ACL 2008 Call for Proposals available

June 01, 2013 | BY webmaster

The Association for Computational Linguistics hereby invites proposals to host the 46th Meeting of the ACL in summer 2008. The conference is to be in North America, according to the rule of regional rotation of ACL. The meetings of ACL to date have been highly successful, with higher than expected attendance (over 650 attendees at ACL-03 in Sapporo, ACL-04 in Barcelona, and ACL-05 in Ann Arbor). More than 10 workshops and associated conferences were held together with each of the main conferences in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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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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