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2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-06T19:22:36Z

Zhu2048: /* Open Issues Being Coped with */

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|600px]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month [https://aclrollingreview.org/key-changes-in-the-october-cycle/]. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-survey-what-should-acl-peer-review-process-be-future], the ACL Peer Review Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Peer_Review_Standing_Committee] recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/9/9e/COPR-5-cycle-report-to-publish.pdf].

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/areas] (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025] (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025]
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics] violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee-0] (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement [https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-adjustment/], in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues being Coped With =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-06T19:21:55Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|600px]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month [https://aclrollingreview.org/key-changes-in-the-october-cycle/]. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-survey-what-should-acl-peer-review-process-be-future], the ACL Peer Review Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Peer_Review_Standing_Committee] recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/9/9e/COPR-5-cycle-report-to-publish.pdf].

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/areas] (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025] (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025]
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics] violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee-0] (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement [https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-adjustment/], in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues Being Coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:29:24Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|600px]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month [https://aclrollingreview.org/key-changes-in-the-october-cycle/]. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-survey-what-should-acl-peer-review-process-be-future], the ACL Peer Review Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Peer_Review_Standing_Committee] recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/9/9e/COPR-5-cycle-report-to-publish.pdf].

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/areas] (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025] (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025]
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics] violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee-0] (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement [https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-adjustment/], in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:29:12Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|800px]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month [https://aclrollingreview.org/key-changes-in-the-october-cycle/]. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-survey-what-should-acl-peer-review-process-be-future], the ACL Peer Review Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Peer_Review_Standing_Committee] recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/9/9e/COPR-5-cycle-report-to-publish.pdf].

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/areas] (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025] (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025]
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics] violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee-0] (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement [https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-adjustment/], in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:14:11Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|upright 0.5|]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month [https://aclrollingreview.org/key-changes-in-the-october-cycle/]. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-survey-what-should-acl-peer-review-process-be-future], the ACL Peer Review Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Peer_Review_Standing_Committee] recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/9/9e/COPR-5-cycle-report-to-publish.pdf].

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/areas] (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025] (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR [https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025]
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics] violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee [https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publication-ethics-committee-0] (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement [https://aclrollingreview.org/reviewing-workload-adjustment/], in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:09:05Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|upright 0.5|]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the [https: https://aclrollingreview.org/key-changes-in-the-october-cycle/ 15th of every second month]. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:07:47Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|upright 0.5|]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
** May 2025:
*** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
*** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
*** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
*** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
*** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
** Feb 2025:
*** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
*** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
*** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
*** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
*** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
*** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
*** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
*** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:05:03Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|upright 0.5|]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
: May 2025:
* Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
* Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
* New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
* Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
* Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
* Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:03:43Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|upright 0.5|]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
* Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
: May 2025:
** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:01:41Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg|upright 0.5|]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.

: May 2025:
** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)

: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T03:00:13Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit 
: more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.

: May 2025:
** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)

: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T02:58:29Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

[[File:ARR submission numbers.jpg]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.

: May 2025:
** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)

: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T02:55:22Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

* '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]
** '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
** '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
** '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
** '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
** '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

[[File:ARR sumission numbers.jpg]]

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.

: May 2025:
** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)

: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T02:39:05Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

'''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]

* '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)

* '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam

* '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)

* '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)

* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
: with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After extensive deliberation and
: soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to
: switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

* Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
** From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
** In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
:: reviews required when submitting multiple papers.

: May 2025:
** Updating Area Keywords at ARR (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
** New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
** Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR
** Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)

: Feb 2025:
** Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
** Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Updating the workload requirement, in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
** Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
** Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
** Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues that are being coped with =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T02:31:56Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

'''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]

* '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)

* '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam

* '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)

* '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)

* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: From Oct 2022 to Feb 2025, ARR used 8-week cycles with submission deadlines on the 15th 
of every second month. After community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended a change to 
10-week cycles. (See committee report in the adminwiki.)

* '''Changes to Cope with Submission Volume''':

'''May 2025 (EMNLP Cycle)''':
** Updating area keywords (Leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migration to 10-week schedule (Lead: Anna)
** New workload model inspired by CVPR 2025 — all qualified authors must review (Leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (Lead: Jonathan)
** Contributed to development of incentive policy in peer review
** Updated OpenReview forms and documentation (Leads: Anna, Sarv)

'''Feb 2025 (ACL Cycle)''':
** Optimized AC assignments to reduce SAC load (Leads: Freda, Harold)
** Created workflow for ethics violation reports (Leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improved submission/review forms (Leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Revised workload requirements with ACL’25 PCs (Leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Updated guidelines and email templates (Lead: Anna)
** Developed timeline for 10-week cycle (Lead: Anna)
** Proposal for a development server (Lead: Sudipta)
** Participated in ACL peer review committee's incentive discussions

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

[https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T02:31:14Z

Zhu2048: /* Changes Made in the Past 6 Months */

= ARR Team Update =

'''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]

* '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)

* '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam

* '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)

* '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)

* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past Six Months =

* Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule

: Background: From Oct 2022 to Feb 2025, ARR used 8-week cycles with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended a change to 10-week cycles. (See committee report in the adminwiki.)

* '''Changes to Cope with Submission Volume''':

'''May 2025 (EMNLP Cycle)''':
** Updating area keywords (Leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migration to 10-week schedule (Lead: Anna)
** New workload model inspired by CVPR 2025 — all qualified authors must review (Leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (Lead: Jonathan)
** Contributed to development of incentive policy in peer review
** Updated OpenReview forms and documentation (Leads: Anna, Sarv)

'''Feb 2025 (ACL Cycle)''':
** Optimized AC assignments to reduce SAC load (Leads: Freda, Harold)
** Created workflow for ethics violation reports (Leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improved submission/review forms (Leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Revised workload requirements with ACL’25 PCs (Leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Updated guidelines and email templates (Lead: Anna)
** Developed timeline for 10-week cycle (Lead: Anna)
** Proposal for a development server (Lead: Sudipta)
** Participated in ACL peer review committee's incentive discussions

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

[https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

File:ARR submission numbers.jpg

2025-07-05T02:18:31Z

Zhu2048: ARR submission numbers

== Summary ==
ARR submission numbers

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T00:05:03Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

'''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]

* '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)

* '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam

* '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)

* '''New support members''': With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)

* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past 6 Months =

* Starting May 2025, ARR adopted a new 10-week cycle schedule.

**Background: From Oct 2022 to Feb 2025, ARR used 8-week cycles with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended a change to 10-week cycles. (See committee report in the adminwiki.)

* '''Changes to Cope with Submission Volume''':

'''May 2025 (EMNLP Cycle)''':
** Updating area keywords (Leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migration to 10-week schedule (Lead: Anna)
** New workload model inspired by CVPR 2025 — all qualified authors must review (Leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (Lead: Jonathan)
** Contributed to development of incentive policy in peer review
** Updated OpenReview forms and documentation (Leads: Anna, Sarv)

'''Feb 2025 (ACL Cycle)''':
** Optimized AC assignments to reduce SAC load (Leads: Freda, Harold)
** Created workflow for ethics violation reports (Leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improved submission/review forms (Leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Revised workload requirements with ACL’25 PCs (Leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Updated guidelines and email templates (Lead: Anna)
** Developed timeline for 10-week cycle (Lead: Anna)
** Proposal for a development server (Lead: Sudipta)
** Participated in ACL peer review committee's incentive discussions

* More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:

[https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-05T00:00:32Z

Zhu2048:

= ARR Team Update =

'''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]

* '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)

* '''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam

* '''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

* '''Tech Team''': Sudipta Kar (co-CTO)， Freda Shi (co-CTO)， Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)

* With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)

* '''Recruitment''': An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past 6 Months =

Starting May 2025, ARR adopted a new 10-week cycle schedule.

'''Background''': From Oct 2022 to Feb 2025, ARR used 8-week cycles with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended a change to 10-week cycles. (See committee report in the adminwiki.)

'''Changes to Cope with Submission Volume''':

* '''May 2025 (EMNLP Cycle)''':
** Updating area keywords (Leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migration to 10-week schedule (Lead: Anna)
** New workload model inspired by CVPR 2025 — all qualified authors must review (Leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (Lead: Jonathan)
** Contributed to development of incentive policy in peer review
** Updated OpenReview forms and documentation (Leads: Anna, Sarv)

* '''Feb 2025 (ACL Cycle)''':
** Optimized AC assignments to reduce SAC load (Leads: Freda, Harold)
** Created workflow for ethics violation reports (Leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improved submission/review forms (Leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Revised workload requirements with ACL’25 PCs (Leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Updated guidelines and email templates (Lead: Anna)
** Developed timeline for 10-week cycle (Lead: Anna)
** Proposal for a development server (Lead: Sudipta)
** Participated in ACL peer review committee's incentive discussions

More updates: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles

2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

2025-07-04T23:55:39Z

Zhu2048: Created page with "= ARR Team Update = '''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page] '''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing..."

= ARR Team Update =

'''Current Team''': [https://aclrollingreview.org/organization ARR Organization Page]

'''Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs)''': Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

'''Outgoing EiCs''': Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)

'''EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months''': Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam

'''Four new EiCs (Sep 2024)''': Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes

'''Tech Team''':
* Sudipta Kar (co-CTO)
* Freda Shi (co-CTO)
* Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)

'''New Support Members''' (with ACL support):
* Editorial Assistant: Sonakshi Chauhan
* Workflow Manager: Holy Lovenia

'''Recruitment''':
An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, expected to start in September/October 2025. There is an emphasis on recruiting editors from India and China due to high submission volume.

= Summary of Recent Submission Cycles =

More information can be found at: [https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/ ARR Statistics]

= Changes Made in the Past 6 Months =

Starting May 2025, ARR adopted a new 10-week cycle schedule.

'''Background''': From Oct 2022 to Feb 2025, ARR used 8-week cycles with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month. After community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended a change to 10-week cycles. (See committee report in the adminwiki.)

'''Changes to Cope with Submission Volume''':

* '''May 2025 (EMNLP Cycle)''':
** Updating area keywords (Leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Migration to 10-week schedule (Lead: Anna)
** New workload model inspired by CVPR 2025 — all qualified authors must review (Leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
** Updating reviewer sign-up forms (Lead: Jonathan)
** Contributed to development of incentive policy in peer review
** Updated OpenReview forms and documentation (Leads: Anna, Sarv)

* '''Feb 2025 (ACL Cycle)''':
** Optimized AC assignments to reduce SAC load (Leads: Freda, Harold)
** Created workflow for ethics violation reports (Leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
** Improved submission/review forms (Leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
** Revised workload requirements with ACL’25 PCs (Leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
** Updated guidelines and email templates (Lead: Anna)
** Developed timeline for 10-week cycle (Lead: Anna)
** Proposal for a development server (Lead: Sudipta)
** Participated in ACL peer review committee's incentive discussions

More updates: [https://aclrollingreview.org/changelog ARR Changelog]

= Open Issues =

* AI-generated papers
* AI-generated reviews
* Fake researcher profiles