Dorr was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics for 2008. She has been a Sloan Research Fellow and National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow. She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2013 for “significant contributions to natural language understanding and representation, and development of the widely recognized methods for interlingual machine translation”. In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.