Effective the 15 April 2022 deadline, with permission of the ACL executive and the ACL committee on reviewing, ARR will be moving to a six-week cycle with deadlines every six weeks.

Action editors and reviewers may now request letters of recognition for their ARR service! Instructions can be found in the:

• Action editors’ guide to OpenReview
• Reviewers’ guide to OpenReview

We have data. Thanks to great work from Sebastin Santy on our tech team, we now have a regularly updated statistics dashboard for ACL Rolling Review. When you refer to it, please note the last updated date as data for the current cycles may be somewhat delayed. As always, feedback welcome.

One of the initiatives that ARR supports is the ongoing collection of data about peer-review in NLP. Nils Dycke, Ilia Kuznetsov and Iryna Gurevych have been leading an ACL-approved initiative to collect review data on an opt-in basis. They provide a status update and invite discussion here.

As an author, reviewer or action editor for OpenReview, when and how should you declare a conflict of interest?

For the December cycle, ARR will have a slightly modified timeline. Reviews will be released on January 28th given that reviewing started a bit later due to the end of the semester, the overlapping heavy load from November and the holidays. We also wanted to give a bit more time to AEs to be mindful of weekend days.

• December 15th: Submission deadline
• December 16th-24th: Reviewer/AE assignment
• December 24th-28th: SAC/AE paper check and reassignment
• December 29th-January 18th: Reviewing
• January 19th-27th: Meta-reviews and reviewer chasing
• January 28th: Review and meta-review release