Changes to reviewer volunteering requirement and incentives in May 2025 cycle (EMNLP 2025)
May 5, 2025
TLDR:
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) is a centralized reviewing service targeting top-tier conferences under the Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Built atop the OpenReview platform, ARR implements the initial stages of conference reviewing in 2 month cycles, culminating in the release to authors of reviews and a metareview.
- Authors may submit a revision to a subsequent ARR cycle and request the same or new reviewers.
- Reviews are decoupled from acceptance decisions: as long as a paper has reviews and has not yet been accepted by a venue, the authors can choose among participating venues, whose program committees will consider the already-reviewed papers for acceptance.
For further information about submitting, see the page for Authors.
ARR began with a 2020 proposal. As of mid-2023, it has evolved with experience and feedback from the community. In 2024, the ACL, EACL, NAACL, and EMNLP main conferences all used ARR as the sole submission system. The upcoming participating venues are listed at dates and venues. The ARR team continues to welcome input on the design of the review process. See also the ARR changelog and future plans.
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Updates
Changes to reviewing workload requirement starting from February cycle
February 10, 2025
We want to highlight two important changes we are implementing for the February cycle: (1) a minimum review load requirement for those volunteer reviewers who are nominated for multiple submissions, and (2) the possibility of nominating an experienced colleague as a reviewing volunteer for a submission.
ARR Job Ads -- Workflow Manager
September 18, 2024
The Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ARR) seeks a workflow manager to support the regular operations of ARR bi-monthly reviewing cycles. This position sits at the heart of the peer-review infrastructure that handles our major ACL conferences. The goal of this role is to support the customization of the infrastructure used by ARR, which currently is OpenReview.
ARR Job Ads -- Editorial Assistant
September 18, 2024
The Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ARR) is seeking an editorial assistant to support the regular operations of ARR bi-monthly reviewing cycles. This position sits at the heart of the peer-review team that handles our major ACL conferences. The goal of this role is to support the editors-in-chief by managing some of the standard tasks involved in the peer-review process, such as supporting the communication between EiCs, the Senior Area Chairs, and the rest of the research community.
ACL Rolling Review is inviting nominations for several Editors in Chief positions
June 28, 2024
The ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative is seeking nominations (self-nominations are permitted and encouraged), for several co-Editors-in-Chief (henceforth “EiCs”, with the “co-” understood) positions, serving a 2.5-year term1. Successful candidates should be able to start at the end of summer or as early as possible.
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The last 6 months are not considered as full on EiCs but more of a transitions period to support training of new EiCs. ↩
New Streamlined and More Comprehensive Peer-review Data Collection Protocol
April 30, 2024
[tldr:] ARR is expanding its data collection to further insights. Authors can now consent to donate their paper reviews and meta data during paper submission, reviewers and ACs can consent to donate their data for the cycle. Consider donating your peer-review data! You can always revisit this decision as needed.