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
Malihe Alikhani joins ARR as Ethics co-chair
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.
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Update on Data Collection
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.
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Acl Rolling Review Update
See the latest updates, Stats, and FAQs from ACL Rolling Reviews that were presented in EACL 2023. You can find the presentation slides here.
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New Ethics Chair
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.
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Updates On December Cycle
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.
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Newly Formed Arr Board
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:
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