Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing or EMNLP is a leading conference in the area of Natural Language Processing. EMNLP is organized by the ACM special interest group on linguistic data (SIGDAT).
EMNLP was started in 1996, based on an earlier conference series called Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WLVC).
As of 2014, EMNLP has a field rating of 36 within computer science and a citation count of 6937, according to Microsoft Academic Search, both within the top-300 for the field of CS.
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