''Computational Linguistics'' is a quarterly

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in the field of computational linguistics. It is published by

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for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The journal includes articles, squibs and book reviews. It was established as the ''American Journal of Computational Linguistics'' in 1974 by David Hays and was originally published only on microfiche until 1978. George Heidorn transformed it into a print journal in 1980, with quarterly publication. In 1984 the journal obtained its current title. It has been open-access since 2009. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 7.778.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: * David G. Hays (1974–1978) * George Heidorn (1980–1982) * James F. Allen (1982–1993) * Julia Hirschberg (1993–2003) * Robert Dale (2003–2014) * Paola Merlo (2014–2018) * Hwee Tou Ng (2018–2023) * Wei Lu (2024–Present)

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