When I organized this Choosing words in computer-generated weather information presentation, idiolect forecasts Semiotic schemas: A framework for grounding situated language, cross-modal language in action and perception The emergence of compositional structures in language evolution, grammar induction perceptually grounded language games special issue, I originally suggested having it in Computational Linguistics, but I switched to Artificial Intelligence because many potential authors told me that they had no interest in publishing in Computational Linguistics, because it was not a journal that they and their research colleagues read.
they did not see Computational Linguistics as a venue that published papers about their kind of research.