The CL/NLP community in Europe (and elsewhere)

ACL's Special Interest Groups

A lot of these maintain lists of more specific online resources.
  • SIGdial, ACL and ICSA's Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
  • SIGGEN, ACL's Special Interest Group on Generation
  • SIGHAN, ACL's Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing
  • SIGLEX, ACL's Special Interest Group on on the Lexicon
  • SIGMEDIA, ACLs Special Interest Group on Multimedia Language Processing
  • SIGNLL, ACL's Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
  • SIGPARSE, ACL's Special Interest Group on Parsing
  • MOL, the Association for Mathematics of Language
  • SIGSEM, Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics

Other international organisations

  • FOLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information
  • Elsnet, the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies
  • ICCL, the International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
    Organisers of the COLING conferences.
  • EAMT: European Association for Machine Translation
  • Euralex: European Association for Lexicography
  • TELRI: Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure
  • ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities
  • TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
  • SIGIR, ACM's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
  • See also this list hosted by the ACL NLP/CL Universe
  • And Colibri's list of organisations

Mailing lists

Professional organisations in individual countries

  • Flanders: CLIF, Computational Linguistics in Flanders
  • France: ATALA, Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Lagues
  • Germany:
    • DGfS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
  • Nordic Computational Linguistics Network -- not really an organisation, but a repository for CL in Nordic countries
  • The Netherlands: CLIN, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (a conference rather than an organisation)
  • Poland: Computational Linguistics in Poland
  • Slovenia: SDJT, The Slovenian Language Technologies Society
  • Spain: SEPLN,Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
  • The United Kingdom: CLUK

Guides to CL departments across Europe

Funding bodies

Jobs

  • Job announcements from the LINGUIST List
  • Academic jobsin the UK
  • JobsNet
  • The ACM's careerline contains some useful resources for job-hunting.
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