Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

TACL submission guideslines have been updated to indicate that AACL has been added to the list of conferences  (previously consisting of ACL/EACL/NAACL/EMNLP) for which:

• presentation (oral or poster) of TACL papers can be an option
• rejected/reviewed submissions may not be resubmitted to TACL for a given time period.

TACL has completed its switch to a new, professionally-supported host for its submission system and upgraded to OJS version 2.4.8.  Submission, review, and decision processing should all be back to normal.

One visible change, which should improve delivery and receipt of system emails: emails sent from the system will no longer be "spoofed" to appear to come from the user, but will have the "from" address set to "office@transacl.org"; however, the "reply-to" field will be set to the email address of the user generating the email, so mailers that respect the reply-to field will send replies to the correct person. For example, system emails that used to appear to be from "editors-in-chief@transacl.org" or "llee@cs.cornell.edu" will now appear to be from "office@transacl.org", but replies to said system emails should still go to the valid email addresses "editors-in-chief@transacl.org" or "llee@cs.cornell.edu" as appropriate. 

To be eligible for presentation (oral or poster) at ACL 2020, TACL papers must satisfy both of the following conditions: first, be accepted with a decision type (a) by March 9, 2020; and second, have their final version both submitted to TACL and approved by the Action Editor by April 17, 2020. (To allow ample time for the technical approval by the Action Editor, we suggest submitting the final version by 10 business days prior, that is, April 3, 2020.)

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

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!

To be eligible for presentation (oral or poster) at EMNLP 2019, TACL authors must satisfy both of the following conditions: first, the submission must be accepted (decision type (a)) by July 25, 2019; second, the final version must be submitted and have passed technical approval by the Action Editor by September 5, 2019. To allow ample time for the approval, we suggest submitting the final version by 10 business days prior, that is, August 22, 2019.

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

[Italics denote important additions made May 8, 2019]

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.

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.

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.