Association for Computational Linguistics
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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.
Founded | 1962 |
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Type | Professional organization |
Focus | Computational linguistics and natural language processing |
Origins | Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics |
Area served | Worldwide |
Method | Conferences, publications |
Website | www |
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.