There will be 3 honorable mentions and 1 winner presented by @adveisner & Mohit Bansal: 2026.aclweb.org/program/! #ACL2026NLP

Don't forget to attend the "ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026" session on Mon Jul 6, 9:009:30 AM (Location: Promenade) in the "Session 8: Oral/Poster Session D" (1/2) #ACL2026NLP

Congratulations to this year's deserving winner, whose dedication has significantly shaped our field! Their service is an inspiration to us all. ✨ #ACL2025NLP #DistinguishedServiceAward #CompLing #Community

📚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! 🙌 @CompLingJournal

📚Tom Sherborne: Modeling Cross-lingual Transfer for Semantic Parsing Sherborne’s dissertation developsmethods for cross-lingual transfer into low-resource languages, demonstrating their effectiveness in the context of semantic parsing for integration with database APIs.

📚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

📚 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

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. #ACL #CLJournal #ACL2025NLP  @CompLingJournal