The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) was founded by Dr. David Hays of the RAND Corporation in 1965 to promote the biennial International Conference on Computational Linguistics, which since the third conference in Stockholm is known by the acronym COLING after the Swedish fictional character Kolingen by

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. The current President of ICCL is Professor Jun-Ichi Tsujii of the
AIRC
and membership of the committee is permanent.

List of COLING Conferences

* 1965

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(Chair

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) * 1967

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(Chair Bernard Vauquois) * 1969 Stockholm (Chair Hans Karlgren) * 1971 Debrecen (Chair Ferenc Kiefer) * 1973 Pisa (Chair Antonio Zampolli) * 1976 Ottawa (Chair Brian Harris) * 1978 Bergen (Chair Kolbjørn Hæggstad) * 1980 Tokyo (Chair

) * 1982 Prague (Chair Ján Horecký) * 1984 Stanford (Chair Yorick Wilks) * 1986 Bonn (Chair Makoto Nagao) * 1988 Budapest (Chair

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) * 1990 Helsinki (Chair Hans Karlgren) * 1992 Nantes (Chair Antonio Zampolli) * 1994 Kyoto (Chair Makoto Nagao) * 1996 Copenhagen (Chair Junichi Tsuji) * 1998 Montreal (Chairs Christian Boitet and Pete Whitelock) * 2000 Saarbrücken (Chair

Martin Kay Martin Kay (1935 – 8 August 2021) was a computer scientist, known especially for his work in computational linguistics. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he started ...

) * 2002 Taipei (Chair Winfried Lenders) * 2004 Geneva (Chair Sergei Nirenburg) * 2006 Sydney (Chair Nicoletta Calzolari) * 2008 Manchester (Chairs Donia Scott and Hans Uszkoreit) * 2010 Beijing (Chair

Aravind Joshi Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar form ...

) * 2012 Mumbai (Chairs

and Christian Boitet) * 2014 Dublin (Chairs Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way) * 2016 Osaka (Chair Nicoletta Calzolari) * 2018 Santa Fe (Chair Pierre Isabelle) * 2020 Barcelona (Chair Donia Scott)

External links

A list of current and previous ICCL members, a list of past COLINGs, current proposals for COLING conferences and indications on how to propose a COLING conference and what that entails

The ACL Anthology with COLING proceedings Computational linguistics International professional associations Organizations established in 1965 {{comp-ling-stub