Retrospective and Future Views.
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| Title: | Retrospective and Future Views. |
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| Authors: | McKeown, Kathleen1 (AUTHOR) kathy@cs.columbia.edu |
| Source: | Computational Linguistics. Jun2026, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p389-405. 17p. |
| Subjects: | Text summarization, Mentoring, Award winners, Computational linguistics, Social media, Natural language processing |
| Abstract: | I was honored to receive the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025. I especially want to thank the people who nominated me for the award as I know nominations require time and effort. This retrospective is a rough transcript of the speech I gave accepting the award at the conference in Vienna, Austria. In the talk, I look back at my research at early stages of my career and then look at the arc that research takes and how it relates to work that I still carry out today. I look at the trajectories of four areas of my research: language generation, text summarization, social media analysis, and multimodal analysis of artwork. In the talk, I featured videos of my current students speaking about their research and where they think the field is heading. I dedicate the talk and this article to the amazing students I have had the honor to work with over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | I was honored to receive the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025. I especially want to thank the people who nominated me for the award as I know nominations require time and effort. This retrospective is a rough transcript of the speech I gave accepting the award at the conference in Vienna, Austria. In the talk, I look back at my research at early stages of my career and then look at the arc that research takes and how it relates to work that I still carry out today. I look at the trajectories of four areas of my research: language generation, text summarization, social media analysis, and multimodal analysis of artwork. In the talk, I featured videos of my current students speaking about their research and where they think the field is heading. I dedicate the talk and this article to the amazing students I have had the honor to work with over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 08912017 |
| DOI: | 10.1162/COLI.a.605 |
