[1] Its purpose is to promote the advancement of education in the digital humanities through the development and use of computational methods in research and teaching in the Humanities and related disciplines, especially literary and linguistic computing.

[2] In 2005, the Association joined the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

[3] A precursor for the later following annual conferences of the association was a meeting on literary and linguistic computing organized by Roy Wisbey and Michael Farringdon at the University of Cambridge in March, 1970.

The year after the second conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1972, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded at a meeting at King's College, London (1973).

[1] Afterwards, bulletin and journal were merged in order to become Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) in 1986.