Reflections as an ACL ARR Reviewer
The scores for ACL 2025’s May ARR cycle have been released, and I imagine the academic community is busy again—authors scrambling to write rebuttals, area chairs frantically searching for emergency reviewers. Yet as a reviewer, I feel exceptionally relaxed because the papers I reviewed scored so low that I doubt the authors will even bother with rebuttals, which means I won’t need to respond either. This round, I was assigned papers in RAG and Hallucination directions....