Computational Linguistics
Last updated ISSN 0891-2017
Computational Linguistics is published by Association for Computational Linguistics in computer science. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Computational Linguistics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Topic Modeling
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Algorithms and Data Compression
- semigroups and automata theory
Key facts
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0891-2017, 1530-9312 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,756 |
| Publishing since | 1980 |
| Journal website | mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&ti |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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