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A total of 8 domestic and foreign scholars were selected for the 2021 ACL Fellow, and zong chengqing and Liu Qun were selected as two mainland scholars.
"Natural language processing" with human language as the research object is one of the most important research directions of artificial intelligence. In the field of natural language processing, ACL is the world's most influential and dynamic international academic organization, with a history of 57 years and members in more than 60 countries and regions around the world, representing the world's highest level in the field of natural language processing. ACL Fellows are ACL members who have achieved outstanding success in their field.
On January 6, local time, ACL announced the list of 2021 ACL Fellows, with a total of 8 scholars, including two mainland scholars: Zong Chengqing, researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Liu Qun, chief scientist of speech semantics at Huawei's Noah's Ark Laboratory.
At the "ACL 2021 Offline Paper Sharing Conference" held by Machine Heart this year, we also invited three teachers, Zong Chengqing, Liu Qun and Li Hang (2019 ACL Fellow).
Zong Chengqing
Reason for selection: He has made important contributions in the field of machine translation and sentiment analysis, and promoted the development of natural language processing in China.
Zong Chengqing, who received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences in March 1998, is now a researcher at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a doctoral supervisor, a member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), a fellow of the Chinese Engineering Intelligence Society, and a fellow of the Chinese Computer Society. His main research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, text data mining and language cognitive computing, and he has presided over more than 10 national projects such as the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the key projects of the National Key Research and Development Program. He has published more than 150 papers in international authoritative journals and first-class academic conferences, published 3 monographs and 2 translations, of which Statistical Natural Language Processing (2nd Edition) has a wide readership and has been printed 16 times.
He has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the first prize of the "Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award" of the China Chinese information Society, and several awards and honors such as Beijing Outstanding Teacher and Outstanding Tutor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Liu Qun
Reason for selection: Important contributions in the field of machine translation and Chinese natural language processing.
Liu Qun, Chief Scientist of Speech Semantics at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab, is responsible for speech and natural language processing research, and his research interests are mainly natural language understanding, language modeling, machine translation, question answering, and dialogue. His research achievements include Chinese word segmentation and part-of-speech annotation system, syntactic statistical machine translation method, chapter machine translation, machine translation evaluation method, etc. Liu Qun has undertaken or participated in a number of large-scale scientific research projects in China, Ireland and the European Union, published more than 300 papers in international conferences and journals, been cited more than 10,000 times, trained more than 50 doctoral and master's graduates at home and abroad, and won the Google Research Award, ACL Best Long Paper, Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award First Prize, National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize and other awards.
He was a professor at Dublin City University in Ireland, the head of natural language processing at the ADAPT Centre in Ireland, a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the head of the natural language processing research group, and received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China, the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Peking University, respectively.
The other six inductees are as follows:
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)
Reason for selection: Significant contributions to algorithms, models, and data resources that rely on syntactic analysis have propelled the field to the forefront of multilingual syntactic analysis.
Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington)
Reason for selection: Important contributions to the basic semantics, semantic parsing and representation learning of natural language processing.
Anette Frank (Heidelberg University)
Reason for selection: Comprehensive work done in natural language processing for semantics and discourses with rich linguistic information and a good technical foundation.
Joyce Chai (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Reason for selection: Significant contributions in the field of fundamental natural language processing and interaction between language processing and robots.
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country)
Reasons for selection: Selected for significant contributions to word disambiguation, semantic text similarity, unsupervised machine translation, Basque language resources and ACL services.
Amanda Stent (Colby College)
Reason for selection: Selected for significant contributions to computational models for multimodal and spoken dialogue, natural language generation, and abstracts.
Reference Links:
https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows#2021_Fellows