Welcome!

The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026) will be held in Budapest, Hungary from October 24th to October 29th, 2026. EMNLP is organized by ACL’s SIGDAT.

News

Feb. 27, 2026 First call for papers is out!
Feb. 24, 2026 The website is launched.

Important Dates

ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) May 25, 2026
Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors May 27, 2026
Author response and author-reviewer discussion July 7 - July 13, 2026
Meta review released July 30, 2026
EMNLP commitment deadline August 2, 2026
Notification of acceptance (long & short papers) August 20, 2026
Camera-ready papers due (long & short) September 20, 2026
Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD) October 24 - 29, 2026

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).