Introduction

摘要

Welcome to the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2019) held at the University of Turku in the beautiful city of Turku in Finland, on September 30-October 2, 2019. The aim of NoDaLiDa is to bring together researchers in the Nordic countries interested in any aspect related to human language and speech technologies. It is a great honor for me to serve as the general chair of NoDaLiDa 2019. NoDaLiDa has a very long tradition. It stems from a working group initiative led by Sture Allen, Kolb-j?rn Heggstad, Baldur J?nsson, Viljo Kohonen and Bente Maegaard (as the preface of the oldest workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology reveals).~1 They organized the first NoDaLiDa ("Nordiska datalingvis-tikdagar") in Gothenburg on October 10-11, 1977. In 2006, NEALT, the Northern European Association for Language Technology was founded. We are very honored to bring this bi-annual conference after 42 years to Turku this fall.