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
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 term. Successful candidates should be able to start in September 2025 or as early as possible.
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EMNLP 2025 to include Responsible NLP Checklists as Paper Appendices
Starting with EMNLP 2025, the responsible NLP checklist will be included as appendices with their papers.
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Changes to reviewer volunteering requirement and incentives in May 2025 cycle (EMNLP 2025)
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Changes to reviewing workload requirement starting from February cycle
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.
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ARR Job Ads -- Workflow Manager
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.
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ARR Job Ads -- Editorial Assistant
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.
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