Dear Members of the ACL Community,
As our field has grown considerably over the last five years, it is
important that our reviewing process scales accordingly. For the
ACL2020 conference, we are creating a new review process with a goal to
better manage conflict of interest (COI) and better match submissions
with appropriate reviewers. It is important that you read this email
carefully and follow the instructions if you are a) planning to submit a
paper to ACL2020 and/or b) want to review for ACL2020.
BACKGROUND
The big picture is that we will ask all authors and reviewers to create
or update a “Global” START profile and fill out the ACL2020
Reviewer/Author Information Form. Your profile information will allow
the conference organizers to:
(1) Automatically detect conflicts of interest more effectively for
ACL2020 and future ACL conferences.
(2) Automatically assign papers that fall into your expertise area if
you serve as a reviewer for ACL2020. Essentially, we will more
effectively match papers with the right reviewers.
(3) Help avoid the problem of scrambling for reviewers which can delay
notifications and compromise review quality.
There are two important changes from prior conferences:
(1) By filling out the above, you are automatically entered into the
ACL2020 candidate reviewing pool.
(2) All authors will be automatically added to the reviewer candidate
pool. More details on this in Step 3 below.
WHAT TO DO
STEP 1: Create a START account (if you do not already have one).
For anyone who plans to submit a paper as an author or a co-author, and
for anyone who is interested in reviewing for ACL conferences, you will
need to have a START account. If you don’t already have one, please
create one by following the “New user” link at:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/papers/
STEP 2: Create or update your Global Profile in the START system by
December 9.
Log into your START account, go to “User” -> “Account information”->
“Update Profile”. At the bottom, click on “Please click here to update
your global user information”. Please provide all the information
requested on the form.
This is an important step. For all ACL2020 authors/co-authors, you will
need to have Global Profile set up in order to submit your papers. The
paper submission form will explicitly ask for a START username for each
author/co-author and whether a global profile is completed. This step is
not only for ACL2020, but also for future ACL conferences. Even if you
do not plan to submit a paper to ACL2020, you should still fill out the
Global Profile if you would like to be considered as a reviewer for the
conference and/or plan to submit a paper to future conferences.
STEP 3: Submit your ACL2020 Reviewer/Author Information Form by December
9.
As a final step, whether you are a reviewer or author, you must also
fill out this ACL2020 conference-specific form:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9028kaqAQ0OMdrEjlJf7WV1_1tZ1K-JCmL49YyhKe89UQTczV0xMNVhZSzhaWjVaNzJIS0U2MzNXUy4u
Because we are anticipating a record number of submissions, all the
authors will be automatically added to the reviewer candidate pool. We
do understand that situations may arise that would prevent you from
reviewing for ACL2020. In this case, please indicate that in the form
(Question 12). It’s important to note that your paper will be
desk-rejected without review if the review form is not filled out for
all authors.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
As a reviewing committee member, you are expected to review up to 6
papers submissions.
Here are some key dates of the conference for your reference:
December 09, 2019: Completion of START Global Profile
December 09, 2019: Completion of ACL2020 Reviewer/Author Information
Form
December 09, 2019: ACL Paper Submission Deadline (long and short papers)
January 17, 2020: Review Period starts
February 12, 2020: Author Response period starts
February 17, 2020: Author Response period ends
April 03, 2020: Accept / Reject Notifications
July 5, 2020: Conference starts
Your cooperation is critical to the success of ACL2020 and future ACL
conferences. We appreciate your time and effort!
Best Regards,
Joyce Chai, Natalie Schuler, and Joel Tetreault
Program Co-Chairs, ACL 2020
https://acl2020.org/
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