ACL 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony and Speech
Lauri Karttunen
| Presenters: | Lauri Karttunen, Mark Steedman (chair), Eva Hajicova |
| Type: | Award presentation |
| Venue: | ACL 2007 in Prague |
| Date: | June 26, 2007 |
| Recording: | Reinhard Rapp |
| Duration: | 55 minutes |
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Abstract
The Association for Computational Linguistics gives each year at its Annual Meeting a �Lifetime Achievement Award.� The 2007 award was given to Lauri Karttunen. At 65, Lauri Karttunen is the youngest recipient of this award so far. The first recipient of the �ACL Lifetime Achievement Award� was Aravind Joshi from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. The past winners include Lauri Karttunen�s ex-colleague from PARC, Martin Kay, who won the award in 2005.
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