Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Room: Metropolitan - Time: 13:00–13:30

Dragomir Radev, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, passed away this year on Wed, March 29th. Drago contributed in substantial ways to research in NLP, to the organization of the ACL and to mentoring the next generation of computational linguists. Drago’s role in our ACL community spans four decades. He was recognized for his work over this period through his selection as an ACL Fellow in 2018 for his significant contributions to text summarization and question answering, and through his receipt of the Distinguished ACL Service Award in 2022. In this session, speakers from different time periods of his life will discuss his contributions to the field and the impact his life had on so many of us.