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.

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.

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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