News

With sadness, the ACL exec announces the premature passing of one of our own, Janyce M. Wiebe, ACL Fellow 2015. Jan was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a former director of the Pitt Intelligent Systems Program. She was a pioneer in the now burgeoning fields of sentiment, affect and subjectivity. Her PhD thesis (1990) -Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text- was an early computational investigation of subjectivity in NLP.

Dear ACL members,

I am happy to announce the new ACL Anthology Director:

- Matt Post (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Congratulations to Matt, whose term starts on January 1, 2019. Thank you to the other candidates for running, and to the ACL Anthology Advisory Board, headed by Dragomir Radev, for their hard work on this process.

Marti Hearst, ACL President

To the ACL Community,

Scammers are targeting the ACL community, using fake emails to impersonate ACL officers, especially the current ACL President. The scammers sometimes follow up the emails with phone calls.

ACL never requests transfers of money in this way. Please do NOT pay money and do NOT respond to the individuals trying to conduct this fraud.

Marti Hearst and David Yarowsky

58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the conference in the America region in July or August 2020. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the relevant regions. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.