 years earlier,
and one paper from 10 year earlier.
2019 is the first year that these awards are officially presented by the ACL,
building on a grass-roots initiative at NAACL 18.
I am delighted to announce that the following two papers have respectively won
the 1994 and 2009 ToT award. The motivation for the honor is also included.
The 2019 winner of the 1994 Test-of-Time Award is:
ACL Publicity Director Barbara Plank and Deputy Sarvnaz Karimi
July 31, 2019 | BY webmaster
Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the ACL Publicity Director and Deputy Director:
- Director: Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Deputy Director: Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)
Congratulations to Barbara and Sarvnaz, whose term starts from the date of announcement. Thank you to the other candidates for running, and to the working group for searching for the Publicity Director and Deputy Director.
Ming Zhou, ACL President
New Editor-in-Chief of the TACL journal and changes in the TACL Steering Committee
June 26, 2019 | BY webmaster
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has appointed Ani Nenkova, of University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, the new Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL-sponsored journal, Transactions of the ACL (https://www.transacl.org). Her term starts July 1, 2019 and runs for three years. She is replacing Lillian Lee, whose term expires at the end of 2019, and joining Brian Roark and Mark Johnson, who continue to serve as TACL EiCs.