Call for Nominations of ARR co-Editors-in-Chief
The ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative is seeking nominations
(including self-nominations) for co-Editors-in-Chief (henceforth
“EiCs”, with the “co-” understood) positions, serving a 2.5-3-year
term*. Successful candidates should be able to start in
January/February 2027 or as early as possible.
ARR is increasingly used as the main submission channel for *CL
conferences. In the recent two cycles for ACL and EMNLP, ARR has
received over 10,000 and 17,000 submissions in each cycle,
respectively. To continue supporting these large cycles and to keep
improving the ARR reviewing process, especially with the recently
announced ARR sustainable reviewing policy, there is a pressing need
to scale the EiCs team managing the 10-week cycles. EiCs rotate to
lead reviewing cycles. However, the entire team coordinates and
oversees the following activities:
Recruit and manage (senior) area chairs ((S)ACs) and reviewers
Coordinate with conference program chairs, becoming guest PCs during
cycles tied to *CL conferences
Oversee review forms and CFPs
Review and update submission tracks
Make final desk reject decisions (in collaboration with PCs in
conference-associated cycles)
Provide reports to the ACL Exec
General work on the ARR system hosted on OpenReview
Coordinate with the rest of the ARR team, including support,
communications, etc.
Participate in review policy development in coordination with ACL peer
review committee, Publication Ethics Committee and other ACL bodies
The ideal candidate would have a strong publication record across more
than one NLP research area and a solid record as an outstanding member
of the *CL community. Experience serving in ARR as SAC and/or AC is
highly valued, as is having served as a past PC in one of our top *CL
conferences and/or as an EiC for one of our *CL journals. At a
minimum, candidates should have at least some experience in managing
submission and reviewing processes, for example, as workshop
co-organizers.
Being an ARR Editor-in-Chief is a major, ongoing time commitment
requiring, on average, ~5-10 hours a week in off-duty cycles, and
approximately ~25-30 hours a week in on-duty cycles. It can absorb a
significant amount of time during peak cycle phases. That is, when an
EiC is co-leading a cycle, it is expected that they can dedicate a
large portion of their time during these peak critical times. However,
contributing to our community this way is also a very rewarding
experience. We are aware that the ARR process needs to continue to
improve; we are looking for candidates with ideas on improving what we
do who are also eager to dedicate their energy and time to help us
implement better reviewing practices and workflows.
ARR is a diverse team, and we are determined to keep it that way. This
includes recruiting EiCs from different continents and backgrounds.
Due to the requirements we specified, senior members of the ACL
community are considered.
Nomination procedure
Nominations should be submitted via email to EiC member Sarvnaz Karimi
(sarvnaz.karimi [at] gmail.com), with a CC to EiC member Xiaodan Zhu
(xiaodan.zhu [at] queensu.ca), by November 15th, 2026, subject line
“Nomination for ARR co-EiC”, and should contain the following
information:
Name, email address, and website of the nominee
If not a self-nomination, confirmation that the nominee is willing to
serve (a dated excerpt of an email from the nominee suffices); if a
self-nomination, a statement affirming willingness to serve.
Statement of nominee’s goals/vision for ARR and/or relevant prior
experience and/or reasons for interest in the position. The length of
the statement is up to the nominator, but 1 paragraph may suffice, and
more than 4 paragraphs are not anticipated to be necessary.
Nominations will be acknowledged by reply email; should acknowledgment
not be received within 3 days, please resend your email.
The existing ARR EiC team will evaluate the nominations and make
decisions, after which the search committee chair will contact the
selected nominee via email.
* The last 6 months are not considered as full on EiCs but more of a
transition period to support training of new EiCs.