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Use when planning an ACL project calendar across ACL Rolling Review cycles, covering cycle selection against conference commitment windows, backward planning from an ARR deadline, the review-response-meta-review timeline, commitment decisions, resubmission loops to later cycles, and camera-ready through ACL Anthology publication.
Passed 25 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 9 of 25 without it.
and 25 more in the full report
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As a historical reference anchor for ACL 2026 in San Diego, when were ARR January 2026 cycle reviews released to authors and what was the commitment deadline?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The response states March 9-10, 2026 for review release. | Missed | Passed |
| The response identifies March 14, 2026 as the commitment deadline for ACL 2026. | Missed | Passed |
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Use this as the project-management layer for an ACL paper. Unlike one-deadline conferences, ACL runs on a cycle-and-commit rhythm: pick an ARR cycle, ride its ~10-week review train, then decide at the commitment window whether to send the package to the conference or loop back for another cycle.
ACL is a conference with rotating per-edition program committees, not a journal: there is no standing editor and no APC. Costs are registration-based, and Anthology publication is free and open access.
ACL 2026 (64th edition, San Diego, July 2-7, 2026) drew from the ARR October 2025 and January 2026 cycles:
| Milestone | Date (verified for ACL 2026) |
|---|---|
| ARR January cycle submission | January 5, 2026 |
| Reviews + meta-reviews to authors | by March 9-10, 2026 |
| Commitment to ACL 2026 | March 14, 2026 |
| Acceptance notification | April 4, 2026 |
| Camera-ready | April 19, 2026 |
| Conference | July 2-7, 2026 |
The commitment table is the part authors get wrong, because it is set by ARR and not by
the conference: a cycle can only commit to the venues ARR lists against it, so "I will
aim for ACL" is a decision about which month to submit to ARR, often two or three
cycles ahead. As published on aclrollingreview.org/dates (re-read 2026-08-27):
| Venue | Final ARR submission | Commitment |
|---|---|---|
| EMNLP 2026 · AACL 2026 | May 25, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| EACL 2027 | August 3, 2026 | October 11, 2026 |
| NAACL 2027 · COLING 2027 | October 12, 2026 | December 20, 2026 |
| ACL 2027 (Kyoto, Aug 17-22, 2027) | January 2027 | not yet posted |
Two things follow that a reader working from the 2026 anchor above would get wrong.
test cases passed, vs 9 / 25 without
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