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

ACL 2026 is the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the flagship conference of the ACL community and one of the central venues for natural language processing and computational linguistics. The conference brings together research on language understanding, generation, multilingual NLP, language technologies, and interdisciplinary language-centered AI. The 2026 meeting takes place in San Diego, California.

The conference site includes calls spanning the main conference and related activities such as system demonstrations, the student research workshop, workshop proposals, and the industry track. Core topics encompass computational linguistics, natural language understanding and generation, machine translation, information extraction, dialogue, semantics, multilingual NLP, evaluation, and practical language technology systems.