Dear colleague,
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pursuing a new initiative (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Rolling_Review_Proposal)
to improve the review process for conferences and workshops. The first
deadline for submissions to the new ACL Rolling Review system is 15 May
2021, and the deadline will be the 15th of each month thereafter. For the
link to each month's submission site, please see
https://aclrollingreview.org/authors.
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) invites the submission of long and short papers
on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The purpose of
ARR is to improve efficiency and turnaround of ACL reviewing while keeping
the diversity (topical, geographic and otherwise) and editorial freedom
that we value about our current organization of the reviewing process at
ACL venues. ARR will use Open Review as its platform (but reviews will not
be open in ARR).
The reviewing and acceptance of papers for publication will be done in two
steps:
- Step 1 -- Centralized Rolling Review: Authors submit papers to a unified
review pool with deadline on the 15th of each month. Review is handled by
an action editor, and revision and resubmission of papers is allowed.
- Step 2 -- Submission to Publication Venue: A publication venue is a
conference or workshop that participates in ARR. When an opportunity to
submit to a
publication venue comes around, authors may submit already reviewed papers
with reviews to the publication venue, through the OpenReview website.
Program chairs (possibly with the help of senior area chairs) will then
accept a subset of submitted papers for presentation.
SUBMISSIONS
Relevant topics for ARR include, but are not limited to, the following
areas (in alphabetical order):
- Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
- Dialogue and Interactive Systems
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Ethics and NLP
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
- Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Machine Translation and Multilinguality
- NLP Applications
- Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
- Question Answering
- Resources and Evaluation
- Semantics: Lexical
- Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
- Speech and Multimodality
- Summarization
- Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
In addition, ARR welcomes submissions related to special Themes proposed by
participating publication venues.
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Long Papers
Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be
included.
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited
pages of references.
Short Papers
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please
note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers
should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short
papers are:
- A small, focused contribution
- A negative result
- An opinion piece
- An interesting application nugget
- Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus
unlimited pages of references.
Anonymity Period
ACL has policies for submission, review and citation (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation)
designed to protect the integrity of two-way anonymized review and ensure
that submissions are reviewed fairly. A paper can only be (re)submitted to
ARR if it has been anonymous for at least a month before the first
submission, and it must remain anonymous while it is under review.
- Authors may allow their anonymized submission to be publicly available on
OpenReview while it is under ARR review.
- Authors may not make a non-anonymized version of their paper available
online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during
the anonymity period. By a version of a paper, we mean another paper
having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in
minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length.
- If the authors have posted a non-anonymized version of their paper online
before the start of the anonymity period, they may submit an anonymized
version to ARR. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized
version, and the authors must inform the editors in chief that a
non-anonymized version exists.
- Authors may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity
period, and we ask authors not to advertise it on social media or take
other actions that would further compromise two-way anonymized reviewing
during the anonymity period.
- Note that, while authors are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous
version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this
does make two-way anonymized reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we
therefore encourage authors to wait. Alternatively, authors may consider
submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does
not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e.,
conference-length) papers.
Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review
Papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the authors’ identities, e.g., "We previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as
"Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to
these requirements will be rejected without review.
Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not
available to the reviewers.
Supplementary materials should also be anonymized.
Authorship
The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals
who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author
listed on a submission to ARR will be notified of submissions and reviews.
Citation and Comparison
Authors are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your
submission, but may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work
(especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited).
In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication,
the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the
preprint version.
Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the
submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to a submission, and
authors are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require
additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis.
For more information, see the ACL Policies for Submission, Review, and
Citation (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation
).
Multiple Submission Policy
ARR precludes multiple submissions. ARR will not consider any paper that is
under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission,
and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the ARR review
period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival
conferences and workshops without exception (e.g., TACL, Computational
Linguistics, IJCAI, SIGIR, AAAI, ICASSP, ICML, Neurips, etc).
In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in
content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published
elsewhere, without exception.
Ethics Policy
Authors are required to honour the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of
Ethics.
The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and
potential applications of our work has always been an important
consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream,
these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the
code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper
may raise ethical issues, we ask that authors include in the paper an
explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in
the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical
grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code
of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with
their work. Indeed, the ARR review form includes a section addressing these
issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers or action
editors will be further reviewed by the Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC).
Authors are encouraged to devote a section of their paper to concerns of
the ethical impact of the work and to a discussion of broader impacts of
the work.
Submission Criteria
ARR will provide a submission checklist that authors will be asked to
answer during paper submission. The checklist is intended as a reminder to
help authors improve the quality of their papers. The author instruction on
the checklist will be available Coming soon.
Paper Submission and Templates
Submission is electronic, using the OpenReview.net platform. All long,
short and theme papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines).
Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are
available as an Overleaf template (
https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr) and also downloadable directly (
https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates) (Latex and Word).
Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to "*ACL"
conferences available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html.
Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for
other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles,
including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be
rejected without review.
Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data
ARR encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve
the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional
information that does not fit in the paper. Supplementary materials may
include appendices, software or data. For example, pre processing
decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or
derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details
that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the
paper can be put into appendices. However, if the pseudo-code or
derivations or model specifications are an important part of the
contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the
technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper,
and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required to consider
material in appendices.
Appendices should come after the references in the submitted pdf, but do
not count towards the page limit. Software should be submitted as a single
.tgz or .zip archive, and data as a separate single .tgz or .zip archive.
Supplementary materials must be fully anonymized to preserve the two-way
anonymized reviewing policy.
Dear colleague,
The Association for Computational Linguistics is pursuing a new initiative (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Rolling_Review_Proposal)
to improve the review process for conferences and workshops. The first
deadline for submissions to the new ACL Rolling Review system is 15 May
2021, and the deadline will be the 15th of each month thereafter. For the
link to each month's submission site, please see
https://aclrollingreview.org/authors.
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) invites the submission of long and short papers
on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The purpose of
ARR is to improve efficiency and turnaround of ACL reviewing while keeping
the diversity (topical, geographic and otherwise) and editorial freedom
that we value about our current organization of the reviewing process at
ACL venues. ARR will use Open Review as its platform (but reviews will not
be open in ARR).
The reviewing and acceptance of papers for publication will be done in two
steps:
* Step 1 -- Centralized Rolling Review: Authors submit papers to a unified
review pool with deadline on the 15th of each month. Review is handled by
an action editor, and revision and resubmission of papers is allowed.
* Step 2 -- Submission to Publication Venue: A publication venue is a
conference or workshop that participates in ARR. When an opportunity to
submit to a
publication venue comes around, authors may submit already reviewed papers
with reviews to the publication venue, through the OpenReview website.
Program chairs (possibly with the help of senior area chairs) will then
accept a subset of submitted papers for presentation.
## SUBMISSIONS
Relevant topics for ARR include, but are not limited to, the following
areas (in alphabetical order):
* Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
* Dialogue and Interactive Systems
* Discourse and Pragmatics
* Ethics and NLP
* Information Extraction
* Information Retrieval and Text Mining
* Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
* Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
* Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
* Machine Learning for NLP
* Machine Translation and Multilinguality
* NLP Applications
* Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
* Question Answering
* Resources and Evaluation
* Semantics: Lexical
* Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
* Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
* Speech and Multimodality
* Summarization
* Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
In addition, ARR welcomes submissions related to special Themes proposed by
participating publication venues.
## PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
### Long Papers
Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be
included.
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited
pages of references.
### Short Papers
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please
note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers
should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short
papers are:
* A small, focused contribution
* A negative result
* An opinion piece
* An interesting application nugget
* Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus
unlimited pages of references.
### Anonymity Period
ACL has policies for submission, review and citation (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation)
designed to protect the integrity of two-way anonymized review and ensure
that submissions are reviewed fairly. A paper can only be (re)submitted to
ARR if it has been anonymous for at least a month before the first
submission, and it must remain anonymous while it is under review.
* Authors may allow their anonymized submission to be publicly available on
OpenReview while it is under ARR review.
* Authors may not make a non-anonymized version of their paper available
online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during
the anonymity period. By a version of a paper, we mean another paper
having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in
minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length.
* If the authors have posted a non-anonymized version of their paper online
before the start of the anonymity period, they may submit an anonymized
version to ARR. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized
version, and the authors must inform the editors in chief that a
non-anonymized version exists.
* Authors may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity
period, and we ask authors not to advertise it on social media or take
other actions that would further compromise two-way anonymized reviewing
during the anonymity period.
* Note that, while authors are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous
version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this
does make two-way anonymized reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we
therefore encourage authors to wait. Alternatively, authors may consider
submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does
not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e.,
conference-length) papers.
### Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review
Papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the authors’ identities, e.g., "We previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as
"Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to
these requirements will be rejected without review.
Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not
available to the reviewers.
Supplementary materials should also be anonymized.
### Authorship
The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals
who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author
listed on a submission to ARR will be notified of submissions and reviews.
### Citation and Comparison
Authors are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your
submission, but may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work
(especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited).
In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication,
the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the
preprint version.
Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the
submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to a submission, and
authors are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require
additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis.
For more information, see the ACL Policies for Submission, Review, and
Citation (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation
).
### Multiple Submission Policy
ARR precludes multiple submissions. ARR will not consider any paper that is
under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission,
and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the ARR review
period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival
conferences and workshops without exception (e.g., TACL, Computational
Linguistics, IJCAI, SIGIR, AAAI, ICASSP, ICML, Neurips, etc).
In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in
content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published
elsewhere, without exception.
### Ethics Policy
Authors are required to honour the ethical code set out in the [ACL Code of
Ethics](https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics).
The consideration of the ethical impact of our research, use of data, and
potential applications of our work has always been an important
consideration, and as artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream,
these issues are increasingly pertinent. We ask that all authors read the
code, and ensure that their work is conformant to this code. Where a paper
may raise ethical issues, we ask that authors include in the paper an
explicit discussion of these issues, which will be taken into account in
the review process. We reserve the right to reject papers on ethical
grounds, where the authors are judged to have operated counter to the code
of ethics, or have inadequately addressed legitimate ethical concerns with
their work. Indeed, the ARR review form includes a section addressing these
issues and papers flagged for ethical concerns by reviewers or action
editors will be further reviewed by the Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC).
Authors are encouraged to devote a section of their paper to concerns of
the ethical impact of the work and to a discussion of broader impacts of
the work.
### Submission Criteria
ARR will provide a submission checklist that authors will be asked to
answer during paper submission. The checklist is intended as a reminder to
help authors improve the quality of their papers. The author instruction on
the checklist will be available Coming soon.
### Paper Submission and Templates
Submission is electronic, using the OpenReview.net platform. All long,
short and theme papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines (
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines).
Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are
available as an Overleaf template (
https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr) and also downloadable directly (
https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates) (Latex and Word).
Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to "\*ACL"
conferences available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html.
Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for
other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles,
including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be
rejected without review.
### Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data
ARR encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve
the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional
information that does not fit in the paper. Supplementary materials may
include appendices, software or data. For example, pre processing
decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or
derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details
that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the
paper can be put into appendices. However, if the pseudo-code or
derivations or model specifications are an important part of the
contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the
technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper,
and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required to consider
material in appendices.
Appendices should come after the references in the submitted pdf, but do
not count towards the page limit. Software should be submitted as a single
.tgz or .zip archive, and data as a separate single .tgz or .zip archive.
Supplementary materials must be fully anonymized to preserve the two-way
anonymized reviewing policy.