(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: . href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/">Start . (1999-08-31)
