The ACL Fellows program recognizes members whose work has made extraordinary contributions to computational linguistics through research, service, education, or outreach. The program began in 2011.
Induction years follow the official ACL Fellows roster.
2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to graph-based language processing, computational social science, and the advancement of NLP for social good.
2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to question answering, scientific applications, multimodal artificial intelligence, and fully open language models.
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2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to information extraction, multimodal and multilingual knowledge extraction and AI for science.
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2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to multimodal NLP foundations, faithful language generation and summarization, and model interpretability methods.
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2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to Arabic NLP, open-source tools and resources for Arabic and morphologically-rich languages, and community building and service.
2025 ACL Fellow
For pioneering contributions to knowledge-based NLP, question answering, and commonsense reasoning, including influential datasets and open AI systems.
2025 ACL Fellow
For his contributions to structured prediction and generalization in NLP, services to the Chinese and global NLP communities, and NLP education.
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2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to Japanese NLP and MT, and advancement of the Asian NLP community.
2025 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational affective science, emotion detection and sentiment analysis, and responsible NLP.
2025 ACL Fellow
For pioneering work on the use of phonetics, syntax, lexical semantics and dialogue modeling in machine translation and in the transfer of NLP technologies to low resource languages, as well as an enduring contribution to the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
2025 ACL Fellow
For foundational contributions to computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neurosymbolic architectures.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, MT evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to information extraction and question answering, neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing and conversational systems.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational semantics and predicate argument structures and the formalization of lexical, spatial and temporal relations.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to Conversational Dialogue Modeling, Spoken Language Understanding, and Machine Learning Methods for Dialogue Systems.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to the theory and practice of anaphora and reference resolution, and to sound methodologies of corpus development.
2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.
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2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to semantic knowledge acquisition from free text, summarization, and information extraction from biomedical text.
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2024 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to MT, Parsing and sustained service to the growth of NLP in China and Southeast Asia.
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2023 ACL Fellow
For contributions to Arabic language NLP, to lexical semantics, and for democratizing NLP to wider and less privileged communities.
2023 ACL Fellow
For outstanding contributions to natural language generation; intelligent tutoring systems; discourse; intercoder agreement; and applying multimodal interactive systems to health.
2023 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to lexical acquisition, multilingual and low resource NLP, socially beneficial language applications, and services to the ACL community
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2023 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to multilingual lexical-semantic resources and a unifying vision for multilingual lexical and sentence-level semantics.
2023 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation, language learning, text generation as well as the growth of NLP community in China and Asia
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2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to statistical and neural language representation models below, beyond and above the word level.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to semantics, discourse structure and text data mining.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to linguistically informed computational models for natural language generation, and the curation of NLG benchmarking and evaluation resources.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language dialogue research, planning and plan recognition.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to syntax, Tree Adjoining Grammars, dependency processing, natural language generation, and Arabic language processing.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to research in natural language generation, language and vision, and commonsense reasoning.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to Chinese NLP, and sustained service to the growth of computational linguistics in China.
2022 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational sociolinguistics, metaphor extraction, interactive question answering, and natural language information retrieval.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to algorithms, models and data resources for dependency parsing, pushing the field to the forefront of multilingual syntactic analysis.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation and Chinese natural language processing.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to grounded semantics, semantic parsing, and representation learning for natural language processing.
2021 ACL Fellow
For integrative work in linguistically informed, technically well-founded semantics- and discourse-oriented natural language processing.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to word sense disambiguation, semantic textual similarity, unsupervised machine translation, Basque resources and services to the ACL.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation and sentiment analysis and sustained service to the growth of natural language processing in China.
2021 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational models of multimodal and spoken dialogue, natural language generation and summarization.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to the study of communicative action and dialogue, and to the theory and practice of multimodal interaction.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions toward statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans.
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2020 ACL Fellow
For theoretical and practical contributions to deep learning models for NLP, and computational argumentation, and for services to the ACL and the German NLP Community.
2020 ACL Fellow
For contributions to computational linguistics that both broaden its societal impact and advance our understanding of human communication.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to symbolic-statistical methods for natural language processing, multilinguality, and the interdisciplinary study of language.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language generation, particularly in the areas of discourse processing, multilinguality, and knowledge-editing.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to linguistic structure prediction, computational social sciences, and improving NLP research methodology.
2020 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to social media processing, particularly in Chinese information retrieval, opinion mining, microblog processing and rumour detection.
2019 ACL Fellow
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.
2019 ACL Fellow
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.
2019 ACL Fellow
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.
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2019 ACL Fellow
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.
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2019 ACL Fellow
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.
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2019 ACL Fellow
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.
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2018 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to research in the generation of referring expressions and in natural language generation more broadly.
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2018 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology.
2018 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to prosody, pronunciation, acoustic, language modeling, and developments in using out-of-domain data and discourse structure.
2018 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to text summarization and question answering, as well as large scale efforts to expand and diversify the computational linguistics pipeline.
2018 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to information extraction, and the analysis of sentiment, subjectivity and affect.
2017 ACL Fellow
For ground-breaking contributions to language generation, text summarization, reinforcement learning for language applications and multi-lingual core technology.
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2017 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to information extraction and in particular his leadership role in defining the architecture of modern information extraction.
2017 ACL Fellow
For significant wide-ranging contributions to the rigorous analysis of human social communication and for advancing the field of computational social science.
2017 ACL Fellow
For key contributions to dialog systems research, especially the application of reinforcement learning and multimodal analysis to tutoring dialog.
2017 ACL Fellow
For wide-ranging contributions to sequence modeling, finite-state methods, and dependency and deductive parsing.
2017 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to constraint-based grammar formalisms, synchronous grammars, parsing algorithms, and understanding of the formal properties of natural languages.
2016 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation, summarization and human evaluation.
2016 ACL Fellow
For fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog.
2016 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to MT, NLP and search engines in both academia and industry, and to the growth of the ACL in Asia.
2016 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions in information extraction technologies and for quiet but effective and wide-ranging strategic leadership
2015 ACL Fellow
For foundational contributions to co-reference resolution, information and opinion extraction, and to machine learning methods in natural language processing.
2015 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, statistical natural language processing and the SIGDAT community.
2015 ACL Fellow
For seminal contributions in statistical methods for parsing, machine translation, and information extraction.
2015 ACL Fellow
For seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.
2014 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to the theory, methodology, and applications of machine learning of language.
2014 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to statistical machine translation, automata for natural language processing, and decipherment of historical manuscripts.
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2014 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to discourse parsing, summarization, and machine translation and to kickstarting the statistical machine translation industry.
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2014 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine learning for semantic parsing, language generation, and multimodal integration.
2014 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora.
2014 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to MT, parsing by unification-based grammar and text mining for biology.
2013 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language parsing and lexical semantics.
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2013 ACL Fellow
For seminal contributions to discourse focus and collaborative dialog.
2013 ACL Fellow
For initiating and developing the textual entailment paradigm, contributions to lexical semantics, and leading the creation of the TACL journal.
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2013 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to word-sense disambiguation, the SIGDAT community, and the development of the decision-list learning method.
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2012 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to coreference resolution and semantic processing, and for the development of semantic corpora.
2012 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine learning and inference in natural language processing.
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2012 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational morphology, text normalization, text-to-speech synthesis, Chinese language processing, and computational approaches to writing systems.
2012 ACL Fellow
For the development of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and for significant contributions to grammar induction and parsing.
2012 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to discourse structure and discourse-based interpretation.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to computational lexicography, and for the creation and dissemination of language resources.
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2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language parsing and discriminative training.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to theoretical linguistics and topic-focus models of discourse structure.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to intonation, discourse, text-to-speech systems, and labeling standards for speech corpora.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language generation, summarization and ontologies.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language parsing and its applications to text and speech processing.
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2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to the mathematics of natural language and for the development of TAGs (tree-adjoining grammars).
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to augmented transition networks, lexical functional grammar, and finite-state models of morphology and phonology.
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2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to the probabilistic modeling of natural language syntax and semantics.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to deterministic parsing and The Penn Treebank.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to natural language generation and multi-document summarization.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation and speech recognition.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to unification-based grammar and machine translation.
2011 ACL Fellow
For significant contributions to machine translation and the development of inversion-transduction grammar.
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