RobertDale: New page: Computational Linguistics Journal Report for Calendar Year 2008 Robert Dale, Editor 1 Summary From CL's point of view this is considered an interim report, since many submissions to the ...

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New page: Computational Linguistics Journal Report for Calendar Year 2008 Robert Dale, Editor 1 Summary From CL's point of view this is considered an interim report, since many submissions to the ...

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Computational Linguistics Journal Report for Calendar Year 2008
Robert Dale, Editor

1 Summary

From CL's point of view this is considered an interim report, since
many submissions to the journal in 2008 are still being processed.

As of the beginning of this year, we have gone Open Access and the
journal's content is now freely available via the ACL website, where
anyone can download the content and, I believe, set up email alerts
for new issues as they appear. The first issue of 2009, being Volume
35 Issue 1, will appear in the next few weeks; Volume 35 Issue 2 is a
special issue on prepositions, which will appear by mid year.
Thereafter it is possible we will switch to an article-by-article
publication stream, with quarterly retrospective 'batch-ups' into
issues.

This year, in an attempt to kick-start a new short papers track in
the journal, the authors of all seven best paper candidates for ACL 2008
were invited to submit extended versions of their conference papers
(which would then be subjected to further review). Five have
indicated an intention to submit, and two declined; none of the
extended papers have yet been received, although most authors
indicated an intention to provide their articles during the early part
of 2009.

Work on the CL online review management system, which uses the Open
Journal Management System software, has been delayed, but should be
completed by the middle of the year.

At the mid-year Exec Meeting, we will need to review where things
stand financially and with regard to the future funding model for the
journal.

As ever, Mary Gardiner has provided magnificent support as editorial assistant
for CL.

2 Early Access

Articles are published 'Early Access' -- after the copyeditor has
worked over the article, but prior to final proofreading and
correction -- before the final versions appear; at the time of
writing, eight articles are now available Early Access, although there
apppears to be a bug on the MIT Press website that prevents getting to
the appropriate page; this has been reported. Once the special issue
has been published, I would expect we will publish a bumper issue for
35:3 to clear the Early Access queue. There are still some unresolved
issues regarding citation of Early Access articles; it may be that it
is more sensible to drop this delivery category once we are in a
position to publish article by article.

3 Statistics

Here are the usual statistics relating to the journal.

In 2008 we had 55 new submissions, 15 resubs from a previous year and 1
resub of a 2008 paper.

Disposition for first submissions is:
- 0 accepts
- 0 accept with minor
- 8 revise and resub
- 5 reject
- 11 reject without review
- 29 decisions pending

Disposition for all submissions is:
- 7 accepts
- 2 accept with minor
- 12 revise and resub
- 6 reject
- 11 reject without review
- 31 decisions pending

Not counting reject without review, we are averaging 70 days to decision
and 79 for first submissions. These numbers are skewed downwards due to
the remaining non-decisions (most papers in 2008 were submitted late in
the year). Final numbers are likely to resemble 2007: 86 days to
decision.

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RobertDale: New page: Computational Linguistics Journal Report for Calendar Year 2008 Robert Dale, Editor 1 Summary From CL's point of view this is considered an interim report, since many submissions to the ...