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2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:50:24Z

Neveol:

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New student members in 2025:
* '''Punya Syon Pandey''' – [mailto:punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Esther Gan''' – [mailto:esther.gan@u.nus.edu esther.gan@u.nus.edu] (National University of Singapore)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==

The ethics committee has continued to engage in sharing information about ethics and ethics policies with the community. Some of the main actions conducted include the following:

* Update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]
* Update of the [[ https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/ethics-reading-list/ Ethics reading list]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/roles/ "Roles in NLP"]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/chairs-metadata/ Ethics Committee Chairs Metadata at CL/NLP Conferences]]

== Social Impact Award ==
* AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==
* The AEC provided recommendations on the licence agreement for the ARR reviewing corpus

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:46:57Z

Neveol: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New student members in 2025:
* '''Punya Syon Pandey''' – [mailto:punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Esther Gan''' – [mailto:esther.gan@u.nus.edu esther.gan@u.nus.edu] (National University of Singapore)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==

The ethics committee has continued to engage in sharing information about ethics and ethics policies with the community. Some of the main actions conducted include the following:

* Update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]
* Update of the [[ https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/ethics-reading-list/ Ethics reading list]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/roles/ "Roles in NLP"]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/chairs-metadata/ Ethics Committee Chairs Metadata at CL/NLP Conferences]]

== Social Impact Award ==
* AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==
* The AEC provided recommendations on the licence agreement for the ARR reviewing corpus

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:45:29Z

Neveol: /* Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New student members in 2025:
* '''Punya Syon Pandey''' – [mailto:punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca punya.pandey@mail.utoronto.ca] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Esther Gan''' – [mailto:esther.gan@u.nus.edu esther.gan@u.nus.edu] (National University of Singapore)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
* Update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]
* Update of the [[ https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/ethics-reading-list/ Ethics reading list]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/roles/ "Roles in NLP"]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/chairs-metadata/ Ethics Committee Chairs Metadata at CL/NLP Conferences]]

== Social Impact Award ==
* AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==
* The AEC provided recommendations on the licence agreement for the ARR reviewing corpus

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:40:22Z

Neveol: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
* Update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]
* Update of the [[ https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/ethics-reading-list/ Ethics reading list]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/roles/ "Roles in NLP"]]
* Creation of an information page about [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/resources/chairs-metadata/ Ethics Committee Chairs Metadata at CL/NLP Conferences]]

== Social Impact Award ==
* AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==
* The AEC provided recommendations on the licence agreement for the ARR reviewing corpus

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:35:22Z

Neveol: /* ACL Ethics Committee Scope */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
* update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]

== Social Impact Award ==
* AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==
* The AEC provided recommendations on the licence agreement for the ARR reviewing corpus

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:30:14Z

Neveol: /* Social Impact Award */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
* update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]

== Social Impact Award ==
* AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:30:00Z

Neveol: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
* update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]

== Social Impact Award ==
- AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:28:20Z

Neveol: /* Ethical Reviewing Guidelines */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
- update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]

== Social Impact Award ==
- AEC reached out to ACL* conference organizers to join the award committee for the social impact award. AEC members were actively involved in award selection for EACL 2026 and this is expected to continue for future conferences.

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T16:24:44Z

Neveol: /* Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach */

Prior Reports: [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2025Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '25 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q1]] [[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q3_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs '24 Q3]]

''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2025 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''

''The content of this page is work in progress as of March 9, 2026.''

== Overview ==
The purview of the ACL Ethics Committee (AEC) is to define a set of guidelines and processes for dealing with ethical concerns, coordinate with the *ACL event ethics chairs on ethical reviewing, and coordinate the ethics resources (Source: [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Formation_of_the_ACL_Ethics_Committee ACLWeb]).

Our committee is structured with three subcommittees:

* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]
* [[#ACL Ethics Committee Scope]]

Originally, there was a fourth '''Committee Procedure''' subcommittee, but because we have not made much progress, we have dissolved this subcommittee and may choose to re-enact it when needed. We discuss each of the three committees' progress, after first discussing changes in leadership.

== Changes in Leadership and Membership Composition ==

We would like to put on the record thanks to our at-large committee members and past co-chairs from the previous term. As the terms of the previous committee members came to an end, new members were invited to join. This year, the first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, January 27, 2026. In selecting the new members, we carefully considered geographic and gender diversity, as well as outstanding expertise in ethics in NLP.

* '''Monojit Choudhury''' – [mailto:monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae monojit.choudhury@mbzuai.ac.ae] (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi)

New chairs in 2025:
* '''Zhijing Jin''' – [mailto:jinzhi@ethz.ch jinzhi@ethz.ch] (University of Toronto, Canada)
* '''Aurélie Névéol''' – [mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr] (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)

As per our ratified convention, the meetings are held every last Wednesday of the month, but rotating 8 hours in time of meeting, so as not to overly (dis)advantage any member in any particular timezone.

== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==
- update of the ACL ethics committee website with ethics tutorial material from the [[https://ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_2025/ ACL 2025 material]]

== Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==

== ACL Ethics Committee Scope ==

2026Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs

2026-03-10T15:04:06Z

Neveol: FIrst draft of 2026 Q1 report

2024Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs

2024-08-10T13:22:16Z

Neveol: /* Overview of Ethics reviewing: */

== Overview of Ethics reviewing: ==

Overall, 391 papers were flagged for ethics review. 75 were identified as needing a full ethics review. About 10 papers received comments from the chairs based on minor issues identified at flagging time.

About 20 papers were desk rejected and/or withdrawn by the authors, waiving the need for ethics review. All other papers were reviewed by at least one ethics chair to determine the need for ethics reviewing.

Papers identified for ethics review were reviewed by one reviewer and one chair, to arrive at decisions: 1 no issue, 24 minor issues, 27 major issues, 4 reject.

* Among the four papers for which the ethics committee recommended rejection, one was committed to ACL and it was rejected.
* Among the 26 papers with serious issues, seven were committed to ACL. Four among these were rejected. one was accepted to findings and two to the main conference. The three accept decisions were based on author feedback and SAC recommendations, and we reiterated the ethics review in our feedback to the authors.
* Among the 24 papers with minor issues, 19 were committed to ACL. Seven were rejected, five were accepted to findings and seven to the main conference.
Accepted papers were reviewed by PCs to ensure ethics reviewing was taken into account in e.g., discussion.

== Topics in Ethics reviewing: ==

Three themes were very salient in the papers reviewed by the ethics committee: corpus development (including corpus use agreements and annotation procedures), attacks on LLMs and adequacy between LLMs and applications.

Data use agreements should be carefully considered when building a corpus of using a corpus for experiments. Special consideration has to be given to the privacy implication of using Large Language Models or other NLP tools through APIs. For example, Reddit Terms and Conditions state "scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior written consent is prohibited"; the MIMIC data use agreement states "the PhysioNet Credentialed Data Use Agreement explicitly prohibits sharing access to the data with third parties, including sending it through APIs provided by companies like OpenAI, or using it in online platforms like ChatGPT." Furthermore, certain types of personal data are sensitive by nature (e.g., health or political information) and should not be used without a person's consent. Careful consideration is also needed when annotators are recruited to produced annotations for corpora. Such research should include reports of the annotators background (expertise and/or demographic when relevant) as well as compensation, which has been highlighted as a salient issue in crowd working set-ups (see, e.g., Fort et al, 2011).

Safety concerns regarding Large Language Models yield research into vulnerability of the models. We recommend that such research should be conducted according to norms established by the Ethical security research community to minimize harm (eg https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2010/msp2010020067.pdf), such as disclosing intent of the research, seeking legal guidance before starting the research, being proactive about data protection, and notifying the companies in whose products they identify vulnerabilities *prior* to publication of the vulnerabilities, and giving the companies an opportunity to remediate the vulnerabilities (publication can proceed even if the vulnerabilities are remediated).

Large Language Models are used for a range of applications, including some that warrant caution and may require discussion within the community regarding their appropriateness. These include *predictive* applications where the outcome of system predictions, whether they are monitored by human experts or not, can have significant life impact on system users or the general public. Applications to sensitive fields such as health, law or education require special attention as do applications where predictions may affect protected demographic categories.

== Recommendations for future conferences ==

Prior to review period:
* on-boarding of ethics chairs with information regarding tools and processes. Open Review is a complex system and having to manage ethics reviewing on the side is unexpected.
* defining the synergy/collaboration between conference ethics chars and ARR ethics chairs
* including ethics chairs in follow-up processes after the acceptance phase (e.g. notifications of paper acceptance status)

Major issue:
* anticipating review volume -> reviewer/chair recruitment; sharing statistics of the ethics reviewing and processes from several conference cycles would be helpful.

Technical issues:
* integration of ethics reviewing into ARR; reviewer contact and commitment to reviewing is done outside ARR, follow-up of the review process is done outside ARR
* it would be useful to have notifications for ethics review submission
* education of reviewers may be needed (confusion between messages related to ethics reviewing vs. regular reviewing)

2024Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs

2024-08-10T13:17:35Z

Neveol: /* Statistics: */

== Overview of Ethics reviewing: ==

Overall, 391 papers were flagged for ethics review. 75 were identified as needing a full ethics review. About 10 papers received comments from the chairs based on minor issues identified at flagging time.

About 20 papers were desk rejected and/or withdrawn by the authors, waiving the need for ethics review. All other papers were reviewed by at least one ethics chair to determine the need for ethics reviewing.

Papers identified for ethics review were reviewed by one reviewer and one chair, to arrive at decisions: 1 no issue, 24 minor issues, 27 major issues, 4 reject.

* Among the four papers for which the ethics committee recommended rejection, one was committed to ACL and it was rejected.
* Among the 26 papers with serious issues, seven were committed to ACL. Four among these were rejected. one was accepted to findings and two to the main conference. The three accept decisions were based on author feedback and SAC recommendations, and we reiterated the ethics review in our feedback to the authors.
* Among the 24 papers with minor issues, 19 were committed to ACL. Seven were rejected, five were accepted to findings and seven to the main conference.
Accepted papers were reviewed to ensure ethics reviewing was taken into account in e.g., discussion.

== Topics in Ethics reviewing: ==

Three themes were very salient in the papers reviewed by the ethics committee: corpus development (including corpus use agreements and annotation procedures), attacks on LLMs and adequacy between LLMs and applications.

Data use agreements should be carefully considered when building a corpus of using a corpus for experiments. Special consideration has to be given to the privacy implication of using Large Language Models or other NLP tools through APIs. For example, Reddit Terms and Conditions state "scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior written consent is prohibited"; the MIMIC data use agreement states "the PhysioNet Credentialed Data Use Agreement explicitly prohibits sharing access to the data with third parties, including sending it through APIs provided by companies like OpenAI, or using it in online platforms like ChatGPT." Furthermore, certain types of personal data are sensitive by nature (e.g., health or political information) and should not be used without a person's consent. Careful consideration is also needed when annotators are recruited to produced annotations for corpora. Such research should include reports of the annotators background (expertise and/or demographic when relevant) as well as compensation, which has been highlighted as a salient issue in crowd working set-ups (see, e.g., Fort et al, 2011).

Safety concerns regarding Large Language Models yield research into vulnerability of the models. We recommend that such research should be conducted according to norms established by the Ethical security research community to minimize harm (eg https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2010/msp2010020067.pdf), such as disclosing intent of the research, seeking legal guidance before starting the research, being proactive about data protection, and notifying the companies in whose products they identify vulnerabilities *prior* to publication of the vulnerabilities, and giving the companies an opportunity to remediate the vulnerabilities (publication can proceed even if the vulnerabilities are remediated).

Large Language Models are used for a range of applications, including some that warrant caution and may require discussion within the community regarding their appropriateness. These include *predictive* applications where the outcome of system predictions, whether they are monitored by human experts or not, can have significant life impact on system users or the general public. Applications to sensitive fields such as health, law or education require special attention as do applications where predictions may affect protected demographic categories.

== Recommendations for future conferences ==

Prior to review period:
* on-boarding of ethics chairs with information regarding tools and processes. Open Review is a complex system and having to manage ethics reviewing on the side is unexpected.
* defining the synergy/collaboration between conference ethics chars and ARR ethics chairs
* including ethics chairs in follow-up processes after the acceptance phase (e.g. notifications of paper acceptance status)

Major issue:
* anticipating review volume -> reviewer/chair recruitment; sharing statistics of the ethics reviewing and processes from several conference cycles would be helpful.

Technical issues:
* integration of ethics reviewing into ARR; reviewer contact and commitment to reviewing is done outside ARR, follow-up of the review process is done outside ARR
* it would be useful to have notifications for ethics review submission
* education of reviewers may be needed (confusion between messages related to ethics reviewing vs. regular reviewing)

2024Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs

2024-08-10T13:15:51Z

Neveol: /* Statistics: */

== Statistics: ==

Overall, 391 papers were flagged for ethics review. 75 were identified as needing a full ethics review. About 10 papers received comments from the chairs based on minor issues identified at flagging time.

About 20 papers were desk rejected and/or withdrawn by the authors, waiving the need for ethics review.

Papers identified for ethics review were reviewed by one reviewer and one chair, to arrive at decisions: 1 no issue, 24 minor issues, 27 major issues, 4 reject.
* Among the four papers for which the ethics committee recommended rejection, one was committed to ACL and it was rejected.
* Among the 26 papers with serious issues, seven were committed to ACL. Four among these were rejected. one was accepted to findings and two to the main conference. The three accept decisions were based on author feedback and SAC recommendations, and we reiterated the ethics review in our feedback to the authors.
* Among the 24 papers with minor issues, 19 were committed to ACL. Seven were rejected, five were accepted to findings and seven to the main conference.
Accepted papers were reviewed to ensure ethics reviewing was taken into account in e.g., discussion.

== Topics in Ethics reviewing: ==

Three themes were very salient in the papers reviewed by the ethics committee: corpus development (including corpus use agreements and annotation procedures), attacks on LLMs and adequacy between LLMs and applications.

Data use agreements should be carefully considered when building a corpus of using a corpus for experiments. Special consideration has to be given to the privacy implication of using Large Language Models or other NLP tools through APIs. For example, Reddit Terms and Conditions state "scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior written consent is prohibited"; the MIMIC data use agreement states "the PhysioNet Credentialed Data Use Agreement explicitly prohibits sharing access to the data with third parties, including sending it through APIs provided by companies like OpenAI, or using it in online platforms like ChatGPT." Furthermore, certain types of personal data are sensitive by nature (e.g., health or political information) and should not be used without a person's consent. Careful consideration is also needed when annotators are recruited to produced annotations for corpora. Such research should include reports of the annotators background (expertise and/or demographic when relevant) as well as compensation, which has been highlighted as a salient issue in crowd working set-ups (see, e.g., Fort et al, 2011).

Safety concerns regarding Large Language Models yield research into vulnerability of the models. We recommend that such research should be conducted according to norms established by the Ethical security research community to minimize harm (eg https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2010/msp2010020067.pdf), such as disclosing intent of the research, seeking legal guidance before starting the research, being proactive about data protection, and notifying the companies in whose products they identify vulnerabilities *prior* to publication of the vulnerabilities, and giving the companies an opportunity to remediate the vulnerabilities (publication can proceed even if the vulnerabilities are remediated).

Large Language Models are used for a range of applications, including some that warrant caution and may require discussion within the community regarding their appropriateness. These include *predictive* applications where the outcome of system predictions, whether they are monitored by human experts or not, can have significant life impact on system users or the general public. Applications to sensitive fields such as health, law or education require special attention as do applications where predictions may affect protected demographic categories.

== Recommendations for future conferences ==

Prior to review period:
* on-boarding of ethics chairs with information regarding tools and processes. Open Review is a complex system and having to manage ethics reviewing on the side is unexpected.
* defining the synergy/collaboration between conference ethics chars and ARR ethics chairs
* including ethics chairs in follow-up processes after the acceptance phase (e.g. notifications of paper acceptance status)

Major issue:
* anticipating review volume -> reviewer/chair recruitment; sharing statistics of the ethics reviewing and processes from several conference cycles would be helpful.

Technical issues:
* integration of ethics reviewing into ARR; reviewer contact and commitment to reviewing is done outside ARR, follow-up of the review process is done outside ARR
* it would be useful to have notifications for ethics review submission
* education of reviewers may be needed (confusion between messages related to ethics reviewing vs. regular reviewing)

2024Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs

2024-08-10T13:14:00Z

Neveol: /* Recommendations for future conferences */

== Statistics: ==

Overall, 391 papers were flagged for ethics review. 75 were identified as needing a full ethics review. About 10 papers received comments from the chairs based on minor issues identified at flagging time.

About 20 papers were desk rejected and/or withdrawn by the authors, waiving the need for ethics review.

Papers identified for ethics review were reviewed by one reviewer and one chair, to arrive at decisions: 1 no issue, 24 minor issues, 27 major issues, 4 reject.

== Topics in Ethics reviewing: ==

Three themes were very salient in the papers reviewed by the ethics committee: corpus development (including corpus use agreements and annotation procedures), attacks on LLMs and adequacy between LLMs and applications.

Data use agreements should be carefully considered when building a corpus of using a corpus for experiments. Special consideration has to be given to the privacy implication of using Large Language Models or other NLP tools through APIs. For example, Reddit Terms and Conditions state "scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior written consent is prohibited"; the MIMIC data use agreement states "the PhysioNet Credentialed Data Use Agreement explicitly prohibits sharing access to the data with third parties, including sending it through APIs provided by companies like OpenAI, or using it in online platforms like ChatGPT." Furthermore, certain types of personal data are sensitive by nature (e.g., health or political information) and should not be used without a person's consent. Careful consideration is also needed when annotators are recruited to produced annotations for corpora. Such research should include reports of the annotators background (expertise and/or demographic when relevant) as well as compensation, which has been highlighted as a salient issue in crowd working set-ups (see, e.g., Fort et al, 2011).

Safety concerns regarding Large Language Models yield research into vulnerability of the models. We recommend that such research should be conducted according to norms established by the Ethical security research community to minimize harm (eg https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2010/msp2010020067.pdf), such as disclosing intent of the research, seeking legal guidance before starting the research, being proactive about data protection, and notifying the companies in whose products they identify vulnerabilities *prior* to publication of the vulnerabilities, and giving the companies an opportunity to remediate the vulnerabilities (publication can proceed even if the vulnerabilities are remediated).

Large Language Models are used for a range of applications, including some that warrant caution and may require discussion within the community regarding their appropriateness. These include *predictive* applications where the outcome of system predictions, whether they are monitored by human experts or not, can have significant life impact on system users or the general public. Applications to sensitive fields such as health, law or education require special attention as do applications where predictions may affect protected demographic categories.

== Recommendations for future conferences ==

Prior to review period:
* on-boarding of ethics chairs with information regarding tools and processes. Open Review is a complex system and having to manage ethics reviewing on the side is unexpected.
* defining the synergy/collaboration between conference ethics chars and ARR ethics chairs
* including ethics chairs in follow-up processes after the acceptance phase (e.g. notifications of paper acceptance status)

Major issue:
* anticipating review volume -> reviewer/chair recruitment; sharing statistics of the ethics reviewing and processes from several conference cycles would be helpful.

Technical issues:
* integration of ethics reviewing into ARR; reviewer contact and commitment to reviewing is done outside ARR, follow-up of the review process is done outside ARR
* it would be useful to have notifications for ethics review submission
* education of reviewers may be needed (confusion between messages related to ethics reviewing vs. regular reviewing)

2024Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs

2024-08-10T13:03:18Z

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== Statistics: ==

Overall, 391 papers were flagged for ethics review. 75 were identified as needing a full ethics review. About 10 papers received comments from the chairs based on minor issues identified at flagging time.

About 20 papers were desk rejected and/or withdrawn by the authors, waiving the need for ethics review.

Papers identified for ethics review were reviewed by one reviewer and one chair, to arrive at decisions: 1 no issue, 24 minor issues, 27 major issues, 4 reject.

== Topics in Ethics reviewing: ==

Three themes were very salient in the papers reviewed by the ethics committee: corpus development (including corpus use agreements and annotation procedures), attacks on LLMs and adequacy between LLMs and applications.

Data use agreements should be carefully considered when building a corpus of using a corpus for experiments. Special consideration has to be given to the privacy implication of using Large Language Models or other NLP tools through APIs. For example, Reddit Terms and Conditions state "scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior written consent is prohibited"; the MIMIC data use agreement states "the PhysioNet Credentialed Data Use Agreement explicitly prohibits sharing access to the data with third parties, including sending it through APIs provided by companies like OpenAI, or using it in online platforms like ChatGPT." Furthermore, certain types of personal data are sensitive by nature (e.g., health or political information) and should not be used without a person's consent. Careful consideration is also needed when annotators are recruited to produced annotations for corpora. Such research should include reports of the annotators background (expertise and/or demographic when relevant) as well as compensation, which has been highlighted as a salient issue in crowd working set-ups (see, e.g., Fort et al, 2011).

Safety concerns regarding Large Language Models yield research into vulnerability of the models. We recommend that such research should be conducted according to norms established by the Ethical security research community to minimize harm (eg https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2010/msp2010020067.pdf), such as disclosing intent of the research, seeking legal guidance before starting the research, being proactive about data protection, and notifying the companies in whose products they identify vulnerabilities *prior* to publication of the vulnerabilities, and giving the companies an opportunity to remediate the vulnerabilities (publication can proceed even if the vulnerabilities are remediated).

Large Language Models are used for a range of applications, including some that warrant caution and may require discussion within the community regarding their appropriateness. These include *predictive* applications where the outcome of system predictions, whether they are monitored by human experts or not, can have significant life impact on system users or the general public. Applications to sensitive fields such as health, law or education require special attention as do applications where predictions may affect protected demographic categories.

== Recommendations for future conferences ==

Prior to review period:
* on-boarding of ethics chairs with information regarding tools and processes
* defining the synergy/collaboration between conference ethics chars and ARR ethics chairs
* including ethics chairs in follow-up processes after the acceptance phase (e.g. notifications of paper acceptance status)

Major issue:
* anticipating review volume -> reviewer/chair recruitment;

Technical issues:
* integration of ethics reviewing into ARR; reviewer contact and commitment to reviewing is done outside ARR, follow-up of the review process is done outside ARR
* it would be useful to have notifications for ethics review submission
* education of reviewers may be needed (confusion between messages related to ethics reviewing vs. regular reviewing)