ACL Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a NLP conference. The dataset covers 29 events from 1997-2025.
ACL 2025 accepted 1,699 papers out of 8,360 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 20.3%.
Latest Acceptance Rate
20.3%
2025: 1,699 accepted / 8,360 submitted
Years Covered
29
1997-2025
Discipline
NLP
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, ML for NLP
Yearly Statistics
| Year | Location | Accepted | Submitted | Acceptance Rate | Second Track | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Vienna, Austria | 1,699 | 8,360 | 20.3% | 1,392 / 8,360 (16.7%) | |
| 2024 | Bangkok, Thailand | 943 | 4,407 | 21.4% | 976 / 4,407 (22.1%) | Estimated |
| 2023 | Toronto, Canada | 1,074 | 4,864 | 22.1% | 901 / 4,864 (18.5%) | Estimated |
| 2022 | Dublin, Ireland | 701 | 3,378 | 20.8% | 331 / 3,378 (9.8%) | Estimated |
| 2021 | Online, Online | 710 | 3,350 | 21.2% | 361 / 3,350 (10.8%) | Estimated |
| 2020 | Online, Online | 571 | 2,248 | 25.4% | ||
| 2019 | Florence, Italy | 447 | 1,740 | 25.7% | ||
| 2018 | Melbourne, Australia | 256 | 1,045 | 24.5% | ||
| 2017 | Vancouver, Canada | 195 | 751 | 26.0% | ||
| 2016 | Berlin, Germany | 231 | 825 | 28.0% | ||
| 2015 | Beijing, China | 173 | 692 | 25.0% | ||
| 2014 | Baltimore, USA | 146 | 572 | 25.5% | ||
| 2013 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 174 | 664 | 26.2% | ||
| 2012 | Jeju, Korea | 111 | 571 | 19.4% | ||
| 2011 | Portland, USA | 164 | 634 | 25.9% | ||
| 2010 | Uppsala, Sweden | 160 | 638 | 25.1% | ||
| 2009 | Singapore, Singapore | 121 | 569 | 21.3% | ||
| 2008 | Columbus, USA | 119 | 470 | 25.3% | ||
| 2007 | Prague, Czech Republic | 131 | 588 | 22.3% | ||
| 2006 | Sydney, Australia | 147 | 630 | 23.3% | ||
| 2005 | Ann Arbor, USA | 77 | 423 | 18.2% | ||
| 2004 | Barcelona, Spain | 88 | 348 | 25.3% | ||
| 2003 | Sapporo, Japan | 71 | 360 | 19.7% | ||
| 2002 | Philadelphia, USA | 66 | 256 | 25.8% | ||
| 2001 | Toulouse, France | 69 | 260 | 26.5% | ||
| 2000 | Hong Kong, China | 70 | 267 | 26.2% | ||
| 1999 | College Park, USA | 80 | 320 | 25.0% | ||
| 1998 | Montreal, Canada | 137 | 550 | 24.9% | ||
| 1997 | Madrid, Spain | 63 | 264 | 23.9% |
Conference Details
- Full Title
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Main Discipline
- Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, ML for NLP
- Other Topics
- Speech and Audio Processing, Multimodal Learning, Information Retrieval, Ethics and Fairness in NLP, HCI for NLP
- Parent Organization
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Notes
- No conference-level note is recorded.
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