A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) is a centralized reviewing service targeting top-tier conferences under the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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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May 25, 2026
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 we never wrote a blog post describing the initiative in more detail. We do this now, and apologize for the delay.
May 19, 2026
Starting with the ARR May cycle and continuing in subsequent cycles, ARR has updated the author and reviewer license agreements.
December 26, 2025
All authors will have to register as Reviewers or meta-reviewers (Area Chairs-ACs) on ARR (if you are already serving as Senior Area Chair (SAC), this is not necessary). Assignments will be made subsequently based on qualifications. The deadline for completing the registration form is January 7th 2026 EoD AoE.
December 22, 2025
From this cycle we intend to strictly monitor adherence to reviewing responsibilities.
December 17, 2025
As noted in the ACL’s Nov 29 announcement, OpenReview was notified on Nov 27 of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. The ACL announcement details how any use of the leaked information may result in severe consequences. Thankfully, the OpenReview team was able to fix the issue quickly.
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.