The Association for Computational Linguistics has created ACLRollingReview, a system that is intended to be used in the long term by all *ACL conferences for reviewing. We have appointed three inaugural editors in chief of ACLRollingReview:
Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sebastian Riedel, Facebook AI and University College London
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
Graham Neubig, CMU, will serve as CTO of ACLRollingReview.
The purpose of ACLRollingReview is to improve efficiency and turnaround of ACL reviewing while keeping the diversity (geographic and otherwise) and editorial freedom that we value about our current organization of the reviewing process at ACL venues. ACLRollingReview will use OpenReview.net as its platform (but reviews will not be open in ACLRollingReview).
You can find the proposal that led to the creation of ACLRollingReview here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Scq9muRJhzAg0M1v-Sastgar-xDa7y8avXlu...
We are currently preparing a pilot for EMNLP 2021. If everything goes as planned, you will have two options for submitting a paper for acceptance and presentation at EMNLP 2021: either do a regular EMNLP conference submission or an ACLRollingReview submission.
We're excited to take this important step towards more efficient use of reviewer resources (i.e., everybody's time in our community), faster turnaround and higher-quality reviews!
ACLRollingReview editors in chief (Amanda Stent, Pascale Fung, Sebastian Riedel)
and
ACL reviewing committee (Amanda Stent, Ani Nenkova, Anna Korhonen, Barbara Di Eugenio, Graham Neubig, Hinrich Schuetze, Iryna Gurevych, Joel Tetreault, Marti Hearst, Matt Gardner, Nitin Madnani, Tim Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Yang Liu)