We are delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected six new ACL fellows for 2019:
- Barbara Grosz
Harvard University
https://grosz.seas.harvard.edu/
For foundational contributions to the computational study of discourse, including discourse structure, centering, and dialogue, as well as for service to ACL and related professional organizations, and energetic support of women in science.
- Graeme Hirst
University of Toronto
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh/
For deep and influential work in numerous topics in NLP, Knowledge Representation, Linguistics, and related areas, as well as for sustained service of ACL as Treasurer and other positions, and for teaching and advising over many years.
- Mirella Lapata
University of Edinburgh
https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap/
For significant developments in methods to extract and represent domain knowledge to support machine and human learning, and for strong contributions to natural language generation.
- Hang Li
Bytedance
https://www.hangli-hl.com/index.html
For foundational contributions in information retrieval, notably learning to rank, for strong contributions on deep learning and generation in dialogue, and for enabling the growth and commercialization of NLP in China.
- Paola Merlo
University of Geneva
https://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/collaborateurs/profs/home/
For pioneering research on the fundamental problem of verb predicate-argument structure and the automatic acquisition of the lexical, syntactic and lexical semantic properties of verbs, as well as for valuable service to ACL as editor of the CL journal.
- Michael Strube
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
https://www.h-its.org/people/prof-dr-michael-strube/
For valuable contributions to the computational treatment of discourse, coreference, and evaluation, for sustained service to ACL in numerous roles, and for effective outreach to the public.