Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (commonly abbreviated TACL) is an annual peer-reviewedopen-accessacademic journal that publishes papers in the fields of computational linguistics and natural language processing. It is published by MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). TACL offers a hybrid approach between journal-style and conference-style publication: papers must adhere to conference-style formatting requirements, but undergo journal-style review. Additionally, researchers whose papers are accepted for publication by the journal are given the option to present their work at various ACL-sponsored conferences.
TACL accepts submissions all year, with a deadline on the first of every month, and accepted papers are made available online as soon as they are ready. However, only one volume is published for any given year.[2] As of March 2024,[update] Its editors-in-chief are Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, and Dilek Hakkani-Tür.
TACL is a journal, but it incorporates aspects of the conference-style publications that dominate in computational linguistics and most other subdisciplines of computer science today. Papers must conform to a format similar to that of popular conferences in the field, including a shorter page limit than is typical in journals. However, they undergo a journal-style reviewing process: reviewers may issue a recommendation that the authors of a paper "revise and resubmit", an option not typically available for conference reviewers.[2] Researchers whose papers are accepted for publication by the journal have the option of presenting their work at an ACL-sponsored conference in the same or following year as when their paper is published.[1] Thus, TACL gives researchers benefits associated with both the conference and traditional journal styles of publication.[2]
