A centralized reviewing service for ACL conferences

ACL Rolling Review provides consistent, high-quality peer review for the international computational linguistics community.

How ARR works

One review process, with continuity across cycles

ARR began with a 2020 proposal and continues to evolve with community experience and feedback.

Learn how ARR works
  1. 1

    Submit for review

    Receive reviews and a meta-review through a regular ARR cycle.

  2. 2

    Revise when useful

    Submit a revision in a later cycle while retaining review continuity.

  3. 3

    Commit to a venue

    Send the reviewed paper to a participating venue for an acceptance decision.

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Max Cycle Load Openreview

Starting from the July 2022 ARR cycle, the Reviewers and Action Editors can specify their unavailability and maximum load directly in OpenReview. Load specification is designed as a reviewer/AE task in OpenReview, to be...

In Cycle Author Response

Starting with the April 15 deadline, there will be a brief period for author response within the ARR review cycle.* for 5 days after the deadline for regular reviews, authors can make comments on...

Six Week Cycles

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.

Recognition

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

Stats

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...

Review Data Collection

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...