Difference between revisions of "2025Q1 Reports: CL Journal"
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Revision as of 05:06, 10 February 2025
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 celebrate this special moment, and introduced new changes to the journal by setting a fresh vision.
New Changes
- We have released new Latex style files to better support papers with long author lists (which is increasingly common today).
- We now have social media accounts on X and Bluesky (@CompLingJournal). Information such as journal news and latest issues will be shared there.
- We have expanded our list of action editors and standing reviewers. We have also implemented strategies to recruit reliable and committed members of the community to our editorial board (e.g., working together with ARRs).
- We are launching distinguished publication programs to showcase significant and impactful work published in the journal.
- We are introducing 'position papers' as a new category to facilitate discussions on future research directions.
- Together with ACL ExCo, we have launched the "Computational Linguistics Dissertation Award" for our community. In the inaugural call, we received 29 nominations. The selection committee comprises Jason Eisner (NAACL), Julia Hockenmaier (NAACL), Yang Liu (AACL), Alice Oh (AACL), Ivan Titov (EACL), and Anna Korhonen (EACL). Kathy McKeown has also agreed to chair the process. The first award will be presented at ACL 2025.
Some statistics updates
2023 time to first decision: 23 days (this includes desk rejections) 2023 time to desk rejection: 10 days
2024 time to first decision: 28 days (this includes desk rejections) 2024 time to desk rejection: 5 days
Major System Upgrade
In July 2024, we successfully transitioned with a major software upgrade, the first in some time. The transition was seamless and resulted in minimal loss of time for authors, reviewers or editors.
CL submission numbers are growing and the editorial team responds
CL has seen an increase in the number of submissions for 2024. Specifically:
Total number of active submissions in 2023 - 218
Total number of active submissions in 2024 - 273
The action editors and reviewers have been outstanding in keeping pace and we would like to acknowledge the fantastic work of all those who have contributed to CL, including authors, reviewers, action editors and editorial staff.