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ACL 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony and Speech

Lauri Karttunen

 

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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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