ACL 2022 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.

ACL Rolling Review

ACL 2022 and NAACL 2022 have decided to help implement the vision of using the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) for major conference submissions and have worked out a coordinated submission plan to allow for maximum flexibility for the authors. ARR is a new review system for *ACL conferences, where reviewing and acceptance of papers to publication venues is done in a two-step process: (1) centralized rolling review via ARR and (2) commitment to a publication venue (e.g., ACL 2022). The purpose of ACL Rolling Review is to improve efficiency and turnaround of reviewing in *ACL conferences while keeping the diversity (geographic and otherwise) and editorial freedom.

​Important Dates for ACL 2022

Anonymity period begins
1 month before submitting to the ACL Rolling Review

Paper submission deadline to ARR

(long & short papers that want to be considered for ACL 2022 need to be submitted to ARR latest by November 15, 2021)

November 15, 2021

Commitment deadline for ACL 2022

(deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to ACL 2022)

January 7, 2022

Notification of acceptance

February 20, 2022

Deadline for authors to withdraws papers from ACL 2022 or Findings of ACL 2022

February 23, 2022

​Camera-ready version of papers due

March 15, 2022

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").