The Life Time Achievement Award of ACL (ACL LTA) is conferred to recognize the work of a researcher who has made sustained and impactful contributions to the field of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (CL/NLP). The award was instituted in 2002 and has been given every year since.
The recent ACL Business Meeting in Berlin featured a discussion of equity and diversity issues, based on the report of an ad hoc committee appointed by the ACL Exec. Here is the final version of the report, which has been approved by the ACL Exec and will be followed by a detailed implementation plan. Please click here to download the report.
I am happy to announce the results of the elections for members of the ACL executive committee:
Marti A. Hearst (UC Berkeley, USA) has been elected as VP-Elect of ACL.
Jing-Shin Chang (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan) will be the new Information Officer and Shiqi Zhao (Baidu, China) will be the new Secretary.
We are happy to announce that Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University) has been elected as the VP-Elect of the ACL and that Yejin Choi (University of Washington) has been chosen as a member of the ACL executive committee in charge of conferences.
The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites proposals to host the 2017 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April) 2017. From 2014 EACL takes place every 3 years. The 2017 conference will be the 15th meeting of the EACL.
We seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation of the draft proposals received, promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
The Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund was established by the executive committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) to honor the extensive and far-reaching contributions of Don and Betty Walker both inside and outside the field of computational linguistics.
The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people
working on problems involving natural language and computation. Membership includes the ACL quarterly journal,
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Computational Linguistics, reduced registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, discounts on
ACL-sponsored publications, and participation in ACL Special Interest Groups.
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Please visit http://www.acl2008.org/ for all conference information and watch this site for updates as they become available.
Accommodations information can be found at: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/accommodation.html
This promises to be an exciting conference! We hope you will join us in Columbus!
I am happy to announce that all votes in the ACL executive committee elections have been counted. The winners are...
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) - vice-president-elect
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) - treasurer
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore) - member
The ACL Video Archive is a pilot program with the aims of making teaching materials freely available to facilitate scientific communication, and to document history and progress in our field. The initiative has been started in June 2007 at the ACL's 45th Annual Meeting in Prague, with the technical infrastructure currently being built up by volunteers. The archive is available at http://www.aclweb.org/videoarchive.