Association for Computational Linguistics

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.

  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.
  6. ^ Sarkar, Anoop. "NAACL: North American Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)". naacl.org. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  7. ^ "AACL: Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)". aaclweb.org. Retrieved 15 February 2022.