Reminder: Call for Papers – Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL, Computational Linguistics (deadline: 27 November 2026): www.aclweb.org/portal/conte... #CLjournal #NLP #NLProc

🎉 Review time for the CL Journal: "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)." So it is less than 2 months!

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❓Without looking at the CL journal website, can you guess how long does it take now for a submission to our journal to be reviewed? 1️⃣ Less than 20 days 2️⃣ Less than 2 months 3️⃣ 2months+ but < 1 years 4️⃣One year or more

❓Without looking at the CL journal website, can you guess how long does it take now for a submission to our journal to be reviewed? 1️⃣ Less than 20 days 2️⃣ Less than 2 months 3️⃣ 2months+ but < 1 years 4️⃣One year or more

While we're waiting for the next issue of the CL journal, feel free to check the upcoming articles, using the @mitpress.bsky.social online early: direct.mit.edu/coli/online-... #CLJorunal #NLProc

For those interested in grammars, esp. weak generative capacity, this squib has some novel insights. It demonstrates that the proofs given in prominent and well-established weak generative capacity arguments for natural language are flawed: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #CLJournal #NLProc

CL journal has long accepted some articles as "squib". In absolute terms, an squib is "A short, witty, or satirical piece of writing". That is almost what we expect. Squibs is reserved for very short articles that constitute more than programmatic versions of regular papers. (1/3) #CLJournal #NLProc

Have you wondered if personally identifiable information removal techniques truly protect privacy in real-world scenarios? The authors of this article suspect that reported success of these attacks is largely overestimated. Read what they find here: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... @ivanhabernal.bsky.social

Real-world tasks often involve complex, multi-step instructions that remain challenging for current NLP systems. This article provides a comprehensive survey that systematically analyses the landscape of complex instruction understanding & processing: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #CLJournal #NLProc

How do LLMs compare against other semantic measure algorithms in assessing semantic relation (SR) strength? Are LLMs’ evaluations of SRs influenced by exposure to datasets during training? Can SR dataset characteristics influence the performance of LLMs?Answers in: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #CLJournal

If you're an author of an upcoming paper in the CL journal, please make yourself known (follow us or make your affiliation and field clear in your profile), so we can tag you when your paper is out! Thanks! #NLPRoc #CLJournal PS. Ok, the photo is from the past, but hope it gets your attention 🙃

Mis- and disinformation continue to propagate online & cause significant harm due to the rapid evolution of such content. Out-of-Distribution generalisation datasets can be very difficult to build & this is the major focus of this paper: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #CLJournal @ioverho.eurosky.social

Call for papers for our Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics: submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cl... (Submission deadline: 27 November, 2026) #CLJournal #NLProc

Have you noticed that preference datasets in reinforcement learning/DPO are not fully utilised? This article proposes a framework called Vote-based Preference Optimisation that leverages user voting data to better align language models with diverse subjective preferences: doi.org/10.1162/COLI...

Do you know what Multimodal OXYmorons are? If you're curious, read this research, which introduces this concept by constructing and communicating meaning through the interplay of multiple modalities: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #CLjournal #NLProc @elidp.bsky.social

This paper introduces a wide range of encodings for constituent parsing as sequence adaptations of parsers from other paradigms that had not previously been cast under the sequence-labeling framework. Code: github.com/Polifack/CoD... and paper:https://doi.org/10.1162/COLI.a.603 @carlosg.bsky.social

How do prompt language and cultural framing influence model responses and their alignment with human values in different countries? Answer to this and more insights at: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #NLProc #CLjournal @aylart.bsky.social

🏆The Computational Linguistics High Impact Paper Award recognises papers published in Computational Linguistics within the past 3–5 years that have already demonstrated exceptional scholarly impact. Congratulations to the authors of doi.org/10.1162/coli... #NLProc #CLjournal @chrmanning.bsky.social

🏆 2026 Computational Linguistics Distinguished Reviewer Awards: It aims to highlight and promote high standards in peer review and to acknowledge reviewers whose contributions have had a meaningful impact on the quality of our journal. Congratulations to our 2026 awardees! #NLProc #CLjournal

The ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACL Dissertation Award) recognises three honourable mentions: Dennis Ulmer, Shen-Chieh Lin, and Haoran Xu. Congratulations to all three for this achievement! #NLproc #CLJournal @dnnslmr.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the winner of the ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACL Dissertation Award)! Congratulations, Verna Dankers! @vernadankers.bsky.social #NLproc #CLJournal

Don't forget to attend the "ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026" session on Mon Jul 6 9:00-9:30 AM (Location: Promenade) in the "Session 8: Oral/Poster Session D" /w 3 honorable mentions and 1 winner presented by Jason Eisner and Mohit Bansal: 2026.aclweb.org/program/

At ACL 2025 in Austria, Prof. McKeown was awarded the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award. She shared trajectories of four areas of her research: language generation, text summarization, social media analysis, and multimodal analysis of artwork. #CLJournal #NLProc @aclmeeting.bsky.social

The second issue of Computational Linguistics Journal (Volume 52, Issue 2, June 2026) is finally out! Read it here: direct.mit.edu/coli/issue/5.... We'll introduce all the articles one by one soon. #CLJournal #NLProc

🔊CFP for Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics: submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cl... ⏰Deadline: 27 November, 2026 #CLjournal #NLP #NLproc

🏆We are proud to announce that the Computational Linguistics Journal impact factor is now 13.4! This ranks it 13 out of 210 journals in Computer Science-Artificial Intelligence, 7 out of 185 in Computer Science-Interdisciplinary Applications, 1️⃣out of 312 in Linguistics! #NLProc #NLP

CL Journal has over 50 years of history in the field. While the field is moving, some of the articles from decades ago provide perspective and still relevant content. What do you think of these articles from 20 and 40 years ago? (2006 and 1986) & yes, they used to come in paper format too! #NLProc

While we're waiting for the next issue of the CL Journal, you can get early access to upcoming articles here: direct.mit.edu/coli/online-... #NLProc #CLJournal

Like humans, LLMs can be right for the wrong reasons. They can also be wrong for the wrong reasons. Anthropocentric bias has gone largely unexamined, posing a serious obstacle to the objective assessment of LLM capacities. Read more at doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #NLProc #CLJournal @raphaelmilliere.com

Interpretability provides a toolset for understanding how and why LMs behave in certain ways. This survey proposes a perspective on interpretability research grounded in causal mediation analysis: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #NLProc #CLJournal @jannikbrinkmann.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social

How Can We Effectively Expand the Vocabulary of LLMs with 0.01GB of Target Language Text? This article explores a very important question for low-resource languages by experimenting with various techniques across 10 languages. A must-read at:https://doi.org/10.1162/COLI.a.581 @gucciiiii.bsky.social