ACL has now established a policy on publication ethics. Our policy draws on existing practices and standards in the ACL, both explicit and de facto, and common standards in similar bodies. The policy covers issues such as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and what kind of content is suitable in papers at ACL venues. This policy is researched and written by the ACL publication ethics committee, a team of volunteers in the community, and voted in by the ACL. The committee will also manage relevant referred cases to the ACL.
We hope that our ethics policy acts as a reification of common sense practices and of things that we are already doing as a community, and is thus an uncontroversial document. With this policy, we can now look forward to consistently handling the regular cases our organisation sees of plagiarism, review manipulation, and so on, while decoupling this process from our hard-working editors and chairs.
You can read the policy at https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics . It applies to papers and processes within the ACL scope. We look forward to serving you.
Aoife Cahill
Leon Derczynski
Kokil Jaidka
-- ACL Publication Ethics Committee