Call for Main Conference Papers

Overview

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (the 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

The conference will be held in Hengqin, China from November 6th to November 10th, 2026.

Important Dates

Details will be announced soon. Please stay tuned!

Submission Topics

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

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

Paper Submission Information

Details about the submission process will be announced soon.

Presentation at the Conference

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options.

Contact Information

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