ACL sustainable reviewing policy
In light of challenges with unsustainable rate of submissions at EMNLP’26, ACL Peer Review Standing Committee has developed a proposal for a sustainable reviewing policy. It has now been approved by ACL exec team,...
A centralized reviewing service for ACL conferences
ACL Rolling Review provides consistent, high-quality peer review for the international computational linguistics community.
How ARR works
One review process, with continuity across cycles
ARR began with a 2020 proposal and continues to evolve with community experience and feedback.
Learn how ARR works-
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Submit for review
Receive reviews and a meta-review through a regular ARR cycle.
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Revise when useful
Submit a revision in a later cycle while retaining review continuity.
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Commit to a venue
Send the reviewed paper to a participating venue for an acceptance decision.
News & notices
Latest blog posts
An explanatory letter on the ARR May 2026 cycle
For the ARR May 2026 cycle, we had to make the difficult decision to increase the reciprocal service assignments for submitting authors. The reason for this decision was the substantial increase in submissions compared...
Using the REVAS review assistant tool in the ARR-May cycle
In the March 2026 ARR cycle, we for the first time encouraged reviewers to try the experimental review support tool called REVAS. The instructions were communicated to the cycle reviewers, but we realized that...
Update to ARR Data Collection License Agreements
Starting with the ARR May cycle and continuing in subsequent cycles, ARR has updated the author and reviewer license agreements.
Incentives 2026
(this post is specific to process in the January 2026 cycle)
Announcement for authors and reviewers submitting to January ARR
From this cycle we intend to strictly monitor adherence to reviewing responsibilities.