Each year, the ACL Test-of-Time awards recognize up to four papers for their lasting impact on the Computational Linguistics field: two papers from 25 years earlier, and two papers from 10 years earlier.
The 2020 winners of the 1995 Test-of-Time Award are:
Barbara J. Grosz, Aravind K. Joshi, Scott Weinstein. Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 21(2), June
David Yarowsky. Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
The 2020 winners of the 2010 Test-of-Time Award are:
Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci. Distributional Memory: A General Framework for Corpus-Based Semantics. Computational Linguistics, 36(4), December
Joseph Turian, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Yoshua Bengio. Word Representations: A Simple and General Method for Semi-Supervised Learning. 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
The winners were announced at ACL 2020. Congratulations!
With many thanks to the members of the award committee who solicited nominations both within the committee and from the ACL membership, and created two short lists of nominees; and to the members of the judging committee, who deliberated on the short lists and chose the winners.
Award committee: J. Hockenmaier & M. Walker, co-chairs; S. Abney, S. Carberry, C. Cherry, S. Clark, I. Dagan, E. De La Clergerie J. Eisner, K. Erk, S. Goldwater, J. Hajic, M. Harper, E. Hinrichs, N. Ide, M. Johnson, R. Kaplan, A. Korhonen, H. Li, L. Marquez, P. Merlo, A. Nenkova, H.T. Ng, G. Penn, F. Pereira, E. Reiter, B. Roark, R. Schaefer, G. Skantze, C. Sporleder, J. Su, H. Uszkoreit, H. Wang, M. Zhang.
Judging Committee: I. Gurevych & C. Manning, co-chairs; R. Barzilay, P. Bhattacharyya, C. Callison-Burch, C. Cardie, R. Dale, B. Dorr, M. Hearst, M.-Y. Kan, D. Marcu, Y. Matsumoto, Y. Mikao, J. Nivre, M. Ostendorf, M. Palmer, N. Smith, M. Strube, D. Traum, J. Tsujii, A. van den Bosch, M. Zhou, C. Zong