[Updated 6/2024] [Older versions: 6/2018 6/2019 4/2021 3/2023 7/2023] Submissions to arXiv in the Computing and Language section (cs.CL) continue to rise dramatically, with pronounced seasonal spikes around pre-conference "quiet periods". What are these papers about? I grabbed all the cs.CL abstracts from the arXiv API and plotted a time series for 100 200 topics. The units on the y-axis are "tokens per month". Topics are sorted by their average date. NEW: [Topic Titles] are automatically generated by Llama3 8B and are not checked or curated. For example, the generated title for Topic 149 seems to be picking up on the word jokes. Source code is available on github.