Editorial 30 Years of Academic Service

Around 30 years ago, the first issue of Literary & Linguistic Computing published six papers ranging from a test of authorship attribution (Morton, 1986) and Jane Austen’s style (Burrows, 1986) over meaning representation (Zadeh, 1986) and text processing in computational linguistics (Piotrowski, 1986), to a computational study of Sardinian (Griffiths, 1986) and a commented bibli-ography on lexicometric programmes (Lafon et al., 1986).1 Aside from a true demonstration of the main research fields which constituted Literary and Linguistic Computing at that time and the international character of computational research in the humanities—with authors coming from re-spectively Scotland, Australia, the USA, the USSR, the UK, and France—this issue also set the academic standards for the following 30 volumes of the Journal and beyond. 1 Peer-Review as an Academi