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Computational Linguistics is a
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in the field of
computational linguisticsComputational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....
. It is published quarterly by
MIT PressThe MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts .-History:...
for the
Association for Computational LinguisticsThe Association for Computational Linguistics 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...
(ACL). The journal includes articles, squibs and book reviews.
The journal was established as the
American Journal of Computational Linguistics in 1974 by David Hays and was originally published only as
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until 1978. George Heidorn transformed it into a print journal in 1980, with quarterly publication. In 1984 the journal was renamed
Computational Linguistics. Since 2009, it has become an online-only
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, freely available to anyone.
Editors
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:
- David Hays (1974–1978)
- George Heidorn (1980–1982)
- James F. Allen
James Frederick Allen is a computational linguist recognized for his contributions to temporal logic, in particular Allen's Interval Algebra. He is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester.-Biography:...
(1982–1993)
- Julia Hirschberg (1993–2003)
- Robert Dale (2003–present)
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