History

COLING conference, organized by  the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), has a history that dates back to the mid-Sixties of the last century.  The 1st conference was held in New York, 1965. Since then, the conference was held every two years. The last four conferences were held in Taipei (Coling2002), Geneva (Coling2004), Sydney (Coling-ACL2006) and Manchester(Coling2008).  The conferences and the locations are listed as follows.

1965 New York 1967 Grenoble 1969 Stockholm 1971 Debrecen 1973 Pisa 1976 Ottawa 1978 Bergen 1980 Tokyo 1982 Prague 1984 Stanford 1986 Bonn 1988 Budapest 1990 Helsinki 1992 Nantes 1994 Kyoto 1996 Copenhagen 1998 Montréal 2000 Saarbruecken 2002 Taipei 2004 Geneva 2006 Sydney 2008 Manchester 2010 Beijing