For ACL Rolling Review and other venues
Read each submission once, mark it as you go, and let the marks build your review.
Drop the PDFs you were assigned here, or add them from your computer. Each paper keeps its own marks, notes, assistant chat and review draft. Everything is saved in this browser as you work; nothing is uploaded.
Mark with the review form in mind
Select text in the paper, then press a number. Each kind of mark feeds one field of the review form, so the review is half-written by the time you finish reading.
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1. Skim, then read
Read the abstract, figures and conclusion first. On the second pass, mark claims, evidence and gaps, and add a one-line note to each mark while it is fresh.
2. Test your reading
Ask the assistant to check a claim against the experiments or argue for the paper against your weaknesses. Look up related work by method, never by the submission’s title.
3. Write and check
Insert your marks into the matching form fields, rewrite them in your own words, set the scores, then run a consistency check before copying each section into the review system.
Papers, marks and drafts are stored only in this browser, so back them up from Settings. The AI assistant is off until you set it up, and it can use a local model so the paper never leaves your computer. ARR’s reviewer guidelines don’t allow putting a submission or your review into a generative AI tool that isn’t privacy-preserving, or letting AI write your first draft; read the guidance and your venue’s rules before you turn the assistant on.
Review Desk is free, open-source software (source on GitHub). It is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics or ACL Rolling Review.