Dear All,
As the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language Modelling ( https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/), I would like to cordially invite you to submit HPSG- and LFG-related papers to JLM. When we started JLM in 2012, we expected that such submissions might be the majority of JLM submissions, but this is definitely not the case: we often get more papers related to finite-state methods, neural network modelling, dependency approaches, categorial grammars, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Optimality Theory and Minimalism (for example, the last special issue, 9(1), features a paper by Noam Chomsky). In years 2013–2020, we published 8 LFG-related papers and only 5 HPSG-related papers, despite the fact that rejection rate in these areas has been very low during this period – we simply get very few submissions concerned with these two theories.
So I would like to encourage both communities to submit to JLM. Submissions may be related to earlier publications in HPSG or LFG proceedings, but they must substantially go beyond the content of such prior publications and they must be of journal quality. Each submission is reviewed by three peers, so even if the paper does not make it to JLM, the authors usually get many useful comments. Each published paper is carefully proofread and typeset, so the final quality of JLM publications is – in my opinion – much higher than that of papers in journals published by big publishing houses (where, in my experience, typesetters introduce many more problems than they solve). JLM has the Diamond Open Access model – it's completely free for both authors and readers. Also, JLM is indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH Plus, etc., which might matter for the evaluation by national science funding bodies.
We – JLM editors – very much hope to see many more HPSG and LFG sumbmissions in the future!
Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski
P.S. Because of its Diamond Open Access model, much of the work in JLM – including all work by JLM editors – is done on voluntary basis. We are constantly looking for copyeditors – if you are a (near-)native speaker of English and know some LaTeX, please consider helping us for a year or two. Such voluntary cooperation with JLM looks great on the CV of young researchers (including PhD students) in linguistics and computational linguistics!