Professor Owen Rambow, a member of the Stony Brook Department of Linguistics and Institute of Advanced Computational Science, was recently named a 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow. 

The ACL Fellowship is awarded to those who contributed exceptional work in the field. The process to select new fellows takes careful consideration. ACL members nominate those they believe exhibit excellence in the field. The ACL Nominating Committee then chooses from the nominees, having the final say as to who is awarded the fellowship. Afterward, it is approved by the ACL Executive Committee. 

Rambow’s extensive work in syntax, Tree Adjoining Grammars, dependency processing, natural language generation, and Arabic language processing granted him the well-deserved fellowship. 

“Owen is a remarkable researcher who has made significant contributions to a wide range of problems in NLP over the years,” says Professor Niranjan Balasubramanian of the Stony Brook Department of Computer Science. “His work often combines his deep computational linguistics expertise with a rigorous empiricism, which has yielded significant conceptual and practical advances in many areas. This prestigious award is a well-deserved recognition of his contributions to the field.” 

“I am honored to have been chosen as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and humbled to be chosen with the other new fellows,” says Rambow. “The first ACL conference I went to was in 1988, at SUNY Buffalo. The field of computational linguistics and natural language processing has changed immensely since then, becoming much more empirical (i.e., using corpora of actual language use), much more international and multilingual, and much, much larger.” 

-Sara Giarnieri, Communications Assistant