Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language

The Coling 2014 Workshop on Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language was held on August 24, 2014 in Dublin Ireland.Technology is the application of knowledge to practical pursuits. Information relevant to technology is the subject of various types of documents, including: scholarly publications (journals, conference proceedings, abstracts, grant applications, textbooks); legal documents (patents, contracts, legislation); and more public venues (magazines, webpages, blogs, financial reports). Interest in the automatic classification of technical documents has recently been growing and Natural Language Processing is a major component of such classification systems.