ACL 2027 — The 65th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

ACL 2027, the 65th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, takes place 17-22 August 2027 in Kyoto, Japan. ACL is the field-defining venue for natural language processing, and this edition takes submissions through ACL Rolling Review: authors submit to an ARR cycle, receive reviews, then commit the paper to ACL 2027, with the final ARR route for this conference in January 2027 and acceptance decisions made by the conference rather than by ARR. Its workshop programme is being assembled through a single joint 2027 call shared with EACL 2027 (Athens, 9-14 March), COLING 2027 (Macau, 9-14 May), NAACL 2027 (San Francisco, 1-5 June) and EMNLP 2027, with workshop proposals due 4 September 2026 and notifications on 2 October 2026. The main-conference deadline table and registration rates are still listed as to be announced.

• Notification of workshop proposal acceptanceOct 2, 2026

Date

August 17–22, 2027

Location

Kyoto, Japan

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Added

Aug 4, 2026

Updated

Aug 4, 2026

• ✓NLP researchers
• ✓Applied scientists working on large language models
• ✓Machine learning engineers
• ✓Heads of AI and research leads
• ✓Computational linguists
• ✓Product leaders building language-based features
• ✓PhD students and postdocs

If your roadmap contains a large language model, ACL is where the methods behind it are argued over a year or two before they reach a vendor release note. For an enterprise leader the value sits less in the plenaries than in the workshop programme already being assembled for 2027: concentrated days on evaluation, multilinguality, retrieval and safety, which is where you learn how a benchmark number was actually produced and how brittle it is under distribution shift. Kyoto in August 2027 is also the most efficient way to meet the Asia-Pacific NLP research market — hiring, academic partnerships, joint benchmarks — in one trip rather than five.

• ✓Main conference programme, 17-22 August 2027 in Kyoto
• ✓Submission via ACL Rolling Review, with the final ARR route for ACL 2027 in January 2027
• ✓Workshop programme selected through the joint 2027 ACL-family call (proposals due 4 September 2026, notification 2 October 2026)
• ✓Part of the wider 2027 ACL conference family — EACL Athens, COLING Macau, NAACL San Francisco and EMNLP — sharing one workshop call

• ★The field-defining NLP venue — the 65th annual meeting of the society that also runs EACL, NAACL, EMNLP and ACL Rolling Review.
• ★Submissions route through ACL Rolling Review rather than a single conference deadline, so reviews are portable across venues and the commitment step is separate from submission — a materially different process from CVPR or NeurIPS.
• ★Workshops are selected through one joint call spanning five ACL-family conferences in 2027, so a proposal competes once and can be placed at whichever venue fits.
• ★Held in Asia-Pacific, which puts the main NLP programme within reach of the region's research and industry labs without a transpacific trip.

Not published. ACL 2027's own site lists every conference date and the registration table as TBA as of August 2026. ACL annual meetings are paid events with tiered ACL-member, non-member and student rates plus separate workshop and tutorial fees, normally opening a few months out. The workshop-proposal dates below are the only firm ACL 2027 deadlines published so far.

When is ACL 2027?

ACL 2027 takes place August 17–22, 2027 in Kyoto, Japan.

Where is ACL 2027 held?

ACL 2027 is held in Kyoto, Japan. The event format is in-person.

What is the ACL 2027 submission deadline?

The next ACL 2027 deadline is notification of workshop proposal acceptance on Oct 2, 2026.

How much does ACL 2027 cost?

ACL 2027 is paid. Not published. ACL 2027's own site lists every conference date and the registration table as TBA as of August 2026. ACL annual meetings are paid events with tiered ACL-member, non-member and student rates plus separate workshop and tutorial fees, normally opening a few months out. The workshop-proposal dates below are the only firm ACL 2027 deadlines published so far.

Who should attend ACL 2027?

ACL 2027 is aimed at NLP researchers, Applied scientists working on large language models, Machine learning engineers, Heads of AI and research leads, Computational linguists, Product leaders building language-based features, PhD students and postdocs.

What topics does ACL 2027 cover?

ACL 2027 covers Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Multilinguality, LLM Evaluation, Information Extraction, AI Safety and Alignment.

This page was written from 3 sources, 2 on domains other than 2027.aclweb.org.

1. 1.2027.aclweb.org — 2027.aclweb.orgvendor
2. 2.aclweb.org — joint call workshops proposals 2027
3. 3.aclrollingreview.org — dates