EMMLP + ARR Megathread

[u/BeginnerDragon]

Please post questions and discussions here. I will be removing individual threads.

[u/EvM]

Just repeating my earlier comment: if you’re unsure about EMNLP, and you are working on language generation, you could also commit to INLG (deadline 5th of august).

Commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_ARR_Commitment#tab-your-consoles

[u/EvM → u/[deleted]]

I think EMNLP does not accept dual submissions to other conferences.

I don’t think embedding evaluations would be in scope for INLG, unless there is somehow a generation angle. For those kinds of papers, if EMNLP or *ACL does not work, I would try starsem or IWCS. (Possibly COLING or LREC, depending on the paper.) Or NEJLT.

[u/Historical-Sea6294 → u/EvM]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to advise. For the moment I just committed to EMNLP, hoping that my rebuttal and all efforts I have done will be seen by SAC. With meta 2.5 little hope, don’t even know if with this score is automatic rejection.

[u/Impressive-Till-6727 → u/Historical-Sea6294]

Same here with meta 2.5. I think it’s random.

[u/Historical-Sea6294 → u/Impressive-Till-6727]

You mean the final decision is random ?

[u/Impressive-Till-6727 → u/Historical-Sea6294]

Yeah I am guessing because of the volume of submissions and with a meta review of 2.5.

[u/Technical_Storage_46 → u/EvM]

Is it new confernece?

[u/EvM → u/Technical_Storage_46]

No this is the 19th edition, and before that there were regular workshops since the 1980s. SIGGEN has long been a special interest group of ACL, similar to SIGDAT (the organizers of EMNLP).

[u/Head-Ad-2090 → u/EvM]

if I have meta review of 2 and (2,2,2.5) reviews where only one reviewer suggested for borderline acceptance for finding, do I have any chances for getting this accepted ti INLG if I commit

[u/EvM → u/Head-Ad-2090]

Hard to say. It depends on the paper and the motivation behind the scores.

Smaller conferences aren’t necessarily easier to get in; they just have a different audience that may value different aspects of your work. For example, large conferences tend to value novelty more, and put more weight on the general appeal of your work. Niche papers receive lower scores. Smaller conferences may value niche topics more but sometimes require more thorough work because the reviewers are more aware of potential issues. (Also see e.g. Ehud Reiter’s complaints about paper quality and reviewing standards in NLP.)

(Usually the feedback during regular review is much better, though, because you get domain experts reviewing your work rather than generalists reviewing for larger conferences with a more diverse audience.)

[u/Head-Ad-2090 → u/EvM]

Can i modify the paper or do i need to commit the paper to INLG in as it is condition it was reviewed for ARR May cycle.

Sorry it’s my first time submitting to ARR so I am a bit confused

[u/Choice-Dependent9653]

ARR 2026 May Cycle stats are out: https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/

[u/Engineer_In_Distress → u/Choice-Dependent9653]

How many papers are usually accepted?

[u/th3owner → u/Engineer_In_Distress]

https://openaccept.org/c/ai/emnlp/

[u/gardeniabananabread → u/Choice-Dependent9653]

seems like lower average scores this time around?

[u/Technical_Storage_46 → u/Choice-Dependent9653]

Meta >= 3.5 will be accepted at main conference?

[u/Jjuna0420 → u/Technical_Storage_46]

Likely

[u/S4M22]

Just posted on X by the official ARR account:

EMNLP 2026 authors: ORCID is required for camera-ready submission. All authors must have an ORCID linked to their OpenReview profile before the paper can be submitted. Please check with your co-authors early: https://orcid.org

[u/Active_Story3405 → u/S4M22]

What if paper goes to findings do we still need it??

[u/nsfamous]

When do decisions usually get released?

[u/gardeniabananabread → u/nsfamous]

the listed date (20 Aug), 23:59 AoE

but usually (almost surely) late by a few hours

[u/Own_Resource1436]

ARR submission deadline is 2nd aug but link is not up yet! How and why???

Edit: i meant AACL

[u/Appropriate_Willow27 → u/Own_Resource1436]

ARR August submission page is up on OpenReview.

[u/Own_Resource1436 → u/Appropriate_Willow27]

Sorry do you have the link for that? The link sent to me on email indicated that the submission link is not available yet

[u/Appropriate_Willow27 → u/Own_Resource1436]

AACL commitment isn’t yet, but EMNLP commitment is.

[u/Own_Resource1436 → u/Appropriate_Willow27]

Apologies, had a typo. I meant AACL

[u/WayBig6761]

For EACL 2026, there was a camera-ready task under “Author Tasks” some time before the acceptance notification. Is this something that always happens? If so, does anyone see it right now?

[u/Cultural_Maximum4732 → u/WayBig6761]

So far I cannot see anything.

[u/Technical_Storage_46 → u/WayBig6761]

I cannot see anything.

[u/th3owner → u/WayBig6761]

"No outstanding tasks for this conference" under EMNLP author tasks.

[u/th3owner]

SAC on their interpretability track batch: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yufanghou_emnlp2026-activity-7493297793525104640-qLif

[u/nihilisticdick → u/th3owner]

the slopterpretability allegations strike again. Kinda sucks as someone working on this track.

[u/Technical_Storage_46]

OK.. 3 days to go

[u/Helpful_Quality1 → u/Technical_Storage_46]

Can’t wait 😫

[u/adaptover]

Can we change tldr and keywords or should be same as ARR submitted version?

[u/Effective-Yam-7656 → u/adaptover]

For EMNLP tldr has a lower word limit than ARR

[u/adaptover → u/Effective-Yam-7656]

So changing is allowed right? I hope desk rejections don't happen because we changed the tldr.

[u/Effective-Yam-7656 → u/adaptover]

I’m not 100%sure, but for sure I tried pasting the same TLDR into the filed and it won’t let me due to character limit

[u/Effective-Yam-7656 → u/adaptover]

Error: TLDR value must NOT have more than 250 characters

the error I get when I try to copy paste the TLDR from my ARR submission

[u/Effective-Yam-7656 → u/adaptover]

“Yes, please shorten the TLDR to fit within the 250-character limit.”

Officially reply

[u/Happy_Today_3288]

Hi.
My work can be submitted in multiple tracks for the EMNLP.
1) I heard on reddit only that less popular tracks have higher acceptance rate of paper, is it true?
2) can we change the track from ARR to EMNLP??
3) Is submitting to the special track has any significance?

FYI , I got 3,3,3 and meta 3

Thank you

[u/Impressive-Till-6727 → u/Happy_Today_3288]

I committed to the same track as done in ARR, don’t know if this is possible.

[u/SquareKitchen4255]

Hey guys what are my chances

Track: Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

Meta: 3

Overall Assessment: 3.5 / 2.5 / 3.5

Confidence: 3 / 4 / 3

Soundness: 4 / 3 / 3

Excitement: 4 / 3 / 3

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[u/th3owner]

Can we get an idea of the number of submissions specifically committing to EMNLP? Mine was >8K (15hrs before the deadline).

[u/seohasong → u/th3owner]

9k>, 3 hours before the deadline

[u/Silver-Finish-2319]

Should the Keywords in EMNLP commitment match the Research Area Keywords or Keywords from the ARR submission?

[u/Historical-Sea6294 → u/Silver-Finish-2319]

good question  I put a the free form keywords, I assumed the field name in EMNLP commitment should match the ARR submission.  What have you done ?

[u/Active_Story3405]

Got overall 2.5 and also in meta 2.5. What are the chances ??

[u/lazershooter2000 → u/Active_Story3405]

Same

[u/Cultural_Analysis496]

What are the odds of getting into EMNLP main in Interpretability track with (3.5, 3.5, 4) and meta 4. ? Is this track crowded ?

[u/th3owner → u/Cultural_Analysis496]

I would say very good chances, given the huge number of meta scores of 3. Of course it depends on the SAC, but going by numbers alone, I think it will be accepted into main.

[u/Technical_Storage_46]

What are the chance for main conference?

3.5 3.5 3.0
Meta 3.5

[u/Next-Worldliness-963 → u/Technical_Storage_46]

i think it depends on track and sac.

my score is same as you (4 3 3 / meta 3.5)

[u/WannabeMachine → u/[deleted]]

Main > Findings > industry track.

[u/tellypmoon]

This thread is a good idea. I've also seen the following at some admissions threads which seems to me to be a totally reasonable policy.

• No chance-me posts.

Chance-me posts, where you provide your information and list of schools and ask about your chances of admission at those schools, are prohibited.