ACL Fellows 2022

We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected eight ACL fellows for 2022:

• Hinrich Schütze
  
  
  

  
  
  
  University of Munich (LMU)
  
  For significant contributions to statistical and neural language representation models below, beyond and above the word level.





• Marti Hearst
  
  
  

  
  
  
  University of California Berkeley
  
  For significant contributions to semantics, discourse structure and text data mining.





• Claire Gardent
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications (LORIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
  
  For significant contributions to linguistically informed computational models for natural language generation, and the curation of NLG benchmarking and evaluation resources.





• James F. Allen
  
  
  

  
  
  
  University of Rochester
  
  For significant contributions to natural language dialogue research, planning and plan recognition.





• Owen Rambow
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Stony Brook University
  
  For significant contributions to syntax, Tree Adjoining Grammars, dependency processing, natural language generation, and Arabic language processing.





• Yejin Choi
  
  
  

  
  
  
  University of Washington and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  
  For significant contributions to research in natural language generation, language and vision, and commonsense reasoning.





• Maosong Sun
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Tsinghua University
  
  For significant contributions to Chinese NLP, and sustained service to the growth of computational linguistics in China.





• Tomek Strzalkowski
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  
  For significant contributions to computational sociolinguistics, metaphor extraction, interactive question answering, and natural language information retrieval.