The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA 2011, which was organized by IMSC UL, University of Latvia and NEALT (Northern European Association for Language Technology) has concluded. From 11 to 13 May all participants had a chance to get acquainted with 55 presentations about the latest researches in natural language processing.
The first NODALIDA conference took place in Gothenburg, 1977; now it is organized every two years in one of the Nordic countries, starting from 2007 also in the Baltics. This year, for the first time, NODALIDA conference took place in Latvia, and it gathered almost 140 scientists from 20 countries.
In this year’s conference very diverse papers were presented on such themes as: syntax, semantics, machine translation and others. In the plenary session of the conference the floor was taken by Prof. Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University), NEALT President Prof. Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo) and Prof. Guntis Bārzdiņš (University of Latvia, IMSC UL senior researcher).