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Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Originally named the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics (AMTCL), the Association for Computational Linguistics was founded in 1962 and renamed the ACL in 1968. The ACL is run by some 20 volunteers overseeing the administration of the Association (organising elections, deciding on new actions, adapting to the fast changing trends of our fields), the publication of two journals (Computational Linguistics and the Transaction of the ACL) and the organisation of the ACL, EACL, NAACL and AACL conferences. The ACL executive board is regularly renewed based on elections from the membership. To ensure continuity, some of the volunteers (e.g., secretary, treasurer and anthology editor) serve longer term mandates and a professional Business Manager gives much needed support to the daily management of the Association. While ACL runs multiple conferences and workshops each year, the ACL conference is the flagship conference of the Association and like the field in general, it has seen drastic changes over the years both in terms of approaches (from symbolic to statistical to neural) and in terms of popularity (from a few academics to a large population of several thousands academics and industrials with widespread geographical coverage).