Foreword to NEJLT Volume 8, 2022

Foreword to NEJLT Volume 8, 2022 Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen, Denmark; ld@itu.dk Abstract An introduction to the Northern European Journal of Language Technology in 2022 1 Introduction This introduces the second of two volumes of the Northern European Journal of Language Technology, or NEJLT, under a revised remit. We have expanded the journal to carry excellent peer-reviewed works on nat- ural language processing and computation linguistics from across the world. This has been a success and it is a delight to present these volumes 7 and 8. Of note, in addition to what we have come to expect of NLP venues, the also offers: • An editorial board of leading action editors from institutes across the world; • A focus on global languages; • The adoption of specific paper types, each with their own review form, to increase the chances that authors get a review that suits them, and that review does not become overfit to the more common types of submitted papers (Derczynski and Bender, 2021); • Moves to include NEJLT in the ACL Anthology; • Welcoming of reviews from previous venues to be submitted with papers, to reduce the number of rounds needed for decisions; • The addition of a “letter” format submission, for short contributions with rapid review. This has taken a significant of work, especially from action editors and reviewers, and much trust, especially on behalf of authors submitting their hard work to a newer venue. I am extremely grateful to those who have placed their energy and willpower into pushing NEJLT to where it is now. In 2022, NEJLT received seventeen submissions and published eight manuscripts. Of these eight, the lan- guages covered by their research included Abui, Al- gerian Judeo-Arabic, Bardi, Basque, Chintang, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Haiki, Hausa, Hungarian, Ik, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lezgi, Mandarin, Matsigenka, Meithei, Nuuchahnulth, Old Javanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tsova- Tush, Turkish, Wambaya, Yup’ik, and English. Publica- tion authors held affiliations in Germany, Israel, Nor- way, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. So if one is in any doubt as to NEJLT’s natural as not a Northern European journal but a global one, please look no further. The journal continues to offer fast review, free sub- mission, publication, and reading, and a top-quality board. We look forward to fair and fast review of even more exciting papers in 2023. To learn more, please visit www.nejlt.org. References Derczynski, Leon and Emily M Bender. 2021. To- wards better interdisciplinary science: Learnings from COLING 2018. Technical report, IT University of Copenhagen. Northern European Journal of Language Technology