EMNLP
EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) is a premier academic conference in the field of natural language processing, organized by the SIGDAT special interest group of the ACL. Founded in 1996, it is regarded alongside ACL and NAACL as one of the three flagship NLP conferences, regularly receiving over 4,000 paper submissions annually.
Core Facts
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) was officially launched in late 2021 as a systematic reform of the ACL paper review process for the NLP/CL field.
EMNLP's acceptance rate is typically maintained between 22% and 25%.
EMNLP is organized by SIGDAT (Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) under ACL
Timeline (last 90 days)
An EMNLP study found that 4-bit models suffer an average retrieval loss of 23% at 128,000 tokens, with 70B LLaMA losing one-third of its score while QWEN of the same scale loses almost none.
Top NLP conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL have published a large number of papers on retrieval-augmented generation in recent years.
An NLP PhD student began a three-year doctoral program in early 2024, plans to graduate in January of next year, and has a publication record including 2 first-author papers at the EMNLP main conference, 1 first-author paper at ACL Findings, and 1 journal paper in IP&M, with 4 additional papers currently under review.
Even against the backdrop of paper inflation, the bar for EMNLP and ACL main conference papers has not dropped correspondingly, and acceptance rates have tightened somewhat due to the surge in submissions.
Over the past two years, paper output in the NLP field has grown exponentially, with submission volumes at top venues such as ACL, EMNLP, and NeurIPS repeatedly hitting record highs and the number of accepted papers at many conferences doubling or more.
AACL-IJCNLP has become an important academic platform on par with ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL.
The main differences between Findings papers and main conference papers are reflected in presentation format (Findings papers are typically presented only as posters or online, while main conference papers have oral/poster opportunities) and academic recognition, rather than eligibility for publication and citation.
Selecting a target conference should comprehensively consider thematic fit: EMNLP leans toward empirical research, ACL toward comprehensive innovation, CoNLL toward linguistic computational modeling, SIGdial focuses on dialogue systems, and WMT is a machine translation evaluation platform.
The three major NLP conferences ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL are all led by the Association for Computational Linguistics and are rated A* in the CORE ranking.
The submission deadlines for major AI/NLP conferences are roughly: ICML in January–February, EMNLP and NeurIPS in May–June, AAAI in August, ICLR in September–October, and ACL and NAACL in winter.
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ACL Rolling Review (ARR) was officially launched in late 2021 as a systematic reform of the ACL paper review process for the NLP/CL field.
90%VerifiedEMNLP's acceptance rate is typically maintained between 22% and 25%.
70%VerifiedEMNLP is organized by SIGDAT (Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) under ACL
70%VerifiedFounded in 1996, EMNLP is one of the three flagship NLP conferences alongside ACL and NAACL, and is hosted by SIGDAT, a special interest group under ACL.
70%VerifiedEMNLP, along with ACL and NAACL, is regarded as one of the three top conferences in the field of NLP.
65%VerifiedEMNLP held its inaugural edition in 1996
65%VerifiedFindings of ACL (including Findings of EMNLP) was established in 2020 to address the backlog of papers in the NLP field.
65%UnverifiedEMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most influential international academic conferences in natural language processing, grouped with ACL and NAACL as the 'Big Three' in the field
90%UnverifiedIn ARR, the reviews and meta-reviews a paper receives can be 'committed' to a specific conference such as EMNLP, where area chairs make the final acceptance decision
90%UnverifiedEMNLP emphasizes data-driven and experimentally validated research paradigms, unlike the ACL annual meeting which leans more toward theoretical linguistics foundations
85%UnverifiedIn recent years EMNLP submissions have surpassed several thousand papers, with acceptance rates typically ranging between 22%-25%
80%UnverifiedEMNLP, along with ACL and NAACL, is regarded as one of the three top conferences in the field of computational linguistics.
60%UnverifiedEMNLP Findings is a new acceptance category introduced by ACL/EMNLP in 2020, providing a formal publication venue for papers that are of sufficient quality but did not make it into the main conference
60%UnverifiedACL oversees multiple top conferences including the ACL Annual Meeting, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, and AACL, as well as the Computational Linguistics journal and TACL
60%UnverifiedAn EMNLP study found that 4-bit models suffer an average retrieval loss of 23% at 128,000 tokens, with 70B LLaMA losing one-third of its score while QWEN of the same scale loses almost none.
50%UnverifiedTop NLP conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL have published a large number of papers on retrieval-augmented generation in recent years.
50%UnverifiedEven against the backdrop of paper inflation, the bar for EMNLP and ACL main conference papers has not dropped correspondingly, and acceptance rates have tightened somewhat due to the surge in submissions.
50%UnverifiedOver the past two years, paper output in the NLP field has grown exponentially, with submission volumes at top venues such as ACL, EMNLP, and NeurIPS repeatedly hitting record highs and the number of accepted papers at many conferences doubling or more.
50%UnverifiedAACL-IJCNLP has become an important academic platform on par with ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL.
50%UnverifiedThe main differences between Findings papers and main conference papers are reflected in presentation format (Findings papers are typically presented only as posters or online, while main conference papers have oral/poster opportunities) and academic recognition, rather than eligibility for publication and citation.
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