EMNLP Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a NLP conference. The dataset covers 23 events from 2002-2025.

EMNLP 2025 accepted 1,811 papers out of 8,174 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 22.2%.

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Latest Acceptance Rate
22.2%
2025: 1,811 accepted / 8,174 submitted
Years Covered
23
2002-2025
Discipline
NLP
NLP, Linguistics, ML for NLP

Yearly Statistics

Year Location Accepted Submitted Acceptance Rate Second Track Note
2025 Suzhou, China 1,811 8,174 22.2% 1,417 / 8,174 (17.3%)
2024 Miami, USA 1,271 6,105 20.8% 1,029 / 6,105 (16.9%)
2023 Singapore, Singapore 1,047 4,909 21.3% 1,060 / 4,909 (21.6%)
2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE 829 4,190 19.8% 549 / 4,190 (13.1%)
2021 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 840 3,600 23.3% 419 / 3,600 (11.6%)
2020 Online, Online 752 3,359 22.4% 447 / 3,359 (13.3%)
2019 Hong Kong, China 683 2,876 23.7%
2018 Brussels, Belgium 549 2,231 24.6%
2017 Copenhagen, Denmark 323 1,418 22.8%
2016 Austin, USA 264 1,087 24.3%
2015 Lisbon, Portugal 312 1,300 24.0%
2014 Doha, Qatar 225 790 28.5%
2013 Seattle, USA 205 772 26.6%
2012 Jeju, Korea 139 570 24.4%
2011 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 149 628 23.7%
2010 Cambridge (MA), USA 125 500 25.0%
2009 Singapore, Singapore 163 475 34.3%
2008 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 116 385 30.1%
2007 Prague, Czech Republic 109 398 27.4%
2006 Sydney, Australia 73 234 31.2%
2005 Vancouver, Canada 127 402 31.6%
2004 Barcelona, Spain 58 257 22.6%
2002 Providence, Rhode Island, USA 41 142 28.9%

Conference Details

Full Title
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Main Discipline
NLP, Linguistics, ML for NLP
Other Topics
Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, AI, Speech Processing, Semantics
Parent Organization
Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL SIGDAT
Notes
Main Track includes Long and Short Papers. The Second Track is the Findings.

More EMNLP Pages

Interactive chart: EMNLP on the main CS Conf Stats chart.

Related NLP conferences: ACL, NAACL.