Coling 2008

Manchester, 18-22 August, 2008

The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Proceedings

Hard copy of main conference proceedings are no longer available; but you can download the proceedings from the ACL archive.

Calendar

Venue

Pre-Coling tutorials and workshops	16-17 August
Welcome reception (University Place)	17 August
Main conference	18-22 August
Civic reception (Manchester Town Hall)	19 August
Full-day excursion (Tatton Park and Chester)	20 August
Conference banquet (Palace Hotel)	21 August
Post-Coling workshops	23-24 August

Manchester University's new conference centre, opened in March 2008.
The image sequence on the right shows artist's impressions.
Click here for more (genuine) pictures.

Social Programme

As usual at Coling, Wednesday 20th August was excursion day. The day started with a visit to a trip to Tatton Park, with its 18th-century Mansion House, Edwardian gardens, Tudor Old Hall, and 1,000-acre deer park. After lunch we made the short trip to the historic town of Chester, famous for its Roman ruins, Elizabethan two-tiered arcades, its complete city walls, the Eastgate clocktower, and plenty of other attractions. Click here for some pictures.
Tatton Park

Another event to look forward to was the reception at Manchester's gothic Town Hall on Tuesday 19th August. Click here for pictures. And no Coling would be complete without the banquet, held at the impressive Palace Hotel, a historical grade II listed building, on Thursday 21st August. Click here for pictures.

People

Programme co-chairs	Donia Scott (Open University) and Hans Uszkoreit (Universität des Saarlandes)
Local organization chair	Harold Somers (University of Manchester)
Workshops	Mark Stevenson (Sheffield University)
Tutorials	Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh University)
Publications	Roger Evans (University of Brighton)
Demos	Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester) and Kalina Bontcheva (Sheffield University)
Sponsorship	John Tait (IRF, Vienna) and Anne de Roeck (Open University)
Student helpers	Paul Bennett (University of Manchester)
Parent body

Last updated: 10/7/09

SILVER sponsors
	Google Europe	Textkernel, NL	Microsoft Research

BRONZE sponsors	Xerox Research Centre Europe	Sharp Labs of Europe		Oxford University Press
	Centre for Next Generation Localisation		Cambridge University Press

Supporters	Aslib/IMI		Springer (Best paper award)