Computational Linguistics, established in 1974, is the official flagship journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). It is a leading venue for scholarly work spanning computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related areas in the computational study of language.
The journal publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research advancing our understanding of language through computation. It welcomes strong contributions in theoretical modeling, empirical investigation, system design, and scalable methods for language representation, generation, and understanding, with particular emphasis on challenging aspects of language modeling, emerging computational paradigms (including large-scale language models), and research bridging theoretical, empirical, linguistic, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
To ensure timely, high-quality dissemination, Computational Linguistics maintains a rigorous yet efficient editorial process. As of 2025, the average time to first decision is 16.5 days (including desk rejections) and 55.0 days (excluding desk rejections).
All articles are freely available online, published electronically by MIT Press (E-ISSN: 1530-9312) with immediate open access. Print issues (ISSN: 0891-2017) are released quarterly and distributed globally.
Original papers may also be presented at ACL-sponsored conferences such as ACL and EMNLP, with select works highlighted during these events.
The current Editor-in-Chief is Wei Lu (since 2024). Meet the full editorial team here.
We are pleased to share that papers published in the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal can now also be presented at AAAI through its Journal Track initiative. Please see the details here: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/journal-track-call/ .
To be eligible for presentation (oral or poster, etc.) at EMNLP 2025, CL papers must satisfy both of the following conditions:
* receive an accepted decision by July 16th
* with the final version submitted (and approved to be sent to MIT Press) by July 30th
Exclusions:
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Authors Registration Fee Details: Author-Registered Papers (for presentation) Industrial/Non-Academic, Academic or Student
At least one author of each accepted paper to an ACL conference (ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, or EMNLP) must register their paper to present at the conference. Exceptions to the statement above: Accepted Finding that are not being presented. All findings being presented must register their paper. Workshop shared tasked papers do not need to register their paper to present.
Note all Paper registration fees are based on actual hard cost to the conference - In person registration fees reflects the attendees’ hard costs of food & beverage (breaks, welcome reception and social dinner) along with meeting space, av or poster presentation equipment). Virtual attendees’ registration fees reflect the virtual costs (internet, AV, content management, platforms).
