[HPSG-L] Copy Editors sought for the Journal of Language Modelling

[Adam Przepiorkowski]

Dear All,

As the Journal of Language Modelling (http://jlm.pipan.waw.pl/) is
entering its 4th year of publication, we receive more and more
reasonable submissions and accept an increasing number of papers.
Despite offers from major scientific publishers, JLM remains
independent, community-driven and free for all – readers and authors
alike. We, the Editors, invest our time in this enterprise and we rely
on similarly voluntary help from the reviewers and other people
involved in the production of the journal. Of these “other people”,
Copy Editors are undoubtedly most important and most skilled: a good
JLM Copy Editor should not only be a native speaker of English (or
perhaps a near-native graduate of English Philology) with a good
command of the scientific style, but should also know some basics of
LaTeX or XeLaTeX and – preferably – have interest in theoretical or
computational linguistics. So far, JLM Copy Editors have been doing an
excellent job; to cite one of the authors of the latest issue, the
author of many papers published by more established scientific
publishers: “I never got such a good copy editing in my whole
scientific life...”.  

However, given the increased number of JLM submissions, and in order
to keep the workload of each Copy Editor reasonably small, we badly
need the help of a few more Copy Editors. Hence, the plea: if you are
a PhD student (PhD graduate, ambitious Masters student…) in
Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, or a related field, and you
satisfy the above description, please help us for a year or two (or
longer!). Similarly, if you are a professor with PhD students, please
consider encouraging them to help us – it is in the best interest of
the community to keep JLM independent and free for all.

Best regards,

Adam Przepiórkowski
(JLM Editor-in-Chief)

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Adam Przepiórkowski                          ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi
http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____ Computational Linguistics in Poland
http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ ___________ Journal of Language Modelling
http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____________ Linguistic Engineering Group
http://nkjp.pl/ _________________________ National Corpus of Polish