December 15, 2018 | BY webmaster
I am delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected five new ACL fellows for 2018:
- Robert Dale
- Language Technology Group
- http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~rdale
- For significant contributions to research in the generation of referring expressions and in natural language generation more broadly.
- Jason Eisner
- Johns Hopkins University
- http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason
- For significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology.
- Mari Ostendorf
- University of Washington
- https://www.ece.uw.edu/people/mari-ostendorf/
- For significant contributions to prosody, pronunciation, acoustic, language modeling, and developments in using out-of-domain data and discourse structure.
- Dragomir Radev
- Yale University
- http://www.cs.yale.edu/~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
- University of Utah
- http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/
- For significant contributions to information extraction, and the analysis of sentiment, subjectivity and affect.