Computational Linguistics

Official flagship journal of the ACL · Since 1974

Advancing our understanding of language through computation

Peer-reviewed research in computational linguistics, natural language processing and the computational study of language. Fully open access, published by MIT Press.

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Call for Papers · Special Issue

The Ethics of NLP and CL

We invite theoretical and technical contributions that reflect on the ethics of language technologies, including bias and fairness, algorithmically mediated harms, power relationships, multilingual and decolonial perspectives, environmental impacts and data labour. Inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary submissions are particularly encouraged.

Submission deadline: 27 November 2026 · Notification: February 2027 · Expected publication: October 2027
Guest editors: Karën Fort (Université de Lorraine / LORIA), Margot Mieskes (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt), Zeerak Talat (University of Edinburgh)

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Award · 2026

ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Fernando Pereira, recipient of the 2026 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award. His award article will appear in a forthcoming issue of Computational Linguistics.

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Award · 2026

CL High Impact Paper Award

The 2026 award goes to Universal Dependencies by Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning, Joakim Nivre and Daniel Zeman.

The award recognizes papers published in Computational Linguistics within the past 3–5 years that have already demonstrated exceptional scholarly impact. Universal Dependencies established a unified, cross-linguistically consistent framework for grammatical annotation that has fundamentally shaped multilingual NLP research.

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Award · 2026

CL Distinguished Reviewer Award

Congratulations to the Class of 2026, recognized for reviews that have had a meaningful impact on the quality of the journal:

Nate ChambersJason EisnerFrancis FerraroIvan HabernalXianpei HanSophie HaoEduard HovyFintan MalloryYevgen MatusevychTristan MillerAgata SavaryDominik SchlechtwegEdward StablerZhongyu Wei

Thank you for upholding the high standards of peer review at Computational Linguistics.

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Award · 2026

ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award

Winner: Verna Dankers, Memorisation Meets Compositionality in Natural Language Processing

Honorable mentions:

• Dennis Ulmer, On Uncertainty in Natural Language Processing
• Sheng-Chieh (Jack) Lin, Building a Robust Retrieval System with Dense Retrieval Models
• Haoran Xu, Minimizing Language Interference for Multilingual Models

Selected from 34 nominated dissertations completed between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025. Award-winning dissertations will be published in Computational Linguistics.

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