NEJLT welcomes two types of submission: full papers, and shorter letters.
Full papers may be of any length, though we recommend about twelve pages (excluding references). There is no penalty for submitting shorter work and we encourage authors to be concise. If you need more space, it is available, but the longer a manuscript is, the higher the quality expectation.
NEJLT Letters relay a sharp and timely result, methodological note, or comment on the field. These are reviewed more quickly than full papers. Letters may be up to six pages (excluding references).
When submitting a full paper to NEJLT, authors should indicate what type it is, choosing from a pre-defined set. There are two goals of dividing papers into different types. The first is to encourage a broad range of submission types; there is a wide diversity in research in NLP. The second is to make sure that papers are reviewed appropriately, and so the paper type indicated prompts a review form designed for that type.
Not all scholarship falls neatly into one of these paper types. If your manuscript doesn’t fit these categories well, but is otherwise a good fit for NEJLT, please contact the editor.
The types available at NEJLT from 2020 are:
The focus of this paper type is new linguistic insight. It might take the form of an empirical study of some linguistic phenomenon, or of a theoretical result about a linguistically-relevant formal system.
This paper type typically matches the bulk of submissions at CL and NLP venues.
The contribution of a reproduction paper lies in analyses of and in insights into existing methods and problems—plus the added certainty that comes with validating previous results.
Papers in this track present a new language resource. This could be a corpus, but also could be an annotation standard, tool, and so on.
A position paper presents a challenge to conventional thinking or a futuristic new vision. It could open up a new area or novel technology, propose changes in existing research, or give a new set of ground rules.
A survey paper provides a structured overview of the literature to date on a specific topic that helps the reader understand the kinds of questions being asked about the topic, the various approaches that have been applied, how they relate to each other, and what further research areas they open up.
The review forms used for each type are given on the Review Process page. These paper types are originally from COLING 2018.
Submissions should be in English.
Articles in NEJLT should adhere to the NEJLT publication style. Authors are advised to consult and use the journal’s LaTeX template. The canonical version of the template is here, github.com/NEJLT/nejlt-template. You can also compose your paper directly using the Overleaf Template for NEJLT.
NEJLT aims for high-quality reviewing and papers. As such, papers must reach “minor edits” by the end of the 2nd review cycle.
Possible cycle outcomes are:
NEJLT aims for a rapid review cycle. The shortest possible time to a first decision is seven or more weeks, and we will provide a decision within eleven weeks for most manuscripts. There are progress updates along the way, visible via the submission site.
Journal extensions of prior work are not eligible for review. NEJLT submissions should be completely original work. We try to respect our reviewers' time by asking them to examine and give feedback on work that has not been published before; in return, we hope to provide positive and useful reviews.
Submissions must not be under peer review anywhere else for the first three months of review at NEJLT, at the discretion of the submission’s managing editor.
A paper may not be simultaneously under review through ACL Rolling Review and NEJLT. A paper that has or will receive reviews through ACL Rolling Review may not be submitted for review to NEJLT - rather, it should be committed to NEJLT through ACL Rolling Review.
Manuscripts available elsewhere as a preprint (e.g. on arXiv or an author’s private web page) are eligible for review at NEJLT, under most conditions; see our preprint policy.
The paper type indicated at submission will not be included in the final publication. The paper types are there to prompt appropriate reviewing and to enable a broad range of submissions, rather than to pigeonhole research.
The turnaround from first submission to first decision is at least seven weeks.
NEJLT supports “sticky” reviews: that is, you can include prior external reviews of a manuscript with your submission, from some venues. The journal offers accelerated review for articles recently (<1yr) reviewed at top-tier venues, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, AACL, ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
If authors submit a manuscript with prior reviews, two attachments should submitted as well as the revised manuscript: the reviews, and a letter addressing the reviews. To do this, attach the reviews and cover letter as “Comments to the editor” during submission, and we’ll handle the rest. It is recommended that, for each change or deficiency suggested in the reviews, authors either implement the change or discuss in the cover letter the recommendations and their choice not to implement it.
Authors of Article submissions are encouraged to include a translation of their abstract into a second language of their choice, as the second half of the abstract, separated from the first (English) abstract by a paragraph break.
Examples: in COLING format; in ACL format.
NEJLT issues is collated in yearly numbers. Individual articles are published online shortly after the camera-ready version is accepted. Articles and NEJLT issues are archived by LiU e-Press immediately and in the ACL Anthology at least annually.