2020Q1 Reports: CL Journal

The numbers of published papers (831 pages) in CL journal in 2019 in each of the paper categories are as follows: regular papers (18), survey papers (2), squibs (2), and book reviews (3).

The special issue on “Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing” is scheduled to be published in the June 2020 issue of CL journal. Five papers have been accepted to appear in the special issue, out of 14 submissions.

To speed up reviewing time, the journal has set up a pool of standing reviewers with more than 80 reviewers. To reduce reviewing fatigue, each standing reviewer only commits to serve for one year (but renewable if so desired). We expect to expand the pool of standing reviewers over time.

Submissions to CL will continue to be reviewed single-blind. Authors of accepted CL research papers (including special issue research papers, but excluding survey papers, squibs, and book reviews) will be given the option to present at *ACL/EMNLP conferences. CL research papers accepted for publication starting from the March 2020 issue of CL will be eligible for conference presentation, beginning at the ACL 2020 conference. Seven CL papers are slated for presentation at ACL 2020.

Hwee Tou Ng