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acl-review-process

Use when reasoning about how an ACL paper travels through ACL Rolling Review and conference commitment, covering reviewer and area-chair roles, meta-reviews, the commitment decision by senior area chairs and program chairs, Findings versus main-conference outcomes, ethics review escalation, and resubmission strategy across cycles.

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# ACL Review Process

Use this to model where an ACL paper actually is and who decides what next.
ACL decoupled reviewing from the conference: ARR produces the review package;
the conference consumes it. Confirm current mechanics at
aclrollingreview.org/reviewing, since cycle structure has changed repeatedly
(most recently to 10-week cycles in 2025).

## The pipeline, stage by stage

1. **ARR cycle intake**: submission on OpenReview to a dated cycle (e.g.,
   ARR January 2026); checks for format, Limitations, checklist, anonymity.
2. **Review**: at least three reviewers score and write reviews.
3. **Author response + discussion**: authors reply; reviewers discuss and may
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