🚨 Call for #EMNLP2026 Student Volunteers Volunteer for 10 hours and receive FREE conference registration Both in-person and virtual roles are available 📅 Deadline: September 1 📢 Decisions: September 9 🔗 Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: 2026.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...

Due to technical issues with OpenReview, the commitment deadline is extended. We will notify the new commitment dates for AACL-IJCNLP 2026, and the link soon. Apologies for the inconvenience. #NLProc

How do prompt language and cultural framing influence model responses and their alignment with human values in different countries? Answer to this and more insights at: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... #NLProc #CLjournal @aylart.bsky.social

This paper introduces a wide range of encodings for constituent parsing as sequence adaptations of parsers from other paradigms that had not previously been cast under the sequence-labeling framework. Code: github.com/Polifack/CoD... and paper:https://doi.org/10.1162/COLI.a.603 @carlosg.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone for making ACL a great success. Some photos! 🧵

At this year's ACL business meeting, it was wonderful to see so many attendees - a sign that this community cares. As president, I wanted to use the occasion to give some insights into ACL - the premier organization for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. (1/5)

🏆 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 @ 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 Thrilled to share that our linguistic paper "The Imperfective Paradox in LLMs" received a Best Paper Award at #ACL2026 ! 🎉 Hoping this encourages more linguistics-informed evaluation in NLP. aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...

🏆 Congrats to #MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma on receiving both a Best Paper Award and a SAC Highlight Award at #ACL2026! 📄 His awarded work reveals a blind spot in LLMs. 📊 His co-authored survey reviews table question answering with LLMs. 🔎 Read more here: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

The ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACL Dissertation Award) recognises three honourable mentions: Dennis Ulmer, Shen-Chieh Lin, and Haoran Xu. Congratulations to all three for this achievement! #NLproc #CLJournal @dnnslmr.bsky.social

🏆 2026 Computational Linguistics Distinguished Reviewer Awards: It aims to highlight and promote high standards in peer review and to acknowledge reviewers whose contributions have had a meaningful impact on the quality of our journal. Congratulations to our 2026 awardees! #NLProc #CLjournal

Final Day at #ACL2026 (July 7, Harbor Ballroom L2): • 15:30 (Session 18): Memorial, Test of Time (ToT), & Lifetime Achievement Awards. • 16:00 (Session 19): Paper Awards (Best Papers & Outstanding Papers).

Tonight at #ACL2026 (July 6): • 18:30–22:00: Main Conference Social Event aboard the USS Midway Museum (910 N Harbor Dr). Food, drinks, and ship exhibits included for Main Conference registrants. Details: 2026.aclweb.org/program/soci...

Main Conference Day 2 at #ACL2026 (July 6): • 16:00: Invited Keynote 3 by Tania Lombrozo (Princeton Univ.) on "Explanation and Understanding: A Cognitive Science Perspective." Keynote details: 2026.aclweb.org/program/keyn...

Main Conference Day 2 at #ACL2026 (July 6): • 15:45 (Harbor Ballroom L2): Presidential Address delivered by ACL President Barbara Plank (LMU Munich). Conference schedule: 2026.aclweb.org/program/

Main Conference Day 2 at #ACL2026 (July 6): • 14:45 (Harbor Ballroom L2): Panel discussion on "Explainability of LLMs: Academic vs Industry perspective" with T. Linzen, S. Singh, K. Das; moderated by J. McAuley. 2026.aclweb.org/program/panel/

Main Conference Day 2 afternoon at #ACL2026 (July 6): • 13:00: Invited Keynote 2 by Yue Zhang (Westlake Univ.) on "How AI Can Help Us Manage AI Conferences (Even Though AI Caused the Trouble in the First Place)." 2026.aclweb.org/program/keyn...

Main Conference Day 2 morning at #ACL2026 (July 6): • 09:00–10:30: Linguistics Symposium ("Linguistics and NLP in the LLM Era") featuring A. Ettinger, R. Futrell, Z. Liu, and T. McCoy. Full program overview: 2026.aclweb.org/program/

Don't forget to attend the "ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026" session on Mon Jul 6 9:00-9:30 AM (Location: Promenade) in the "Session 8: Oral/Poster Session D" /w 3 honorable mentions and 1 winner presented by Jason Eisner and Mohit Bansal: 2026.aclweb.org/program/

ACL SRW 2026 Day 1 is happening today in Gaslamp A-B! Oral sessions: 11:00–12:30 14:00–15:30 Panel discussion, 16:00–17:30: “The next big questions in NLP: What should students work on?” See you there! #ACL2026 #NLProc #NLPhD

Community engagement at #ACL2026: • 13:30–14:30 (Harbor Ballroom L2): Official ACL Business Meeting. All conference attendees are welcome to attend and participate in association governance. Overview: 2026.aclweb.org/program/

Throughout Main Conference days at #ACL2026 (July 5–7): Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group meetups provide space for community networking and discussion. Check Underline/Whova for exact rooms. Details: 2026.aclweb.org/program/bof/

Main Conference Day 1 afternoon at #ACL2026 (July 5): Multiple parallel oral presentation tracks and interactive poster sessions run throughout the day. Browse accepted conference papers here: 2026.aclweb.org/program/acce...

Main Conference Day 1 at #ACL2026 (July 5): • 09:30: Invited Keynote 1 by Philip Resnik (Univ. of Maryland) on "A New Balancing Act: Reflections on the Relationship between Computational Linguistics and AI." Info: 2026.aclweb.org/program/keyn...

Saturday at #ACL2026 (July 4): • 18:00–20:00: Official Welcome Reception at Manchester Grand Hyatt (networking & refreshments). • 21:00: San Diego Bay fireworks display outside the venue. Reception info: 2026.aclweb.org/program/rece...

Days 2 & 3 at #ACL2026 (July 3–4): Specialized co-located workshops run throughout both days across various NLP subfields. Verify room locations in the conference handbook or app. Workshop schedule: 2026.aclweb.org/program/work...

For the Industry track, we have two exciting sessions. 1. A keynote by Roberto Navigli on bridging academic and industrial AI 2. A session on Careers in NLP #ACL2026

Get ready for #ACL2026NLP workshops on July 3rd and 4th! Check out the exciting lineup of workshops. More info: 2026.aclweb.org/program/work... #NLProc

📅 Plan your #ACL2026NLP tutorials! Morning tutorials run 9:00–12:30 and afternoon tutorials run 14:00–17:30. Topics include multi-agent LLMs, future of work, data-centric LLMs, metaphor processing, responsible GenAI, and reasoning. 2026.aclweb.org/program/tuto... #NLProc #ACL2026NLP

We hope everyone is excited for ACL2026@San Diego. Feel free to take a look at the published papers below! Main: 2026.aclweb.org/program/acce... Findings: 2026.aclweb.org/program/find... Demos: 2026.aclweb.org/program/demo/ Industry track: 2026.aclweb.org/program/indu... #NLProc #ACL2026

ACL 2026 Phase 2 Registration is now OPEN ~1,000 full conference tickets remain for in-person attendance in San Diego. If you plan to attend, register early — the conference is expected to sell out quickly. Registration link: acl.swoogo.com/acl2026