TALIP Perspectives, Guest Editorial Commentary What Counts (and What Ought to Count)?

摘要

We agree on Publish or Perish, but do conference papers count as publications? How about articles in new journals (that aren't yet "indexed")? The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) recently started a second journal.1 One (of many) reasons for starting a second journal was a concern that some of us were hearing from our colleagues in Asia (and elsewhere) that, while conferences may count for publication in top universities in the United States, most universities have different rules. This is a serious problem for societies like the ACL: Basically, the vast majority of publications don't count. According to the ACL Anthology Network (AAN) [Radev et al. 2009, 2013]~2, the ACL has published 14k conference papers and just 750 journal articles. We need to make room for more journal articles or else researchers in our field won't be promoted as much as researchers in other fields.