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 30 events from 1996-2026.
EMNLP 2026 has 2,710 accepted papers recorded, and was held in Budapest, Hungary.
Latest Complete Rate
22.2%
2025: 1,811 accepted / 8,174 submitted
Years Covered
30
1996-2026
Discipline
NLP
NLP, Linguistics, ML for NLP
Submission Trend
+127.1%
Last 5 events (2021-2025): 3,600 → 8,174 submissions (+4,574).
Yearly Statistics
| Year | Location | Accepted | Submitted | Acceptance Rate | Second Track | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Budapest, Hungary | 2,710 | N/A | N/A | 2,487 accepted | Counts from the official author roster as of October 2; includes virtual papers and Findings papers marked Not Presenting. Submission counts remain unverified. |
| 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% | ||
| 2003 | Sapporo, Japan | 28 | N/A | N/A | ||
| 2002 | Providence, Rhode Island, USA | 41 | 142 | 28.9% | ||
| 2000 | Hong Kong, China | 27 | N/A | N/A | The proceedings contain 27 research papers; the final presentation program lists 26. The proceedings count is used. | |
| 1999 | College Park, USA | N/A | N/A | N/A | The proceedings contain 33 research papers after excluding two invited talks, while the printed program lists 25; the accepted count remains unresolved. | |
| 1998 | Granada, Spain | 12 | N/A | N/A | ||
| 1997 | Providence, Rhode Island, USA | 23 | N/A | N/A | ||
| 1996 | Philadelphia, USA | 14 | N/A | N/A |
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
- EMNLP 2026
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