About the Journal
The journal publishes articles on computational linguistics and natural language processing, primarily original research papers and reports. If they are properly motivated surveys, position papers and book reviews may also be accepted. The following list of topics gives an overview of typical research fields relevant to the JLCL community:
- Core technologies
- Computational morphology, parsing and tagging (theory and technology)
- Machine translation and machine aided translation
- Speech based systems and their applications
- Quantitative and data-oriented approaches
- Corpus linguistics
- Quantitative linguistics
- Application fields
- Information retrieval, knowledge management and related areas
- Text technology (markup languages, text mining)
- Computational lexicography
- Inter-/Transdisciplinary work
- CL/NLP for Digital Humanities
- Linguistic approaches to the semantic Web and ontology engineering
- Information Science and digital libraries
- Diachronic and comparative linguistics
- Curriculum development and teaching
We invite submissions related to any language while particularly encouraging submissions about German and its geographical and historical varieties.
JLCL is currently indexed in publons, dblp, and Google Scholar. The journal is also listed on the ACL Wiki. Further indexing efforts are under way.
Most cited articles as of December 2022:
- Hotho, A., Nürnberger, A., & Paaß, G. (2005). A Brief Survey of Text Mining. LDV Forum, 20(1), 19–62. (1404 times)
- Abu Shawar, B., & Atwell, E. (2007). Chatbots: Are they Really Useful? LDV Forum, 22(1), 29–49. (745 times)
- Biemann, C. (2005). Ontology Learning from Text: A Survey of Methods. LDV Forum, 20(2), 75–93 (270 times)
- Bloehdorn, S., Cimiano, P., Hotho, A., & Staab, S. (2005). An Ontology-based Framework for Text Mining. LDV Forum, 20(1), 87–112.(89 times)
- Riedl, M., & Biemann, C. (2012). Text segmentation with topic models. JLCL, 27(1), 47-69. (75 times)
- Biemann, C. et al. (2013). Scalable Construction of High-Quality Web Corpora. JLCL, 28(2), 23-59. (71 times)
- Chanier, T. et al. (2014). The CoMeRe corpus for French: structuring and annotating heterogeneous CMC genres. JLCL, 29(2), 1-30. (68 times)