Description: ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Wystems and Written Language (SIGWrit)
The purpose of SIGWrit is to promote the better understanding of the relationship between language in its spoken or signed form, and language in its written form, as well as to promote research on computation and written language.
The purpose of SIGWrit is to promote a better understanding of the relationship between language in its spoken or signed form, and language in its written form, as well as to promote research on computation and written language.
Events sponsored by the SIG will focus on research addressing the relationship between written and spoken language, the properties of written language, the ways in which writing systems encode language, and applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems.