November 17, 2015 | BY webmaster
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) mourns the passing of Remko Jan Hendrik Scha (15 September 1945 – 9 November 2015), who made important contributions to the study of semantics, and discourse analysis through his work on Dynamic Discourse Model (with Livia Polanyi).
November 17, 2015 | BY webmaster
Final Call for Bids - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invite proposals to host the conference in the Asia-Australasia-Oceania region in July or August 2018. At this time, we seek preliminary draft proposals from prospective bidders in the Asia-Pacific region. Promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection.
September 29, 2015 | BY webmaster
Authors affiliated with the Allen Institute have published a few papers at the upcoming EMNLP conference that have been featured in the New York Times' 20 September 2015 issue.
September 18, 2015 | BY webmaster
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Susan Armstrong
20.6.1952 - 1.9.2015
It is with great sadness that we report the recent death of Susan Armstrong, who worked as Professor of translation technology at the University of Geneva until her retirement in 2014. She served as secretary to the European Chapter of the ACL from 1993-2000, remaining on the Chapter’s nominating committee until 2004. She had a fundamental role in the founding and successful development of SIGDAT.
September 07, 2015 | BY webmaster
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For the first time, the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) takes place in Germany. ACL 2016 will be held at the Humboldt University, in the heart of Berlin, August 7-12, 2016.
August 25, 2015 | BY webmaster
EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) is the annually held conference organized by ACL SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language processing. SIGDAT was founded in 1993, and is one of ACL's oldest SIGs. This year, the 20th edition of EMNLP will be held from September 17-21, 2015, in Lisbon, Portugal.
August 25, 2015 | BY webmaster
The ACL sadly received the message about the unexpected passing away of Professor Fred Jelinek, on Tuesday night. Fred was one of the pioneers and founders of modern research in speech recognition and statistical machine translation and made enormous contributions to our field. In recognition of his contributions he received the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. His death is a great loss for all those who knew him, and for the ACL community.
Here is a link to Fred's life and work in his own words: clsp.jhu.edu
August 25, 2015 | BY webmaster
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The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) mourns the passing of Jane J. Robinson, former president of the ACL.
August 25, 2015 | BY webmaster
1938-2015
Memorial statement prepared by Tom Bever, Merrill Garrett, and Cecile McKee (University of Arizona)
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) mourns the July 1, 2015 death of Paul Chapin, former ACL president (1977). The language sciences lost a truly valued defender and friend on July 1, 2015, with the death of Paul Gipson Chapin from Acute Myeloid Leukemia, in Tucson, Arizona.
August 25, 2015 | BY webmaster
1960-2015
Obituary written by Roger Evans
The Association for Computational Linguistics mourns the passing of Adam Kilgarriff. a remarkable computational linguist and long term ACL member.
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