Levin Wins Zampolli Prize

The LTI's Lori Levin has received the prestigious ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize for contributions to language resources and language technology evaluation

Lori Levin, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute, has received the 2026 ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of Human Language Technologies. The award was presented at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), held May 11–16 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Established in 2004 by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) in memory of its founding president, Antonio Zampolli, the prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of Human Language Technologies through work in language resources and language technology evaluation. Zampolli, a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Pisa, founded ELRA and helped establish the LREC conference before his death in 2003. The prize is awarded every two years to an individual whose body of work reflects his particular interest in the field, and past recipients include Frederick Jelinek (2004), Christiane Fellbaum and George A. Miller (2006), and Nizar Habash (2024), among other leading researchers in computational linguistics.

Levin's research spans morphosyntax, language typology, and natural language processing for low-resource and endangered languages. Her work has helped extend language technologies to communities and languages that have historically had little computational support, a focus that aligns closely with the goals the Zampolli Prize was created to recognize.