''Computational Linguistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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in the field of computational linguistics. It is published by

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for the

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(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

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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 2017

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of 1.319.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been

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: *

David G. Hays David Glenn Hays (November 17, 1928 – July 26, 1995) was a linguist, computer scientist and social scientist best known for his early work in machine translation and computational linguistics. Career overview David Hays graduated from Harvard ...

(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-present)

References

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Historical information
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