CNGL at ACL 2009

The joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009) took place in Suntec City Singapore from the 2nd August to the 7th August.

It was organised by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) and A* STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. As a Gold Sponsor, CNGL was invited to exhibit during the three days of the main ACL-09 conference. Several members and collaborators of CNGL attended the conference, and presented posters and papers at the ACL-09 conference, and at the collocated event EMNLP-2009 (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing).

Member of CNGL's external advisory board, Prof. Frederick Jelinek of Johns Hopkins University was presented with the lifetime achievement award. Our congratulation to Prof. Jelinek.