Kathleen McKeown’s ACL 2025 Lifetime Achievement keynote, “Retrospective and Future Views,” reflects on four decades of innovation in language generation, summarization, social media analysis, and multimodal research rooted in collaboration and mentorship. She calls for academia to balance industry’s LLM focus with controllability, interpretability, small models, and ethical, socially impactful research.
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