ACL Rolling Review (ARR)

Detailed Survey for Communication Team Poential Volunteers

🚨 Call for Volunteers! 🚨
We are looking for 3-4 new members to join our communication team and help support the ARR initiative. If you are interested, please fill out the following form:
forms.gle/FnoXkL19RLKQ...
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Changes to reviewer volunteering requirement and incentives in May 2025 cycle (EMNLP 2025) TLDR:

📢 ARR author reminder
If you submit a paper to an ARR cycle, you are required to review if qualified, unless you have an approved exemption. This helps keep the peer-review process sustainable. Thanks!
🔗 aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025
🔗 aclrollingreview.org/exemptions2025
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Incentives 2026 All authors will have to register as Reviewers or meta-reviewers (Area Chairs-ACs) on ARR (if you are already serving as Senior Area Chair (SAC), this is not necessary). Assignments will be made subse...

📢 ARR Jan 2026
All authors must register as reviewers or ACs by Jan 7, 2026 (SACs exempt).
AC checklists due Jan 16.
Reviewer checklists due Jan 21.
Reviews due Feb 7 and meta-reviews due Mar 3.
🔗 aclrollingreview.org/incentives2026
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Announcement for authors and reviewers submitting to January ARR From this cycle we intend to strictly monitor adherence to reviewing responsibilities.

📢 Jan. ARR Notice
Review duties will be strictly enforced.
Authors must register as reviewers/ACs (SACs exempt).
Missing registration leads to desk rejection.
Late reviewers/ACs may lose access to reviews for their papers and face penalties.
aclrollingreview.org/january-arr-announcement
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Statement from ARR and EACL 2026 Organizers re OpenReview data leakage 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...

📢 Statement from ARR & EACL on OpenReview data leakage: OpenReview confirmed the impact on ARR was very minor. Steps were taken for a small number of papers, with further steps in future cycles as needed.
🔗 aclrollingreview.org/statement-op...
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📢 Statement from ACL and EACL 2026 Organizers

On Nov 27, OpenReview was notified of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. We are grateful to the OpenReview team for fixing the issue quickly. (🧵 1/3)

Discontinuation of the MS Word Template ARR abandons the MS Word Template for conference submissions. The submissions based on the Word template will be desk-rejected starting from March 2026.

📝 Discontinuation of the MS Word Template
ARR will now fully adopt the LaTeX template to streamline formatting and reduce review workload.
Starting March 2026, submissions using the MS Word template will be desk-rejected.
Check details here: aclrollingreview.org/discontinuat...
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ACL 2026 Visa Invitation Letter Request Please use this form to request a visa invitation letter. The letter will be sent to the email address provided below.

✈️ Visa Letter Requests for ACL 2026
If you intend to commit your paper to ACL 2026 and require an invitation letter for visa purposes, please fill out the visa request form as soon as possible.
(docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)

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🚨 ARR is looking for a volunteer Co-CTO to help improve tech infrastructure!
🛠️ Preferred:
• 5+ years in NLP research
• Git, CLI tools, Python, and basic HTML
• 2-year role, overlapping with current Co-CTO
Interested? DM @fredashi.bsky.social or email fhs@uwaterloo.ca
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CALL FOR PAPERS A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics

4. Preliminary work should not be submitted this way. It risks rejection and ineligibility for the January cycle, per ARR CFP: aclrollingreview.org/cfp

1. This early submission option applies to work submitted to ARR in October that authors may wish to commit to ACL 2026.
2. Such submissions may receive an early invitation letter to help with visa delays.
3. This is not a guarantee of acceptance to ACL 2026.

📢 Early submission for ACL 2026 via ARR Oct cycle is available to support authors facing potential visa delays.
📝 Early invitation letters possible for submit-ready work (not acceptance guarantees).
⚠️ Preliminary work risks rejection & Jan-cycle ineligibility.
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Call for Nominations of ARR co-Editors-in-Chief 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...

📢 Our Call for Nominations for ARR co-Editors-in-Chief is still open!
🗓️ Deadline extended to August 24, 2025.
For details and nomination instructions, visit:
🔗 aclrollingreview.org/call-for-nom...
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💡 If you prefer to revise your paper (based on the AC's suggestions), you can resubmit it to a future ARR cycle.
📅 Next ARR submission deadline: July 28, 2025 AOE
🔗 openreview.net/group?id=acl...

✨ Planning to publish your May-cycle ARR paper at EMNLP 2025? Here's what you need to do:
🗓️ Commit by August 1, 2025 AOE
🔗 Commitment portal: openreview.net/group?id=EMN...

🔍 NEW in this cycle:
If you believe there are serious procedural issues with your meta-review, you can now file an issue report.
🗓️ Deadline: July 26, 2025 AOE
📖 More info: aclrollingreview.org/authors#step4

📣 If you submitted to ACL Rolling Review (ARR) in the May 2025 cycle, your reviews & meta-reviews are now live!
👉 Check them here: openreview.net/group?id=acl...

Author reviewing exemptions from July 2025 cycle As discussed in the recent policy announcement, we are requiring that all ARR authors must complete a form to confirm that they will serve as reviewers or ACs if asked. As the policy specifies, author...

🚨 Author Reviewing Exemptions - ARR July 2025
All authors must confirm review availability or request an exemption with a valid reason.
📄 Policy & guidelines: aclrollingreview.org/exemptions2025

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🚨 Calling emergency reviewers for ARR May 2025!
If you are available to help, please sign up here:
🔗 forms.office.com/r/0KsvNFKbm5

ARR Area Chair Guidelines A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics

📢 Quick heads-up, authors! 📢
When replying to reviewers, please keep it concise and focused.
ACs are expected to read at most 2 author responses per review thread, so lengthy replies might not be fully read.
🔗 Read the AC guidelines: aclrollingreview.org/acguidelines
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📢 Reviews for the ARR May 2025 cycle are now available. You may submit author responses until July 2.
⚠️ Withdrawing now means you can not submit this paper, or a revision of it, for the July cycle.
Thank you!
@emnlpmeeting.bsky.social
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Call for Nominations of ARR co-Editors-in-Chief 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...

🚨 Call for Nominations
We are seeking new EiCs to help guide the future of the ACL Rolling Review.
📝 Details and nomination instructions:
aclrollingreview.org/call-for-nom...

Changes to reviewer volunteering requirement and incentives in May 2025 cycle (EMNLP 2025) TLDR:

More details on the policy here:
aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025
2025.emnlp.org/reviewer-pol...

The content of both the submission and (meta-)review is confidential. Therefore, even for acceptable purposes such as proofreading, it must not be passed on to non-privacy-preserving third parties, such as commercial LLM services, which may store it.
(2025.emnlp.org/reviewer-pol...)

ARR Reviewer Guidelines A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics

In case of any emergencies, the chairs should be warned via the emergency declaration form.
(aclrollingreview.org/reviewerguid...)

🚨 New for May 2025: Highly irresponsible reviewers/ACs may become ineligible to commit papers to EMNLP/ARR next cycle.
❗️Reviewers must follow guidelines & deadlines.
❗️Chairs must be notified for emergency.
❗️Do not share with third parties such as commercial LLM services.

@emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

We are still finalising the SAC list to add into system. In the meanwhile you can fill in above forms (for AC/Reviewer) and once we add you as SAC, we can deallocate your rest of the responsibilities.

ARR Reviewer Guidelines A peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics

📢 Submitting to the ARR May 2025 cycle?
✅ Make sure your profile is complete, including your DBLP link.
aclrollingreview.org/reviewerguid...
📄 Do not forget to review:
(1) Author Guidelines
aclrollingreview.org/authors
(2) ACL Publication Policy
www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/in...

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TL;DR

🕒 All authors must register to review by May 21, 2025 AoE
⚠️ Late, unprofessional, or AI-generated reviews = ineligible to commit to EMNLP or (re-)submit to next ARR cycle
🏅 Great reviewers & ACs will be recognized & rewarded

Changes to reviewer volunteering requirement and incentives in May 2025 cycle (EMNLP 2025) TLDR:

📢 Planning to submit to EMNLP 2025?
Make sure you're up to speed with new ARR policies:

👉 aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025

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