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}}The '''Association for Computational Linguistics''' ('''ACL''') is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving [[natural language and computation]]. An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant [[computational linguistics]] research is carried out. It was founded in 1962, originally named the '''Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics''' ('''AMTCL'''). It became the ACL in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/what-is-cl|title=What is the ACL and what is Computational Linguistics? {{!}} ACL Member Portal|website=www.aclweb.org|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>


The '''Association for Computational Linguistics''' ('''ACL''') is a scientific and professional organization for people working on [[natural language processing]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is the ACL and what is Computational Linguistics? {{!}} ACL Member Portal |url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/what-is-cl |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=aclweb.org}}</ref> Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language processing research, along with [[EMNLP]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Top 10 NLP Conferences {{!}} jungle light speed |url=https://www.junglelightspeed.com/the-top-10-nlp-conferences/ |access-date=2022-03-22 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Natural Language Processing (NLP) Conferences 2022/2023/2024 |url=https://conferenceindex.org/conferences/natural-language-processing-nlp |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=conferenceindex.org}}</ref> The conference is held each summer in locations where significant [[computational linguistics]] research is carried out.
The ACL has a European ([[European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics|EACL]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eacl.org/page.php?id=about|title=EACL Home|website=www.eacl.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> and a North American ([[North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics|NAACL]]) chapter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://naacl.org/about/index.html|title=NAACL: North American Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)|last=Sarkar|first=Anoop|website=naacl.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>

It was founded in 1962, originally named the '''Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics''' ('''AMTCL'''). It became the ACL in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/what-is-cl|title=What is the ACL and what is Computational Linguistics? {{!}} ACL Member Portal|website=aclweb.org|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> The ACL has a European (EACL),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eacl.org/page.php?id=about|title=EACL Home|website=www.eacl.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> a North American ([[North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics|NAACL]]),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://naacl.org/about/index.html|title=NAACL: North American Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)|last=Sarkar|first=Anoop|website=naacl.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> and an Asian (AACL)<ref>{{Cite web|title=AACL: Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)|url=https://aaclweb.org/index.html|access-date=2022-02-15|website=aaclweb.org}}</ref> chapter.

==History==
The ACL was founded in 1962 as the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics (AMTCL). The initial membership was about 100. In 1965, the AMTCL took over the journal ''[[Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics]]''. This journal was succeeded by many other journals: the ''[[American Journal of Computational Linguistics]]'' (1974–1978, 1980–1983), and then [[Computational Linguistics (journal)|''Computational Linguistics'']] (1984–present).<ref name="jones">{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Karen Sparck |title=Some Notes on ACL History |url=https://www.aclweb.org/archive/misc/History.html |publisher=ACL |access-date=10 February 2021 |date=1994}}</ref> Since 1988, the journal has been published for the ACL by [[MIT Press]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Issues {{!}} Computational Linguistics {{!}} MIT Press Journals |url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli |access-date=2017-10-21 |website=mitpressjournals.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Computational Linguistics |url=http://cljournal.org/ |access-date=2017-10-21 |website=cljournal.org}}</ref>

The annual meeting was first held in 1963 in conjunction with the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] National Conference.<ref name="walker">{{cite journal |last1=Walker |first1=Donald E. |title=Reflections on 20 Years of the ACL: An Introduction |journal=20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |date=1982 |pages=89–91 |url=https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P82-1017/ |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics|doi=10.3115/981251.981273 |s2cid=6224861 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The annual meeting was, for a long time, relatively informal and did not publish anything longer than abstracts. By 1968, the society took on its current name, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The publication of the annual meeting's ''Proceedings of the ACL'' began in 1979 and gradually matured into its modern form.<ref name="jones"/> Many of the meetings were held in conjunction with the [[Linguistic Society of America]], and a few with the [[American Society for Information Science]] and the [[Cognitive Science Society]].<ref name="walker"/>

The [[United States government]] sponsored much research from 1989 to 1994, characterized by an increase in author retention rates and an increase in research in some key topics, such as [[speech recognition]], in ACL. By the 21st century, it was able to maintain authors at a high rate who coalesced in a more stable arrangement around individual research topics.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Ashton |last2=Jurafsky |first2=Dan |last3=McFarland |first3=Daniel A. |title=Towards a Computational History of the ACL: 1980-2008 |journal=Proceedings of the ACL-2012 Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries |date=2012 |pages=13–21 |url=https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-3202 |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics}}</ref>

==Annual Meeting of the ACL==
Every year, the ACL holds the Annual Meeting of the ACL.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Meetings of the Association for Computational Linguistics {{!}} ACL Member Portal |url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl |website=ACL HomeAssociation for Computational Linguistics |access-date=22 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222133326/https://www.aclweb.org/portal/acl |archive-date=22 December 2022 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref> The location lies in Europe in years zero modulo three, North America in years one modulo three, and Asia–Australia in years two modulo three. In 2020, the Annual Meeting received for the first time more submissions from [[China]] than the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chai |first1=Joyce |last2=Schluter |first2=Natalie |last3=Tetreault |first3=Joel |title=ACL2020: General Conference Statistics |url=https://acl2020.org/blog/general-conference-statistics/ |website=ACL2020 |date=4 June 2020 |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics |access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Location
|-
| 2024 August 11–16 || [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]
|-
| 2023 July 9–14 || [[Toronto]], [[Canada]]
|-
| 2022 May 22–27 || [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]
|-
| 2021 August 1–6 || <s>[[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]</s> Online due to [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19]]
|-
| 2020 July 5–10 || <s>[[Seattle, Washington]]</s> Online due to [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19]]
|-
| 2019 July 28–August 2 || [[Florence]], [[Italy]]
|-
| 2018 July 15–20 || [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
|-
| 2017 July 30–August 4 || [[Vancouver]], [[Canada]]
|-
| 2014 June 22–27 || [[Baltimore, Maryland]]
|-
| 2011 June 19–24 || [[Portland, Oregon]]
|-
| 2008 June 15–20 || [[Columbus, Ohio]]
|-
| 2005 June 25–30 || [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
|-
| 2002 July 7–12 || [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
|}

==Activities==
The ACL organizes several of the top conferences and workshops in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing. These include:
* [[Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics]] (ACL), the flagship conference of the organization
* [[Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing]] (EMNLP)
* [[International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing]] (IJCNLP), held jointly one of the other conferences on a rotating basis
* [[Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning]] (CoNLL)
* [[Lexical and Computational Semantics and Semantic Evaluation]] (SemEval)
* [[Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics]] (*SEM)
* [[Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation]] (WMT)

Besides conferences, the ACL also sponsors the journals [[Computational Linguistics (journal)|''Computational Linguistics'']] and ''[[Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics]]'' (TACL). Papers and other presentations at ACL and ACL-affiliated venues are archived online in the [[Open access|open-access]] ACL Anthology.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACL Anthology |url=https://aclanthology.org/ |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics}}</ref>


The ACL journal, [[Computational Linguistics (journal)|''Computational Linguistics'']], is the primary forum for research on computational linguistics and [[natural language processing]]. Since 1988, the journal has been published for the ACL by [[MIT Press]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli|title=List of Issues {{!}} Computational Linguistics {{!}} MIT Press Journals|website=www.mitpressjournals.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cljournal.org/|title=Computational Linguistics|website=cljournal.org|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>
==Special Interest Groups==
==Special Interest Groups==
ACL has a large number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), focusing on specific areas of natural language processing. Some current SIGs within ACL are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/sigs|title=Special Interest Groups {{!}} ACL Member Portal|website=www.aclweb.org|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>
ACL has a large number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), focusing on specific areas of natural language processing. Some current SIGs within ACL are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/sigs|title=Special Interest Groups {{!}} ACL Member Portal|website=aclweb.org|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
*Linguistic Annotation: [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann SIGANN]
|-
*Biomedical Language Processing: [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGBIOMED SIGBIOMED]
! SIG !! Description
*Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches: [http://www.aclweb.org/sigdat SIGDAT]
|-
*Dialogue Processing: [http://www.aclweb.org/sigdial SIGDIAL]
| [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann SIGANN] || Linguistic Annotation
*[https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/KitWiki/SIGFSM SIGFSM]
|-
*Natural Language Generation: [http://www.siggen.org SIGGEN]
| [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGBIOMED SIGBIOMED] || Biomedical Language Processing
*Chinese Language Processing: [http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu/ SIGHAN]
|-
*Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities: SIGHUM
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150413144200/http://www.aclweb.org/sigdat SIGDAT] || Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches
*Lexicon: SIGLEX (SIGLEX is the umbrella organization for the [[SemEval]] semantic evaluations and [[SemEval|SENSEVAL]] word-sense evaluation exercises.)
|-
*Mathematics of Language: [http://molweb.org SIGMOL]
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150414043958/http://www.aclweb.org/sigdial SIGDIAL] || Dialogue Processing
*Machine Translation: [http://www.sigmt.org/ SIGMT]
|-
*Natural Language Learning: [http://www.aclweb.org/signll SIGNLL]
| [https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/KitWiki/SIGFSM SIGFSM] || Finite State Methods
*Natural Language Parsing: [http://www.aclweb.org/sigparse SIGPARSE]
|-
*Computational Morphology and Phonology: [http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon SIGMORPHON]
| [http://www.siggen.org SIGGEN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512005636/http://www.siggen.org/ |date=12 May 2008 }} || Natural Language Generation
*Computational Semantics: [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM]
|-
*Speech & Language Processing for Assistive Technologies: [http://www.slpat.org/ SIGSLPAT]
| [http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu/ SIGHAN] || Chinese Language Processing
*Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic SEMITIC]
|-
*Web as Corpus [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ SIGWAC]
| SIGHUM || Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
|-
| [https://siglex.org/ SIGLEX] || Lexicon: the umbrella organization for the [[SemEval]] semantic evaluations and [[SENSEVAL]] word-sense evaluations
|-
| [http://www.sigmt.org/ SIGMT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426195959/http://www.sigmt.org/ |date=26 April 2021 }} || Machine Translation
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191024200346/http://molweb.org/ SIGMOL] || Mathematics of Language
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022155/http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon// SIGMORPHON] || Computational Morphology and Phonology
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150414041019/http://www.aclweb.org/signll SIGNLL] || Natural Language Learning
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150423215528/http://www.aclweb.org/sigparse SIGPARSE] || Natural Language Parsing
|-
| [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM] || Computational Semantics
|-
| [http://cl.haifa.ac.il/semitic SIGSEMITIC] || Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
|-
| [http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/ SIGSLAV] || NLP for Slavic Languages
|-
| [http://www.slpat.org/ SIGSLPAT] || Speech & Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
|-
| [http://sigtyp.github.io SIGTYP] || Typology
|-
| [http://www.sigwac.org.uk/ SIGWAC] || Web as Corpus
|-
|}


==Presidents==
==Presidents==


Each year the ACL elects a distinguished computational linguist who becomes vice-president of the organization in the next calendar year and president one year later. Recent ACL presidents are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Officers|title=ACL Officers - Admin Wiki|website=www.aclweb.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>
Each year, the ACL elects a distinguished computational linguist who becomes vice-president of the organization in the next calendar year and president one year later. Recent ACL presidents are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Officers|title=ACL Officers – Admin Wiki|website=aclweb.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|+
! Year || Name
! Year || Name
|-
| 2022
| Tim Baldwin
|-
| 2021
| [[Rada Mihalcea]]
|-
| 2020
| [[Hinrich Schütze]]
|-
| 2019
| [[Zhou Ming (linguist)|Zhou Ming]]
|-
| 2018
| [[Marti Hearst]]
|-
|-
| 2017
| 2017
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|-
| 2015
| 2015
| [[Chris Manning]]
| [[Christopher D. Manning]]
|-
|-
| 2014
| 2014
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|-
|-
|}
|}
==See also==
* [[Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural]] (SEPLN, Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links ==
* {{official website|https://www.aclweb.org/}}
** [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology ACL Anthology]
** [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki ACL Wiki]
* [http://www.eacl.org EACL]
* [http://www.naacl.org NAACL]
* [https://aaclweb.org/index.html AACL]

{{Authority control}}


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[[Category:Organizations established in 1962]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1962]]
[[Category:Computer science-related professional associations]]
[[Category:Computer science-related professional associations]]
[[Category:Association for Computational Linguistics| ]]
==External links ==
* [https://www.aclweb.org ACL home page]
**[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology ACL Anthology]
**[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki ACL Wiki]
* [http://www.eacl.org EACL home page]
* [http://www.naacl.org NAACL home page]

{{Authority control}}
==References==

Latest revision as of 03:10, 25 July 2024

Association for Computational Linguistics
Founded1962
TypeProfessional organization
FocusComputational linguistics and natural language processing
OriginsAssociation for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics
Area served
Worldwide
MethodConferences, publications
Websitewww.aclweb.org

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing.[1] Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language processing research, along with EMNLP.[2][3] The conference is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out.

It was founded in 1962, originally named the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics (AMTCL). It became the ACL in 1968.[4] The ACL has a European (EACL),[5] a North American (NAACL),[6] and an Asian (AACL)[7] chapter.

History

[edit]

The ACL was founded in 1962 as the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics (AMTCL). The initial membership was about 100. In 1965, the AMTCL took over the journal Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics. This journal was succeeded by many other journals: the American Journal of Computational Linguistics (1974–1978, 1980–1983), and then Computational Linguistics (1984–present).[8] Since 1988, the journal has been published for the ACL by MIT Press.[9][10]

The annual meeting was first held in 1963 in conjunction with the Association for Computing Machinery National Conference.[11] The annual meeting was, for a long time, relatively informal and did not publish anything longer than abstracts. By 1968, the society took on its current name, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The publication of the annual meeting's Proceedings of the ACL began in 1979 and gradually matured into its modern form.[8] Many of the meetings were held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America, and a few with the American Society for Information Science and the Cognitive Science Society.[11]

The United States government sponsored much research from 1989 to 1994, characterized by an increase in author retention rates and an increase in research in some key topics, such as speech recognition, in ACL. By the 21st century, it was able to maintain authors at a high rate who coalesced in a more stable arrangement around individual research topics.[12]

Annual Meeting of the ACL

[edit]

Every year, the ACL holds the Annual Meeting of the ACL.[13] The location lies in Europe in years zero modulo three, North America in years one modulo three, and Asia–Australia in years two modulo three. In 2020, the Annual Meeting received for the first time more submissions from China than the United States.[14]

Year Location
2024 August 11–16 Bangkok, Thailand
2023 July 9–14 Toronto, Canada
2022 May 22–27 Dublin, Ireland
2021 August 1–6 Bangkok, Thailand Online due to COVID-19
2020 July 5–10 Seattle, Washington Online due to COVID-19
2019 July 28–August 2 Florence, Italy
2018 July 15–20 Melbourne, Australia
2017 July 30–August 4 Vancouver, Canada
2014 June 22–27 Baltimore, Maryland
2011 June 19–24 Portland, Oregon
2008 June 15–20 Columbus, Ohio
2005 June 25–30 Ann Arbor, Michigan
2002 July 7–12 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Activities

[edit]

The ACL organizes several of the top conferences and workshops in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing. These include:

Besides conferences, the ACL also sponsors the journals Computational Linguistics and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). Papers and other presentations at ACL and ACL-affiliated venues are archived online in the open-access ACL Anthology.[15]

Special Interest Groups

[edit]

ACL has a large number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), focusing on specific areas of natural language processing. Some current SIGs within ACL are:[16]

SIG Description
SIGANN Linguistic Annotation
SIGBIOMED Biomedical Language Processing
SIGDAT Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches
SIGDIAL Dialogue Processing
SIGFSM Finite State Methods
SIGGEN Archived 12 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Natural Language Generation
SIGHAN Chinese Language Processing
SIGHUM Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
SIGLEX Lexicon: the umbrella organization for the SemEval semantic evaluations and SENSEVAL word-sense evaluations
SIGMT Archived 26 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine Machine Translation
SIGMOL Mathematics of Language
SIGMORPHON Computational Morphology and Phonology
SIGNLL Natural Language Learning
SIGPARSE Natural Language Parsing
SIGSEM Computational Semantics
SIGSEMITIC Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
SIGSLAV NLP for Slavic Languages
SIGSLPAT Speech & Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
SIGTYP Typology
SIGWAC Web as Corpus

Presidents

[edit]

Each year, the ACL elects a distinguished computational linguist who becomes vice-president of the organization in the next calendar year and president one year later. Recent ACL presidents are:[17]

Year Name
2022 Tim Baldwin
2021 Rada Mihalcea
2020 Hinrich Schütze
2019 Zhou Ming
2018 Marti Hearst
2017 Joakim Nivre
2016 Pushpak Bhattacharyya
2015 Christopher D. Manning
2014 Gertjan van Noord
2013 Haifeng Wang
2012 Ken Church
2011 Kevin Knight
2010 Ido Dagan
2009 Steven Bird
2008 Bonnie Dorr
2007 Mark Steedman
2006 Jun'ichi Tsujii
2005 Martha Palmer
2004 Johanna Moore
2003 Mark Johnson
2002 John Nerbonne
2001 Eduard Hovy
2000 Wolfgang Wahlster

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "What is the ACL and what is Computational Linguistics? | ACL Member Portal". aclweb.org. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  2. ^ "The Top 10 NLP Conferences | jungle light speed". Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Natural Language Processing (NLP) Conferences 2022/2023/2024". conferenceindex.org. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  4. ^ "What is the ACL and what is Computational Linguistics? | ACL Member Portal". aclweb.org. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  5. ^ "EACL Home". www.eacl.org. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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  7. ^ "AACL: Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)". aaclweb.org. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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