Reflections as an ACL ARR Reviewer

The scores for ACL 2025&rsquo;s May ARR cycle have been released, and I imagine the academic community is busy again—authors scrambling to write rebuttals, area chairs frantically searching for emergency reviewers. Yet as a reviewer, I feel exceptionally relaxed because the papers I reviewed scored so low that I doubt the authors will even bother with rebuttals, which means I won&rsquo;t need to…