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%.

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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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