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EMNLP 2026

The annual Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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All deadlines

Paper submissionMay 25, 2026est.

From past proceedings

Papers in EMNLP's main DBLP volume each year, not official acceptance counts.

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Papers in 2025

1,809

main DBLP volume

5-year change

+141%

vs 2020

Acceptance rate, 2023 (reported)

23%

901 of 3868 submitted · source ↗

Authors per paper

5.6

3.3 in 2015

By an entirely new team

19%

of 2025 papers

Papers per year1996 to 2025
1996: 14 papers1997: 23 papers1998: 12 papers1999: 35 papers2000: 27 papers2001: 21 papers2002: 41 papers2003: 28 papers2004: 56 papers2006: 73 papers2007: 131 papers2008: 114 papers2009: 163 papers2010: 125 papers2011: 149 papers2012: 139 papers2013: 205 papers2014: 224 papers2015: 312 papers2016: 264 papers2017: 322 papers2018: 549 papers2019: 732 papers2020: 752 papers2021: 847 papers2022: 828 papers2023: 1,047 papers2024: 1,268 papers2025: 1,809 papers
Read the 2025 proceedingsProceedings ↗DBLP ↗

Top keywords, 2025

languagellmsreasoninggenerationmultimodalbenchmarkknowledgetextmultilingualevaluatingalignmentquestion

Top topics

  1. Topic Modeling26%
  2. Natural Language Processing Techniques15%
  3. Multimodal Machine Learning Applications10%
  4. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)5%
  5. Advanced Graph Neural Networks5%

Venues like EMNLP

  1. ACL Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics0.87multilingualmachine translationlanguagetext
  2. NAACL The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics0.81multilingualmachine translationlanguagetext
  3. COLING INTERNATIONNAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS0.72multilingualquestiondialoguemachine translation
  4. EACL The Annual Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics0.69multilingualmachine translationquestiontext

Most published at EMNLP

  1. Min Zhang2007 to 202568
  2. Iryna Gurevych2007 to 202564
  3. Noah A. Smith2002 to 202563
  4. Dan Roth1997 to 202561
  5. Maosong Sun2007 to 202560

Who publishes here

2024 to 2025 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 76%Industry 12%Government and other 13%

Institutions

  1. 1Tsinghua University🇨🇳117
  2. 2Chinese Academy of Sciences🇨🇳102
  3. 3Zhejiang University🇨🇳93
  4. 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences🇨🇳84
  5. 5Peking University🇨🇳75
  6. 6Fudan University🇨🇳70
  7. 7Nanyang Technological University🇸🇬66
  8. 8Shanghai Jiao Tong University🇨🇳65

Countries

  1. United States1049
  2. China977
  3. United Kingdom234
  4. Germany189
  5. Hong Kong SAR China184
  6. South Korea169

Affiliations from OpenAlex for the papers DBLP lists. A paper with authors from three institutions counts for each of them; the split above is over the top institutions.