International Committee on Computational Linguistics
Encyclopedia
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) was founded by Dr. David Hays
of the RAND Corporation in 1965 to promote biennial conferences on Computational Linguistics
, now known by the acronym COLING. The most recent COLING was in Beijing
in 2010. Its current President is Professor Martin Kay
of Stanford University
.
David Hays
David Leslie Hays was an English-born Scottish cricketer.David Hays was educated at Highgate and the University of Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University and Scotland in 25 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper between 1965 and 1980...
of the RAND Corporation in 1965 to promote biennial conferences on Computational Linguistics
Computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....
, now known by the acronym COLING. The most recent COLING was in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
in 2010. Its current President is Professor Martin Kay
Martin Kay
Martin Kay is 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 to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, one of the earliest centers for...
of Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
.