Community announcement: Submission dates and process for EACL, NAACL and ACL 2024
(Excerpt from https://www.aclweb.org/portal/sites/default/files/Submission%20Dates%20and%20Process%20for%20EACL_NAACL%20and%20ACL%202024-2.pdf)

The use of an ARR-only submission process has been agreed by Program Chairs (PCs), and
General Chairs of the upcoming conferences in 2024 (EACL, NAACL and ACL, referred to in
this document as *CL conferences), with feedback from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Initiative, the ARR board, and the ACL Exec. There will be no direct submission option. This decision was announced during the ACL 2023 business meeting.

The purpose of this communication is to update those that were not present, and to provide
more details about the coordinated plan.

In this document, submission deadline refers to the paper submission to the ARR reviewing
portal in Open Review. Commitment deadline refers to the deadline for authors to submit their fully ARR-reviewed submission to the conference portal for consideration at that conference.

Decisions available refer to the deadline by which conference PCs will send notifications to paper authors.

The dates and cycles relevant for this coordinated submission process are as follows:
● 15 Oct 2023: October ARR Cycle - EACL submission deadline
● 15 Dec 2023: ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of October cycle
● 15 Dec 2023: December ARR Cycle - NAACL submission deadline
● 15 Feb 2024: ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of December cycle
● 15 Feb 2024: February ARR Cycle - ACL submission deadline
● 15 Apr 2024: ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of February cycle
● 20 Apr 2024: ACL commitment deadline
● 15 May 2024: ACL decisions available

Each cycle will include its corresponding author response period before the meta-review stage. Exact time will be announced in the conference CFPs. Relevant aspects of the plan above are discussed below.

Anonymity period

Unless the ACL enacts a change in policy, each conference will follow the current ACL wide
anonymity embargo policy where authors cannot release a deanonymized preprint during the
review cycle or between commitment and decisions, plus one month before submission and
commitment. More information here: ARR Call For Papers and ARR Author instructions.

Acceptance rates

To calculate each conference’s acceptance rate, we will record, at the time of submission to ARR, authors’ intention to commit to one of the three conferences. This doesn’t imply a hard commitment. Authors may choose to commit to a different venue after receiving their reviews.