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2024Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2024-02-02T13:52:52Z

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During the past year (January to December 2023), CL journal received 215 first submissions of regular papers, special issue papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. The average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers submitted in 2023 was 46 days (excluding desk rejects).

The number of submissions has increased by 55% (from 138 submissions in 2022), and the average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers was 47 days in 2022 (excluding desk rejects).

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, which is the highest that the journal has ever achieved, and an improvement from 7.778 in 2021. CL’s impact factor has always been lower than 3.0 from 1997 to 2020 (the journal’s impact factor was first tracked in 1997).

The published CL papers of the 4 issues in 2023 (March 2023 to December 2023) comprise 19 regular papers, 3 survey papers, 1 squib, and 5 book reviews.

I have written an editorial article in the December 2023 issue of CL journal about my tenure as the Editor-in-Chief of CL journal, describing the changes that I have introduced at the journal and highlighting the achievements and challenges of the journal.

Looking ahead, the March 2024 issue will include 7 regular papers and 2 survey papers. As of today, the June 2024 issue includes 5 regular papers, 1 survey paper, 2 squibs, and 1 last words article. Pre-print versions of all accepted papers to appear in the March 2024 and June 2024 issues of CL journal have already been posted on the Online Early webpage of CL journal.

I have completed my term as the editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics journal. I would like to thank the entire editorial team at CL journal for their dedicated service, and all authors who choose to submit their papers to CL.

The CL EIC search has concluded successfully. Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief of Computational Linguistics journal for a five-year term. I am confident that the journal is in good hands with Wei at the helm!

Hwee Tou Ng

31 January 2024

2023Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2023-07-14T15:56:47Z

HweeTouNg:

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is given at the end of this report.

During the past 6 months (January to June 2023), CL journal received 101 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. This is an increase from 75 first submissions in the corresponding period (January to June) in 2022, i.e., 34% jump in number of submissions.

Reviewing of all regular papers and full survey papers submitted during January to May 2023 has been completed, and the average time to first decision of these papers (excluding desk rejects) is 34 days. This is an improvement from an average of 47 days for the period January to December 2022.

The published CL papers of the first two issues in 2023 (March and June 2023) comprise 11 regular papers, 1 survey paper, and 4 book reviews. The total number of pages of these two issues is 523.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 1 paper was presented at EACL 2023 and 8 papers were presented at ACL 2023.

Hwee Tou Ng

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year || Impact Factor
|-
| 1997 || 0.595
|-
| 1998 || 0.273
|-
| 1999 || 0.500
|-
| 2000 || 1.146
|-
| 2001 || 0.750
|-
| 2002 || 0.800
|-
| 2003 || 1.515
|-
| 2004 || 1.657
|-
| 2005 || 2.676
|-
| 2006 || 1.800
|-
| 2007 || 2.367
|-
| 2008 || 2.656
|-
| 2009 || 2.212
|-
| 2010 || 2.971
|-
| 2011 || 0.721
|-
| 2012 || 0.940
|-
| 2013 || 1.468
|-
| 2014 || 1.226
|-
| 2015 || 2.017
|-
| 2016 || 2.528
|-
| 2017 || 1.319
|-
| 2018 || 2.130
|-
| 2019 || 2.510
|-
| 2020 || 2.271
|-
| 2021 || 7.778
|-
| 2022 || 9.3
|}

2023Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2023-07-14T15:55:55Z

HweeTouNg:

2023Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2023-07-14T15:54:21Z

HweeTouNg:

2023Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2023-07-14T15:53:41Z

HweeTouNg: Created page with "CL journal achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors wer..."

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is given at the end of this report.
During the past 6 months (January to June 2023), CL journal received 101 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. This is an increase from 75 first submissions in the corresponding period (January to June) in 2022, i.e., 34% jump in number of submissions.
Reviewing of all regular papers and full survey papers submitted during January to May 2023 has been completed, and the average time to first decision of these papers (excluding desk rejects) is 34 days. This is an improvement from an average of 47 days for the period January to December 2022.
The published CL papers of the first two issues in 2023 (March and June 2023) comprise 11 regular papers, 1 survey paper, and 4 book reviews. The total number of pages of these two issues is 523.
Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 1 paper was presented at EACL 2023 and 8 papers were presented at ACL 2023.
Hwee Tou Ng

2023Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2023-03-05T12:13:15Z

HweeTouNg:

During the past year (January to December 2022), CL journal received 138 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. We have improved the average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers to 47 days (excluding desk rejects).

The published CL papers of the 4 issues in 2022 (March 2022 to December 2022) comprise 25 regular papers, 3 survey papers, 3 squibs, 2 last words papers, and 2 book reviews. The total number of pages of these four issues is 1,141.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 8 papers were presented at ACL 2022, 3 papers were presented at NAACL 2022, and 12 papers were presented at EMNLP 2022.

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year || Impact Factor
|-
| 1997 || 0.595
|-
| 1998 || 0.273
|-
| 1999 || 0.500
|-
| 2000 || 1.146
|-
| 2001 || 0.750
|-
| 2002 || 0.800
|-
| 2003 || 1.515
|-
| 2004 || 1.657
|-
| 2005 || 2.676
|-
| 2006 || 1.800
|-
| 2007 || 2.367
|-
| 2008 || 2.656
|-
| 2009 || 2.212
|-
| 2010 || 2.971
|-
| 2011 || 0.721
|-
| 2012 || 0.940
|-
| 2013 || 1.468
|-
| 2014 || 1.226
|-
| 2015 || 2.017
|-
| 2016 || 2.528
|-
| 2017 || 1.319
|-
| 2018 || 2.130
|-
| 2019 || 2.510
|-
| 2020 || 2.271
|-
| 2021 || 7.778
|}

Hwee Tou Ng<br />
5 March 2023

2023Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2023-03-05T12:12:56Z

HweeTouNg:

2023Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2023-03-05T11:39:26Z

HweeTouNg:

During the past year (January to December 2022), CL journal received 138 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. We have improved the average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers to 47 days (excluding desk rejects).

The published CL papers of the 4 issues in 2022 (March 2022 to December 2022) comprise 25 regular papers, 3 survey papers, 3 squibs, 2 last words papers, and 2 book reviews. The total number of pages of these four issues is 1,141.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 8 papers were presented at ACL 2022, 3 papers were presented at NAACL 2022, and 12 papers were presented at EMNLP 2022.

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto"
|-
! Year || Impact Factor
|-
| 1997 || 0.595
|-
| 1998 || 0.273
|-
| 1999 || 0.500
|-
| 2000 || 1.146
|-
| 2001 || 0.750
|-
| 2002 || 0.800
|-
| 2003 || 1.515
|-
| 2004 || 1.657
|-
| 2005 || 2.676
|-
| 2006 || 1.800
|-
| 2007 || 2.367
|-
| 2008 || 2.656
|-
| 2009 || 2.212
|-
| 2010 || 2.971
|-
| 2011 || 0.721
|-
| 2012 || 0.940
|-
| 2013 || 1.468
|-
| 2014 || 1.226
|-
| 2015 || 2.017
|-
| 2016 || 2.528
|-
| 2017 || 1.319
|-
| 2018 || 2.130
|-
| 2019 || 2.510
|-
| 2020 || 2.271
|-
| 2021 || 7.778
|}

Hwee Tou Ng<br />
4 March 2023

2023Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2023-03-05T11:38:02Z

HweeTouNg:

During the past year (January to December 2022), CL journal received 138 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. We have improved the average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers to 47 days (excluding desk rejects).

The published CL papers of the 4 issues in 2022 (March 2022 to December 2022) comprise 25 regular papers, 3 survey papers, 3 squibs, 2 last words papers, and 2 book reviews. The total number of pages of these four issues is 1,141.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 8 papers were presented at ACL 2022, 3 papers were presented at NAACL 2022, and 12 papers were presented at EMNLP 2022.

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto"
|-
! Year || Impact Factor
|-
| 1997 || 0.595
|-
| 1998 || 0.273
|-
| 1999 || 0.500
|-
| 2000 || 1.146
|-
| 2001 || 0.750
|-
| 2002 || 0.800
|-
| 2003 || 1.515
|-
| 2004 || 1.657
|-
| 2005 || 2.676
|-
| 2006 || 1.800
|-
| 2007 || 2.367
|-
| 2008 || 2.656
|-
| 2009 || 2.212
|-
| 2010 || 2.971
|-
| 2011 || 0.721
|-
| 2012 || 0.940
|-
| 2013 || 1.468
|-
| 2014 || 1.226
|-
| 2015 || 2.017
|-
| 2016 || 2.528
|-
| 2017 || 1.319
|-
| 2018 || 2.130
|-
| 2019 || 2.510
|-
| 2020 || 2.271
|-
| 2021 || 7.778
|}

Hwee Tou Ng
4 March 2023

2023Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2023-03-04T13:50:44Z

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During the past year (January to December 2022), CL journal received 138 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. We have improved the average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers to 47 days (excluding desk rejects).

The published CL papers of the 4 issues in 2022 (March 2022 to December 2022) comprise 25 regular papers, 3 survey papers, 3 squibs, 2 last words papers, and 2 book reviews. The total number of pages of these four issues is 1,141.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 8 papers were presented at ACL 2022, 3 papers were presented at NAACL 2022, and 12 papers were presented at EMNLP 2022.

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is as follows:

1997 0.595
1998 0.273
1999 0.500
2000 1.146
2001 0.750
2002 0.800
2003 1.515
2004 1.657
2005 2.676
2006 1.800
2007 2.367
2008 2.656
2009 2.212
2010 2.971
2011 0.721
2012 0.940
2013 1.468
2014 1.226
2015 2.017
2016 2.528
2017 1.319
2018 2.130
2019 2.510
2020 2.271
2021 7.778

Hwee Tou Ng
4 March 2023

2022Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2022-03-05T12:09:58Z

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During the six months from July to December 2021, the CL journal received 77 first submissions (of all paper types). We have improved the average time to first decision of regular papers and survey papers to 64 days (excluding desk rejects).

The published CL papers of the last 4 issues (March 2021 to December 2021) comprise 22 regular papers, 2 squibs, and 3 book reviews. The total number of pages of these four issues is 946.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences. 5 papers were presented at ACL 2021, 7 papers were presented at EMNLP 2021, and 8 papers will be presented at ACL 2022.

Hwee Tou Ng
5 March 2022

2021Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2021-07-25T11:26:46Z

HweeTouNg:

During the past six months, the CL Journal received 79 first submissions (of all paper types). The average time from submission to first decision for regular papers (excluding desk rejects) is 76 days.

The published CL papers of the last 4 issues (September 2020 to June 2021) comprise 21 regular papers and 3 book reviews. The total number of pages of these four issues is 871.

Since March 2020, CL Journal papers are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL submissions continue to undergo single-blind reviewing like a typical journal.

There are two categories of submissions to CL Journal:

1. Submissions containing new material not previously published: The authors of these submissions, once accepted, are given the option to present their accepted papers at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences. So far, almost all authors have chosen to present their accepted CL papers.

2. Submission which are extended version of past conference paper(s), or other types of papers (survey papers, squibs, last words articles): These submissions will not be presented at conferences.

Hwee Tou Ng

25 July 2021

2021Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2021-07-25T11:25:47Z

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2020Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2020-07-28T11:27:14Z

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Summary Statistics

During the past six months, the CL journal received 76 first submissions. The average time to first decision is 97 days.

The published CL papers of the last 4 issues (September 2019 to June 2020) comprise 11 regular papers, 5 special issue papers, 4 survey papers, 3 squib papers, and 4 book reviews. The total number of pages of these 4 issues is 946.

Special Issue

The June 2020 issue of the CL journal is a special issue on Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing. The special issue editors are Marta R. Costa-jussa, Cristina Espana-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith. We received 14 submissions to this special issue, and 5 papers were accepted.

Conference Presentation

CL journal papers are now eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences. The first batch of 7 papers are to be presented at the ACL 2020 conference.

The ACL Executive Committee has decided that CL submissions will still undergo single-blind reviewing. There are two categories of submissions to CL journal:

1. Submissions containing new material not previously published: The authors of these submissions, once accepted, are given the option to present their accepted papers at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences.

2. Submissions which are extended version of past conference paper(s) or are survey papers: These submissions will not be presented at conferences.

Editorial Team

A team of standing reviewers has been recruited and they have been helping to review CL submissions. Currently, there are more than 80 standing reviewers.

CL journal is transitioning to an editorial board comprising action editors. The role of a CL action editor is similar to the role of an area chair in a conference. An action editor is responsible for assigning reviewers to a submission and recommending paper acceptance to the CL editor-in-chief. 24 action editors have joined the editorial board. The numbers of action editors and standing reviewers are expected to grow over time as the need arises. It is expected that the reviewing time will be shortened with the shift to a reviewing structure comprising action editors and standing reviewers.

Hwee Tou Ng
30 June 2020

2020Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2020-04-15T05:49:43Z

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The numbers of published papers (831 pages) in CL journal in 2019 in each of the paper categories are as follows: regular papers (18), survey papers (2), squibs (2), and book reviews (3).

The special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” is scheduled to be published in the June 2020 issue of CL journal. Five papers have been accepted to appear in the special issue, out of 14 submissions.

To speed up reviewing time, the journal has set up a pool of standing reviewers with more than 80 reviewers. To reduce reviewing fatigue, each standing reviewer only commits to serve for one year (but renewable if so desired). We expect to expand the pool of standing reviewers over time.

Submissions to CL will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference. Seven CL papers are slated for presentation at ACL 2020.

Hwee Tou Ng

2019Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2019-07-28T06:32:24Z

HweeTouNg:

In the past 6 months, we have received 85 first submissions and the average time to first decision for the papers first submitted (excluding desk rejects) was 108 days. The journal has now developed a pipeline of accepted and conditionally accepted papers to fill at least two upcoming issues (till December 2019). The numbers of published papers (904 pages) in the last four issues of CL journal in each of the paper categories are as follows: regular papers (14), special issue papers (7), survey papers (1), squibs (4), and book reviews (2).

The special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” received 14 submissions by the submission deadline of 21 March 2019. The guest editors of this special issue are Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith. First-round notifications for all submissions have been sent out. We are targeting the publication of this special issue in the March 2020 issue of CL journal.

In order to shorten the reviewing time of CL submissions and to solicit the views of ACL members on presenting CL papers at conferences, a survey was conducted during 24 – 30 June 2019. A total of 258 ACL members responded to the survey, which comprises three questions:

Reponses to Question 1: “When deciding whether to submit a paper to CL Journal, how important to you is the length of the reviewing time taken by the journal?”
Scale: 5 (very important) to 1 (very unimportant)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 121 (47%)
4: 91 (35%)
3: 34 (13%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

Responses to Question 2: “Would you be willing to serve as a standing reviewer for CL journal?”
Responses: count (percentage)
Yes: 188 (73%)
No: 70 (27%)

Responses to Question 3: “If you have a paper accepted by CL Journal, how interested are you in presenting it at one of the *ACL or EMNLP conferences (i.e., in a similar arrangement as TACL)? Note: Presentation at these venues is not compulsory.”
Scale: 5 (very interested) to 1 (very uninterested)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 173 (67%)
4: 49 (19%)
3: 24 (9%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

The survey outcome indicates that 82% of the respondents view fast reviewing time as important or very important; 188 respondents volunteer to serve as standing reviewers; and 86% of the respondents are interested or very interested in presenting their CL journal papers at conferences.

Based on the survey outcome, CL journal will implement the following changes:

1. Set up a pool of standing reviewers to speed up reviewing time, which is valued by most respondents.

2. Since reviewing will now be done by the standing pool of reviewers, the responsibility of the editorial board members will no longer be reviewing papers. Instead, editorial board members will become action editors whose role is like area chairs in a conference. That is, action editors assign reviewers to submitted papers, and recommend decision on a submitted paper to the editor-in-chief, whose role is like a program chair in a conference. The name of the action editor who recommends the acceptance of a paper will be listed on each published CL journal paper.

We also plan to work towards allowing CL journal papers to be presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences for authors who are interested in presenting their accepted papers (not compulsory), since this is what most respondents preferred. We propose the following two categories of submissions to CL journal:

(A) A submission is an expanded version of previous conference publications. In this case, we use single-blind reviewing (since the authors will need to openly declare their previous publications), and an accepted paper of this kind will *not* be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (since part of its content could have been presented at a prior conference).

(B) A submission is new and none of its content has been published before (similar to conference submissions). In this case, we use double-blind reviewing, and an accepted paper of this kind will be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (oral or poster presentation) if the authors so desire. Requiring double-blind reviewing for this category of CL submissions would mean that all papers presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences will have undergone double-blind reviewing (i.e., treated in the same uniform manner).

Hwee Tou Ng
28 July 2019

2019Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2019-07-28T06:28:12Z

HweeTouNg:

In the past 6 months, we have received 85 first submissions and the average time to first decision for the papers first submitted (excluding desk rejects) was 108 days. The journal has now developed a pipeline of accepted and conditionally accepted papers to fill at least two upcoming issues (till December 2019). The numbers of published papers (906 pages) in the last four issues of CL journal in each of the paper categories are as follows: regular papers (14), special issue papers (7), survey papers (1), squibs (4), and book reviews (2).

The special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” received 14 submissions by the submission deadline of 21 March 2019. The guest editors of this special issue are Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith. First-round notifications for all submissions have been sent out. We are targeting the publication of this special issue in the March 2020 issue of CL journal.

In order to shorten the reviewing time of CL submissions and to solicit the views of ACL members on presenting CL papers at conferences, a survey was conducted during 24 – 30 June 2019. A total of 258 ACL members responded to the survey, which comprises three questions:

Reponses to Question 1: “When deciding whether to submit a paper to CL Journal, how important to you is the length of the reviewing time taken by the journal?”
Scale: 5 (very important) to 1 (very unimportant)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 121 (47%)
4: 91 (35%)
3: 34 (13%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

Responses to Question 2: “Would you be willing to serve as a standing reviewer for CL journal?”
Responses: count (percentage)
Yes: 188 (73%)
No: 70 (27%)

Responses to Question 3: “If you have a paper accepted by CL Journal, how interested are you in presenting it at one of the *ACL or EMNLP conferences (i.e., in a similar arrangement as TACL)? Note: Presentation at these venues is not compulsory.”
Scale: 5 (very interested) to 1 (very uninterested)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 173 (67%)
4: 49 (19%)
3: 24 (9%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

The survey outcome indicates that 82% of the respondents view fast reviewing time as important or very important; 188 respondents volunteer to serve as standing reviewers; and 86% of the respondents are interested or very interested in presenting their CL journal papers at conferences.

Based on the survey outcome, CL journal will implement the following changes:

1. Set up a pool of standing reviewers to speed up reviewing time, which is valued by most respondents.

2. Since reviewing will now be done by the standing pool of reviewers, the responsibility of the editorial board members will no longer be reviewing papers. Instead, editorial board members will become action editors whose role is like area chairs in a conference. That is, action editors assign reviewers to submitted papers, and recommend decision on a submitted paper to the editor-in-chief, whose role is like a program chair in a conference. The name of the action editor who recommends the acceptance of a paper will be listed on each published CL journal paper.

We also plan to work towards allowing CL journal papers to be presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences for authors who are interested in presenting their accepted papers (not compulsory), since this is what most respondents preferred. We propose the following two categories of submissions to CL journal:

(A) A submission is an expanded version of previous conference publications. In this case, we use single-blind reviewing (since the authors will need to openly declare their previous publications), and an accepted paper of this kind will *not* be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (since part of its content could have been presented at a prior conference).

(B) A submission is new and none of its content has been published before (similar to conference submissions). In this case, we use double-blind reviewing, and an accepted paper of this kind will be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (oral or poster presentation) if the authors so desire. Requiring double-blind reviewing for this category of CL submissions would mean that all papers presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences will have undergone double-blind reviewing (i.e., treated in the same uniform manner).

Hwee Tou Ng
28 July 2019

2019Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2019-07-28T06:17:15Z

HweeTouNg:

In the past 6 months, we have received 85 first submissions and the average time to first decision for the papers first submitted (excluding desk rejects) was 108 days. The journal has now developed a pipeline of accepted and conditionally accepted papers to fill at least two upcoming issues (till December 2019). The numbers of published papers in the last four issues of CL journal in each of the paper categories are as follows: regular papers (14), special issue papers (7), survey papers (1), squibs (4), and book reviews (2).

The special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” received 14 submissions by the submission deadline of 21 March 2019. The guest editors of this special issue are Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith. First-round notifications for all submissions have been sent out. We are targeting the publication of this special issue in the March 2020 issue of CL journal.

In order to shorten the reviewing time of CL submissions and to solicit the views of ACL members on presenting CL papers at conferences, a survey was conducted during 24 – 30 June 2019. A total of 258 ACL members responded to the survey, which comprises three questions:

Reponses to Question 1: “When deciding whether to submit a paper to CL Journal, how important to you is the length of the reviewing time taken by the journal?”
Scale: 5 (very important) to 1 (very unimportant)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 121 (47%)
4: 91 (35%)
3: 34 (13%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

Responses to Question 2: “Would you be willing to serve as a standing reviewer for CL journal?”
Responses: count (percentage)
Yes: 188 (73%)
No: 70 (27%)

Responses to Question 3: “If you have a paper accepted by CL Journal, how interested are you in presenting it at one of the *ACL or EMNLP conferences (i.e., in a similar arrangement as TACL)? Note: Presentation at these venues is not compulsory.”
Scale: 5 (very interested) to 1 (very uninterested)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 173 (67%)
4: 49 (19%)
3: 24 (9%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

The survey outcome indicates that 82% of the respondents view fast reviewing time as important or very important; 188 respondents volunteer to serve as standing reviewers; and 86% of the respondents are interested or very interested in presenting their CL journal papers at conferences.

Based on the survey outcome, CL journal will implement the following changes:

1. Set up a pool of standing reviewers to speed up reviewing time, which is valued by most respondents.

2. Since reviewing will now be done by the standing pool of reviewers, the responsibility of the editorial board members will no longer be reviewing papers. Instead, editorial board members will become action editors whose role is like area chairs in a conference. That is, action editors assign reviewers to submitted papers, and recommend decision on a submitted paper to the editor-in-chief, whose role is like a program chair in a conference. The name of the action editor who recommends the acceptance of a paper will be listed on each published CL journal paper.

We also plan to work towards allowing CL journal papers to be presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences for authors who are interested in presenting their accepted papers (not compulsory), since this is what most respondents preferred. We propose the following two categories of submissions to CL journal:

(A) A submission is an expanded version of previous conference publications. In this case, we use single-blind reviewing (since the authors will need to openly declare their previous publications), and an accepted paper of this kind will *not* be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (since part of its content could have been presented at a prior conference).

(B) A submission is new and none of its content has been published before (similar to conference submissions). In this case, we use double-blind reviewing, and an accepted paper of this kind will be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (oral or poster presentation) if the authors so desire. Requiring double-blind reviewing for this category of CL submissions would mean that all papers presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences will have undergone double-blind reviewing (i.e., treated in the same uniform manner).

Hwee Tou Ng
28 July 2019

2019Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2019-07-28T04:52:27Z

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In the past 6 months, we have received 85 first submissions and the average time to first decision for the papers first submitted (excluding desk rejects) was 108 days. The journal has now developed a pipeline of accepted and conditionally accepted papers to fill at least two upcoming issues (till December 2019).

The special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” received 14 submissions by the submission deadline of 21 March 2019. The guest editors of this special issue are Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith. First-round notifications for all submissions have been sent out. We are targeting the publication of this special issue in the March 2020 issue of CL journal.

In order to shorten the reviewing time of CL submissions and to solicit the views of ACL members on presenting CL papers at conferences, a survey was conducted during 24 – 30 June 2019. A total of 258 ACL members responded to the survey, which comprises three questions:

Reponses to Question 1: “When deciding whether to submit a paper to CL Journal, how important to you is the length of the reviewing time taken by the journal?”
Scale: 5 (very important) to 1 (very unimportant)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 121 (47%)
4: 91 (35%)
3: 34 (13%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

Responses to Question 2: “Would you be willing to serve as a standing reviewer for CL journal?”
Responses: count (percentage)
Yes: 188 (73%)
No: 70 (27%)

Responses to Question 3: “If you have a paper accepted by CL Journal, how interested are you in presenting it at one of the *ACL or EMNLP conferences (i.e., in a similar arrangement as TACL)? Note: Presentation at these venues is not compulsory.”
Scale: 5 (very interested) to 1 (very uninterested)
Responses: count (percentage)
5: 173 (67%)
4: 49 (19%)
3: 24 (9%)
2: 7 (3%)
1: 5 (2%)

The survey outcome indicates that 82% of the respondents view fast reviewing time as important or very important; 188 respondents volunteer to serve as standing reviewers; and 86% of the respondents are interested or very interested in presenting their CL journal papers at conferences.

Based on the survey outcome, CL journal will implement the following changes:

1. Set up a pool of standing reviewers to speed up reviewing time, which is valued by most respondents.

2. Since reviewing will now be done by the standing pool of reviewers, the responsibility of the editorial board members will no longer be reviewing papers. Instead, editorial board members will become action editors whose role is like area chairs in a conference. That is, action editors assign reviewers to submitted papers, and recommend decision on a submitted paper to the editor-in-chief, whose role is like a program chair in a conference. The name of the action editor who recommends the acceptance of a paper will be listed on each published CL journal paper.

We also plan to work towards allowing CL journal papers to be presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences for authors who are interested in presenting their accepted papers (not compulsory), since this is what most respondents preferred. We propose the following two categories of submissions to CL journal:

(A) A submission is an expanded version of previous conference publications. In this case, we use single-blind reviewing (since the authors will need to openly declare their previous publications), and an accepted paper of this kind will *not* be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (since part of its content could have been presented at a prior conference).

(B) A submission is new and none of its content has been published before (similar to conference submissions). In this case, we use double-blind reviewing, and an accepted paper of this kind will be given a presentation slot at *ACL/EMNLP (oral or poster presentation) if the authors so desire. Requiring double-blind reviewing for this category of CL submissions would mean that all papers presented at *ACL/EMNLP conferences will have undergone double-blind reviewing (i.e., treated in the same uniform manner).

Hwee Tou Ng
28 July 2019

2019Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2019-03-15T13:50:51Z

HweeTouNg:

I have taken over as the CL Journal Editor-in-Chief on 15 July 2018.

In the past 6 months, we have received 75 first submissions and the average time to first decision for the papers first submitted (excluding desk rejects) was 88 days. It continues to be a challenge to find qualified reviewers with the right expertise who would respond in a reasonable time to accept to review papers and submit their reviews on time.

The journal has now developed a healthy pipeline of accepted and conditionally accepted papers to fill at least two upcoming issues (till September 2019). The total number of journal pages for the 4 issues September 2018 to June 2019 is 906. Among the accepted regular papers (excluding squibs and book reviews) in these 4 issues, the distribution of geographical regions of the first authors is as follows: 41% from the Americas, 36% from Europe, and 23% from Asia.

Unfortunately, a special issue on “Computational Approaches in Historical Linguistics after the Quantitative Turn”, with submission deadline of 15 July 2018, did not attract enough submissions to form a special issue. In total, only 8 papers were submitted to this special issue, out of which one paper has been accepted, another one is undergoing review, and the rest have been rejected.

Another special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” is in the pipeline, with an impending submission deadline of 21 March 2019. Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith are the guest editors of this special issue. We have added a timeline of the key events (submission, first notification, revised submission, final notification, and camera ready submission) to this special issue, and the accepted papers are expected to appear in the March 2020 issue of CL journal.

Hwee Tou Ng

15 March 2019

2019Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2019-03-15T13:50:38Z

HweeTouNg:

2019Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2019-03-15T13:50:15Z

HweeTouNg:

2019Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2019-03-15T13:49:38Z

HweeTouNg:

2019Q1 Reports: CL Journal

2019-03-15T13:48:57Z

HweeTouNg: Created page with "2019Q1 Report: CL Journal Editor I have taken over as the CL Journal Editor-in-Chief on 15 July 2018. In the past 6 months, we have received 75 first submissions and the ave..."

2019Q1 Report: CL Journal Editor

I have taken over as the CL Journal Editor-in-Chief on 15 July 2018.

In the past 6 months, we have received 75 first submissions and the average time to first decision for the papers first submitted (excluding desk rejects) was 88 days. It continues to be a challenge to find qualified reviewers with the right expertise who would respond in a reasonable time to accept to review papers and submit their reviews on time.

The journal has now developed a healthy pipeline of accepted and conditionally accepted papers to fill at least two upcoming issues (till September 2019). The total number of journal pages for the 4 issues September 2018 to June 2019 is 906. Among the accepted regular papers (excluding squibs and book reviews) in these 4 issues, the distribution of geographical regions of the first authors is as follows: 41% from the Americas, 36% from Europe, and 23% from Asia.

Unfortunately, a special issue on “Computational Approaches in Historical Linguistics after the Quantitative Turn”, with submission deadline of 15 July 2018, did not attract enough submissions to form a special issue. In total, only 8 papers were submitted to this special issue, out of which one paper has been accepted, another one is undergoing review, and the rest have been rejected.

Another special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” is in the pipeline, with an impending submission deadline of 21 March 2019. Marta R. Costa-jussà, Cristina España-Bonet, Pascale Fung, and Noah A. Smith are the guest editors of this special issue. We have added a timeline of the key events (submission, first notification, revised submission, final notification, and camera ready submission) to this special issue, and the accepted papers are expected to appear in the March 2020 issue of CL journal.

Hwee Tou Ng
15 March 2019