ACL 2026 — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
📅 Thursday, 2 July 2026 → Tuesday, 7 July 2026
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Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, San Diego, 
United States
ACL 2026 — the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, 2–7 July.
ACL 2026, the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, runs 2–7 July 2026 in San Diego — tutorials on 2 July, workshops 3–4 July, main conference 5–7 July. ACL is the flagship conference of natural language processing, the field at the heart of the large-language-model era.
What you gain
Attendees get the definitive read on NLP research — model behaviour, evaluation, multilinguality, reasoning, and the limits of text-centric AI — across the main track, industry track, system demonstrations, a Student Research Workshop and dozens of co-located workshops. Notably, ACL 2026 has issued a firm statement on desk-rejecting papers with hallucinated references, a sign of the field policing rigour in the LLM age.
Where it fits
Every general-purpose chatbot and assistant traces back to the research presented here. For NLP researchers, engineers and product teams, ACL is the single most important venue to understand where language AI is genuinely advancing versus merely hyped.
