30 years of the Dutch Language Union

Abstract

"It is a great honour for me to address an audience of such renowned computational linguists. I would like to thank the organising committee of CLIN 2010 for this opportunity. The CLIN conference is held every year at a university in either the Netherlands or Belgium. It provides researchers in the field of computational linguistics with a unique opportunity to present and discuss their research. Belgium and the Netherlands are neighbours with much more in common than just a border. What is particularly important in relation to this conference is that the two countries share a common language: Dutch"