Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the ACL Equity Director:
- Natalie Schluter (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Congratulations to Natalie, whose term is effective now through December 31, 2022. Thank you to the other candidate for running, and to the working group led by Rada Mihalcea for searching for the Equity Director.
Hinrich Schütze, ACL President
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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