Dates and Venues

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
May 2025 May 19 May 21 June 18 June 26-July 2 July 15 July 27
July 2025 July 28 July 30 September 1 September 9-15 September 25 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
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.