"The ACL Executive Committee has voted to significantly change ACL's approach to protecting anonymous peer review. The change is effective immediately.
As a result, no anonymity period will be required for papers submitted for the Feb. 1, 2024 TACL deadline or the Feb. 15, 2024 ARR deadline. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized. However, authors may publicly post and discuss versions of the work elsewhere under their own names. (1/2)
Authors are cautioned not to overpublicize the work, since before accepting a submission, ACL will want to find qualified reviewers who can assess it without knowing who wrote it.
To learn about the full details of the changes and the reasons behind them, please read the report at https://www.aclweb.org/adm.../index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy
ACL thanks the working group that spent several months considering this issue and writing the report." #NLProc (2/2)

@aclmeeting The link seems to be broken?

(Thanks for all the work that went into making this decision!)