Computational linguistics at AMU started with the pioneer works in axiomatic phonology and automatization of phonemic transcription of orthographic texts (early 1970s). A decade later the research in computational linguistics resulted with the first implementations of language understanding system for Polish (around 1985). The first research laboratory in computational linguistics was inaugurated in 1993 at the Dept. of Computer Linguistics and AI (DCLAI) at the Fac. of Mathematics. In 1995, the AMU hosted the Awareness Days in Language and Technology (co-organised with the European Commission), now recognized as the first conference of  Language and Technology series (LTC). At about that time research activities in computational linguistics emerged in other AMU units, starting with speech processing at the Institute of Linguistics, corpus linguistics at the School of English and (later) machine translation at the Fac. of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The DCLAI carries now projects in various fields of computational linguistics and language engineering, hosts grants and forms PhD students as well post-doctoral fellows. It is a member of META-NET, a Network of Excellence fostering technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.