Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics

Fifteen years ago the idea of IWCS was born. We noted that, while there was a highly successful biennial workshop in the Netherlands on formal semantics, the Amsterdam Colloquium, that there was nothing comparable in the area of computational semantics, although that area seemed to be becoming at least as interesting and significant as formal semantics. As the Amsterdam Colloquium was always held in December in uneven years, we wanted to explore the possibility of a biennial workshop in the 'empty' December months of even years. And so the "International Workshop on Computational Semantics IWCS" (without a "1") was organised in December 1994.