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Editorial Editorial A few months ago we were pleased to announce that ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing will merge, to be published jointly as the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, starting January 2014. The time has now come to write an editorial for the final issue of ACM TSLP. ACM TSLP was founded 10 years ago, on the initiative of Kishore Papineni and Hermann Ney, who also served as the first editors-in-chief of these transactions. When ACM TSLP was established, the intent was to develop an offering that would complement, rather than compete with, other excellent journals in the area of speech and language processing. In particular, ACM TSLP aimed to target the growing areas of research on human language processing that have a strong empirical basis, with an emphasis on the design, development, and evaluation of speech- and text-processing systems, along with their associated theory. Over the years, the transactions has published a wide range of articles, covering the whole spectrum of application areas in language processing, including automatic speech recognition, human-machine dialog systems, machine translation, question answering, sentiment analysis, and text summarization. One difficulty faced by ACM TSLP - and by other journals in this research area is a decrease in the proportion of research submitted as journal articles. The area of Computational Linguistics is dominated (in terms of citations) by papers published in conferences and workshops. In fact, although the quality has been very high, the quantity of submissions to ACM TSLP has barely sustained a quarterly publication. The possibility of joining forces with a highly reputed and well established journal such as IEEE TASLP was hence taken as an excellent opportunity to strengthen both journals. In fact, the language area is a recent addition to IEEE TASLP, and the journal does not yet have a strong profile in the language processing community. ACM TSLP has a stronger profile and Editorial Board membership in this area. However, ACM TSLP is not connected to an ACM conference, while IEEE TASLP is closely linked to ICASSP and to a number of workshops, such as ASRU and SLT, which also cover the language processing area. We are sad to end the independent ACM publication and wish to thank the ACM Publication Board and Staff for their great support over all these years. It has been a privilege and great pleasure working with you! We are also excited to start the new joint endeavor with IEEE, with the strong hope that the two merged journals will be a stronger venue for authors and further increase the impact of speech and language processing in the scientific community. Marcello Federico Steve Renals Editors-in-Chief c 2013 ACM 1550-4875/2013/12-ART14 $15.00 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556529 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP) Association for Computing Machinery

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Editorial A few months ago we were pleased to announce that ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing will merge, to be published jointly as the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, starting January 2014. The time has now come to write an editorial for the final issue of ACM TSLP. ACM TSLP was founded 10 years ago, on the initiative of Kishore Papineni and Hermann Ney, who also served as the first editors-in-chief of these transactions. When ACM TSLP was established, the intent was to develop an offering that would complement, rather than compete with, other excellent journals in the area of speech and language processing. In particular, ACM TSLP aimed to target the growing areas of research on human language processing that have a strong empirical basis, with an emphasis on the design, development, and evaluation of speech- and text-processing systems, along with their associated theory. Over the years, the transactions has published a wide range of articles, covering the whole spectrum of application areas in language processing, including automatic speech recognition, human-machine dialog systems, machine translation, question answering, sentiment analysis, and text summarization. One difficulty faced by ACM TSLP - and by other journals in this research area is a decrease in the proportion of research submitted as journal articles. The area of Computational Linguistics is dominated (in terms of citations) by papers published in conferences and workshops. In fact, although the quality has been very high, the quantity of submissions to ACM TSLP has barely sustained a quarterly publication. The possibility of joining forces with a highly reputed and well established journal such as IEEE TASLP was hence taken as an excellent opportunity to strengthen both journals. In fact, the language area is a recent addition to IEEE TASLP, and the journal does not yet have a strong profile in the language processing community. ACM TSLP has a stronger profile and Editorial Board membership in this area. However, ACM TSLP is not connected to an ACM conference, while IEEE TASLP is closely linked to ICASSP and to a number of workshops, such as ASRU and SLT, which also cover the language processing area. We are sad to end the independent ACM publication and wish to thank the ACM Publication Board and Staff for their great support over all these years. It has been a privilege and great pleasure working with you! We are also excited to start the new joint endeavor with IEEE, with the strong hope that the two merged journals will be a stronger venue for authors and further increase the impact of speech and language processing in the scientific community. Marcello Federico Steve Renals Editors-in-Chief c 2013 ACM 1550-4875/2013/12-ART14 $15.00 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556529

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