My Big, Fat 50-Year Journey

Martha Palmer


Abstract
My most heartfelt thanks to ACL for this tremendous honor. I’m completely thrilled. I cannot tell you how surprised I was when I got Iryna’s email. It is amazing that my first ACL conference since 2019 in Florence includes this award. What a wonderful way to be back with all of my friends and family here at ACL. I’m going to tell you about my big fat 50-year journey. What have I been doing for the last 50 years? Well, finding meaning, quite literally in words. Or in other words, exploring how computational lexical semantics can support natural language understanding. This is going to be quick. Hold onto your hats, here we go.
Anthology ID:
2024.cl-1.1
Volume:
Computational Linguistics, Volume 50, Issue 1 - March 2024
Month:
March
Year:
2024
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Cambridge, MA
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CL
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Publisher:
MIT Press
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Pages:
1–24
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl-1.1
DOI:
10.1162/coli_a_00499
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Martha Palmer. 2024. My Big, Fat 50-Year Journey. Computational Linguistics, 50(1):1–24.
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My Big, Fat 50-Year Journey (Palmer, CL 2024)
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