Foreword to NEJLT Volume 8, 2022 (2022)

Abstract: An introduction to the Northern European Journal of Language Technology in 2022

## introduction this introduces the second of two volumes of the northern european journal of language technology, or nejlt, under a revised remit. we have expanded the journal to carry excellent peer-reviewed works on natural language processing and computation linguistics from across the world. this has been a success and it is a delight to present these volumes 7 and 8. of note, in addition to what we have come to expect of nlp venues, the also offers: this has taken a significant of work, especially from action editors and reviewers, and much trust, especially on behalf of authors submitting their hard work to a newer venue. i am extremely grateful to those who have placed their energy and willpower into pushing nejlt to where it is now. in 2022, nejlt received seventeen submissions and published eight manuscripts. of these eight, the languages covered by their research included abui, algerian judeo-arabic, bardi, basque, chintang, dutch, finnish, german, greek, haiki, hausa, hungarian, ik, indonesian, italian, japanese, korean, latin, lezgi, mandarin, matsigenka, meithei, nuuchahnulth, old javanese, polish, russian, spanish, swedish, tsova-tush, turkish, wambaya, yup'ik, and english. publication authors held affiliations in germany, israel, norway, sweden, the uk, and the usa. so if one is in any doubt as to nejlt's natural as not a northern european journal but a global one, please look no further. the journal continues to offer fast review, free submission, publication, and reading, and a top-quality board. we look forward to fair and fast review of even more exciting papers in 2023. to learn more, please visit www.nejlt.org .