Obviously the right thing to do. Just feel sorry for the authors of those narrowly rejected 100 papers that could have been accepted instead should the hallucinated references have been discovered earlier...
Moa Johansson
📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc
Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
