Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

This article is about the computational linguistics journal whose name is commonly abbreviated TACL. For other uses, see TACL.

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Discipline	Computational linguistics, Natural language processing
Language	English
Edited by	Aslı Çelikyılmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Publication details
History	2013–present
Publisher	MIT Press on behalf of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Frequency	Annual
Open access	Yes
License	CC-BY 4.0 [1]
Impact factor	10.9 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguist.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	2307-387X
OCLC  no.	999414071
Links
Journal homepage Online access Submission site

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (commonly abbreviated TACL) is an annual peer-reviewed open-access academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of computational linguistics and natural language processing. It is published by MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). TACL offers a hybrid approach between journal-style and conference-style publication: papers must adhere to conference-style formatting requirements, but undergo journal-style review. Additionally, researchers whose papers are accepted for publication by the journal are given the option to present their work at various ACL-sponsored conferences.

TACL accepts submissions all year, with a deadline on the first of every month, and accepted papers are made available online as soon as they are ready. However, only one volume is published for any given year. ^[2] As of March 2024, ^[update] Its editors-in-chief are Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, and Dilek Hakkani-Tür.

TACL is one of the most influential journals in its domain. According to Journal Citation Reports , in 2022 the journal ranked first out of 194 journals in the "linguistics" category and 11th out of 145 journals in the "computer science (artificial intelligence)" category, with an impact factor of 10.9. ^[3]

Format

TACL is a journal, but it incorporates aspects of the conference-style publications that dominate in computational linguistics and most other subdisciplines of computer science today. Papers must conform to a format similar to that of popular conferences in the field, including a shorter page limit than is typical in journals. However, they undergo a journal-style reviewing process: reviewers may issue a recommendation that the authors of a paper "revise and resubmit", an option not typically available for conference reviewers. ^[2] Researchers whose papers are accepted for publication by the journal have the option of presenting their work at an ACL-sponsored conference in the same or following year as when their paper is published. ^[1] Thus, TACL gives researchers benefits associated with both the conference and traditional journal styles of publication. ^[2]

See also

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics

References

1. "Submissions". Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics Submission Site. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
2. "About the Journal". Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics Submission Site. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
3. "Journal Citation Reports - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics Profile" . Journal Citation Reports . Clarivate . Retrieved 2024-03-12.

External links

• Official website
• Official submission site