2025Q3 Reports

2025-07-06T17:07:05Z

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'''Reports from ACL Exec'''

* [[2025Q3 Reports: Office]] (Jenn Rachford)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Treasurer]] (David Yarowsky)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Secretary]] (Yang Feng, Shiqi Zhao)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Member at-large / SIGs&BIG]] (Vera Demberg)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Member at-large / Conference Officer]] (Yuki Arase)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Member at-large]] (Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: EACL]] (Preslav Nakov)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: NAACL]] (Graham Neubig)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: AACL]] (Xuanjing Huang)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor]] (Wei Lu)

'''Reports from ACL Exec-plus'''

* [[2025Q3 Reports: PCC Co-Chairs]] (Donia Scott, Daniel Bikel)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Information Director]] (Nitin Madnani)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Anthology Director]] (Matt Post)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Publicity Director]] (Sarvnaz Karimi)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Equity Director]] (Lu Wang)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Director]] (Chris Callison-Burch)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor]] (Asli Celikyilmaz, Roi Reichart, Dilek Hakkani Tur)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Publication Ethics Committee Co-chairs]] (Leon Derczynski, Kokil Jaidka, Aoife Cahill)
* [[2024Q3 Reports: Workshop Officers]] (Zeerak Talat, Terra Blevins)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Peer Review Committee]] (Anna Rogers, Roy Schwartz)

* [[2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief]]

'''ACL 2025'''

* [[2025Q3 Reports: General Chair]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Program Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Local Organization Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Workshop Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Tutorial Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Demo Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Student Research Workshop: Faculty Advisors]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Publication Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Handbook Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Sponsorship Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Diversity and Inclusion Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Publicity and Social Media Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Website and Conference APP Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Ethic Committee Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Student Volunteer Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Technical Open Review Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Virtual Infrastructure Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Internal Communications Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Industry Track Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Best Paper Committee Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Visa Chairs]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: Documentation Chair]]

'''Future ACL Conferences'''

* [[2025Q3 Reports: ACL 2026]] (Chengqing Zong)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: ACL 2027]] (Barbara Plank)
* [[2025Q3 Reports: ACL 2028]] (Luke Zettlemoyer)

'''SIG & BIG'''

* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGARAB]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGANN]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGDAT]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGEDU]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGEL]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGFinTech]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGFSM]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGGEN]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGHAN]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGHUM]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGLEX]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGMOL]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGMT]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGNLL]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGPARSE]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGREP]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSEA]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSEC]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSEM]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSLAV]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSLPAT]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSLT]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGSUMM]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGTURK]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGTYP]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGUR]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGWAC]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: SIGWrit]]
* [[2025Q3 Reports: EquiCL]]

'''Exec Meeting'''
* [[2025Q3 Agenda]]
* [[2025Q3 Minutes]]

2025Q3 Reports: Peer Review Committee

2025-07-06T17:05:21Z

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== ACL Standing Committee on Peer Review (COPR) 2025q3 report==

====Committee members:====
* Roy Schwartz (co-chair)
* Anna Rogers (co-chair)
* Steven Bethard
* Roi Reichart
* Yuki Arase
* Vivian Chen
* Barbara Plank
* Thamar Solorio
* Noah A. Smith

===Abstract===
The ACL peer-review committee was established in mid 2024 to devise ideas on improving the peer-review process in *ACL conferences. In the year that has passed, we ran a survey on various ideas for the community. We compiled the survey answers and based on them have made several actionable recommendations, which we describe below. For more details on the recommendations below, see our February and May 2025 reports. The recommendations below were all '''accepted by the ACL exec''' and are now implemented in the ARR May 2025 cycle.

===Moving from 6 ARR cycles per year to 5 cycles:===
We recommend moving to 5 annual ARR cycles, each 10 weeks long. This would increase the average cycle length by 10 days. The extra days will be allocated by ARR so as to allow for more time in the current pain points, including chasing late reviewers, author-reviewer discussion, AC writing meta-reviews and SACs chasing late ACs. This solution also allows for starting each cycle, and each corresponding task on Monday to allow time to fulfill it during weekdays. Finally, it leaves two weeks of downtime (typically the final two weeks of the calendar year, during the December-January holiday) without any active ARR cycle, which can be used for improving ARR infrastructure.

===Systematically provide incentives for great reviewers.===
We propose incentivizing great reviewers using various mechanisms, e.g., great reviewer/AC/SAC recognition and awards, and a system for promoting reviewers.

===Create a clear protocol for handling deeply problematic reviewers.===
We propose adding a mechanism, process and criteria for reporting 'highly irresponsible' reviewers/chairs. This mechanism can be used to penalize 'highly irresponsible' reviewers/chairs.

We are also currently considering other mechanisms for improving the peer review mechanism:

===Allow ARR to make Findings decisions===
The motivation comes from a frustration within the community of the discrepancy between ARR and the actual conferences. In particular, authors are surprised to receive a high score in their ARR meta review, but end up getting their paper rejected altogether. To mitigate this, as well as provide decisions earlier, we are considering shifting part of the conference decisions to ARR: ARR will decide for each paper whether or not it is accepted to Findings. As a result, papers with high scores will be guaranteed at least a Findings acceptance.
This proposal is currently still under consideration by the committee. In particular, we are currently analyzing ACL 2025 data to try to estimate the implications of such a proposal. We plan to decide on whether to recommend it or not in the coming months.

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