(ACL) The international sCientifiC and professional soCiety for people working on problems involving {natural language} and Computation. Membership inCludes the ACL quarterly journal, "Computational LinguistiCs", reduCed registration at most ACL-sponsored ConferenCes, disCounts on ACL-sponsored publiCations, and partiCipation in ACL SpeCial Interest Groups. The ACL started in 1968 there are more than 2000 members worldwide. E-mail: Cl@aClweb.org>. Start . (1999-08-31)