Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Only eighteen months ago, I joined Leo, Horacio, Mónica, and Nuria on a tour of the delights that the Barcelona venue would be offering us in September 2020.Together with Chengqing, we made great plans for a fantastic intellectual and social gathering with our colleagues from far and wide, Catalanstyle.We held on to this plan for as long as we could but the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic eventually put paid to that idea, and the conference is now a virtual one.We also received a record 2195 submissions -eclipsing by double the already record-breaking number at our last COLING in 2018 in Santa Fe.For these reasons, COLING2020 will be remembered for the conference that forced us to innovate and do things…