''Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics'' (commonly abbreviated ''TACL'') is an annual

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

open-access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

that publishes papers in the fields of

computational linguistics Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

and

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...

. It is published by

MIT Press The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press publishes a number of academic journals and has been a pioneer in the Open Ac ...

for the

Association for Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing. Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language proce ...

(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. 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 ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publication by Clarivate. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection. It provides information about academic journals in the natur ...

'', in 2022 the journal ranked first out of 194 journals in the "

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

" category and 11th out of 145 journals in the "

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

(

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

)" category, with an

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ...

of 10.9.

Format

''TACL'' is a journal, but it incorporates aspects of the conference-style publications that dominate in computational linguistics and most other subdisciplines of

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. 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. Thus, ''TACL'' gives researchers benefits associated with both the conference and traditional journal styles of publication.

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