Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

In 2005, the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) were held together as a joint conference for the first time. The conference was co-sponsored by the organization traditionally behind HLT, the Human Language Technology Advisory Board, and the organization traditionally behind EMNLP, SIGDAT: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural-language processing. The joint conference was held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on October 6--8, co-located with the 2005 Document Understanding Conference (DUC) and the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT).In the HLT tradition, the conference especially encouraged submissions involving synergistic combinations of language technologies from the sometimes disjoint areas of natural-language processing, speech processing, and information retrieval. To encourage such cross-fertilization, each of the major chair positions were filled by three people, one from each of these research areas.