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.

By Malihe Alikhani and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

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.

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.

We have now completed the paper assignment to reviewers, and the review process has started.

We 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 to AEs and SAEs re their ToDo tasks