Preface by the General Chair

摘要

The EMNLP conference series is annually organized by SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP. This year the conference is being held from October 25,2014 (Sat.) to October 29,2014 (Wed.) in Doha, Qatar. In the past five years, the EMNLP conference attendance has been continuously growing, reaching just over 500 paying attendees in 2013, and it is nowadays considered as one of the leading conferences in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.