[CFP] AACL-IJCNLP 2026

[ACL Announcements]

 

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2026 (the 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

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CFP: https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/

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.