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.

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我50年的漫长旅程

我衷心感谢 ACL 授予我这一巨大荣誉。我非常兴奋。当我收到伊琳娜的电子邮件时，我无法形容我有多惊讶。令人惊奇的是，我自 2019 年以来在佛罗伦萨举行的第一次 ACL 会议就获得了这个奖项。能够回到 ACL 与我所有的朋友和家人在一起真是太棒了。我将向您讲述我 50 年的伟大旅程。过去50年我都在做什么？好吧，从字面意义上寻找意义。或者换句话说，探索计算词汇语义如何支持自然语言理解。这会很快。戴好帽子，我们开始吧。