==Submission Growth==

{| class="wikitable"
! Quarter
! Standing Reviewers
|-
| 2024 Q1
| 62
|-
| 2025 Q1
| 89
|}

{| class="wikitable"
! Quarter
! Standing Reviewers
|-
| 2024 Q2
| 84
|-
| 2025 Q2
| 120
|}

The number of submissions has increased by over 40% compared to last year.

==Review Capacity==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Standing Reviewers
|-
| 2024 (as of 1 July 24)
| 113
|-
| 2025 (as of 1 July 25)
| 186
|}

To support the growth in submissions, we expanded our standing reviewer pool by 65%. We would like to thank the ARR Editors-in-Chief for their support with this expansion.

==Review Timeline Improvement==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! With desk rejection
! Without desk rejection
|-
| 2024
| 25.9
| 51.3
|-
| 2025
| 16.5
| 55.0
|}

While the time to first decision for fully reviewed papers increased slightly by 7%, partly because we have additional quality controls for the reviewing process, we’ve made desk rejections much faster. The average time dropped by 36%.

==Rising Impact==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Google Scholar Rankings (Computational Linguistics)
|-
| 2023 (July)
| #13
|-
| 2024 (July)
| #12
|-
| 2025 (July)
| #10
|}

Our impact continues to grow. According to Google Scholar, Computational Linguistics rose two positions in the rankings this year. Source: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_computationallinguistics

==New Paper Categories==

We made some updates to the paper categories:

- Short papers are now capped at 20 pages.

- Long papers typically go up to 40 pages.�

And we added a new Position Papers category.�Two have already been accepted, and one will be presented at ACL 2025.

==Enhanced Review Process==

New review forms and updated author and reviewer guidelines will go into effect next month.

2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T09:02:02Z

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2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T09:01:43Z

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2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T09:01:23Z

Luwei:

2025-07-29T08:53:54Z

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2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T08:53:00Z

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==Submission Growth==
2024 Q1: 62 -> 2025 Q1: 84

2024 Q2: 89 -> 2025 Q2: 120

Over 40% increase in terms of number of submissions.

==Review Capacity==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Standing Reviewers
|-
| 2024 (as of 1 July 24)
| 113
|-
| 2025 (as of 1 July 25)
| 186
|}

==Review Timeline Improvement==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! With desk rejection
! Without desk rejection
|-
| 2024
| 25.9
| 51.3
|-
| 2025
| 16.5
| 55.0
|}

2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T08:51:26Z

Luwei: /* Review Timeline Improvement */

==Submission Growth==
2024 Q1: 62 -> 2025 Q1: 84

2024 Q2: 89 -> 2025 Q2: 120

Over 40% increase in terms of number of submissions.

==Review Capacity==
2024 (as of 1 July 24): 113

2025 (as of 1 July 25): 186

The number of standing reviewers has increased by 65%. Thank you to the ARR EiCs for supporting our growth.

==Review Timeline Improvement==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! With desk rejection
! Without desk rejection
|-
| 2024
| 25.9
| 51.3
|-
| 2025
| 16.5
| 55.0
|}

2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T08:50:09Z

Luwei:

==Submission Growth==
2024 Q1: 62 -> 2025 Q1: 84

2024 Q2: 89 -> 2025 Q2: 120

Over 40% increase in terms of number of submissions.

==Review Capacity==
2024 (as of 1 July 24): 113

2025 (as of 1 July 25): 186

The number of standing reviewers has increased by 65%. Thank you to the ARR EiCs for supporting our growth.

==Review Timeline Improvement==

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2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T08:49:08Z

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2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2025-07-29T08:48:14Z

Luwei: /* Submission Growth */

2025-02-10T05:27:58Z

Luwei: Created page with "The journal reached a significant milestone by the end of 2024 (50th anniversary). We released an editorial ("Opening a New Chapter for Computational Linguistics") to celebrat..."

2024Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2024-08-12T10:45:14Z

Luwei:

The current journal is doing well, with the latest submission statistics shown below.

2022: 143

2023: 237

2024(*): 149

(*): as of 30 July 2024

We are now setting a new vision for the journal. Specifically, we aspire for it to evolve into a leading venue for both classical computational linguistics and modern natural language processing, with a focus on language models.

To this end, we have introduced several changes. First, we upgraded our journal system, which now offers new features and better support compared to the previous system.

We have also appointed Cindy Robinson as our new Editorial Assistant at CL. Together, we have been expanding our editorial team, including Action Editors and Standing Reviewers -- this process is ongoing.

Additionally, we are rolling out a new tiered reviewing system, allocating reviewers' time based on the estimated workload required for each review.

We are also finalizing a new LaTeX template to accommodate a larger number of authors more elegantly.

Finally, we are improving our marketing efforts. Specifically, each member registered with the CL journal system will automatically receive information about the latest published papers as soon as they are available. Our next goal is to extend this reach to all members of the ACL community.

2024Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2024-08-12T10:44:54Z

Luwei:

The current journal is doing well, with the latest submission statistics shown below.

2022: 143
2023: 237
2024(*): 149

(*): as of 30 July 2024

We are now setting a new vision for the journal. Specifically, we aspire for it to evolve into a leading venue for both classical computational linguistics and modern natural language processing, with a focus on language models.

To this end, we have introduced several changes. First, we upgraded our journal system, which now offers new features and better support compared to the previous system.

We have also appointed Cindy Robinson as our new Editorial Assistant at CL. Together, we have been expanding our editorial team, including Action Editors and Standing Reviewers -- this process is ongoing.

Additionally, we are rolling out a new tiered reviewing system, allocating reviewers' time based on the estimated workload required for each review.

We are also finalizing a new LaTeX template to accommodate a larger number of authors more elegantly.

Finally, we are improving our marketing efforts. Specifically, each member registered with the CL journal system will automatically receive information about the latest published papers as soon as they are available. Our next goal is to extend this reach to all members of the ACL community.

2024Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

2024-08-12T10:42:39Z

Luwei: Created page with "The current journal is doing well, with the latest submission statistics shown in the figure below. We are now setting a new vision for the journal. Specifically, we aspire f..."

The current journal is doing well, with the latest submission statistics shown in the figure below.

We are now setting a new vision for the journal. Specifically, we aspire for it to evolve into a leading venue for both classical computational linguistics and modern natural language processing, with a focus on language models.

To this end, we have introduced several changes. First, we upgraded our journal system, which now offers new features and better support compared to the previous system.

We have also appointed Cindy Robinson as our new Editorial Assistant at CL. Together, we have been expanding our editorial team, including Action Editors and Standing Reviewers -- this process is ongoing.

Additionally, we are rolling out a new tiered reviewing system, allocating reviewers' time based on the estimated workload required for each review.

We are also finalizing a new LaTeX template to accommodate a larger number of authors more elegantly.

Finally, we are improving our marketing efforts. Specifically, each member registered with the CL journal system will automatically receive information about the latest published papers as soon as they are available. Our next goal is to extend this reach to all members of the ACL community.

ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

2024-05-05T06:23:12Z

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== Recipients and their acceptance speeches ==

* Martha Palmer (2023) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/50/1/1/118388/My-Big-Fat-50-Year-Journey My Big, Fat 50-Year Journey]
* Martha Evens (2022) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/48/4/765/112790/Martha-Palmer-and-Barbara-Di-Eugenio-Interview Martha Palmer and Barbara Di Eugenio Interview Martha Evens]
* Junichi Tsujii (2021) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/47/4/707/107177/Natural-Language-Processing-and-Computational Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics]
* Bonnie Webber (2020) - [https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/47/1/1/97330/Kathy-McKeown-Interviews-Bonnie-Webber Kathy McKeown Interviews Bonnie Webber]
* Ron Kaplan (2019) - [https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/coli_a_00359 Computational Psycholinguistics]
* Mark Steedman (2018) - [https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00328 The Lost Combinator]
* Barbara Grosz (2017) - [https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/COLI_a_00313 Smart Enough to Talk With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Dialogue Capable AI Systems]
* Joan Bresnan (2016) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/COLI_a_00260 Linguistics: The Garden and the Bush]
* Sheng Li (2015) - [http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COLI_a_00240 Translating Today into Tomorrow]
* Robert L. Mercer (2014) - [http://techtalks.tv/talks/closing-session/60532/ (Video) A Computational Life]
* Jerry Hobbs (2013) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00171#.U7QAdqiT5C0 Influences and Inferences]
* Charles Fillmore (2012) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00129#.U7QAt6iT5C0 Encounters with Language] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrHQjkGmz0 Video])
* Eugene Charniak (2011) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00080#.U7QBF6iT5C0 The Brain as a Statistical Inference Engine—and You Can Too]
* William A. Woods (2010) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli_a_00018 The Right Tools: Reflections on Computation and Language]
* Fred Jelinek (2009) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2009.35.4.35401 The Dawn of Statistical ASR and MT]
* Yorick Wilks (2008) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2008.34.4.471 On Whose Shoulders?]
* Lauri Karttunen (2007) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2007.33.4.443 Word Play]
* Eva Hajicova (2006) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.457 Old Linguists Never Die, They Only Get Obligatorily Deleted]
* Martin Kay (2005) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089120105775299159 A Life of Language]
* Karen Sparck Jones (2004) - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/0891201053630237 Some Points in a Time]
* Makoto Nagao (2003)
* Aravind Joshi (2002)

== Of related interest ==

A sampling of other papers that touch on the history of computational linguistics:
* Some of the [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/compling/lastwords.html "Last Words"] opinion essays in the journal ''Computational Linguistics'':
** Mark Steedman - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2008.34.1.137 On Becoming a Discipline] (ACL presidential address, 2008)
** Karen Sparck Jones - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2007.33.3.437 Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?] (2007)
** Ehud Reiter - [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.283 The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics] (2007)
* W. John Hutchins (ed.) - [http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiHoLS%2097 Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and Biographies of Pioneers] (2000).
** [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089120102762671990 Book review] by Warren J. Plath
** [http://www.springerlink.com/content/u708514030045585/ Book review] by Jörg Schütz
* Aravind Joshi and Philip Hopely - [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=319805 A Parser from Antiquity] (1999)

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