2008Q3 Reports: CL Journal
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Computational Linguistics Journal Report for 2007-2008 Robert Dale, Editor 1 Summary The journal is in a very healthy state. For the first time in several years, we now have a backlog of articles awaiting publication (a good thing or a bad thing depending on your point of view). Our first 'Early Access' article -- whereby a pre-final version of an article is made available on the MIT Press website -- has appeared, and there are now a considerable number of articles in the pipeline; we are in transition to a process whereby articles are shipped to MIT Press as they come in to us in their final form from authors, although we are still ironing out some bugs in this process. Our next issue to hit the streets, 34-2, is a special issue on Semantic Role Labelling. This year will also see our first ever Survey Article, 'Inter-Coder Agreement for Computational Linguistics', by Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio; and another special issue on Prepositional Phrases is in the works. The big news, of course, is that from the beginning of 2009 CL will be an open access journal, and primarily electronic, so 34-4 will be our last primarily hard copy issue. We are still working out some of the details of how this will all work; our current plan is to continue to have MIT Press manage the journal production processes. Other significant changes to the way the journal operates are under discussion. We are still putting the final touches to the new CL online review management system, which uses the Open Journal Management System software. We expect this to be up and running in time for the transition to our new OA status. As ever, Mary Gardiner has provided magnificent support as editorial assistant for CL. 2 Statistics Here are the usual statistics relating to the journal. Our mean time to first decision has improved significantly, dropping to 100 days where in previous years we have floated between 120 and 145 days. 2007 ---- First submissions in 2007 ========================= Total: 55 Accepted: 1 (the SRL introduction) Accepted with revisions: 0 Revise and resubmit: 18 Reject: 21 Reject without review: 11 No decision yet: 4 Average time to decision: 93 days Average time to decision (exc. articles without review): 100 days All submissions in 2007 ======================= Total: 86 Accepted: 15 Accepted with revisions: 3 Revise and resubmit: 17 Reject: 16 Reject without review: 11 No decision yet: 24 Average time to decision: 71 days Average time to decision (exc. articles without review): 89 days Breakdown: New: 55 Resubmission of an article from 2006 or before: 24 Resubmission of an article from 2007: 7 2008 ---- First submissions in 2008 ========================= Total: 14 Accepted: 0 Accepted with revisions: 0 Revise and resubmit: 1 Reject: 1 Resubmit as squib: 1 Reject without review: 5 No decision yet: 7 Average time to decision: 14 days Average time to decision (exc. articles without review): 41 days All submissions in 2008 ======================= Total: 21 Accepted: 2 Accepted with revisions: 1 Revise and resubmit: 1 Reject: 0 Resubmit as squib: 1 Reject without review: 5 No decision yet: 11 Average time to decision: 24 days Average time to decision (exc. articles without review): 44 days Breakdown: New: 14 Resubmission of an article from 2007 or before: 7 Resubmission of an article from 2008: 0