ACL 2026 — Highlights

62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA • Jul 2–7, 2026

2,303 accepted papers (main conference) Source: ACL 2026

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Keynote Speakers

• Philip Resnik — University of Maryland
• Yue Zhang — Westlake University
• Barbara Plank — LMU Munich (Presidential Keynote)
• Tania Lombrozo — Princeton University
• Roberto Navigli — Sapienza University of Rome (Industry Keynote)

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Best paper awards to be announced during the conference week (Jul 2-7). Check https://2026.aclweb.org/ for updates.

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Topics

#	Topic	Papers
	Agents & Multi-Agent Systems	319
	Code & Software Engineering	100
	Datasets & Benchmarks	340
	Efficiency & Inference	268
	Generation & Summarization	234
	Information Retrieval & Knowledge	385
	LLMs & Foundation Models	985
	Machine Translation & Multilingual	112
	Mechanistic Interpretability	80
	Multimodal & Vision-Language	281
	NLP Applications	32
	Other / Unclassified	267
	Reasoning & Theorem Proving	448
	Speech & Audio	82
	Trust & Safety	181

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