Computational Linguistics Report for 2001
Julia Hirschberg, Editor

64 Papers were submitted to Computational Linguistics in 2000.  The
mean time to first decision was 190 days.  23 of these submissions
were to a special issue on anaphora and ellipsis resolution, edited by
Ruslan Mitkov, Bran Boguraev and Shalom Lappin, to appear this year.
Seven were submissions to an upcoming special issue on summarization,
edited by Dragomir Radev, Kathy McKeown and Eduard Hovy, which had
a total of fifteen submissions.  Three papers were submitted in the new
"short paper" category.  As of June 19, 24 papers have been submitted
in 2001.

We apologize for the late delivery of the December 2000 and March 2001
issues of the journal; MIT Press experienced some personnel
difficulties that apparently led to these delays.  The June 2001 issue
has been delivered in June and we are assuming the problems have now
been resolved.  Thanks for your patience.

CL is sorry to lose its long-time editorial assistant, Ana Pereira,
who is moving to Philadelphia.  We are happy to welcome Kathy
Vesonder, our new editorial assistant, to the journal.

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Disposition of manuscripts by type of first decision:

		2000	1999	1998	1997	1996

Submitted       64	47	48	69	57
Accepted        15	13	9	21	9
Rejected        11	9	7	15	15
Resubmission	27	12	4	27	26
No decision yet	 7	8	28	5	6
Withdrawn	 3	2		1	1
Resub as squib	 1	3			2


For the 1999 papers the completed disposition of mss (by first
decision) was:

accept		8	17%

accept 		5	11%
w/revisions

resubmit	19	40%

resubmit	3	 6%
as squib

reject		10	21%

withdrawn	2	 4%

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Distribution of submissions by location of first author:

ASIA/PACIFIC

	Australia	2
	China		2
	Japan		2
	Korea		2
	Singapore	1
	India		2
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	Total		11

EUROPE
	Finland		1
	Germany		3
	Greece		1
	Italy		2
	Netherlands	3
	Russia		1
	Spain		2
	Switzerland	1
	Turkey		2
	UK		7
	Portugal	1
	Czechoslovakia	1
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	Total		25

NORTH AMERICA
        USA		23
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        Total		23

LATIM AMERICA
        Brazil		1
        Mexico		1
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        Total		2

AFRICA
	Tunisia	        1
	South Africa	1
	UAR             1
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	Total           3