https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=MichaelCollinsAdmin Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-31T15:00:08ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q1_Reports:_TACL_Journal&diff=21912014Q1 Reports: TACL Journal2014-02-28T16:28:46Z<p>MichaelCollins: Created page with "TACL published 35 papers in 2013, and at the time of writing (February 2014) it has published 8 papers in 2014. Papers have been presented at various conferences including ACL..."</p>
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<div>TACL published 35 papers in 2013, and at the time of writing (February<br />
2014) it has published 8 papers in 2014. Papers have been presented at<br />
various conferences including ACL 2013 (16 papers), NAACL 2013 (6<br />
papers), EMNLP 2013 (5 papers), and EACL 2014 (2 papers). The current<br />
estimate, which should be final, is that 19 papers will be presented<br />
at ACL 2014.<br />
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<h3>Submission Numbers</h3><br />
<br />
The total number of papers submitted in 2013 was 117. The number of<br />
papers submitted each month was as follows:<br />
<br />
Jan 10 <br><br />
Feb 4 <br><br />
Mar 11 <br><br />
Apr 3 <br><br />
May 11 <br><br />
Jun 10 <br><br />
Jul 8 <br><br />
Aug 8 <br><br />
Sep 11 <br><br />
Oct 13 <br><br />
Nov 18 <br><br />
Dec 15<br />
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<h3>Acceptance Rates, and Reviewing Times</h3><br />
<br />
At the time of writing 109 papers submitted in 2013 had received first<br />
decisions, with 8 papers still having pending decisions.<br />
<br />
On receiving reviews for a paper, the action editor makes 1 of 4<br />
decisions for the paper: (a) Acceptance for publication as is, with<br />
encouragement to make minor revisions. (b) Acceptance for publication<br />
subject to specified revisions within two months. (c) Rejection with<br />
encouragement to revise and resubmit within 3-6 months. (d) Rejection<br />
with no possibility of resubmission within a moratorium period of one<br />
year.<br />
<br />
Of the 109 papers from 2013 with decisions, the breakdown by decision<br />
type was as follows:<br />
<br />
Category a: 4 papers (3.7%) <br><br />
Category b: 22 papers (20.2%) <br><br />
Category c: 38 papers (34.9%) <br><br />
Category d: 45 papers (41.3%) <br />
<br />
It is worth noting that papers falling into category (b) are almost<br />
always accepted when the required revisions are carried out.<br />
<br />
The mean time to first decision on a paper was 64 days for the 109<br />
papers. Some other statistics on time to first decision (where a month<br />
is counted as 30 days):<br />
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22 papers (20%) had 1 month 13 days or less <br />
44 papers (40%) had 1 month 22 days or less<br />
66 papers (60%) had 2 months 5 days or less<br />
88 papers (80%) had 2 months 23 days or less<br />
100 papers (90%) had 3 months 17 days or less<br />
109 papers (100%) had 4 months 29 days or less<br />
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