Submissions to CL may be made in any of the following categories:
Papers,
Survey Articles,
Squibs and Discussions, and
Last Words. We also publish
Book Reviews.
The submission of an article to CL for refereeing means that it has not been copyrighted, has not been published in or submitted for publication to another refereed archival publication, and has not appeared in any conference or workshop proceedings. Substantially extended versions of conference papers are acceptable as submissions. The submitted manuscript must be available for peer review without restriction. If any version of the paper has appeared, or will appear, in any other publication, the details of such publication must be made known to the Editor at the time of submission. The final version of a paper tentatively accepted for publication must be accompanied by a Copyright Transfer Agreement signed by all of the authors or, in the case of a "work for hire," by the employer. This written transfer is necessary under the 1978 U.S. Copyright law.
Manuscripts for Computational Linguistics should be submitted electronically in the form of a PDF file, formatted single-spaced in accordance with our Style Guidelines, and beginning with an informative abstract of approximately 150-250 words. Manuscripts must be written in English. Please note that Computational Linguistics does not do double-blind review: authorship of submissions is known to the editorial board and the reviewers. As such, it is not necessary to anonymise the manuscript.
Paper submissions should be made through our electronic submission system. You will first need to register for a user account unless you have previously submitted to or reviewed for the journal. Remember to tick the "Author" box at the bottom of the form. If you already have an account, please log in to submit an article. Further instructions and help can be found here. If you have any problems not addressed by the above help page, you are welcome to email contact@cljournal.org for help.
When submitting an article, select "long paper" or "short paper" (as appropriate) for the "journal section" prompt on the first page, unless you are submitting to a special issue. In the latter case you should select the name of the special issue.
Survey Articles either provide a survey of the state of the art in a subfield of computational linguistics, allowing researchers to keep abreast of areas outside their main focus, and providing good starting points for those such as new doctoral students; or survey literature at the interfaces of the CL community, but not well represented in the CL journal, thus introducing relevant peripheral research to the journal's readership.
Prospective authors of survey articles should first submit a summary proposal: see our Guidelines for Submission of Survey Articles for more details. The proposal should be submitted through the electronic submission system. Follow the instructions as for submitting an article, but select "survey article" at the "journal section" prompt. If the proposal is accepted, the article itself will be submitted as a revised version of the same submission.
Please note: the electronic submission system is currently only used for article submissions and survey articles. See below for other categories of submissions.
This category includes short articles
reporting technical results, discussions of results, algorithms, or new
computational linguistic data or tools of interest to the journal
readership. Submissions should generally not exceed eight double-spaced
pages and should be submitted to:
Pierre Isabelle
National Research Council of Canada
Language Technologies Research Centre
283 Alexandre-Taché Boulevard
Gatineau, Québec, J8X 3X7 Canada
Tel: +1 819-934-2603; Télécopieur: +1 819-934-2607
E-mail: CL-squibs@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
www.iit-iti.nrc.cnrc.gc.ca
Robert Dale, CL Editor
Centre for Language Technology
Deaprtment of Computing
Faculty of Science
Building E6A Room 328
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
contact@cljournal.org
phone: +61 2 9850 6331
fax: +61 2 9850 9551 [Mark FAO Robert Dale]