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ACL Fellows 2025
December 11, 2025 | BY y.feng
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I am delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected 11 new ACL fellows for 2025:
Rada Mihalcea
- University of Michigan
- For significant contributions to graph-based language processing, computational social science, and the advancement of NLP for social good.
Hanna Hajishirzi
- University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI
- For significant contributions to question answering, scientific applications, multimodal artificial intelligence, and fully open language models.
Heng Ji
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- For significant contributions to information extraction, multimodal and multilingual knowledge extraction and AI for science.
Mohit Bansal
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- For significant contributions to multimodal NLP foundations, faithful language generation and summarization, and model interpretability methods.
Nizar Habash
- New York University Abu Dhabi
- For significant contributions to Arabic NLP, open-source tools and resources for Arabic and morphologically-rich languages, and community building and service.
Peter Clark
- Allen Institute for AI
- For pioneering contributions to knowledge-based NLP, question answering, and commonsense reasoning, including influential datasets and open AI systems.
Yue Zhang
- Westlake University
- For his contributions to structured prediction and generalization in NLP, services to the Chinese and global NLP communities, and NLP education.
Sadao Kurohashi
- National Institute of Informatics
- For significant contributions to Japanese NLP and MT, and advancement of the Asian NLP community.
Saif Mohammad
- National Research Council Canada
- For significant contributions to computational affective science, emotion detection and sentiment analysis, and responsible NLP.
Lori Levin
- Carnegie Mellon University
- 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.
Alexander Koller
- Saarland University
- For foundational contributions to computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neurosymbolic architectures.
Yang Feng, ACL secretary
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