Wei Lu Is Selected as the Editor-in-Chief of CL

Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years. The ACL Executive Committee is happy to welcome him on board, and wish him all the best in this very important role for the ACL community.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Hwee Tou Ng, who has been serving as the EiC of CL since 2018, for his great contribution to CL and ACL.

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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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