Discontinuation of the MS Word Template
October 30, 2025
ARR abandons the MS Word Template for conference submissions. The submissions based on the Word template will be desk-rejected starting from March 2026.
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
Call for Nominations of ARR co-Editors-in-Chief
August 6, 2025
The ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) 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 in September 2025 or as early as possible.
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The last 6 months are not considered as full on EiCs but more of a transition period to support training of new EiCs. ↩
Author reviewing exemptions from July 2025 cycle
July 14, 2025
As discussed in the recent policy announcement, we are requiring that all ARR authors must complete a form to confirm that they will serve as reviewers or ACs if asked. As the policy specifies, authors are allowed to ask for a duty exemption and provide a reason. This document provides a categorization of acceptable and unacceptable reasons for such exemptions that will begin to be enforced starting from the July 2025 ARR cycle.
EMNLP 2025 to include Responsible NLP Checklists as Paper Appendices
June 11, 2025
Starting with EMNLP 2025, the responsible NLP checklist will be included as appendices with their papers.
Changes to reviewer volunteering requirement and incentives in May 2025 cycle (EMNLP 2025)
May 5, 2025
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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.