Publishing datasets as a journal articles We have created an NLP dataset out of written texts of a certain group of people.
I thought perhaps we can publish the dataset as a journal paper (the data is an external appendix to the article and published somewhere on the internet).
Data in Brief and Nature Scientific Data publish such articles. However Data in Brief charges $600 and Nature has a very high quality expectancy.
Are there other journals where we can publish our NLP data sets?
If I search on Web of Science for TOPIC: (natural language processing) AND DOCUMENT TYPES: (Data Paper), then I find various results from Scientific Data (which you mentioned already), one from BMC Bioinformatics, one from Bioinformatics, and one from the International Journal of Robotics Research.

BMC Bioinformatics asks for APCs of $2490.00, but offers waivers on a case-by-case basis.

Bioinformatics: I did not find any information about APCs (though, according to their Instructions, they charge for OA licenses, for colour figures, and for excess pages).

International Journal of Robotics Research: I did not find any information about APCs - but to be sure, have a careful look at their submission guidelines.


By the way, Data in Brief also offers reduced APCs or even total waivers under special circumstances (see here).