ACL Rolling Review (ARR) is a centralized reviewing service targeting top-tier conferences
under the Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Built atop the OpenReview platform, ARR implements the initial stages of conference reviewing in 2 month cycles,
culminating in the release to authors of reviews and a metareview.
- Authors may submit a revision to a subsequent ARR cycle and request the same or new reviewers.
- Reviews are decoupled from acceptance decisions: as long as a paper has reviews and has not yet been accepted by a venue,
the authors can choose among participating venues, whose program committees will consider the already-reviewed papers for acceptance.
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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Updates
Upcoming changes from April cycle - reviewing workload requirement
As 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.
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April 2024 Cycle Opens April 4th
Submissions will open on April 4th for the April ARR Cycle.
The site is available here.
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Anna Rogers joins the ARR as a new Editor-in-Chief!
Anna 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 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), the lead author of the current ARR guidelines for reviewers, and contributor to the Responsible NLP Checklist.
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ACL ARR Ethics Review Flagging Guidelines
By Malihe Alikhani and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
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Thanking Great Reviewers from October 2023
Thank 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.
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Update to Anonymity Policy
The 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 commitment deadline, and continuing while the submission is under review.
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