Computational Linguistics is a quarterly peer-reviewed
open-access academic journal in the field
of computational linguistics.
It is published by MIT Press for the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
The journal includes articles, squibs and
book reviews.
It was established as the American Journal
of Computational Linguistics in 1974 by David
Hays and was originally published only on
microfiche until 1978.
George Heidorn transformed it into a print
journal in 1980, with quarterly publication.
In 1984 the journal obtained its current title.
It has been open-access since 2009.
According to the Journal Citation Reports,
the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.319.
== Editors-in-chief ==
The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:
David G. Hays (1974–1978)
George Heidorn (1980–1982)
James F. Allen (1982–1993)
Julia Hirschberg (1993–2003)
Robert Dale (2003–2014)
Paola Merlo (2014–2018
Hwee Tou Ng (2018-present
