ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy [D]

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ACL just announced on X how they are planning to handle the increased submission numbers. Interestingly enough, they call it "the proposal". My understanding is that, in a nutshell, each submission should come with someone who can review, otherwise it may only get a slot through a lottery. Additionally, they cap total submissions at 20 and first-author submissions per cycle at 5. What do you think of it? IMO it makes a lot of sense - especially given the large numbers of submissions without any