Computational Linguistics Report for 2002

Julia Hirschberg, Editor

57 papers were submitted to Computational Linguistics in 2001. The
mean time to first decision was 110 days, down from 190 days for 2000.
Of the total submissions, there were 8 in the short paper category
with a mean time to first decision of 77 days. The acceptance rate
for 2001 was 31.6%.


Disposition of manuscripts by type of first decision:

	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996
Submitted	57	64	47	48	69	57
Accepted	18	15	13	9	21	9
Rejected	12	11	9	7	15	15
Resubmit	22	27	12	4	27	26
No decision yet	0	7	8	28	5	6
Withdrawn	3	3	2	0	1	1
Resub as squib	2	1	3	0	0	2

In 2001 we published one special issue, on Computational Anaphora
Resolution, edited by Ruslan Mitkov, Bran Boguraev, and Shalom Lappin.
As of June 1, 2002, there are 39 submissions for 2002, 16 of which are
for a special issue on the Web as Corpus, edited by Adam Kilgarriff
and Greg Grefenstette.

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For 2000 papers, the completed disposition of mss was, with the
acceptance rate 26.6%.

Submitted	64
Accepted	17
Rejected	13
Resubmission	30
Withdrawn	3
Resub as Squib	1

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Distribution of submissions by location of first author for 2001:

ASIA/PACIFIC
New Zealand	1
P. R. China	1
Japan	1
Hong Kong	1
Total	4
EUROPE
Germany	3
Norway	1
Ukraine	1
Spain	2
Switzerland	1
Turkey	1
UK	12
Portugal	1
France	2
Israel	1
Total	25
NORTH AMERICA
USA	25
Canada	3
Total	28
GRAND TOTAL	57

The new 2002-4 editorial board is:

Elisabeth Andre, Universita"t Augsburg
Eugene Charniak, Brown University
Hitoshi Isahara, Communications Research Laboratory
Maria Lapata, University of Edinburgh
Inderjeet Mani, MITRE and Georgetown University
Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University
Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Marc Swerts, University of Antwerp and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven


CL's new editorial assistant is Kathy Vesonder.