2024Q1 Reports: TACL Journal

Staff Update:

On January 6, 2024 Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, took the role of co-Editors-in-Chief. Dilek is joining Asli Celikyilmaz and Roi Reichart, and will serve for the years 2024-2026.

Appendices:

Starting on March 1, 2024, the journal is implementing a new appendices policy, published at https://transacl.org/index.php/tacl/announcement/view/105. This policy now allows for appendices that go beyond the length restrictions of the journal (10 pages for initial submissions with potentially 1-2 more pages in each subsequent submission after (c) or (b) decisions). The goal of this policy, as stated in the announcement, is as follows:

Recognizing the increasing volume of experiments in our community, TACL announces a new appendices policy, aiming to balance reproducibility with conciseness and clarity.

Anonymity Policy:

As of the February 1, 2024 submission cycle, TACL adopted the new ACL anonymity policy. On January 12, 2024, ACL adopted the recommendations of its working group report, which applies to subsequent submission deadlines.

The actual recommendations can be found in the following link:

https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/5/56/ACL_Anonymity_Policy.pdf