ACL, the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, is the flagship annual conference of the ACL, a professional organization founded in 1962 for researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics. It is one of the most selective and high-impact venues in the field, alongside EMNLP. Conference proceedings are published open-access through the ACL Anthology. The ACL also organizes related venues, including EMNLP, CoNLL, and SemEval, and publishes the journals Computational Linguistics and TACL.
NEC Laboratories America heads to ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, July 2–7, to present accepted papers spanning knowledge updating and memory control in large language models, task-aware cultural alignment, uncertainty-aware reasoning, and adaptive chain-of-thought optimization, representing some of the most active frontiers in NLP and AI research today.
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