Report for Computational Linguistics (1998)

						Julia Hirschberg

Sixty nine manuscripts were submitted to CL in 1997, up from 57 in
1996. Twenty five manuscripts were submited to the special issue on Natural
Language Generation.

The special issue on Word Sense Disambiguation was published in the March
1998 issue of Computational Linguistics (CL 24-1).

The special issue on Natural Language Generation will appear in the
September 1998 issue of Computational Linguistics (CL 24-3).

 *A number special issue submissions and some submissions to regular
issues have been electronic submissions.

The distribution of 1997 submissions by country (by first author's
location) was as follows:


	Area	Country		Total

	ASIA			
                India		1
		Japan		3
	        Taiwan		2
		
		       subtotal:7				
			      
	EUROPE			
		France		2
                Finland		1
		Germany		7
		Hungary		1
                Italy		1
		Netherlands	3
            	Spain		1
		Sweden		1
		UK	       11

		      subtotal:28
					
	NEAR EAST		

		Israel		2



	NORTH AMERICA		
				
		USA		26
		Canada		 5
		Mexico		 1
			
		        subtotal:32				

	                   Total:69


While US first authors submitted more papers than any other
nationality (38%) , the simple majority  of first authors were non-US (62%),
down from 1996 when 75% of first authors were non-US.

Mean time from receipt of manuscript to first decision was 185 days,
down from 292 in 1996.

Type of first decision made for 1997 submissions is shown below, and
compared with previous years:

			Disposition of Manuscripts

			1997		1996		1995		1994

Submitted 	          69   		  57              73              53
Accepted                  19		   9              20              10
Rejected                  13	          15               6              14
Resubmission 	          27	          26		  17		  24
No decision yet	  	   9		  
Withdrawn                  1               1			
*Type of first decision 

As the table shows, 28%  of manuscripts submitted in 1997 have been
accepted, up from 15% in 1996.