This communication is from the new ACL Peer Review Standing Committee: a new body tasked with making data-driven recommendations for the design and implementation of the peer review process at *CL conferences. You can read more about us here: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-peer-review-standing-committee
As our first task, we are soliciting community preferences on several core aspects of our community's current peer review process at the ACL Rolling Review: the decoupling of reviews and conference decisions, the length/frequency of review cycles, the commitment process, and the role and acceptance rate of Findings. These are high-stakes design decisions that will affect all the members of our community. To make the peer review process work as well as possible for different stakeholders, we need to know the different preferences that you may have as an author, as a reviewer, or as an area chair.
You can register your preferences by responding to this survey by November 4: https://tinyurl.com/arr-design-survey
The results will be used to inform the discussion, based on which the committee will make an official recommendation to the ACL exec for consideration of adoption. The committee will prepare a public report with the analysis of the results of the survey, as well as its discussion points. The survey response data will also be public to maximize transparency.
Looking forward to your input!
ACL Peer Review Standing Committee:
Anna Rogers, Thamar Solorio, Roy Schwartz, Steven Bethard, Roi Reichart, Yuki Arase, Vivian Chen, Barbara Plank, Noah Smith