NAACL 2027 will take place in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 1 to June 5, 2027. We invite long and short paper submissions featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Submissions should make a clear and substantive contribution to the field of NLP. Contributions may be methodological, empirical, theoretical, linguistic, resource-oriented, or focused on evaluation methods and reproducibility. Surveys and position papers are welcome when they offer a substantial original synthesis, perspective, insight, or argument. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals.

Important Dates

   
ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) October 12, 2026
Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors October 12, 2026
Meta-reviews released December 18, 2026
NAACL commitment deadline December 23, 2026
Notification of acceptance (long & short papers) February 10, 2027
Camera-ready papers due (long & short) TBD
Conference dates June 1–5, 2027


All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC -12h (anywhere on earth).

Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement.

Paper Submission Information

Papers should be submitted to the ARR 2026 October cycle using the following link (will be available soon):

https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/ARR/2026

Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2026 October cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) should be committed to NAACL using the following link:

https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2027/Conference

Note that this link will be available only two weeks before the commitment deadline.

Dual submissions are not allowed; please check the ARR policies for details.

Note on commitment

Given that NAACL 2027 and COLING 2027 share the same ARR submission cycle, we would like to clarify some important aspects of submission and commitment.

As in previous cycles, submissions to this ARR cycle remain conference-agnostic, up to the point at which metareviews are released. At the time of commitment, authors must designate a primary conference (either NAACL or COLING).

Note that each paper may be committed to only one primary venue and dual commitment is not allowed.

Authors will also have the option to indicate whether they would like their paper to be considered for the other conference if it is not accepted by their primary choice. Please note that selecting this option does not guarantee that the paper will be considered by the second conference. Such consideration will depend on factors including submission volume, reviewing capacity, and coordination between the two venues.

Authors are encouraged to carefully consider their preferred venue before making their commitment, as the designated primary conference cannot be changed after commitment.

For more information, please check out the FAQ section on our blog at https://2027.naacl.org/blog/index.html.

Submission Topics

NAACL 2027 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • AI/LLM Agents
  • Clinical and Biomedical Applications
  • Code Models
  • Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social Good
  • Dialogue and Interactive Systems
  • Discourse, Pragmatics, Argument Mining
  • Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
  • Generalizability, Transfer Learning, Domain Adaptation
  • Information Extraction, Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing
  • Human-Centric NLP & Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation
  • Information Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented Generation
  • Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
  • Inference-Time Methods
  • Language model architecture and training methods
  • Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
  • LLM Efficiency
  • Low-resource Methods for NLP
  • Reasoning in NLP and Language Models
  • Machine Translation, Multilinguality, and Language Diversity
  • Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
  • NLP and LLM Applications
  • Tokenization, Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
  • Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation
  • Safety and Alignment in LLMs
  • Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference
  • Sentiment, Emotion, and Stylistic Analysis
  • Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding
  • Language Generation, Summarization, Question Answering

Two Stage Review: Submission to ARR, Commitment to NAACL

NAACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process:

  • Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors;
  • Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (here NAACL 2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.

Authorship during commitment. During the commitment phase, it is not allowed to modify the author list (i.e., addition/deletion of authors is not allowed). However, modification of author order is possible.

NAACL 2027 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference, or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews.

The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible.

Paper Submission Details

Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements and policies, including:

  • Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages)
  • Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review
  • Authorship
  • Citation and Comparison
  • Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal Policy
  • ACL’s Publication Ethics Policy, and ARR’s Ethics Policy including the responsible NLP research checklist
  • ACL’s Disclosure Policy
  • Limitations
  • Writing Assistance
  • Paper Submission and Templates
  • Optional Supplementary Materials

Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments.

Presentation at the Conference

All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to rejection.

Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters.

Contact Information

General Chair: Kevin Duh, Johns Hopkins University

Program Chairs:

  • Arman Cohan, Yale University
  • Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University
  • Huan Sun, The Ohio State University

For questions related to paper submission, and the review process in general, email: editors@aclrollingreview.org

For questions about commitment and post review related topics, email: naacl2027-pcs@googlegroups.com