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Authors’ Guide to OpenReview

Subject to change

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Outline

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Step 1: Create an Account in OpenReview

Go to https://openreview.net/login and click on New User to sign up for an account (associate it with the email you were invited with)

When you create your account there are several key fields you need to fill in

  1. In Personal Links please include the Semantic Scholar URL and DBLP url and click “ADD DBLP Papers to profile”
  2. Education and career history
  3. Advisor and other relation (to compute COI)
  4. Expertise (please include keywords related to your area, not generic like natural language processing)

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Make sure you click to add DBLP papers to profile. Only added papers are used

Make sure to include Semantic Scholar URL

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Finding your OpenReview ID

Log in to OpenReview

Click on your name in the top right, then on Profile

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Your ID is the last part of the URL for the resulting page

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Finding The Author Console

Log in at https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/ARR/

Click on the month of interest

Scroll down until you see (once the site opens on the 1st of the month, i.e., two weeks before the deadline):

Click here!

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Making A Submission, Part One

Log in at https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/ARR/

Click on the month of interest

Scroll down until you see the submission button (note, this only becomes available on the 1st of the month, i.e., two weeks before the deadline)

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Click here!

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Making a Submission, Part Two

For all submissions:

  1. Fill out all required fields
  2. Title
  3. Authors
  4. Abstract
  5. PDF
    • Be sure to follow the instructions regarding content, format and length from the Call for Papers!
  6. Preprint
    • ARR hosts anonymous preprints if you opt-in!
  7. Consent
    • We are building a corpus of reviews, and your reviews can be in it if you and the reviewers opt-in!
  8. You are welcome also to complete the optional fields
  9. TL;DR
  10. Software
  11. Data
  12. Existing Preprints
    • Note that if there are existing non-anonymous preprints of your paper, and you do not provide them here, there may be confusion if your reviewers find them
  13. Preferred Venue
    • eg ACL 2022, NAACL 2022

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Making a Submission, Part Three: Resubmissions

For resubmissions:

3) Fill out these fields:

  • Previous URL
    • The URL to your most recent (re)submission of this paper, which will start with “https://openreview.net/forum?id=”
  • Previous PDF
    • The paper you submitted via the URL above
  • Response PDF
    • A pdf of your response to the reviews you received at the URL above
  • Reviewer/Editor Reassignment Request
    • If you would like to request your AE or one or more previous reviewer(s) not review this resubmission, indicate their anonymous IDs from the URL above here
  • Reviewer/Editor Reassignment Justification
    • Justification for any reassignment requests

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Seeing and Modifying Your Submission

Click through to your Author Console, then click on tab “Your Submissions”

Click on your submission’s title

Until the submission deadline, you will be able to update your submission

Click here!

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Withdrawing Your Submission

First, follow steps to Seeing Your Submission

Then, under the metadata for your submission click “Withdraw”

Please note that if you withdraw your submission more than 48 hours after a submission deadline (after reviewing has started), you may not typically resubmit that paper to ARR for two months

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Seeing Your Reviews

First, follow steps to Seeing Your Submission

Then, make sure you are on tab “All”. You will be able to minimize or maximize your reviews and metareview, if available.

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Submitting Your Paper + Reviews to a Publication Venue

Conference PCs accepting ARR-reviewed papers will post submission instructions on their websites. Typically authors will submit the following:

  • ARR paper id
  • pdf with reply to meta review

Then, ARR will submit your paper + reviews to the publication venue