Dear all,
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2026 (the 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
== CFP: https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ [1]
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 26, 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").
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
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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.
Links: ------ [1] https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/