About ACL

The flagship venue for computational linguistics and NLP: language models, multilingual and low-resource languages, evaluation, and the linguistics underneath.

What Meridian does at ACL

  • Before: a Venue Report (Meridian Pro) on the orals, themes and authors to watch.
  • During: recordings with authors near the venue, and a Notes item each day.
  • After: the award and oral papers in Briefs, and invitations to Singapore Sessions.

Season one themes that draw on ACL

  • Retrieval, memory and long context
  • Language models for Asian languages

Put a ACL paper forward

Authors of accepted main-track papers can apply, and anyone can nominate. Selection is editorial and never for sale.

Nominate a ACL paper

Sources

Reviewed 26 October 2026. Rules and fees change; confirm with the authority before relying on them.