Reviewing Schedule
From October 2022 to February 2025, ARR ran 8-week review cycles, with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL exec to switch to 10-week cycles. The new schedule will be in action, starting in May 2025 cycle. The full committtee report is available in the adminwiki.
This means that instead of 6 cycles a year there will generally be 5, but with more reasonable timelines for the review tasks and author response, as well as platform maintenance. It will allow the cycles to always start on Mondays, and develop a consistent schedule that clashes with weekends less (a recurrent problem in the past). In 2025, due to the switch to 10-week cycles enacted relatively late in the year, there will be 4 review cycles in total.
This table lists all the key dates, by which the authors may need to take action, for 2025 cycles following the new schedule:
Cycle | Submission | Reviewer registration | Reviews due | Author Response | Meta-reviews due | Cycle End |
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May 2025 | May 19 | May 21 | June 18 | June 26 - July 2 | July 15 | July 27 |
July 2025 | July 28 | July 30 | TBA | TBA | TBA | October 5 |
October 2025 | October 6 | October 8 | TBA | TBA | TBA | December 14 |
January 2026 | January 5 | January 7 | TBA | TBA | TBA | March 15 |
Note that in addition to submission and author response dates, the following action points are now listed, as non-compliance may result in desk rejection or sanctions (see more details at https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025):
- Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors. The registration link will be active in the author console immediately upon paper submission. ALL authors must register. Not all authors will receive assignments, but non-compliant papers may be desk rejected.
- Review submission deadline. The ‘highly irresponsible’ reviewers who didn’t submit on time without a warning, or submit unacceptable work, may become ineligible to commit their work to EMNLP or (re-)submit in the next ARR cycle.
- Meta-review deadline. The ‘highly irresponsible’ meta-reviewers who didn’t submit on time without a warning, or submit unacceptable work, may become ineligible to commit their work to EMNLP or (re-)submit in the next ARR cycle.
Submission to Participating Venues
Any paper that is not desk rejected will receive reviews. Once authors have reviews they may choose to revise and resubmit for another round of reviews, or commit their paper and reviews to a publication venue.
The upcoming publication venues participating in ARR are listed below. If you represent a publication venue and would like to be added to this list, please see this page.
Venue | Final ARR Submission Date | Commitment Date |
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NAACL 2025 | October 15, 2024 | December 16, 2024 |
ACL 2025 | February 15, 2025 | April 20, 2025 |
EMNLP 2025 | May 19, 2025 | July 31, 2025 |
AACL 2025 | July 28, 2025 | October 5, 2025 |
Past Venues that Accepted ARR Submissions
In 2022-2023, most *ACL events accepted ARR submissions while also running a direct submission process. Starting from 2024, all main *ACL conferences used ARR exclusively.
- EMNLP 2021
- INLG 2021
- BlackboxNLP 2021
- CRAC 2021
- Eval4NLP 2021
- FEVER 2021
- MRL 2021
- MRQA 2021
- NLLP 2021
- SustaiNLP 2021
- WMT 2021
- NLP Insights 2021
- NILLI 2021
- ACL 2022
- ComputeEL-5
- NAACL 2022
- MML 2022
- WIT 2022
- NLP-Power 2022
- Repl4NLP 2022
- CSSR 2022
- Spa-NLP 2022
- FEVER 2022
- StarSEM2022
- Clinical NLP 2022
- INLG 2022
- NLG4Health
- SIGDIAL 2022
- TRAC 2022
- CoNLL 2022
- AACL-IJCNLP 2022
- CASE 2022
- UM-IoS 2022
- BlackBoxNLP 2022
- NLP4PI 2022
- SereTOD 2022
- MMNLU 2022
- NLLP 2022
- EACL 2023
- ACL 2023
- MWE 2023
- SICon 2023
- NEJLT volume 9 (1)
- LAW 2023
- INLG 2023
- SIGDIAL 2023
- EMNLP 2023
- IJCNLP-AACL 2023
- GenBench 2023
- NEJLT volume 9 (2)
- EACL 2024 main
- EACL 2024 SRW
- LAW 2024
- WNUT 2024
- MOOMIN 2024
- NLP4HR 2024
- CALD-pseudo 2024
- UncertaiNLP 2024
- SCI-CHAT 2024
- NAACL 2024
- MWE-UD 2024
- ACL 2024
- ArabicNLP 2024
- CMCL 2024
- SDProc 2024
- ML4AL 2024
- IWSLT 2024
- INLG 2024
- EMNLP 2024
- CoNLL 2024
- NLP4DH 2024
- FEVER 2024