*SEM 2026 — Lexical & Computational Semantics, San Diego

*SEM is SIGLEX's flagship venue for the semantics of natural language and its computational modeling, and the 2026 edition is co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, running as a focused one-day conference on 3 July. It welcomes data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic approaches alike, and asks authors to frame their work around new findings about language, about people, or about automatic language processing — a framing that keeps the program centered on understanding meaning rather than only on benchmark gains.

For attendees, *SEM is where the semantics underlying today's language models is taken seriously on its own terms: compositional semantics and sentence representations, multilingual and cross-lingual meaning, word-sense disambiguation, semantic parsing, frame semantics, textual inference, entity linking and discourse. As large language models have made strong empirical performance commonplace, the field's harder questions have shifted toward what these systems actually represent about meaning, where their inferences break, and how symbolic and formal accounts of semantics can inform and probe neural models. Being attached to ACL, *SEM lets a researcher attend a tightly themed semantics meeting and the full main conference in one trip.