The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics

PBML was a journal (published since 1964 till 2024) with fast, fair and constructive peer review. It was recognized as a source of high quality research from the broad field of computational linguistics, both in its scientific and engineering side, including machine translation, corpus linguistics, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc. PBML was especially focused on original papers about dependency grammar and open source tools for machine translation.

Recent Issues

PBML was traditionally published in print edition twice a year (regularly in April and October). Starting from PBML 87 (2007), all articles were published electronically as well: you can download PDF files of either the entire issues or single contributions. Starting from PBML 89 (2008), all articles had assigned DOI identifiers. ISSN of the print version was 0032-6585 and of the online version 1804-0462. PBML 120 was the last printed version. PBML 122 was the last issue.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic

Editorial Board Members

Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli", (ILC-CNR), Italy

Walther von Hahn, Institut für Germanistik I , Germany

Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic

Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czech Republic

Erhard Hinrichs, Universität Tübingen, Germany

Phillip Koehn, Johns Hopkins University, USA; University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jaroslav Peregrin, Charles University, Czech Republic

Patrice Pognan, Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales, France

Alexandr Rosen, Charles University, Czech Republic

Hans Uszkoreit, Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany

Technical Editors

Martin Popel

Editorial Assistant

Jana Hamrlová

End of Operations

The PBML journal has closed its operations in December, 2024. The information below is provided only for archival and historic reasons. You may learn about the history of PBML in the editorial of PBML 122.

Review Process

The submitted manuscripts are processed by a reviewing procedure, involving at least two independent, anonymous and conflict-of-interest-free reviewers for each submission. At least one of reviewers is a member of the international Editorial Board. The second reviewer is appointed by the Editorial Board depending on the topic of the submitted paper. Reviewers are instructed to give detailed comments on the paper, including an assessment of the paper's strengths and weaknesses, its degree of originality and novelty, and to indicate to which subgroup of the research community the results presented in the paper are interesting.

Editorial Process and Copyright

If a contribution of any type is accepted for publication, the technical editors (copyeditors) will work with the author(s) to bring the appearance of the article to the high standard used by the journal. Cooperation of the authors is essential for timely publication within the journal schedule. Copyeditors have the right to edit the submitted LaTeX source to make sure the appearance is according to the guidelines, but substantial changes to appearance will be consulted with the authors.

The copyright and the ownership of the contributions (long articles, short articles, book reviews, short book notices, special articles, etc.) remains with the authors, except that certain distribution and other rights are transferred to the publishers and the published articles are available under Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). See the copyright release agreement (odt, doc) that the corresponding author has to sign in the name of all authors.