Welcome to Gothenburg, Sweden, 26–30 April 2014 for the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The local arrangements are managed by the Centre for Language Technology (CLT). CLT coordinates the priority research area of language technology within four participating departments. Applied Information Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, and Swedish. The first two are shared between the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology.) The Faculty of Arts is the host faculty, with the Department of Swedish as the coordinating department, and the director of CLT is Lars Borin, professor of natural language processing.