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2026 (the 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.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
| ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) | May 25, 2026 |
| Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors | May 27, 2026 |
| Author response and author-reviewer discussion | July 7 - 13, 2026 |
| Meta review released | July 30, 2026 |
| Commitment deadline | August 2, 2026 |
| Notification of acceptance (long & short papers) | September 7, 2026 |
| Camera-ready papers due (long & short) | September 30, 2026 |
| Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD) | November 6 - 10, 2026 |
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
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:
- Clinical and Biomedical Applications
- Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
- Dialogue and Interactive Systems
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Efficient Methods for NLP
- Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
- Generation
- Human-Centered NLP and Human-AI Interaction
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Language Modeling
- LLM Agents
- Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Machine Translation
- Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
- Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
- NLP and Code Models
- NLP and Symbolic Reasoning
- NLP Applications
- Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
- Question Answering
- Resources and Evaluation
- Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level
- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
- Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Spoken Language Understanding
- Summarization
- Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Paper Submission Information
ARR 2026 May cycle is aligned with two conferences (EMNLP and AACL). The authors will need to explicitly declare which conference they intend to commit to at submission time. ARR 2026 May submissions that do not select AACL 2026 during submission will not be able to commit to AACL 2026. Meanwhile, any papers submitted and reviewed in prior ARR cycles are welcome to commit to AACL 2026.
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
General Chair: Yue Zhang, Westlake University
Program Chairs:
- Ruifeng Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
- Ayu Purwarianti, Institut Teknologi Bandung
- Tong Rong, Singapore Institute of Technology
- Jun Suzuki, Tohoku University
For paper submission and review process inquiries, contact editors@aclrollingreview.org.