Dorr Named ACL Fellow

A noted researcher in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) is being recognized for her outstanding contributions to the field of computational linguistics.

Bonnie Dorr, a professor emerita of computer science, has been named to the 2016 class of Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She is one of four ACL members being honored this year.

ACL specifically recognized Dorr for her, “significant contributions to machine translation, summarization and human evaluation.”

Dorr’s research spans several areas of broad-scale multilingual processing including machine translation, summarization, and cross-language information retrieval.

She began service as program manager at DARPA in 2011, where she is responsible for programs in the area of human language technology, while continuing to mentor students and postdoctoral researchers on projects in computer science and UMIACS.

Since 2014, she has also served as an associate director and senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC).

Dorr was formerly associate dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. She co-founded the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Laboratory, where she served as co-director for 15 years.

In 2008, she served as president of the ACL. Additionally, she is a Sloan Fellow, an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Fellow, and a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty (PECASE) Fellow.

Established in 2011, the ACL Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. 

Read more here.