TACL will allow one submission every three months from first authors, with some exceptions

A relatively small number of authors are submitting large numbers of low-quality (probably LLM-written) papers to TACL.  This is not appropriate, and in the future we will only accept one new submission every three months from each individual first author.  This limit does not apply to invited resubmissions, they are welcome at any time.  It also does not apply to TACL Action Editors or members of TACL's Standing Reviewer Team.

TACL is a high-quality venue which publishes a relatively small number of papers compared to the large xACL conferences; in 2025 we only published 82 papers.  There was only one first author who had 2 papers in TACL in 2025, and in this case there was a 6 month gap beween the submission of these papers.

If you wish to submit a paper to TACL, make sure it is a top-quality paper which has excellent content and also is easy to read and understand.