NEJLT, the Northern European Journal of Language Technologyhttps://www.nejlt.org/, is looking for one or more volunteers to act as assistant editor(s) for the journal. What is NEJLT? NEJLT is a gold open-access journal on language technology and computational linguistics research with a global focus. We explicitly welcome submissions from anywhere in the world and on any language; if a paper would be suitable for a *ACL conference, it is suitable for NEJLT. Papers published in NEJLT also appear on the ACL Anthology.

The motivation for NEJLThttps://www.nejlt.org/about/ in its current form is, in a nutshell, to offer an additional publication venue outside the usual conference cycles with a journal-style review process and fast turnaround times. Who is NEJLT looking for? As an assistant editor for NEJLT, your task would be to help with:

* finding and contacting suitable action editors when a new submission is made * identifying submissions that require attention from action editors and sending out reminders * checking camera-ready versions before publication * advertising newly published papers on social media

Finding, contacting, and recruiting suitable volunteers, such as those who can take over a new submission as action editor, is currently the most time-consuming task and the journal’s biggest bottleneck. All of this is currently handled by me in my role as the elected NEALT editor-in-chief, but after 21 months of running the journal, it is clear to me that NEJLT will not work in its intended form without spreading the load across more people. Therefore, I am looking for motivated volunteers who like to improve the journal’s operations together with me. How active is NEJLT? Between January 1st and September 30th of 2025, NEJLT has handled 18 submissions. Out of these submissions:

* 2 are currently still awaiting their first decision * 2 were desk-rejected (wrong template/out of scope) * 2 received a reject decision after reviews * 1 was withdrawn by the authors * 10 received a decision of major or minor edits * 1 was published

The average time until a first decision (not counting desk rejections, withdrawn papers, or revisions) in this period was 78.5 days. However, the variance here is rather high: the quickest decision was taken after 39 days, while the longest took 190 days. This is mainly due to delays in assigning action editors and reviewers, and is also the reason I have not more actively advertised the journal in the past two years. I might be interested in volunteering, what do I do? If you are interested in volunteering for NEJLT, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail! I am happy to answer any questions you might have or arrange a Zoom call to discuss this further.

Please share this information with anyone who might be interested! You can also share it via this post on our website: https://www.nejlt.org/post/asst-editor-wanted/

Best regards, Marcel Bollmann

-- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/