ACL Statement on the Ukraine situation

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) condemns in the strongest possible
terms the actions of the Russian Federation government in invading the sovereign state of
Ukraine and engaging in war against the Ukrainian people. We stand together with Ukrainian
NLP colleagues, the Ukrainian people, Russian NLP colleagues and Russian people who
condemn the actions of the Russian Federation government, and all those around the world
who have been impacted by the invasion.

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What is computational linguistics?

Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. Computational linguists are interested in providing computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena. These models may be "knowledge-based" ("hand-crafted") or "data-driven" ("statistical" or "empirical"). Work in computational linguistics is in some cases motivated from a scientific perspective in that one is trying to provide a computational explanation for a particular linguistic or psycholinguistic phenomenon; and in other cases the motivation may be more purely technological in that one wants to provide a working component of a speech or natural language system. Indeed, the work of computational linguists is incorporated into many working systems today, including speech recognition systems, text-to-speech synthesizers, automated voice response systems, web search engines, text editors, language instruction materials, to name just a few.

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