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EMNLP
Empirical Methods in Natural Language ProcessingQuick take: Flagship international venue (top 7.5% tier). Highly competitive with premier global impact.Recent acceptance rate: 24.8% (2025).
24.8%
acceptance (2025)
1,668
papers accepted (2025)
6,726
submissions (2025)
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2026 Submission Deadline — Commitment deadline for papers with ARR reviews and meta-reviews
UTC-12 timezone
Deadline Passed
Paper SubmissionAug 3, 2026, 11:59 AM2026-08-02 23:59 (UTC-12)
Conference Dates & LocationOctober 25-27, 2026Budapest, Hungary (Hybrid)
Acceptance-rate trend
Data: lixin4ever/Conference-Acceptance-RatePapers per year
Rank history (CORE → ICORE)
A* Flagship · A Premier · B Established · C RecognizedWhat this venue publishes
Topic mix over all indexed years — OpenAlexTopic trend (last 5 years)
Share of indexed papers per year — OpenAlexTop publishing institutions
By indexed paper count — OpenAlex (multi-affiliation counts once per inst.)- 1Carnegie Mellon University346 papers
- 2Tsinghua University295 papers
- 3Microsoft (United States)262 papers
- 4Chinese Academy of Sciences262 papers
- 5Google (United States)257 papers
- 6Peking University252 papers
- 7University of Washington240 papers
- 8University of Chinese Academy of Sciences208 papers
- 9Stanford University207 papers
- 10Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence201 papers
Year-by-year detail
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate | Tiers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,726 | 1,668 | 24.8% | 1668 long papers to Main Conf of 6726 considered (was 1811 incl. 143 short); long-only, matches EMNLP 2024 | — |
| 2024 | 6,105 | 1,125 | 18.43% | — | |
| 2023 | 3,868 | 901 | 23.29% | — | |
| 2022 | 3,242 | 715 | 22.05% | — | |
| 2021 | 2,540 | 650 | 25.59% | — | |
| 2020 | 2,455 | 602 | 24.52% | — | |
| 2019 | 1,813 | 465 | 25.65% | page 7 | — |
| 2018 | 1,376 | 351 | 25.51% | — | |
| 2017 | 836 | 216 | 25.84% | — | |
| 2016 | 687 | 177 | 25.76% | — | |
| 2015 | 600 | 157 | 26.17% | — | |
| 2014 | 510 | 155 | 30.39% | — | |
| 2013 | 772 | 205 | 26.55% | — | |
| 2012 | 570 | 139 | 24.39% | — | |
| 2011 | 628 | 149 | 23.73% | — | |
| 2010 | 500 | 125 | 25% | — |