<s>
Empirical	B-Language
Methods	I-Language
in	I-Language
Natural	I-Language
Language	I-Language
Processing	I-Language
(	O
EMNLP	B-Language
)	O
is	O
a	O
leading	O
conference	O
in	O
the	O
area	O
of	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
and	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
Along	O
with	O
the	O
Association	O
for	O
Computational	O
Linguistics	O
(	O
ACL	O
)	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
two	O
primary	O
high	O
impact	O
conferences	O
for	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EMNLP	B-Language
is	O
organized	O
by	O
the	O
ACL	O
special	O
interest	O
group	O
on	O
linguistic	O
data	O
(	O
SIGDAT	O
)	O
and	O
was	O
started	O
in	O
1996	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
an	O
earlier	O
conference	O
series	O
called	O
Workshop	O
on	O
Very	O
Large	O
Corpora	O
(	O
WVLC	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
according	O
to	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Academic	I-Application
,	O
EMNLP	B-Language
is	O
the	O
14th	O
most	O
cited	O
conference	O
in	O
computer	O
science	O
,	O
with	O
a	O
citation	O
count	O
of	O
332	O
,	O
738	O
,	O
between	O
ICML	B-General_Concept
(	O
#13	O
)	O
and	O
ICLR	O
(	O
#15	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
