== Membership==
We expect to close 2024 with over 10400 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.
== Outgoing Exec Members ==
The following people are leaving the exec:
* Iryna Gurevych (ACL VP-elect (2021), VP (2022), President (2023), Past President (2024))
* Mohit Bansal (ACL member at-large, 2022-2024)
* Roberto Basili (EACL Chair, 2023-2024)
* Jian Su (AACL Chair, 2023-2024)
I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!
== New Exec Members ==
We will have five new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2025. These are:
* Luke Zettlemoyer (ACL VP-elect)
* Yang Feng (ACL secretary)
* Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber (ACL member at-large)
* Preslav Nakov (EACL Chair)
* Xuanjing Huang (AACL Chair)
Welcome to the new exec members!
The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about
The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2025.
== Workshop Officers ==
The Exec approved the proposal of adding two workshop officers, as exec plus members, with overlapping terms of three years each:
* Zeerak Talat
* Terra Blevins
== ACL Publication Ethics Committee ==
The ACL has convened a new Publication Ethics Committee, with inaugural co-chairs Dr. Leon Derczynski, Dr. Kokil Jaidka and Dr. Aoife Cahill. This committee will be charged with developing policies and procedures related to publication ethics, including such issues as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and how to handle issues raised about papers post-publication.
The ACL Policy on Publication Ethics can be found here:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics
== CL and TACL ==
Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years.
Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL journal Transaction of the ACL for the staged three year term 2024-2026. She joins Asli Celikyilmaz (Meta) and Roi Reichart (Technion) to work together at the TACL helm.
== New SIGs ==
The following new SIGs were created in 2024:
* SIGSEA (SIG on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
** https://www.sigsea.org/
** president: Holy Lovenia, secretary: Fajri Koto
* SIGFIN (SIG on Financial and Economic NLP)
** https://sigfintech.github.io/
** Founder: Chung-Chi Chen
== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==
The winner of the ACL 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Ralph Grishman. Prof. Ralph Grishman is a world-leading pioneer in Computational Linguistics. Among his many contributions, the most impactful one is the central role he played in defining Information Extraction (IE) research over the past 35+ years. Research on IE has led to many real-world applications used in daily life, including knowledge base construction and population, question answering, smart health, financial knowledge extraction and prediction, situation report generation and knowledge-guided dialog systems.
The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.
For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievemen...
== Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award ==
There was no awardee of Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award in 2024.
The 2025 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2025 conference.
For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Servi...
== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==
The 2024 winner of the 1999 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Lillian Lee. 1999. Measures of Distributional Similarity. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 25–32, College Park, Maryland, USA.
The 2024 winner of the 2014 Test-of-Time Paper Award is:
* Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher, and Christopher Manning. 2014. GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1532–1543, Doha, Qatar.
== Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award ==
The ACL Executive Committee is delighted to announce the establishment of the Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award. This prestigious award, initiated by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), aims to recognize and promote outstanding doctoral research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
More information can be found here: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-nominations-inaugural-computa...
== ACL Fellows ==
The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2024:
* Philipp koehn
** For significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, MT evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
* Scott Wen-tau Yih
** For significant contributions to information extraction and question answering, neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
* Jianfeng Gao
** For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
* James Pustejovsky
** For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur
** For significant contributions to Conversational Dialogue Modeling, Spoken Language Understanding, and Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue Systems.
* Massimo Poesio
** For significant contributions to the theory and practice of anaphora and reference resolution, and to sound methodologies of corpus development.
* Jimmy Lin
** For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
* Lucy Vanderwende
** For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
* Min Zhang
** For significant contributions to MT, Parsing and sustained service to the growth of NLP in China and Southeast Asia.
We would like to remind ACL members of the ACL Fellows program and to encourage them to
nominate appropriate colleagues for possible selection as Fellows. Nominations, which require two recommenders beyond the nominator are due October 1. Nominations can be made through this page:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl-fellows
== Coming Conferences ==
* NAACL2025
** https://2025.naacl.org/
** 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025) will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 29–May 4, 2025.
* ACL 2025
** https://2025.aclweb.org/
** The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 27 to August 1st, 2025.
* IJCNLP-AACL 2025
** The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2025) will be held in October, November, or December 2025. The location of the conference will be announced later.
* EMNLP 2025
** The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) will take place in Suzhou, China, from November 5 to 9, 2025.
== 2024 Reports from ACL Officers ==
Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q1_Reports
Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports
== ACL Resolutions ==
The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions
Sincerely,
Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary