Dear ACL members,
I am happy to announce the new ACL Anthology Director:
- Matt Post (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Congratulations to Matt, whose term starts on January 1, 2019. Thank you to the other candidates for running, and to the ACL Anthology Advisory Board, headed by Dragomir Radev, for their hard work on this process.
Marti Hearst, 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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