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Must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work with concrete evaluation and analysis.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 - May 2026
ACL Rolling Review - May 2026
May 01 2026Official conference site Link status unverified
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) is a centralized peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics that streamlines the submission and review process for top-tier NLP conferences. It operates on a two-month cycle, allowing authors to submit papers once and then commit them to multiple participating venues after receiving reviews, promoting efficiency and iterative improvement without requiring resubmission to each conference separately.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
May 26, 2026
AoE
Conference timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
May 26, 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Must describe original and unpublished work with a small, focused contribution.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.
Approaches to low-resource settings
Submissions focusing on methods for scenarios with limited data or computational resources.
Approaches low compute settings-efficiency
Submissions focused on computational efficiency and low-resource deployment.
Data resources
Submissions introducing new datasets or resources for NLP research.
Data analysis
Submissions involving analysis of existing data to derive new insights.
Model analysis & interpretability
Submissions analyzing or interpreting model behavior, representations, or decisions.
NLP engineering experiment
Submissions reporting on engineering efforts or system implementations in NLP.
Publicly available software and/or pre-trained models
Submissions releasing open-source tools, libraries, or models for the community.
Position papers
Submissions presenting a viewpoint, argument, or perspective on a topic in NLP.
Reproduction study
Submissions attempting to reproduce prior work and reporting on success or failure.
Surveys
Submissions that go beyond standard literature reviews by establishing new interdisciplinary connections or comprehensive overviews.
Theory
Submissions presenting theoretical contributions to computational linguistics or NLP.
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 the specified deadline; failure to fulfill assignments results in ineligibility to submit or commit in the next cycle.
- Papers must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere during the ARR review period.
- Dual submission to any other journal or conference is strictly prohibited, including during the commitment process.
- Papers must be anonymized: no author names, affiliations, or self-references that reveal identity; supplementary materials must also be anonymized.
- Submissions must include a required limitations section and optional ethical considerations section; missing these results in desk rejection.
- 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; scores of 1 can never be resubmitted.
- Authors may not change the author list after submission except with justification, and removal of authors requires removal of their contributed content.
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