Long Papers
Must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work with concrete evaluation and analysis. Up to eight pages of content, plus unlimited limitations and ethical considerations sections, and unlimited references.
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ARR - March 2026
ACL Rolling Review - March 2026
Mar 17 2026Official conference site Link status unverified
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) is a centralized, rolling peer-review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics that decouples the reviewing process from conference acceptance decisions. It allows authors to submit papers every two months, receive reviews and meta-reviews, and then choose among participating ACL venues for acceptance, enabling iterative improvement and reducing submission delays.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
March 17, 2026
AoE
Conference timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
March 17, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Short Papers
Must describe original and unpublished work with a small, focused contribution. Up to four pages of content, plus unlimited limitations and ethical considerations sections, and unlimited references. Examples include non-reproduction reports, negative results, opinion pieces, and application nuggets.
Surveys
Papers that go beyond standard literature reviews, e.g., in scope or by establishing new interdisciplinary connections.
Research areas in scope
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Topic Areas
Clinical and Biomedical ApplicationsComputational Social Science and Cultural AnalyticsDialogue and Interactive SystemsDiscourse and PragmaticsEfficient Methods for NLPEthics, Bias, and FairnessGenerationHuman-Centered NLP and Human-AI InteractionInformation ExtractionInformation Retrieval and Text MiningInterpretability and Analysis of Models for NLPLanguage ModelingLLM AgentsLinguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and PsycholinguisticsMachine Learning for NLPMachine TranslationMultilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLPMultimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and BeyondNLP and Code ModelsNLP and Symbolic ReasoningNLP ApplicationsPhonology, Morphology, and Word SegmentationQuestion AnsweringResources and EvaluationSemantics: Lexical and Sentence-LevelSentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument MiningSpeech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Spoken Language UnderstandingSummarizationSyntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
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Theme Tracks
Theme tracks (proposed by participating publication venues and specific to those venues)
Policies worth checking twice
- All submitting authors must register as reviewers or meta-reviewers (Area Chairs) by a specified deadline; failure to fulfill reviewing duties results in ineligibility to submit in the next cycle.
- Papers must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere (including journals or other conferences) during the ARR review period.
- Dual submission to ARR and another venue is prohibited; papers cannot be committed to a conference while under review at ARR, and vice versa.
- Papers must be anonymized: no author names, affiliations, or self-references that reveal identity; supplementary materials must also be anonymized.
- Resubmissions must link to the prior version and include a detailed explanation of revisions and point-by-point responses to previous reviews.
- Resubmissions with a previous meta-review score of 1.5 cannot be resubmitted in the next cycle; those with a score of 1 can never be resubmitted.
- Authors may not change the author list after submission without justification; removal of authors requires removal of their contributed content.
- Papers must include a required limitations section and optional ethical considerations section; missing these results in desk rejection.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Official conference siteCall for papersAuthors guidelinesCommon submission problemsAnnouncement for authors and reviewers submitting to January ARR December 22, 20Here
Last verified September 9, 2026