AACL-IJCNLP 2026 — The 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ACL and the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 is the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held jointly with the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing in Hengqin, China from 6-10 November 2026 as a hybrid conference. It is the Asia-Pacific region's flagship *ACL venue, reviewed through ACL Rolling Review rather than a conference-specific review cycle. Its call for papers spans 28 research areas that map directly onto what enterprise NLP teams are shipping: Language Modeling, LLM Agents, Efficient Methods for NLP, NLP and Code Models, Information Retrieval and Text Mining, Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP, Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP, and Ethics, Bias and Fairness. Acceptance notifications go out 7 September 2026 and camera-ready papers are due 30 September 2026, so the accepted programme is fixed weeks before the doors open.

• Acceptance notificationSep 7, 2026
• Camera-ready deadlineSep 30, 2026

Date

November 6–10, 2026

Location

Hengqin, China

Format

Hybrid

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)

Added

Aug 31, 2026

Updated

Aug 31, 2026

• ✓NLP research scientists
• ✓Machine learning engineers building LLM products
• ✓Applied scientists and research engineers
• ✓Heads of AI/ML and research leads
• ✓PhD students and postdocs in computational linguistics
• ✓Data scientists working on multilingual text

This is where the primary literature behind the techniques your teams are about to adopt gets presented first — agent architectures, retrieval and text mining, efficient inference, interpretability and multilingual modelling — with named authors you can recruit from or collaborate with. Attending in Hengqin puts you in front of the Asia-Pacific research base specifically, which matters if you operate in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or South-East Asian languages and keep finding that published benchmarks only measure English. The hybrid format makes it a cheap way to brief an engineering team on what will be production-relevant in eighteen months.

• ✓Main conference long and short paper tracks across 28 research areas
• ✓LLM Agents track
• ✓Language Modeling track
• ✓Efficient Methods for NLP track
• ✓NLP and Code Models track
• ✓Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP track
• ✓Ethics, Bias and Fairness track
• ✓System Demonstrations programme
• ✓Student Research Workshop
• ✓Co-located tutorials and workshops

• ★The Asia-Pacific region's flagship *ACL main conference — the venue where regional, Chinese-language and multilingual NLP research is concentrated rather than an English-first programme.
• ★Reviewed through ACL Rolling Review, so submissions arrive with completed peer reviews and meta-reviews and the commitment step happens on a published schedule (first commitment 2-7 August 2026, second 25 August 2026).
• ★Runs a dedicated LLM Agents track alongside Language Modeling and NLP and Code Models — agent work presented as peer-reviewed results with reproducible evaluation, not vendor demos.
• ★Explicitly hybrid, so teams that cannot get travel approval for Hengqin can still attend the main programme.
• ★Co-located Student Research Workshop, System Demonstrations, tutorials and workshops sit alongside the main track.

Registration rates for AACL-IJCNLP 2026 are not published on the conference site as of 31 August 2026 — the site currently carries the calls, the important dates and the venue only. Budget against the usual ACL structure of separate in-person and virtual registrations.

When is AACL-IJCNLP 2026?

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 takes place November 6–10, 2026 in Hengqin, China.

Where is AACL-IJCNLP 2026 held?

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 is held in Hengqin, China. The event format is hybrid.

What is the AACL-IJCNLP 2026 submission deadline?

The next AACL-IJCNLP 2026 deadline is acceptance notification on Sep 7, 2026. Remaining dates: Camera-ready deadline — Sep 30, 2026.

How much does AACL-IJCNLP 2026 cost?

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 is paid. Registration rates for AACL-IJCNLP 2026 are not published on the conference site as of 31 August 2026 — the site currently carries the calls, the important dates and the venue only. Budget against the usual ACL structure of separate in-person and virtual registrations.

Who should attend AACL-IJCNLP 2026?

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 is aimed at NLP research scientists, Machine learning engineers building LLM products, Applied scientists and research engineers, Heads of AI/ML and research leads, PhD students and postdocs in computational linguistics, Data scientists working on multilingual text.

What topics does AACL-IJCNLP 2026 cover?

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 covers Natural language processing, Large language models, LLM agents, Efficient methods for NLP, Multilingual and cross-lingual NLP, Model interpretability and analysis, Information extraction and retrieval, Machine translation, AI ethics, bias and fairness, Speech recognition and spoken language understanding.

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