Welcome from the General Chairs

摘要

We are very pleased indeed to welcome you all to COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. We are particularly proud that the ICCL selected Dublin City University (DCU) as the location of COLING 2014. DCU and its National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) have a long track record in NLP. Unlike India, the previous COLING host country, Ireland is a very small country. A unique feature of the Irish University landscape is that universities team up with industry partners and each other to pool expertise to form large research centres. DCU is a founding member of CNGL, the Centre for Gobal Intelligent Content. COLING 2014 is organised by DCU in partnership with the CNGL, and as General Chairs we are proud to represent both DCU and CNGL.