COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS JOURNAL (Julia Hirschberg)
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	Report for Computational Linguistics (September 2000)

			Julia Hirschberg, Editor


Forty seven manuscripts were submitted to CL in 1999.  Mean time from
receipt of manuscript to first decision was 140 days, down from 184 in
1998.  At this time, 52 papers have been submitted to the journal in
2000.  Only two of these submissions are in our new and experimental
short paper category, suggesting that this category may not be as
useful an innovation as we had expected.* Twenty three of the rest are
submissions to the special issue on Anaphora and Ellipsis resolution
(guest editors Ruslan Mitkov, Shalom Lappin and Bran Boguraev). One
special issue was published in 1999: Finite State Methods in NLP,
edited by Lauri Karttunen and Kemal Oflazer, in the March 2000 issue
(CL 26-1).

Type of first decision made for 1999 submissions is shown below, and
compared with previous years' reports at the time of the annual
meeting in the next calendar year (since the annual meeting is later
this year, more decisions have been made for 1999 papers):


	Disposition of Manuscripts as of NAACL Meeting, September, 2000



			1999	      1998    	  1997	        1996

Submitted 	          47            48          69           57
Accepted                  14		 9          21            9
Rejected                   7		 7	    15           15
Resubmission 	          21             4          27           26
No decision yet	       	   3            28	     5            6
Withdrawn                  2  		 	     1            1




The distribution of 2000 submissions by country (by first author's
location) was as follows:

        Area    Country         Total

        ASIA
                Japan           3
		Korea		3
                New Zealand 	2
		Singapor	1
		
		Total		9

      EUROPE
                France          5
                Germany         1
                Greece          2
		Italy		1
                Netherlands     2
		Russia		2
                Spain           1
                Switzerland     1
		Turkey		1
                UK              8

                 Total          24



        NORTH AMERICA

                USA             12
                Canada          1

		Total		13

        SOUTH AMERICA		
	
		Brazil		1


* Note that time to decision for our first short paper was 53 days;
the second has just been submitted.