EACL Workflow

Use this as the project-management skill for an EACL submission. EACL is a conference routed through ACL Rolling Review: it has no standing editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. The rotating leadership is the per-edition General Chair and Program Chairs (EACL 2027: General Chair Isabelle Augenstein; Program Chairs Malvina Nissim, Roi Reichart, Sara Tonelli — verified 2026-07-09). The cost model is registration; the Anthology is open access with no author fee. Replace every date below with the current official timetable.

The single-cycle calendar (EACL 2027 anchor)

Because EACL 2027 sits early in the year, the organizers named one viable ARR cycle — there is no fallback. That reshapes planning around a single hard gate:

Milestone	EACL 2027 anchor date	Owner
ARR submission (only cycle)	August 3, 2026	ARR
Rebuttal window	in-cycle (待核实 exact dates)	Authors
Meta-review	in-cycle	Action editor
Commitment to EACL	October 11, 2026	Authors
Notification	November 12, 2026	EACL
Camera-ready	November 26, 2026	Authors
Conference	March 9-14, 2027, Athens	EACL

All ARR/commitment deadlines run anywhere-on-Earth; confirm exact times on the live pages.

Backward-planning offsets

Work backwards from the single ARR deadline (D):
  D-8 weeks: freeze scope; lock experiments (eacl-experiments)
  D-6 weeks: first full draft; run the worked-example arc (eacl-writing-style)
  D-4 weeks: related-work freshness sweep (eacl-related-work)
  D-3 weeks: reproducibility + artifact packaging (eacl-reproducibility, eacl-artifact-evaluation)
  D-2 weeks: Limitations + supplementary placement (eacl-supplementary)
  D-1 week:  checklist, anonymization, page count (eacl-submission)
  D-3 days:  smoke-check archive; submit early

Plan the fallback that is not a next cycle

• The usual *ACL "resubmit next cycle" safety net does not exist for a single-cycle EACL edition. Before the deadline, decide the re-route plan: if the paper misses or is rejected, which sibling venue (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AACL) is next, and the ARR reviews travel with it.
• This makes the submit-thin-or-wait decision from eacl-submission a real fork — resolve it early, not on deadline night.

At each gate

• Submission: run eacl-submission; there is no second attempt this edition.
• Rebuttal: run eacl-author-response; fix what fits the window because you cannot defer.
• Commitment: run eacl-review-process; weigh main vs Findings vs re-route.
• Camera-ready: run eacl-camera-ready; author list is frozen from commitment.

Cadence caution

• EACL does not run every year and its calendar slot moves; do not carry the 2027 timing to another edition. Confirm the edition exists and reopen its CFP before planning.

Output format

[Timeline] <backward-planned dates from the single ARR deadline>
[Single-cycle risk] <readiness for the one gate>
[Rebuttal plan] <what can be fixed in-window>
[Commitment decision] <main / Findings / re-route>
[Re-route fallback] <named sibling venue + ARR-review carry-forward>
[Camera-ready + logistics] <deadlines, registration, presentation>