Typical schedule

Program Committee Schedule: ACL-19

Conference Handbook - Typical Schedule

Sept 2018: Call for nominations for reviewers, SACs (Senior Area Chairs), ACs (Area Chairs) and invited speakers
Dec 2018-Jan 2019: [PC chairs] Recruitment of SACs and ACs
Jan-Feb: [SACs] Recruitment of reviewers and additional ACs
March 4: Paper submission deadline (both long and short)
March 5-7: [PC chairs and assistants] check papers for format, assign them to areas
March 8-11: [SACs] check papers in each area, report COIs and other problems, recruit more reviewers (and ACs) if needed
Mar. 12-15: [SACs] allocate papers to reviewers and to ACs, and ask them to check their assignments
March 14-16: [ACs and reviewers] check their assignments and report COIs and other issues
March 17-April 9: Review period
April 10-23: [ACs] chase late reviewers, lead discussion
April 24-25: [ACs] finalise meta-reviews and recommendations
April 26-May 1: [SACs] rank papers and make initial decisions and recommendations
May 2-May 12: [PC chairs] make final decisions
May 13: [PC chairs] notification of acceptance
June 3: Camera ready due
July 28: Tutorials
July 29-31: Conference
August 1-2: Workshops and Co-located conferences

(Last update: Barbara Di Eugenio, Nov 2020. Note: the schedule for ACL 19 has been used, and not ACL 20, because ACL 20 had to content with the Covid pandemic)