News & notices
Announcements, policy changes, cycle information, and reports from ACL Rolling Review.
Work in progress! ⚠️ This policy is new, and ARR is still working out the implementation details. We also receive a lot of questions. We will be posting any relevant clarifications and FAQ here and in the qualifications page (https://aclrollingreview.org/qualifications).
Read postFor 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 to previous cycles. In this cycle, we received...
Read postIn 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...
Read postStarting with the ARR May cycle and continuing in subsequent cycles, ARR has updated the author and reviewer license agreements.
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Read postFrom this cycle we intend to strictly monitor adherence to reviewing responsibilities.
Read postAs 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...
Read postARR abandons the MS Word Template for conference submissions. The submissions based on the Word template will be desk-rejected starting from March 2026.
Read postThe 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. The last...
Read postImportant changes! ACL has adopted sustainable reviewing policy, which will apply from October 2026. It supercedes the policy below, and removes the prior exceptions policy. Read the full announcement.
Read postStarting with EMNLP 2025, the responsible NLP checklist will be included as appendices with their papers.
Read postImportant changes! ACL has adopted sustainable reviewing policy, which will apply from October 2026. It supercedes the policy below. Read the full announcement.
Read postWe 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...
Read postThe 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...
Read postThe 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...
Read postThe 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...
Read post[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!...
Read postAs we continue to add incremental changes to our review process, and OpenReview (OR) infrastructure, we want to highlight an important change that will be implemented for the upcoming April cycle: a reviewing workload requirement.
Read postSubmissions will open on April 4th for the April ARR Cycle.The site is available here.
Read postAnna Rogers is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her main research area is Natural Language Processing, in particular analysis and evaluation of pre-trained language models. She is a veteran program chair of the...
Read postBy Malihe Alikhani and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
Read postThank you to all of the reviewers from the October 2023 cycle! Your effort was critical to getting high quality reviews back to authors on time.
Read postThe ACL has adopted a new anonymity policy effective for all future submissions, including to ARR. This new policy replaces the old policy that prohibited authors from posting or advertising non-anonymous preprints during a period starting one month before the submission or...
Read postWe have now completed the paper assignment to reviewers, and the review process has started.
Read postWe have been busy with housekeeping tasks after the submission period ended. In brief, at this time we have:- Added authors of October submissions to the reviewing pool- Assigned papers to Action Editors (AEs), Senior Action Editors (SAEs) and reviewers- Sent instructions...
Read postThe use of an ARR-only submission process has been agreed by Program Chairs (PCs), and General Chairs of the upcoming conferences in 2024 (EACL, NAACL and ACL, referred to in this document as *CL conferences), with feedback from the ACL Rolling Review...
Read postAt ACL 2023, there was a plenary session dedicated to updates from ARR and questions from the community (slides). We did not have time to answer all of the questions in the session and not everyone in the community was able to...
Read postWe’re pleased to announce that Malihe Alikhani has accepted to take on the role of Ethics co-chair for ARR. Malihe works towards designing inclusive and equitable language technologies. She develops systems that can communicate and collaborate with diverse populations, especially those from...
Read postWe have added an FAQ on the on-going peer review data collection! Check it out for more information on the data and how you can contribute.
Read postSee the latest updates, Stats, and FAQs from ACL Rolling Reviews that were presented in EACL 2023. You can find the presentation slides here.
Read postWe’re delighted to share the news that Vinodkumar Prabhakaran is joining the ACL RR team as Ethics Chair. Vinod is a senior research scientist at Google’s Responsible AI org, working on issues at the intersection of AI and society.
Read postThe major changes happening for the December cycle are the introduction of Senior Action Editors (SAEs), and a new reviewing assignment process to include at least one non-student reviewer per paper. These changes are also a response to community feedback. SAEs will...
Read postAs promised in our blog entry for August, ACL has established an ARR board that will oversee the activities of ARR. We suggest readers go back to that blog entryfor more information on the responsibilities of the board. In this update to...
Read postAt ARR, we are slowly and steadily making changes to reflect the ACL reviewing survey results. In its October 15th cycle, we bring two key changes.
Read postIn May and June, the ACL reviewing committee conducted a survey on the future of reviewing in the ACL community. Follow this link for results and analysis of the survey, including both the multiple choice questions and the free-text responses.
Read postTwo new EICs have started their service (and several new EiCs are expected to start soon):* Mausam* Thamar Solorio
Read postStarting from the July 2022 ARR cycle, the Reviewers and Action Editors can specify their unavailability and maximum load directly in OpenReview. Load specification is designed as a reviewer/AE task in OpenReview, to be completed before the submission deadline for the respective...
Read postStarting with the April 15 deadline, there will be a brief period for author response within the ARR review cycle.* for 5 days after the deadline for regular reviews, authors can make comments on the reviews, using the discussion forum within OpenReview...
Read postEffective the 15 April 2022 deadline, with permission of the ACL executive and the ACL committee on reviewing, ARR will be moving to a six-week cycle with deadlines every six weeks.
Read postAction editors and reviewers may now request letters of recognition for their ARR service! Instructions can be found in the:* Action editors’ guide to OpenReview* Reviewers’ guide to OpenReview
Read postWe have data. Thanks to great work from Sebastin Santy on our tech team, we now have a regularly updated statistics dashboard for ACL Rolling Review. When you refer to it, please note the last updated date as data for the current...
Read postOne of the initiatives that ARR supports is the ongoing collection of data about peer-review in NLP. Nils Dycke, Ilia Kuznetsov and Iryna Gurevych have been leading an ACL-approved initiative to collect review data on an opt-in basis. They provide a status...
Read postAs an author, reviewer or action editor for OpenReview, when and how should you declare a conflict of interest?
Read postFor the December cycle, ARR will have a slightly modified timeline. Reviews will be released on January 28th given that reviewing started a bit later due to the end of the semester, the overlapping heavy load from November and the holidays. We...
Read postWe have received several questions about resubmitting to ARR. We have now modified the call for papers to address these questions, which have to do with adding/removing authors, providing responses to reviewers, and requesting new reviewers.
Read postThere is no need to withdraw any papers from ARR after reviewing is complete (in fact if you do withdraw your paper from an ARR cycle, we won’t be able to transfer that paper + reviews to any venue you “commit” to)....
Read postAs in November, ARR will have a slightly modified timeline in January (ntoe that all deadlines are 11:59pm AOE):* January 15th: Submission deadline* January 16th-24th: Reviewer/AE assignment* January 24th-27th: SAC/AE paper check and reassignment* January 28th-February 15th: Reviewing* February 16th-26th: Meta-reviews and...
Read postWe are introducing several changes to ACL Rolling Review starting with the December 2021 deadline.
Read postFor November, working with the ACL 2022 senior area chairs and program chairs, we will have a slightly modified ARR timeline. * Nov 19-22 - SACs check AE assignments* Nov 25 - finalized AE assignments* November 27 - AEs notified of assignments...
Read postWe have a new reviewer tutorial! Thanks to Anna Rogers and Isabelle Augenstein for creating it.
Read postNovember submissions are open! Please submit your papers here.
Read postWe are recruiting volunteer emergency reviewers and emergency action editors. To volunteer, fill out (Update: These forms are no longer in use. Please contact the editors to volunteer):* Emergency action editor form* Emergency reviewer form
Read postThe ACL Rolling Review (ARR) officially kicked off in early 2021, with the first call for papers in April, and the first deadline in May. This initiative was started with the promise of a unified reviewer pool, more consistent reviewing, lower average...
Read postWe have openings for members of a new “communications team.” This role (alongside the current communications lead) would encompass website updates, social media presence, and triaging/responding to support email. To apply, contact editors at aclrollingreview.org.
Read postWe are looking for a few extra members of the technical staff, who implement the OpenReview interface, automated systems for reviewer management, paper-reviewer matching, etc. Please contact cto@aclrollingreview.org with a quick self-introduction if interested!
Read postWe have added a dates page. * Authors, refer to this page for a list of ARR participating venues and important dates.* Reviewers and action editors, refer to this page for relevant dates each month. * Conference and workshop organizers, refer to...
Read postWe have an opening for a PR lead. Responsibilities: maintain website; manage social media presence; liaise with ACL publicity chairs. To apply, contact editors at aclrollingreview.org.
Read postWe are sending invitations out to action editors and reviewers. And we have submissions!! Thank you for volunteering, responding to invites, submitting! Please create / update your Open Review profile so we can do good conflict of interest handling and paper matching....
Read postif you are running an ACL-affiliated conference or workshop, you can use ARR to accept submissions! Please contact the ARR editors (editors@aclrollingreview.org) and we will be happy to set it up for you.
Read postThe draft review forms are up at here! And we still welcome volunteer reviewers/action editors!
Read postACL Rolling Review is now accepting submissions! Please go to the Authors page to preview the fields in the submission form and find the link to the submission site.
Read postWe invite you to express interest in becoming a reviewer or action editor for ACL Rolling Review via our reviewer interest survey.
Read postThe ACL Rolling Review call for papers is up. The first submission deadline will be 15 May 2021, which is also the last submission deadline to be considered for the EMNLP 2021 main conference.
Read postACL Rolling Review is here! We’ll be running a first trial with EMNLP 2021 (thank you very very much to the organizers!).
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