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ACL proceedings

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Papers in 2025

1,966

Papers, all years

14,435

Years indexed

47

Since

1979

Papers in main proceedings (DBLP)

Counts papers published in the venue's main DBLP volume each year. This is not an official acceptance count: it can include short papers and exclude workshop or companion volumes.

verified volumein progressnot yet verifiedClick a bar to open that year.

20251,966 papers✓ verified· 6 volumes

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria, July 27 - August 1, 2025

Acceptance rate

Accepted papers as a share of submissions. Unmarked figures come from the venue itself (the program chairs’ message); figures marked † are reported figures. Hover a year in the table for the counts; click for the source.

Keywords

Phrases from paper titles, weighted against all venues so each venue's distinctive terms rise to the top.

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Topics

OpenAlex research topics of each year's papers. Share is of all topic tags that year, so small and large years compare fairly. Click a topic to see its trend.

Natural Language Processing Techniques · share of topic tags by year. Click a point to switch year.
2025: 28%20252026: 17%2026

Year by year

YearPapers (DBLP)AcceptanceStatusRead the proceedings
2,651in progress+4 moreVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
1,966✓ verified+4 moreVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
908✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 3 ↗DBLP ↗
1,07423.5%†(910/3872)✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
700✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
71024.5%†(571/2327)✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
77825.4%†(571/2244)✓ verifiedProceedings ↗DBLP ↗
76325.7%†(447/1737)✓ verified+2 moreVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
43525.3%†(258/1018)✓ verified+3 moreVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
30226.0%†(195/751)✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
32828.0%†(231/825)✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
31825.0%†(173/692)✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
28625.5%†(146/572)✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
327✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
187✓ verifiedVolume 1 ↗DBLP ↗Volume 2 ↗DBLP ↗
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Who publishes here

2025 to 2026 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 80%Industry 8%Government and other 12%

Institutions

  1. 1Tsinghua University🇨🇳219
  2. 2Peking University🇨🇳187
  3. 3Zhejiang University🇨🇳181
  4. 4Chinese Academy of Sciences🇨🇳165
  5. 5University of Chinese Academy of Sciences🇨🇳148
  6. 6Harbin Institute of Technology🇨🇳128
  7. 7Alibaba Group (China)🇨🇳119
  8. 8National University of Singapore🇸🇬115
  9. 9Shanghai Jiao Tong University🇨🇳114
  10. 10Fudan University🇨🇳107
  11. 11University of Science and Technology of China🇨🇳105
  12. 12Nanyang Technological University🇸🇬98

Countries

  1. China1791
  2. United States1097
  3. Hong Kong SAR China292
  4. United Kingdom250
  5. Singapore232
  6. South Korea192
  7. Germany181
  8. Australia129
  9. Japan129
  10. Canada121

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.

Venues like ACL

Closest by the phrases in their paper titles over the last five complete years.

  1. EMNLP The annual Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing0.87multilingualmachine translationlanguagetextdialogue
  2. NAACL The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics0.82multilingualmachine translationlanguagedialoguetext
  3. COLING INTERNATIONNAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS0.74multilingualdialoguequestionmachine translationtext
  4. EACL The Annual Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics0.70multilingualmachine translationquestiontextquestion answering
  5. IJCNLP International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing0.65multilingualtextreasoningquestioncross-lingual

Authors

From DBLP author lists of the main volume. Names appear as DBLP lists them.

Authors per paper

6.5 in 2026

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Papers by an entirely new team

18% in 2026

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Most published at ACL

  1. Min Zhang2004 to 2026121
  2. Maosong Sun1998 to 202690
  3. Zhiyuan Liu2014 to 202681
  4. Yue Zhang2007 to 202678
  5. Ming Zhou2000 to 202274
  6. Xuanjing Huang2013 to 202671
  7. Ting Liu2000 to 202670
  8. Heng Ji2005 to 202668
  9. Jun Zhao2000 to 202665
  10. Qun Liu2005 to 202565