2026Q3 Agenda

Agenda of Q3 2026 ACL Exec Meeting

Meeting Time: 9:00—17:00，July 2nd, 2026 （PDT, UTC-7, San Diego Local Time）

Meeting Venue： Summitt Ballroom located on the 32nd floor，Manchester Grand

Hyatt San Diego - 1 Market Pl, San Diego, CA 92101

Morning session 09.00-12.00

1. The long-term submission system of COLING (Sina Zarrieß, 15min)

2. Supporting conference PC chairs incl. suggested PC submission policy update (Barbara, 15 min)

3. Preparation of AACL 2026 (Xuanjing online, 15min)

4. Revenue status of ACL 2026 and financial condition of ACL (David, 20min)

5. Promoting the recognition of Findings papers in the wider community (Jing, 15min) The topic arose in a recent ARR EiC meeting when ARR EiCs discussed an author's concern that their Findings paper might not get support from their organisation for conference travel because the status of Findings papers is not clear. Some EiCs also pointed out that Findings is not ranked in some major or well-recognised conference ranking lists, which may have also contributed to some authors' concerns.

6. Matters about SIGs (Raffaella online, 15min)

7. The use of LLMs in scientific workflows (Min-Yen Kan, Zhijing Jin, online, 20min)

8. Considerations on growth and how to handle the growth of submissions, incl. suggestion on involvement of reviewers that do not qualify yet (Barbara, 15 mins)

9. Peer Review Committee Report (Roy Schwartz, Anna Rogers, online, 30 mins)

10. The preparation for ACL 2027 (Yusuke Miyao, 20min)

Lunch (Until 1:00 PM)

Afternoon session 13.00-17.00

11. The status of ACL 2026 (Philipp Koehn, David Jurgens, Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, 15min)

12. Business meeting introduction (Barbara, 15min)

13. Matters related to ARR (Jing, Michael White, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Giovanni Da San Martino, 15min)

14. OpenReview support (David and Luke, 15min)

15. Ai-assisted fraudulent paper submissions (Philipp Koehn) & Repeated spamming of conference venues by specific authors (Barbara) (20 min) It got signaled to me that a pair of authors continues to spam our venues. This happened already at EACL workshops (they send a thinly-sliced paper to every single EACL workshop), and seems to continue so at ACL workshops.

16. Matters related to TACL (Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, 15min)

17. Matters related to CL (Wei online, 15min)

18. Upcoming ACL events (Jenn, 20min)

19. Formal agreements of responsibilities for General Chairs, PC's, Workshop chairs etc. upon accepting position (Jenn and David, 15min)