The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, or ALLC, is a digital humanities organization founded in London in 1973.[1] Its purpose is to promote the advancement of education in the digital humanities through the development and use of computational methods in research and teaching in the Humanities and related educational disciplines especially literary and linguistic computing. [2] Since 2005, the Association is a constituent of the umbrella organization Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).[3]
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A precursor for the later following annual conferences of the assoication was a meeting on literary and linguistic computing organized by Roy Wisbey and Michael Farringdon at the University of Cambridge in March, 1970. The year after the second conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1972, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded at a meeting at King's College, London (1973).[4] Together with the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing sponsored and organized the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in 1987.[5]
The first conferences of the association were held annually until 1988, when a protocol was agreed with the Association for Computing in the Humanities for co-sponsorship of joint international conferences. The venue for these joint conferences alternated between Europe and North America. The first one took place in 1989 at the University of Toronto in Canada. After the umbrella organization Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations was formed in 2005, the first joint conference with the new name “Digital Humanities” was held at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 2006.[6]
Initially, the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing published its own Bulletin three times a year; its journal twice yearly from 1980 to 1985.[7] Afterwards, bulletin and journal were merged in order to become Literary and Linguistic Computing in 1986.[8] Literary and Linguistic Computing is a peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes texts "on all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature and language research and teaching."[9]
Membership of the association is by subscription to LLC, The International Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities published on behalf of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) and its constituent organisations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing; the Association for Computers and the Humanities; the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'études des médias interactifs.[10] As of December 2010 there is a total number of 314 individual subscribers to Literary and Linguistic Computing.[11]