The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, to understanding computational and other linguistic properties of language, and to enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. The conference program includes presentation of accepted papers, as posters and/or oral presentation, and also includes tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. The ACL 2014 program will also include eligible papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL), the new journal of the ACL. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Phonology and Morphology, Word Segmentation
Syntax, Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Semantics
Multimodal Natural Language Processing
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
Linguistic aspects of CL
Summarization
Generation
Machine Learning for Language Processing
Machine Translation
Information Retrieval and Question Answering
Information Extraction
Spoken Language Processing (e.g., Spoken Term Detection, Understanding, Dialogue Systems)
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
NLP-enabled Technology
Document Categorization / Topic Clustering
Social Media Analysis and Processing
Language Resources and Evaluation Methods