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Computational Linguistics, established in 1974, is the official flagship journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
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Our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Wei Lu, presents a new vision for the journal in the editorial 'Opening a New Chapter for Computational Linguistics', marking a forward-looking transition as the journal enters its second half-century.

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Do LLMs have personalities?

This paper introduces LMLPA, a framework for assessing linguistic personalities of LLMs using adapted Big Five inventories + AI raters, validated for reliability and consistency.

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September 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Evaluating NLG remains challenging — even with LLMs.

This survey reviews LLM-based evaluation methods: prompting, fine-tuning, and human–LLM collaboration, and outlines key open problems.

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August 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
LLMs can generate fluent text — but can they twist your tongue?

TwisterLister generates phoneme-aware tongue twisters, with a 17k-example dataset and phonologically constrained decoding.

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August 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Can LLMs learn possible human languages but struggle with impossible ones?

Kallini et al. claimed evidence, but Hunter argues their key experiment conflates factors — the core question remains open.

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August 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Even state-of-the-art MT systems struggle with ambiguous words — especially rare senses.

DiBiMT is a new fully human-curated benchmark across 8 language pairs to study disambiguation bias in MT.

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August 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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We're honored to announce the recipient of the ACL 2025 Distinguished Service Award! 🏅 This award recognizes extraordinary and sustained contributions to the computational linguistics community.
July 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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📚The dissertation will be published in the CL journal.
💬Catch the talk right after the award presentation! #NLProc
Congratulations to all these outstanding dissertations in NLP and CL — the future of #NLProc is in excellent hands! 🙌
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Sewon Min 🏆 presenting the essence of her thesis: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models -- It won the first ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 🎓✨
#ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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📚Tom Sherborne: Modeling Cross-lingual Transfer for Semantic Parsing

Sherborne’s dissertation develops sophisticated methods for cross-lingual transfer into low-resource languages, demonstrating their effectiveness in the context of semantic parsing for integration with database APIs.
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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📚Ashish Sharma: Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health and Well-Being

Sharma’s dissertation pushes the boundaries of human-AI collaboration along with research in empathy detection and generation, advancing the application of NLP to mental health
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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📚 Manling Li: Event-Centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition

Li’s dissertation offers a comprehensive framework for multimodal event extraction and reasoning, advancing important tasks such as video question answering and future event prediction
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This year ACL inaugurates the ✨🎓ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎓✨
Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec.

#CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics
#ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🏆 Who will take home the very first award?

The inaugural ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award will be revealed Monday, July 28 (Day 1, 4pm) at #ACL2025.

Chaired by Kathy McKeown.

Any predictions? 🤔🔥
July 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Volume 51, Issue 2 📣 Access it at direct.mit.edu/coli/issue/5...

The articles included in this issue are listed in the comments below. 🧵
July 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
🚨 As LLMs generate more of the text we see daily, detecting AI-generated text is more critical than ever.

New survey from the University of Macau explores cutting-edge detection methods, key challenges, and future directions to ensure responsible AI use.

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June 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🔍 Neural semantic parsers are great – but often just parrot surface text.
Researchers from the University of Groningen propose a taxonomical parser that builds deeper, hierarchical meaning representations.

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June 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚀 New from Queen Mary University of London: A unified framework for evaluating synthetic data generation from user-generated text! 📱💬

It tackles style, meaning, and privacy – paving the way for safe, shareable, high-quality synthetic language data.

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June 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
How do humans understand novel sentence meanings? A new dataset (STS3k) from UniMelb & Hitotsubashi researchers tests compositionality in language models. Findings: hybrids of syntax + vectors better match human judgments than top transformers.🧠📚

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June 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Zurich, Supertext, and Microsoft introduce ACES, a challenging benchmark spanning 146 language pairs, in their 'Machine Translation Meta Evaluation through Translation Accuracy Challenge Sets'.

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May 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Researchers from Georgetown University, LMU Munich, Abo Akademi, and Indiana University present “eRST: A Signaled Graph Theory of Discourse Relations and Organization”.

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May 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In his ACL Lifetime Achievement Award article, Dr. Ralph Grishman reflects on five decades of progress in Information Extraction — from early parsers to MUC, ACE, and KBP.

📄 MUCking In, or Fifty Years in Information Extraction

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May 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Wei Lu, presents a new vision for the journal in the editorial 'Opening a New Chapter for Computational Linguistics', marking a forward-looking transition as the journal enters its second half-century.

Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...
May 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Volume 51, Issue 1 is out, please access the issue at direct.mit.edu/coli/issue/5...

The articles included in this issue are listed in the comments below. 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM