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Revision as of 09:33, 17 June 2020
By the ACL Reviewing Committee (June 12, 2020)
The ACL reviewing committee has been working on improvements to the reviewing process, has recently introduced short term changes [add link here]. What follows below is a proposal for a more long-term transition to a new system for review in *ACL conferences, where reviewing and acceptance of papers to publication venues is done in a two-step process:
- Step 1 -- Centralized Rolling Review: Authors submit papers to a unified review pool with monthly deadlines (similarly to TACL). Review is handled by an action editor, and revision and resubmission of papers is allowed.
- Step 2 -- Submission to Publication Venue: When a conference/workshop/journal submission opportunity comes around, authors may submit already reviewed papers to the conference, workshop, or journal for publication. Program chairs (possibly with the help of senior area chairs) will then accept a subset of submitted papers for presentation.
These two steps already exist in current reviewing processes: reviewers and ACs write reviews and meta reviews, which then get sent to SACs and program chairs for final acceptance decisions. The main difference in this proposal is that the reviews and meta reviews are done in a centralized, rolling process, which provides numerous benefits, as described below.
Potential Advantages/Concerns
Potential positive points of this new system are highlighted in blue, concerns are highlighted in red (many of these are covered in detail in the following sections).
