Retrospective and Future Views

Kathleen McKeown

doi:10.1162/coli.a.605

Retrospective and Future Views

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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.

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Volume:: Computational Linguistics, Volume 52, Issue 2 - June 2026
Month:: June
Year:: 2026
Address:: Cambridge, MA
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Publisher:: MIT Press
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Pages:: 389–405
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DOI:: 10.1162/coli.a.605
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Cite (ACL):: Kathleen McKeown. 2026. Retrospective and Future Views. Computational Linguistics, 52(2):389–405.
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[Retrospective and Future Views](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl-2.1/) (McKeown, CL 2026)

Retrospective and Future Views (McKeown, CL 2026)

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Kathleen McKeown. 2026. Retrospective and Future Views. Computational Linguistics, 52(2):389–405.