Which journals publish papers on spoken dialog systems?

Gregory S. Aist

Recently I was preparing some results in the area of spoken dialog systems for publication as a journal article. Looking for a suitable venue, I decided to find out in a (somewhat) systematic way which journals publish research in spoken dialog.

I used Google Scholar (at google.com) and entered the phrase spoken dialog with no quotes around it. I then looked through approximately the first thousand entries returned. The precise numbers were the first 997 out of 9510 total results returned on September 21, 2005. I added journal titles to an initially empty list of titles, as follows. If an article was published in a conference proceedings or in a book, I passed it by; for articles in journals I added the journal title to the end of a list of titles. (If of course the title wasn't already on the list.) Thus the journals towards the front of the list are in some sense more prototypical representatives of "journals that publish research in spoken dialog" then are the journals towards the end of the list.

The final list contained approximately thirty (30) distinct journals. As a courtesy to the reader I have collected the urls for these journals as well. With no further ado I present to you The List.

The List

International Journal of Speech Technology: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1381-2416
Computational Linguistics: http://www.aclweb.org/cl/
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tap/
Computer Speech and Language: http://ees.elsevier.com/csl/
Speech Communication: http://ees.elsevier.com/specom/
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: formerly called the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
http://repgrid.com/IJHCS/
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: http://asa.aip.org/jasa.html
IEEE Computer: www.computer.org/computer
Machine Translation: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0922-6567
Information Technology Letters: (I think this is actually a proceedings of a conference held in Japan called "Forum on Information Technology", but I couldn't tell for certain. It also might be the URL below.)
http://www.enformatika.org/journals/1305-2403/index.htm
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: http://www.computer.org/tpami/
Transactions of the Information Processing Society of Japan: http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/
Natural Language Engineering: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=NLE
Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan: http://www.asj.gr.jp/overview-en/index.html
IEEE Expert a/k/a IEEE Intelligent Systems: http://www.computer.org/pubs/expert/expert.htm
Discourse Processes: http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/dp/
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1387-2532
Knowledge-Based Systems (Susan Brennan): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09507051
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: three distinct parts (A,B,C) with different links
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigarch/can.html
Communications of the ACM: http://www.acm.org/pubs/cacm/
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research: http://www.jair.org/
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0924-1868
Journal of the International Phonetic Association: formerly "Le Maître Phonétique"
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/journal.html
Systems and Computers in Japan: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/51986
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0952813X.asp
Information Technology: Journal of Information Technology
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/index.html
Information Technology Journal
http://www.ansinet.org/c4p.php?j_id=itj
IBM Systems Journal: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/
Educational Technology and Society: http://www.ifets.info/
Journal of Computer Science and Technology: http://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/journal/
ACM Computing Surveys: http://www.acm.org/pubs/surveys/
Journal of Educational Psychology: http://www.apa.org/journals/edu/

There were also some journals that contained papers which weren't about spoken dialog, but contained a passing reference: Journal of Machine Learning Research (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/), European Journal of Social Psychology (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/1823), Cognitive Science (http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/about.html), The IEEE Region 8 (perhaps a local newsletter?), and International Journal on Digital Libraries (www.dljournal.org).

There is of course variation in how you spell spoken dialog / spoken dialogue. The first 100 items returned from a Google Scholar search on spoken dialogue on the same day as the rest of this study contained articles from those journals already on the list, as well as one article from Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (http://www.jstor.org/journals/1364503x.html). Incidentally, Philosophical Transactions has been published under that name since 1665, although I can't guarantee that the first few volumes contain any spoken dialog or spoken dialogue research. (Happy 340th birthday!)

Finally, if your favorite journal isn't on here, remember that this is only a snapshot of what was ranked high on Google at a particular moment in time. Perhaps if enough people cite your articles then the journals in which they appear will climb the charts as well.