Association for Computational Linguistics {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = Association for Computational Linguistics | Non-profit_logo = [[Image:ACL logo.svg|200px]] | Non-profit_type = professional organization | founded_date = [[1962]] | founder = | location = | origins = Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics | key_people = | area_served = Worldwide | focus = [[computational linguistics]] | method = conferences, publications | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | owner = | Non-profit_slogan = | homepage = [http://www.aclweb.org/ www.aclweb.org] | tax_exempt = | dissolved = | footnotes = }}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]]. The ACL has [[Europe]]an and [[North America]]n chapters, the [[European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics]] (EACL) and the [[North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics]] (NAACL). The ACL journal, [[Computational Linguistics (journal)|''Computational Linguistics'']], continues to be 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]]. The ACL book series, [[Studies_in_NLP|''Studies in Natural Language Processing'']], is published by [[Cambridge University Press]]. ==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: *Linguistic data and corpus-based approaches: [http://www.aclweb.org/sigdat SIGDAT] *Dialogue Processing: [http://www.aclweb.org/sigdial SIGDIAL] *Natural Language Generation: [http://www.siggen.org SIGGEN] *Lexicon: [http://www.aclweb.org/siglex SIGLEX] *Mathematics of Language: [http://molweb.org SIGMOL] *Computational Morphology and Phonology: [http://salad.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon SIGMORPHON] *Computational Semantics: [http://www.aclweb.org/sigsem/ SIGSEM] ==External links== *[http://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] [[Category:Computational linguistics]] [[Category:Professional associations]] [[Category:Organizations established in 1962]] [[eu:Association for Computational Linguistics]] [[pt:Association for Computational Linguistics]]