Dear ACL members,
TL;DR: In addition to the short-term proposals, we are now
also releasing the long-term proposal. Please provide your
feedback on the proposals here:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9028kaqAQ0OMdrEjlJf7...
Dear ACL members,
In light of recent worldwide uproar which has cast a spotlight on the ongoing injustice experienced first-hand by members of our community, the ACL has issued a statement to make explicit its solidarity.
Dear ACL members,
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:
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
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.
We are delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected six new ACL fellows for 2019:
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.
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: