20 ranked venues

Best NLP Conferences

Computational linguistics has no field of research code of its own, so this page is assembled by venue rather than by code. The ACL family — ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, AACL — plus COLING and LREC covers effectively all of the field's high-visibility publishing.

Main-conference acceptance rates sit around 20-25%, with Findings absorbing a further tranche of papers. Speech venues such as Interspeech and ICASSP are included here because submission decisions increasingly cross the two communities.

A* tier

2 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
A*	ACL	Association for Computational Linguistics	22,541	21.3% (2024 main conference)
A*	EMNLP	Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing	16,441	23.5% (2023 main conference)

A tier

3 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
A	EACL	European Association for Computational Linguistics	3,733
A	Interspeech	Interspeech (combined EuroSpeech and ICSLP in 2000)	28,540	48.0% (2024)
A	NAACL	North American Association for Computational Linguistics	7,329	24.7% (2024 main conference)

B tier

6 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
B	COLING	International Conference on Computational Linguistics	8,713
B	CoNLL	Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning	1,220
B	IJCNLP	International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing	1,999
B	INLG	International Natural Language Generation Conference	849
B	LREC	Language Resources and Evaluation Conference	8,855
B	SIGdial	Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog	1,248

C tier

5 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
C	ASRU	IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop	1,323
C	CICLING	International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics	1,426
C	EAMT	Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation	922
C	MT SUMMIT	Machine Translation Summit
C	NLDB	Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases	1,137

National

National tier

2 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
National	AMTA	Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas	689
National	RANLP	International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing	1,337

Australasian

Australasian tier

1 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
Australasian	SST	Australasian Speech Science and Technology

Multiconference

Multiconference tier

1 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
Multiconference	ICASSP	IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing	56,707