Last Words: What's the Future for

You are reading the last issue of Computational Linguistics that will appear in printed hardcopy form. The beginning of 2009 heralds a new era for the journal in at least two major respects: As of the first issue of volume 35, Computational Linguistics will be published only electronically, and it will be open access. As editor, I’d like to take this opportunity to use these last words that will tumble from the presses to provide some explanation of the changes afoot at the journal, and to offer some thoughts on where this might take us in the future.