ACL Rolling Review provides consistent, high-quality peer review for the international computational linguistics community.
How ARR works
ARR began with a 2020 proposal and continues to evolve with community experience and feedback.
Learn how ARR worksReceive reviews and a meta-review through a regular ARR cycle.
Submit a revision in a later cycle while retaining review continuity.
Send the reviewed paper to a participating venue for an acceptance decision.
News & notices
As noted in the ACL’s Nov 29 announcement, OpenReview was notified on Nov 27 of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. The ACL announcement details how any...
ARR abandons the MS Word Template for conference submissions. The submissions based on the Word template will be desk-rejected starting from March 2026.
The ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for several co-Editors-in-Chief (henceforth “EiCs”, with the “co-“ understood) positions, serving a 2.5-year term1. Successful candidates should be able to start in September...
Important changes! ACL has adopted sustainable reviewing policy, which will apply from October 2026. It supercedes the policy below, and removes the prior exceptions policy. Read the full announcement.
Starting with EMNLP 2025, the responsible NLP checklist will be included as appendices with their papers.
Important changes! ACL has adopted sustainable reviewing policy, which will apply from October 2026. It supercedes the policy below. Read the full announcement.
