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The Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics fills a double gap, on both national and international side. In the editorial panorama of the Italian scientific community, after the experience of Linguistica Computazionale, founded in 1981 by Antonio Zampolli and no longer published since 2006, an authoritative forum to represent the different souls of Computational Linguistics in Italy has completely disappeared. Today, as witnessed by the foundation of the AILC, which brings together the entire Italian community operating in the sector, the national panorama has changed profoundly, the research groups dealing with Computational Linguistics are numerous, extend over the whole territory and operate both in the humanistic and computer science areas. This makes even stronger the need for a journal that is the expression of the plurality of voices within the newly established association.

Also on the national side, IJCoL fills a gap that has been evident for too long compared to similar initiatives in other European countries. Think, for example, of the tradition and role that have journals such as Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) for the French community, Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN) for the Spanish community, or Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) for the German community.

On the international side, IJCoL intends to contribute to increase the presence of journals in the Computational Linguistics sector, which at the moment remains small. This effort is even more motivated and prolific considering the remarkable reputation and international visibility that Italian research has earned, over time, in this field.

We would like IJCoL to be a tool for the publication of quality results, obtained with methodological rigor, also because contributions often struggle to find adequate space in other contexts, either because of the limited publishing opportunities, or because important results concerning the Italian language do not always attract adequate interests at an international level. A journal that corresponds to an open discussion space, participated also by young researchers, in which the sharing of experiences, theoretical and experimental results feeds a constant process of comparison, with the awareness of the complexity of the scientific and technological challenges that Computational Linguistics is called to face today.

Publishing Topics

IJCoL proposes itself as an updated discussion forum around Computational Linguistics inspired by different perspectives, with the aim of feeding synergies between studies related to different areas of automatic language treatment: from those that share with Computational Linguistics methods and paradigms of analysis, such as computer science and artificial intelligence, or those that share with it the object of study, i.e. languages and language in their different manifestations (such as linguistics, Italian linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, philology), to those amplified by the role of linguistic resources and technologies, for the access and management of their documental heritage. Particular attention will be paid on the one hand to cognitive neuroscience, in which computational modelling has always played a central role, and on the other to the contribution of Computational Linguistics within the wider field of Digital Humanities, which has a long tradition at national level and is now in full-growth.

The journal intends therefore to cover a broad spectrum of topics that revolve around language and computation, addressed from different perspectives that include but are not limited to:

  • Automatic treatment of language (written and spoken),

  • Automatic language learning,

  • Computational models of language, cognition and linguistic variation,

  • Acquisition of knowledge from texts,

  • Construction of linguistic resources,

  • Development of infrastructure for interoperability and integration of language resources and technologies,

  • Applications of automatic language processing, such as Information Extraction, Question Answering, automatic summation and machine translation.

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Since 2016, IJCoL is included in the list “Class A” rated journals recognized by ANVUR for the non-bibliometric Area 10 “Scienze dell’antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche” (Antiquities, philology, literary studies, art history), sector 10/G1 “Glottologia e Linguistica” (Glottology and linguistics).

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