Announcements

To be eligible for presentation (oral or poster) at EMNLP 2023, TACL papers must satisfy both of the following conditions:

• first: be accepted with a decision type (a) by Friday, September 22, 2023 and;
• second:  the final version must be approved by TACL by October 6, 2023 (to allow ample time for the technical approval by the Action Editor, we suggest submitting the final version at least 10 business days prior to the second deadline: September 29^th).

See the section on Presentation of Accepted TACL Papers at Conferences in the author guidelines for more details.

Roi Reichart and Asli Celikyilmaz have been selected to be co-Editors-in-Chief (co-EiCs) of TACL, which will bring the number of co-EiCs to three (along with Ani Nenkova) when Brian Roark finishes his term at the end of 2022. Congratulations to Roi and Asli!

The temporary expansion to three co-EiCs will last until the end of Ani Nenkova's term in 2024, when TACL will revert to its standard 2 co-EiCs. The expansion is in support of initiatives that require effort beyond the regular operation of the journal.

We are pleased to announce that in 2021 TACL had an impact factor of 9.194.  This is the first time that an impact factor has been measured for TACL, as the journal was only recently indexed by the Web of Science.  Interested parties are referred to a recent MIT Press blog post for more information as well as a message of thanks from the co-Editors-in-chief to the TACL community as a whole.  Thanks everyone for all the hard work!

Ani Nenkova has been selected to be a co-Editor-in-Chief (co-EiC) of TACL, alongside continuing co-EiCs Mark Johnson and Brian Roark. Congratulations to Ani!

Lillian Lee has been at the helm of TACL since nearly its inception and will continue as co-EiC until the end of the calendar year, but we can still express an early "thanks very much" to her for all she has done for TACL!

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The TACL policy has been revised so that ACL-related (tracks of) workshops self-declared to be archival are now considered to be archival by TACL.  Thus, papers at such venues (or archival tracks thereof) may not be re-submitted to TACL.

The ACL has adoped new policies for *ACL conferences and TACL regarding submission and review; these are listed here.

These policies go into effect for the Jan 1st, 2018 TACL submission round.  This implies that submissions for the Jan 1st round must obey its corresponding anonymity window, which begins December 1st, 2017.

Revisions of papers reviewed or rejected by ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP aren't eligible for submission to TACL for the 9 months starting at the conference's submission deadline.

The "Resubmission Policy for ACL, EACL, NAACL, EMNLP Conference Submissions" has been revised to clarify the status of papers withdrawn from conferences.

The short version is: "TACL considers papers that were reviewed by a conference and not accepted, such as papers that were withdrawn during an author response period before an official decision was received, to have been rejected from the conference."

See the Author Guidelines for the full version.

 

 

There has been a slight change to how revisions of (b) papers should be resubmitted: by email instead of system upload.  The protocol for revisions of (c) papers remains the same - via the system.

Updated instructions are at the "Revision and Resubmission Policy for TACL Submissions" section of the instructions.

We have updated the latex and doc style files to clarify the requirements and make it easier for authors to conform to them. Please use the updated versions at tacl-submission-templates as detailed in the Author Guidelines , to avoid delays in the reviewing of your submissions.

With the expiration of Michael Collins' term as co-editor-in-chief of TACL, Mark Johnson and Kristina Toutanova have been selected to be co-editors-in-chief together with continuing co-editor-in-chief Lillian Lee.

Thanks very much to Michael Collins for all he did for TACL! 

TACL has switched to using CC-BY 4.0, the Creative Commons "Atttribution" license. See Stuart Shieber's Journal of Language Modelling 2012 article, The case for the Journal's use of a CC-BY license, for  discussion.

This change applies retroactively to previously published TACL papers.

The instructions for how to prepare resubmissions have changed significantly.  Please see the "Revision and Resubmission Policy for TACL Submissions" section of the Author Guidelines.