Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - COLING '08
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Abstract
COLING 2008, the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is the first COLING conference in the UK, a country with a rich history and lively research scene in Computational Linguistics. The great response to the call for papers may have been caused by this location or it may just have been a consequence of the rapid growth of our discipline. Anyway, the 600 submissions of high average quality we received made it relatively easy for the programme committee to put together an excellent programme. After a thorough reviewing process including a period of interactive deliberation, the programme committee selected 145 full papers and 35 poster presentations. The central criterion for the selection was scientific quality rather than geographic balance or the desirable spread across subareas. We tried to apply a multidimensional concept of quality that does not exclusively favour technically sound engineering papers but also yields some space for challenging scientific insights and first reports on novel approaches.