Computational linguistics and natural language processing are active research fields in Israel today, as well as popular areas of activity in industry. The Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL) is a venue for exchanging ideas, reporting on works in progress, as well as established results, forming extramural cooperations and advancing the collaboration between academia and industry. ISCOL is a continuation of a tradition that started in 1995 with a meeting at the Technion and has continued intermittently ever since.