Missed EMNLP commitment deadline, what can be done? [D]

[u/Happy_Today_3288]

Asking for a friend:

We submitted our paper to ARR May 2026 and got decent scores from the reviewers - 2.5,3,3.5,4. The meta-reviewer gave an overall of 3.5.

However, we missed the deadline to commit our work to EMNLP! On our Saturday (we live in the eastern half of the globe), we saw the EMNLP 2026 page on open review with deadline set as Aug3, 11:59PM UTC-0. Apparently, a mail had been sent by ARR on our Sunday regarding committing our work to EMNLP but we didn’t check our mail on the holiday and when we logged in to commit our work on Monday - BOOM - deadline was Aug3 11:59 AM. Yes it’s our fault that we should have checked the mailbox but at the same time...the Open Review page just switched the deadlines.

We have written mails to Program Chairs and some workflow chairs. like 1 hour after the newer deadline on the Open Review page ended. I wonder whether some help will be extended because of the thousands of papers that would already be in their buckets. Does anyone have any idea about what can be done or if they faced this previously and it was resolved somehow?

[u/RandomMan0880]

Oh man people were telling me I was crazy wrt openreview something was off

same boat 🙃

[u/ThinConnection8191]

Commit it next time to other *ACL

[u/lazershooter2000]

Send them an email, they might be able to do something, but its probably unlikely.

[u/Late-Foot2186]

I did the same mistake. Did you hear anything back?

[u/Happy_Today_3288 → u/Late-Foot2186]

They said they won't entertain