Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 2026
October 24-29, 2026
HungExpoBudapest, Hungary
NLP Machine Learning
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | May 25, 2026 (closed) |
| Notification of acceptance | August 20, 2026 |
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing is a premier international forum for research on data driven language technologies. EMNLP emphasizes empirical evaluation and methodological rigor across topics such as language modeling, information extraction, question answering, dialogue systems, multilingual NLP, and grounded language understanding. The conference highlights both theoretical insights and practical systems that scale to real world language data, alongside workshops and tutorials, and especially values strong empirical results and reproducibility.
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Venue
HungExpo
Budapest, Albertirsai út 10, 1101 Hungary
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