ACL Rolling Review
Dates and Venues
Reviewing Schedule
ARR followed 8-week review cycles from October 2022 through February 2025. After extensive deliberation and community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended moving to 10-week cycles, beginning with the May 2025 cycle. Submission deadlines are now set individually for each cycle rather than fixed to a particular day of the month; please refer to the schedule below for current dates. The full committee report is available in the admin wiki.
Under the 10-week schedule, ARR generally runs five cycles per year, allowing more reasonable timelines for review tasks, author responses, and platform maintenance. Cycles can begin on Mondays and follow a more consistent schedule with fewer weekend conflicts. Because the transition occurred partway through 2025, ARR ran four cycles that year.
This table lists all the key dates, by which the authors may need to take action, for the upcoming cycles following the new schedule:
| Cycle | Submission | Reviewer registration | Reviews due | Author Response | Meta-reviews release date | Cycle End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | March 16 | March 18 | April 20 | April 28-May 4 | May 21 | May 24 |
| May 2026 | May 25 | May 27 | July 2 | July 8-July 14 | July 30 | August 2 |
| August 2026 | August 3 | August 5 | September 7 | September 14-September 24* | October 8 | October 11 |
| October 2026 | October 12 | October 14 | November 16 | November 24-November 30 | December 17 | December 20 |
*Note: in August 2026 cycle, the author response period is split into 3 phases, where the initial author response is due on September 19. Please see the instructions emailed to the authors.
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 the upcoming conference 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 the upcoming conference 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EMNLP 2026 | May 25, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| AACL 2026 | May 25, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| EACL 2027 | August 3, 2026 | October 11, 2026 |
| NAACL 2027 | October 12, 2026 | December 23, 2026 |
| COLING 2027 | October 12, 2026 | December 23, 2026 |
| ACL 2027 | January, 2027 |