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ACL desk rejects papers citing prior ARR review, user seeks recourse

A user on the r/MachineLearning subreddit is seeking advice after their papers were desk rejected by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for August 2026. The rejection cited previous reviews for ARR, which the user states never occurred. They are asking for guidance on how to proceed with this situation. AI

RANK_REASON User query about a paper submission issue to a research conference. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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ACL desk rejects papers citing prior ARR review, user seeks recourse

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/malakulmout347 ·

    acl arr august 2026 (desk rejected ) [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have got two papers which got desk rejected by PC saying they are previously got reviewed in arr. But those paper never got submitted ever. Any idea what can be done? </p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddi…