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Welcome to the website for Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. CLIN is an annual conference about Computational Linguistics held at a different university each year. This year’s 20th anniversary edition will be held at Utrecht University.

CLIN is a splendid occasion for the whole Dutch and Belgian computational linguistics community to get together and present their current work, even if in an ongoing state. International researchers often take part in the conference as well. Submissions usually cover a diverse range of computational linguistics topics resulting in a stimulating event where researchers exchange early research results, compare approaches and get a good sense of the direction of computational linguistics in the Netherlands and Belgium as a whole.

The first CLIN conference was held in 1990 in Utrecht. For an impression of the previous CLIN conferences see the CLIN conference pages from previous years:

  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
  16. December 16, 2005 University of Amsterdam
  17. January 12, 2007 CCL Leuven
  18. December 7, 2007 Radboud University
  19. January 22, 2009 Groningen University
  20. February 5, 2010 UiL-OTS, Utrecht University
  21. LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Gent University
  22. For CLIN 22, 23, … there are offers from the University of Twente and Tilburg University.

There are no proceedings in the sense of a volume containing all papers. Instead there is traditionally a volume of selected papers. A process of self-selection and peer review selection sieves out the best research and presents it in written form to the computational linguistics community as a whole.

CLIN volumes

  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.
  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.
  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. These proceedings are 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