The first COLING was held in New York in 1965, with the last iteration in Osaka in 2016. Throughout its history COLING has brought together researchers from across the field of Computational Linguistics.

With COLING 2018 we continue this tradition and welcome papers on all topics related to both natural language and contribution, with the expectation that all papers will include linguistic insight.

Towards the goal of attracting and selecting a high quality, diverse program, COLING 2018 invites papers of a broad variety of distinct types, detailed below.