Fellows
Introduction
The ACL Fellows program has been established in 2011 by the ACL. The rules and nomination policy has been revised in 2017. The Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact. To be named a Fellow, a candidate must have been a member of the ACL for three out of the past five years and be nominated by a current ACL member. Below is the current list of fellows.
If you would like to nominate a candidate, please make your nomination here. If you are unsure about a candidate’s eligibility, please send a question to acl@aclweb.org. A nominator must provide a comprehensive case for the candidate and solicit two additional recommendations. The nominator should direct the recommenders to fill out recommendation forms (ACL will not contact individual recommenders or solicit letters). All forms submitted by October 1 of a given year will be considered by the ACL nominating committee, and submitted forms will be kept confidential. More information on the ACL policy on the Fellows Program can be found here.
2018 Fellows
Date: 15 December 2018
The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows this year:
Robert Dale
For significant contributions to research in the generation of referring expressions and in natural language generation more broadly.
Jason Eisner
For significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology.
Mari Ostendorf
For significant contributions to prosody, pronunciation, acoustic, language modeling, and developments in using out-of-domain data and discourse structure.
Dragomir Radev
For significant contributions to text summarization and question answering, as well as large scale efforts to expand and diversify the computational linguistics pipeline.
Ellen Riloff
For significant contributions to information extraction, and the analysis of sentiment, subjectivity and affect.
2017 Fellows
Date: 12 December 2017
The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows this year:
Regina Barzilay
For ground-breaking contributions to language generation, text summarization, reinforcement learning for language applications and multi-lingual core technology.
Ralph Grishman
For significant contributions to information extraction and in particular his leadership role in defining the architecture of modern information extraction.
Lillian Lee
For significant wide-ranging contributions to the rigorous analysis of human social communication and for advancing the field of computational social science.
Diane Litman
For key contributions to dialog systems research, especially the application of reinforcement learning and multimodal analysis to tutoring dialog.
Fernando Pereira
*For wide-ranging contributions to sequence modeling, finite-state methods, and dependency and deductive parsing.
Stuart Shieber
*For significant contributions to constraint-based grammar formalisms, synchronous grammars, parsing algorithms, and understanding of the formal properties of natural languages.
2016 Fellows
Date: 28 November 2016
The ACL Fellows selection committee has selected the following new fellows this year:
Bonnie J. Dorr
For significant contributions to machine translation, summarization and human evaluation.
Marilyn Walker
For fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog.
Haifeng Wang
For significant contributions to MT, NLP and search engines in both academia and industry, and to the growth of the ACL in Asia.
Ralph Weischedel
For significant contributions in information extraction technologies and for quiet but effective and wide-ranging strategic leadership
2015 Fellows
Date: 9 December 2015
The ACL Fellows selection committee has selected the following new fellows this year:
Claire Cardie
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine learning methods in natural language processing.
Kenneth Church
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT community.
Salim Roukos
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.
Janyce Wiebe
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.
2014 Fellows
Date: 9 December 2014
We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2014 who are:
Walter Daelemans
For significant contributions to the theory, methodology, and applications of machine learning of language.
Kevin Knight
For significant contributions to statistical machine translation, automata for natural language processing, and decipherment of historical manuscripts.
Daniel Marcu
For significant contributions to discourse parsing, summarization, and machine translation and to kickstarting the statistical machine translation industry.
Raymond Mooney
For significant contributions to machine learning for semantic parsing, language generation, and multimodal integration.
Martha Palmer
For significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora.
Junichi Tsujii
For significant contributions to MT, parsing by unification-based grammar and text mining for biology.
2013 Fellows
Date: 5 November 2013
We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2013 who are:
Dekang Lin
For significant contributions to natural language parsing and lexical semantics.
Candace Sidner
For seminal contributions to discourse focus and collaborative dialog.
Ido Dagan
For initiating and developing the textual entailment paradigm, contributions to lexical semantics, and leading the creation of the TACL journal.
David Yarowsky
For significant contributions to word-sense disambiguation, the SIGDAT community, and the development of the decision-list learning method.
2012 Fellows
Date: 18 February 2013
We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2012 who are:
Hwee Tou Ng
For significant contributions to coreference resolution and semantic processing, and for the development of semantic corpora.
Dan Roth
For significant contributions to machine learning and inference in natural language processing.
Richard Sproat
For significant contributions to computational morphology, text normalization, text-to-speech synthesis, Chinese language processing, and computational approaches to writing systems.
Mark Steedman
For the development of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and for significant contributions to grammar induction and parsing.
Bonnie Webber
For significant contributions to discourse structure and discourse-based interpretation.
2011 Fellows
We are pleased to announce the ACL Fellows chosen for 2011 who are:
Nicoletta Calzolari
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, and for the creation and dissemination of language resources.
Eugene Charniak
For significant contributions to natural language parsing.
Michael Collins
For significant contributions to natural language parsing and discriminative training.
Eva Hajičová
For significant contributions to theoretical linguistics and topic-focus models of discourse structure.
Julia Hirschberg
For significant contributions to intonation, discourse, text-to-speech systems, and labeling standards for speech corpora.
Eduard Hovy
For significant contributions to natural language generation, summarization and ontologies.
Mark Johnson
For significant contributions to natural language parsing and its applications to text and speech processing.
Aravind Joshi
For significant contributions to the mathematics of natural language and for the development of TAGs (tree-adjoining grammars).
Ronald M. Kaplan
For significant contributions to augmented transition networks, lexical functional grammar, and finite-state models of morphology and phonology.
Lauri Karttunen
For significant contributions to finite-state morphology and parsing.
Christopher D. Manning
For significant contributions to the probabilistic modeling of natural language syntax and semantics.
Mitch Marcus
For significant contributions to deterministic parsing and The Penn Treebank.
Yuji Matsumoto
For significant contributions to ChaSen and bottom-up parsing.
Kathleen R. McKeown
For significant contributions to natural language generation and multi-document summarization.
Robert L. Mercer
For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition.
Robert C. Moore
For significant contributions to unification-based grammar and machine translation.
Dekai Wu
For significant contributions to machine translation and the development of inversion-transduction grammar.