thedixitjain EACL Workflow
Use this as the project-management skill for an EACL submission. EACL is a conference routed through ACL Rolling Review: it has no standing editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. The rotating leadership is the per-edition General Chair and Program Chairs (EACL 2027: General Chair Isabelle Augenstein; Program Chairs Malvina Nissim, Roi Reichart, Sara Tonelli — verified 2026-07-09). The cost model is registration; the Anthology is open access with no author fee. Replace every date below with the current official timetable.
The single-cycle calendar (EACL 2027 anchor)
Because EACL 2027 sits early in the year, the organizers named one viable ARR cycle — there is no fallback. That reshapes planning around a single hard gate:
| Milestone | EACL 2027 anchor date | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| ARR submission (only cycle) | August 3, 2026 | ARR |
| Rebuttal window | in-cycle (待核实 exact dates) | Authors |
| Meta-review | in-cycle | Action editor |
| Commitment to EACL | October 11, 2026 | Authors |
| Notification | November 12, 2026 | EACL |
| Camera-ready | November 26, 2026 | Authors |
| Conference | March 9-14, 2027, Athens | EACL |
All ARR/commitment deadlines run anywhere-on-Earth; confirm exact times on the live pages.
Backward-planning offsets
Work backwards from the single ARR deadline (D):
D-8 weeks: freeze scope; lock experiments (eacl-experiments)
D-6 weeks: first full draft; run the worked-example arc (eacl-writing-style)
D-4 weeks: related-work freshness sweep (eacl-related-work)
D-3 weeks: reproducibility + artifact packaging (eacl-reproducibility, eacl-artifact-evaluation)
D-2 weeks: Limitations + supplementary placement (eacl-supplementary)
D-1 week: checklist, anonymization, page count (eacl-submission)
D-3 days: smoke-check archive; submit early
Plan the fallback that is not a next cycle
- The usual *ACL "resubmit next cycle" safety net does not exist for a single-cycle EACL edition. Before the deadline, decide the re-route plan: if the paper misses or is rejected, which sibling venue (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AACL) is next, and the ARR reviews travel with it.
- This makes the submit-thin-or-wait decision from
eacl-submissiona real fork — resolve it early, not on deadline night.
At each gate
- Submission: run
eacl-submission; there is no second attempt this edition. - Rebuttal: run
eacl-author-response; fix what fits the window because you cannot defer. - Commitment: run
eacl-review-process; weigh main vs Findings vs re-route. - Camera-ready: run
eacl-camera-ready; author list is frozen from commitment.
Cadence caution
- EACL does not run every year and its calendar slot moves; do not carry the 2027 timing to another edition. Confirm the edition exists and reopen its CFP before planning.
Output format
[Timeline] <backward-planned dates from the single ARR deadline>
[Single-cycle risk] <readiness for the one gate>
[Rebuttal plan] <what can be fixed in-window>
[Commitment decision] <main / Findings / re-route>
[Re-route fallback] <named sibling venue + ARR-review carry-forward>
[Camera-ready + logistics] <deadlines, registration, presentation>
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills → EACL-Skills/skills/eacl-workflow/SKILL.md