📢 ARR May 2026 update Metareviews will be released by the end of July 30 (AoE). We have received 99.6% and are working hard to collect the final 0.4%. Please bear with us! #ARR #ACL #AACL #EMNLP #NLProc

📢 ARR May 2026 update! The Author-Reviewer Discussion period has been extended through July 15 (AoE). #ARR #ACL #EMNLP2026 #NLProc

🚨 ARR is recruiting extra emergency reviewers and emergency Area Chairs (ACs) for this cycle. Emergency Reviewer Registration: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Emergency AC Registration: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Thank you for helping support the ARR review process. #ARR #ACL #NLProc

📢 ARR May 2026 cycle update We have published a blog post about the increased review assignments in the May cycle, what happened, and what comes next. Please read the full post here: aclrollingreview.org/may26-cycle-... #ARR #ACL #NLProc

An explanatory letter on the ARR May 2026 cycle

For the ARR May 2026 cycle, we had to make the difficult decision to increase the reciprocal service assignments for submitting authors. The reason for this decision was the substantial increase in su...

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📢 ARR-May reviewers can now try REVAS, an experimental review support tool. REVAS gives feedback on review quality criteria and ARR reviewer heuristics, but does not suggest review content or scores. 🔗 aclrollingreview.org/revas-may26 #ARR #EMNLP #ACL #NLProc

Using the REVAS review assistant tool in the ARR-May cycle

In the March 2026 ARR cycle, we for the first time encouraged reviewers to try the experimental review support tool called REVAS. The instructions were communicated to the cycle reviewers, but we real...

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📢 ARR Data Collection license agreements have been updated starting from the ARR May cycle. The updated protocol clarifies what peer review data may be collected and when donated data may be publicly released. Full protocol: arr-data.aclweb.org/protocol/ #ARR #ACL #EMNLP #NLProc

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

📢 ARR CFP Update Authors with concurrent submissions must discuss them in related work and share anonymized versions. Check the "Originality requirement and overlap with other work by the same authors" section before the ARR May deadline. aclrollingreview.org/cfp #EMNLP #ACL #ARR

CALL FOR PAPERS

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🗓️ The ARR March review deadline is approaching: April 20 AoE. Finishing up your review? Run it through REVAS, a peer review assistant that makes your suggestions more actionable, flags unsupported claims, and grounds your feedback in the paper. 👉 revas.mbzuai.ac.ae

REVAS — AI-Powered Peer Review Feedback for Academics

REVAS analyzes the weakness section of your peer review, scoring each paragraph on actionability, helpfulness, grounding, and verifiability.

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🚨 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... #ARR #ACL #NLProc

Detailed Survey for Communication Team Poential Volunteers

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📢 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 #ARR #ACL #NLProc

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

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📢 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 #ARR #ACL #NLProc

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...

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📢 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 #ARR #ACL

Announcement for authors and reviewers submitting to January ARR

From this cycle we intend to strictly monitor adherence to reviewing responsibilities.

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📢 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... #ARR #EACL #ACL #NLProc

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...

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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 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... #ARR #NLProc

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.

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✈️ 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...) #ARR #ACL #NLProc

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.

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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 #ARR #ACL #NLProc

📢 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. #ACL #ARR #NLProc

📢 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... #ARR #NLProc

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...

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📣 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 - ARR July 2025 All authors must confirm review availability or request an exemption with a valid reason. 📄 Policy & guidelines: aclrollingreview.org/exemptions2025 #AACL2025 #NLProc

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...

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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

📢 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 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

ARR Area Chair Guidelines

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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 #NLProc #EMNLP #ARR #PeerReview

🚨 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...

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...

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🚨 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

📢 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... #NLProc #EMNLP25 #ARR

ARR Reviewer Guidelines

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📢 Planning to submit to EMNLP 2025? Make sure you're up to speed with new ARR policies: 👉 aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025 #NLProc #EMNLP #ARR #ACL (1/2)

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

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