The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE) has enjoyed another very successful year. The impact factor of the journal has increased for the third consecutive year, with the journal being listed among both Linguistics and Computer Science categories. Against the background of a record number of submissions, JNLE has, since 2016, been offering six 160-page issues per year, which by far exceeds the four 96-page issues offered less than 10 years ago!
While most of the submissions focus on original, unpublished research, we also welcome survey papers which provide an overview of a specific area of Natural Language Processing.
The book reviews are back. In addition to the regular biennial calls for special issues, we are also considering outstanding proposals at any time on a case-by-case basis.
Both the Industry Watch (IW) and Emerging Trends (ET) columns are inspirational and are indeed real assets to the journal (led by Robert Dale and Ken Church, respectively, who are master columnists). A regular JNLE issue will feature either an IW or an ET piece. I have already agreed a schedule with both Robert Dale and Ken Church. Although these columns will not appear in special issues, I can safely say that we are all very much looking forward to many excellent IW and ET pieces in the years to come.
I would like to welcome the new members of the journal Editorial Board: Ondřej Bojar, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Nasredine Semmar, Richard Sproat and Aline Villavicencio. I would like to seize this opportunity to thank all members of the Editorial Board for their valuable input. I would also like to introduce my new Editorial Assistants Martina Cotella and Arranna Fabri who along with Shiva Taslimipoor and Sara Može deserve only praise and the kindest of words for their quality work, dedication and commitment.
I am very much indebted to Patrick McCartan, Publishing Director and Brian Stone, Editor for Social Science and Humanities Journals at Cambridge University Press (CUP), for their unreserved support. I am also grateful to Caela Moffet, Production Editor, for her being so efficient as well as to Jesse Lund, CUP Marketing Executive, for promoting the journal.
As Executive Editor of the JNLE, I am deeply passionate about making the journal an even greater success. I shall not spare any efforts to make sure that JNLE offers high-quality, interesting and diverse content to the research community.
