Area served Worldwide Founded 1962 | Website www.aclweb.org Type Professional association | |
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Focus Computational linguistics / natural language processing Origins Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics Method Conferences, publications | ||
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out. It was founded in 1962, originally named the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics (AMTCL). It became the ACL in 1968.
Contents
The ACL has a European (EACL) and a North American (NAACL) chapter.
The ACL journal, Computational Linguistics, is the primary forum for research on computational linguistics and natural language processing. Since 1988, the journal has been published for the ACL by MIT Press.
The ACL book series, Studies in Natural Language Processing, is published by Cambridge University Press.
Each year ACL and its chapters organize international conferences in different countries. ACL 2014 was held in Baltimore, USA.
Special Interest Groups
ACL has a large number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), focusing on specific areas of natural language processing. Some current SIGs within ACL are:
Presidents
Each year the ACL elects a distinguished computational linguist who becomes vice-president of the organization in the next calendar year and president one year later. Recent ACL presidents are: