ACL has now established a policy on publication ethics. Our policy draws on existing practices and standards in the ACL, both explicit and de facto, and common standards in similar bodies. The policy covers issues such as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and what kind of content is suitable in papers at ACL venues. This policy is researched and written by the ACL publication ethics committee, a team of volunteers in the community, and voted in by the ACL. The committee will also manage relevant referred cases to the ACL. More information: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics

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.

Thank you to Drs. Derczynski, Jaidka and Cahill for taking on this important work!

The ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual
each year for extraordinary service to the computational linguistics
community. Areas of service include, but are not limited to: association
service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of ACL
in other organizations, or influential service as a government agency
contract monitor or program director, that results in positive effects on the
field of computational linguistics.

The criteria for this award are:

The ACL Lifetime Achievement award is, as its name indicates, a recognition
for widely recognized, sustained, and enduring contributions to our field
over a long period. It is not awarded merely for outstanding recent
contributions to a currently hot topic. Candidates for the award will
generally be senior, with a working lifetime of contributions, even though
they will often be active in research.

A nomination package should include the following material:

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. The ACL Executive Committee is happy to welcome him on board, and wish him all the best in this very important role for the ACL community.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Hwee Tou Ng, who has been serving as the EiC of CL since 2018, for his great contribution to CL and ACL.

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. The ACL Exec and the TACL Steering Committee are happy to welcome her on board, and wish her all the best in this very important role for the ACL community!

The ACL Executive Committee has voted to significantly change ACL's approach to protecting anonymous peer review.

To learn about the details of the policy change and the reasons behind it, please read the report at:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy

We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected five ACL fellows for 2023:

- Mona Diab
- Barbara di Eugenio
- Anna Korohnen
- Roberto Navigl
- Ming Zhou

Computational Linguistics is the longest running premier journal in the areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It is an open-access, electronic-only journal with a high impact factor, published by the MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Computational Linguistics achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021.