Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands

Highlights

• The next CLIN will be in Utrecht, on January 30, 2020. The keynote speaker at CLIN30 will be Joakim Nivre, from Uppsala University, Sweden. See https://clin30.sites.uu.nl/keynote/ Expect the first call for the submission of abstracts in the course of August 2019. Visit the CLIN30 website for more information: https://clin30.sites.uu.nl/

• The previous CLIN, CLIN 29, was in Groningen on Thursday, January 31, 2019.

• As per CLIN 21, selection of papers presented at CLIN meetings are published in a free electronic journal, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal. The journal can be accessed via http://www.clinjournal.org.

• New bi-annual STIL PhD Thesis Award: Since CLIN 20 in Utrecht (2010), STIL has sponsored a Master Thesis Award for excellent theses on any aspect of Computational Linguistics. Instead of this Master Thesis award, from CLIN 30 onwards, STIL will sponsor a PhD thesis award. The prize of 2500 euro will be awarded by an international jury of distinguished Computational Linguistics researchers to a PhD thesis defended the three previous years at a Dutch or Belgian University. The exact procedure and deadlines for submission, as well as the composition of the jury will be announced well in advance of CLIN 30, where the first prize will be awarded.

  STIL (Foundation for Inductive Learning Applications), was founded in 1997 as a link to the outside world for language technology software and expertise developed at Tilburg University's Induction of Linguistic Knowledge (ILK) research group and the University of Antwerp's Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center (CLiPS).

• Van Rekenmachine Tot Taalautomaat: this book about the history of language and speech technology in the Netherlands and Flanders is now available. Read more (in Dutch).

CLIN meetings

1. October 26, 1990 OTS Utrecht
2. November 29, 1991 CWI Amsterdam
3. October 30, 1992 ITK Tilburg
4. November 25, 1993 Alfa-informatica Groningen
5. November 23, 1994 TU Twente
6. December 1, 1995 Antwerpen
7. November 15, 1996 IPO Eindhoven
8. December 12, 1997 Letteren KUN, Nijmegen
9. December 11, 1998 CCL Leuven
10. December 10, 1999 OTS Utrecht
11. November 3, 2000 Taal en Informatica, Tilburg
12. November 30, 2001 Computer Science, University of Twente
13. November 29, 2002 Alfa-informatica, University of Groningen
14. December 19, 2003 Centre for Dutch Language and Speech, University of Antwerp
15. December 17, 2004 Leiden Centre for Linguistics. An interview (in Dutch) with the organizers can be found here
16. December 16, 2005 University of Amsterdam
17. January 12, 2007 CCL Leuven
18. December 7, 2007 Radboud University, Nijmegen
19. January 22, 2009 University of Groningen
20. Februari 5, 2010 Utrecht University

    At CLIN 20, a special annual thesis prize, sponsored by STIL, has been awarded to the best MA-thesis in computational linguistics. Read more about the thesis prize.

    A set of sheets to celebrate 20 years of CLIN.

21. CLIN 21 took place at the Hogeschool Gent on February 11, 2011.

    At CLIN 21, Leonoor van der Beek's book on the history of language and speech technology in the Netherlands and Flanders was presented.

    A selection of papers from CLIN 21 is available as Volume 1 of the CLIN Journal.

22. CLIN 22 was hosted by Tilburg University, on January 20, 2012

    A selection of papers from CLIN 22 is available as Volume 2 of the CLIN Journal.

23. CLIN 23 was hosted at Twente University, January 18, 2013

    A selection of papers from CLIN 23 is available as Volume 3 of the CLIN Journal.

24. CLIN 24 was hosted by INL and TST-Centrale, Leiden, January 17, 2014

    A selection of papers from CLIN 24 is available as Volume 4 of the CLIN Journal.

25. CLIN 25 was at the University of Antwerp, february 5-6, 2015

    A selection of papers from CLIN 25 is available as Volume 5 of the CLIN Journal.

26. CLIN 26 was organized by the VU, December 18, 2015, at the CASA400, Amsterdam.

    A selection of papers from CLIN 26 is available as Volume 6 of the CLIN Journal.

27. CLIN 27 was organized at the KU Leuven, on February 10, 2017.

    A selection of papers from CLIN 27 is available as Volume 7 of the CLIN Journal.

28. CLIN 28 was held on January 26, 2018 at Concertgebouw De Vereeniging, Nijmegen

29. CLIN 29 was held on January 31, 2019 at De Oosterpoort in Groningen.

30. For the anniversary CLIN30, we return to Utrecht on January 30, 2020.

CLIN Proceedings

For the first 20 meetings of CLIN, a printed volume of selected papers from the CLIN meeting was produced. Some of these volumes are available electronically. As per CLIN 21, a selection of papers of the CLIN meeting will be made available by the new electronic, free, journal Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal. The journal can be accessed via http://www.clinjournal.org. This is an overview of the proceedings of the first 20 CLIN meetings:

1. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands; Papers from the first CLIN-meeting. Ton van der Wouden and Wietske Sijtsma (editors). OTS RUU 1991. The table of contents is here.

   Get a free hard-copy of CLIN-1 by sending an e-mail to g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl

2. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands; Papers from the second CLIN-meeting. Jan van Eijck and Wilfried Meyer Viol (editors). OTS RUU 1992. The table of contents is here.

   Get a free hard-copy of CLIN-2 by sending an e-mail to g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl

3. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands; Papers from the third CLIN Meeting (Tilburg, October 30, 1992). Wietske Sijtsma and Olga Zweekhorst (editors). ITK 1993. The table of contents is here.
4. CLIN IV: Papers from the Fourth CLIN Meeting (Groningen, November 25 1993). Gosse Bouma and Gertjan van Noord (editors). BCN, RUG. ISBN 90-367-0452-9. These proceedings are electronically available.
5. CLIN V: Papers from the Fifth CLIN Meeting (Twente, November 23 1994). Toine Andernach, Mark Moll and Anton Nijholt (Editors). Parlevink Research Group, Dept. Computer Science, University of Twente. ISBN 90-75296-03-7. These proceedings are electronically available.
6. CLIN VI. Papers from the Sixth CLIN Meeting (Antwerpen, December 1, 1995). Edited by Gert Durieux, Walter Daelemans and Steven Gillis. UIA Center for Dutch Language and Speech. ISBN 90-5728-006-X. electronically available.
7. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996. Papers from the Seventh CLIN Meeting. Jan Landsbergen, Jan Odijk, Kees van Deemter and Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten (eds.). IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction. ISBN 90-386-1051-3. These proceedings are electronically available.
8. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997. Edited by Peter-Arno Coppen, Hans van Halsteren and Lisanne Teunissen. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta 1998. No 25 of Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics (edited by Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs). ISBN 90-420-0504-1. More Information
9. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998. Edited by Frank van Eynde, Ineke Schuurmans and Ness Schelkens. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta 1999. No 29 of Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics (edited by Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs). ISBN 90-420-0599-8. More Information
10. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999. Selected Papers form the Tenth CLIN Meeting. Edited by Paola Monachesi. UILOTS Utrecht. These proceedings are electronically available.
11. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000. Selected Papers from the Eleventh CLIN Meeting. Edited by Walter Daelemans and Khalil Sima'an and Jorn Veenstra and Jakub Zavrel. Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York 2001. No 37 of Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics (edited by Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs). ISBN 90-420-1247-1/0-420-1257-9. More Information
12. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001. Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting. Edited by Mariet Theune and Anton Nijholt and Hendri Hondorp. Amsterdam, New York 2002. No 45 of Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics (edited by Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs). ISBN 90-420-0943-8. More Information
13. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002. Selected Papers from the Thirteenth CLIN Meeting. Edited by Tanja Gaustad. Amsterdam, New York, NY 2003. No 47 of Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics (edited by Charles F. Meyer and Nelleke Oostdijk). ISBN 90-420-0943-8. More Information
14. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003. Edited by Bart Decadt, Veronique Hoste and Guy de Pauw. Antwerp papers in linguistics 111. University of Antwerp. ISSN 0776-3859. These proceedings are electronically available.
15. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004. Selected Papers from the Fifteenth CLIN Meeting. Edited by Ton van der Wouden, Michaela Poss, Hilke Reckman and Crit Cremers. LOT Occasional Series 4, Utrecht 2005. These proceedings are electronically available
16. CLIN 2005. Proceedings 16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. Edited by Khalil Sima'am, Maarten de Rijke, Remko Scha, Rob van Son. These proceedings are electronically available
17. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006. Selected papers from the seventeenth CLIN meeting. Edited by Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank van Eynde. LOT Occasional Series 7, Utrecht, 2007. These proceedings are electronically available
18. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007: Selected papers from the eighteenth CLIN meeting. Edited by Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Peter-Arno Coppen. LOT Occasional Series 11, Utrecht, 2009. These proceedings are electronically available
19. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009: Selected papers from the nineteenth CLIN meeting. Edited by Barbara Plank, Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Tim van der Cruys. LOT Occasional Series 14, Utrecht, 2010. These proceedings are electronically available
20. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010: selected papers from the twentieth CLIN meeting. Edited by Eline Westerhout, Thomas Markus and Paola Monachesi. LOT Occasional Series 16, Utrecht, 2010. These proceedings are electronically available

    As per CLIN 21, selected papers from CLIN are published as volumes of the CLIN Journal.

21. CLIN Journal, Volume 1. Edited by Els Lefever and Véronique Hoste. Website.
22. CLIN Journal, Volume 2. Edited by Matje van de Camp, Roser Morante, Martin Reynaert, Menno van Zaanen, Kalliopi Zervanou. Website.
23. CLIN journal, Volume 3. Edited by Maral Dadvar, Hendri Hondorp, Anton Nijholt, Mariët Theune, Dolf Trieschnigg, Khiet Truong. Website.
24. CLIN journal, Volume 4. Edited by Frank Landsbergen, Remco van Veenendaal, Michel Boekestein. Website.
25. CLIN journal, Volume 5. Edited by Ben Verhoeven, Walter Daelemans, Guy de Pauw and Mike Kestemont. Website.
26. CLIN journal, Volume 6. Edited by Antske Fokkens, Roser Morante and Piek Vossen. Website.
27. CLIN journal, Volume 7. Edited by Vincent Vandeghinste and Frank Van Eynde. Website.

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