Nominations for the ACL Executive Committee

June 01, 2013 | BY webmaster

Dear ACL members,

The Nominating Committee has chosen the following candidates for positions on the ACL executive committee (starting January 1, 2011):

Vice-president-elect:

Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Board member:

Renata Vieira, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Thiago Pardo, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Secretary:

Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan (incumbent)

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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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