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naacl-review-process

Use when reasoning about how a NAACL decision actually gets made — the division of labor between ACL Rolling Review (reviews, meta-review) and the NAACL program committee (commitment-stage acceptance into Main or Findings), where author leverage exists at each stage, and how the skipped-year calendar shapes committee behavior.

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# NAACL Review Process

NAACL outsources reviewing and keeps deciding. Understanding which body owns
which judgment tells you where effort pays and where it evaporates.

## The two-stage machine

**Stage 1 — ARR (weeks 0-10 of a cycle).** Three or more reviewers score
the paper; an action editor synthesizes a meta-review. ARR produces an
assessment, not an acceptance: nothing is "in" anywhere yet. Authors see
everything and may respond mid-cycle or carry the package away.

**Stage 2 — NAACL commitment.** Authors forward the frozen package (paper,
reviews, response threads, meta-review) to NAACL through OpenReview by the
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