We’re pleased to announce that Malihe Alikhani has accepted to take on the role of Ethics co-chair for ARR. Malihe works towards designing inclusive and equitable language technologies. She develops systems that can communicate and collaborate with diverse populations, especially those from underserved communities. She studies how learning models might become biased and how we can mitigate them. She is currently an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Pittsburgh. Beginning in the Fall of 2023, she will move to Northeastern University.

We have added an FAQ on the on-going peer review data collection! Check it out for more information on the data and how you can contribute.

See the latest updates, Stats, and FAQs from ACL Rolling Reviews that were presented in EACL 2023. You can find the presentation slides here.

We’re delighted to share the news that Vinodkumar Prabhakaran is joining the ACL RR team as Ethics Chair. Vinod is a senior research scientist at Google’s Responsible AI org, working on issues at the intersection of AI and society.

The major changes happening for the December cycle are the introduction of Senior Action Editors (SAEs), and a new reviewing assignment process to include at least one non-student reviewer per paper. These changes are also a response to community feedback. SAEs will help us during key phases of the review process. They will provide another layer of review quality control for reviewers and AEs. The team of SAEs is almost complete and will be added to the website pretty soon.

As promised in our blog entry for August, ACL has established an ARR board that will oversee the activities of ARR. We suggest readers go back to that blog entry for more information on the responsibilities of the board. In this update to the community we would like to formally welcome the founding members of the ARR Board: