ACM Special Interest Committee on Language Analysis and Studies in the Humanities (SICLASm Formed.

The article focuses on the formation of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Committee on Language Analysis and Studies in the Humanities (SICLASH). In recognition of the need for closer rapport among scholars and scientists engaged in computer-aided language analysis, computer-aided humanistic studies, and the development of software and hardware for such research, the Association for Computing Machinery has chartered the SICLASH. The goals of the Committee are to provide a focus within the ACM for a broad spectrum of computer-aided language studies. Various professional organizations have relevant interests in particular aspects of such research, but there is no single organization permitting people from disparate applications groups to share information and research on common problems in computer-based language analysis. It also provides a focus within the ACM for those humanists within the fine arts, such as music and graphic arts, who have need of computer technology, as well as for the majority of Humanists concerned with the written and spoken language.