Athena International Publishing regrets to announce that as of today the journal Natural Language Processing Research will be discontinued. Despite ongoing efforts to expand the Editorial Board and revise the editorial strategy aimed at attracting more submissions, the journal never achieved a regular submission flow since transferring from Atlantis Press in 2022 as an unindexed open access journal in a highly competitive field. Ownership of the journal has been returned to the Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor Kan Li, although no concrete plans currently exist for continuing the publication. Following this decision, Natural Language Processing Research is no longer open for new submissions effective immediately. The archive of published articles will remain available on the Athena platform, as well as in the e-Depot of the National Library of The Netherlands. All metrics for the journal will continue to be updated where relevant.

Natural Language Processing Research Re-Launched and Open for Submissions

September 15th, 2022

Natural Language Processing Research has been re-launched by Athena International Publishing and is now open for new submissions. Since its launch in 2019 the journal has been published by Atlantis Press which was acquired by Springer Nature at the beginning of 2021. Two double issues were published in 2020 and 2021, but after the acquisition of Atlantis Press it was decided to discontinue the journal and transfer its ownership back to the Founding Editor. As of 2023 (Volume 2), Athena International Publishing is the new publisher of Natural Language Processing Research which will continue as a half-yearly publication with issues scheduled in June and December. All articles published in the journal before this transfer will also be migrated to the Athena platform. Kan Li will continue as the journal's Editor-in-Chief while the Editorial Board remains largely unchanged. Natural Language Processing Research is now open for submissions which will be temporarily accepted via email until the setup of the new online submission system is completed. For more information on how to submit an article to this journal, please click here.