The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

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Jul 2 - 8, 2026

San Diego, United States

Jul 2 - 8, 2026

San Diego, United States

About the Conference

ACL 2026 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. ACL 2026 has a goal of a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will feature papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.

Subject Areas

Submission Topics

Keynote Speakers

Philip Resnik

Professor · University of Maryland

Yue Zhang

Professor · Westlake University

Barbara Plank

Professor · LMU Munich

Tania Lombrozo

Professor · Princeton University

Roberto Navigli

Professor · Sapienza University of Rome

Important Dates

2026-01-05 Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR) CLOSED

2026-03-10 ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of January cycle CLOSED

2026-03-14 Commitment deadline for ACL 2026 CLOSED

2026-04-04 Notification of acceptance CLOSED

2026-04-19 Withdrawal deadline CLOSED

2026-04-19 Camera-ready deadline CLOSED

2026-07-02 Overall Conference · July 2 - 7, 2026 CLOSED

2026-07-02 Tutorials CLOSED

2026-07-03 Workshops · July 3 - 4, 2026 CLOSED

2026-07-04 Welcome Reception CLOSED

2026-07-05 Main Conference · July 5 - 7, 2026 CLOSED

Call For Papers

Submission Topics

Special Theme: Explainability of NLP Models AI/LLM Agents Clinical and Biomedical Applications Code Models Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social Good Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Financial Applications and Time Series Generalizability and Transfer Hierarchical Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation and Human-Centric NLP Information Extraction and Retrieval Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Models Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics LLM Efficiency Low-resource Methods for NLP Machine Learning for NLP Machine Translation Mathematical, Symbolic, Neurosymbolic, and Logical Reasoning Multilinguality and Language Diversity Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond Natural Language Generation NLP Applications Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Safety and Alignment in LLMs Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization

Publication & Indexing

ProceedingsACL 2026 Proceedings

Conference Organization

Organized by

Association for Computational Linguistics

Committee

General Chair

Philipp Koehn

Johns Hopkins University

Program Chair

Maria Liakata

Viviane P. Moreira

Jiajun Zhang

David Jurgens

Industry Track Co-Chair

Yunyao Li

Adobe

Georg Rehm

DFKI GmbH

Mei Tu

Samsung

Student Research Workshop Chair

Juan Diego Rodriguez

University of Texas at Austin

Santosh T.Y.S.S

Technical University of Munich & Amazon

Ona de Gibert

University of Helsinki

Faculty Advisor

Yves Scherrer

University of Oslo

Elias Stengel-Eskin

University of Texas at Austin

Snigdha Chaturvedi

University of North Carolina

Student Volunteer Chair

Jingbo Shang

Muhao Chen

Xuezhe Ma

Lianhui Qin