How to submit to ACL (2027)
Flagship NLP conference. Held July. Long and short paper tracks.
Key facts
- Full name
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Kind
- Conference
- Field
- Natural language processing
- Next cycle
- ACL 2027
- Page limit
- 8 pages (long) / 4 pages (short)
- Template
- Official ACL template
- On Lumina
- $250 per paper
Deadlines
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| ARR commitment deadline tentative | 15 February 2027 |
| Direct submission deadline tentative | 15 February 2027 |
| Reviews released tentative | 5 April 2027 |
| Final decisions tentative | 15 May 2027 |
| Camera-ready tentative | 10 June 2027 |
| Conference tentative | 26 July 2027 |
As recorded in Lumina's venue data on 9 September 2026; confirm on the venue's site.
Formatting and submission rules
- Long: 8 pages content. Short: 4 pages content.
- Mandatory Limitations section
- Optional Ethics statement
- Most submissions route through ARR (ACL Rolling Review)
A roadmap that counts back from the deadline
Each step counts back from the submission deadline.
- 18 weeks beforeFrame the contribution
A 1-sentence claim + an experiment that would falsify it. Map it to the venue's scope.
- 16 weeks beforeLiterature review
Find prior work the reviewer will expect you to cite. 12-20 papers, 2-line summary each.
- 15 weeks beforeReproduce baselines
Get a published baseline working on your data first. Log seeds and configs.
- 13 weeks beforeMain experiments
Run your method vs. baselines across 3+ seeds.
- 4 weeks beforeAblations
Strip components; isolate what your contribution actually adds.
- 3 weeks beforeFull draft v1
Every section. Aim for ugly-but-complete, not polished-but-partial.
- 2 weeks beforeInternal review pass
Have a peer or mentor read it. Address every confusion before reviewers see it.
- 1 week beforePolish + reproducibility kit
Clean figures, captions, code release, supplementary, ethics statement.
- Deadline weekSubmit
Upload PDF + supplementary by venue deadline (AoE in most cases).
What Lumina does for a ACL submission
Venue Fit checks that ACL is the right target for the paper. The Guided Builder writes it in ACL's format, the Manuscript Audit re-checks the statistics and the claims the way a reviewer would, the Submission Checklist runs the venue's rules before you upload, and deadline reminders keep the roadmap above honest. Every tool needs a free account; preparing a paper for ACL is $250, paid once per paper.
Format your paper for ACL — free to start See the roadmap
Questions
Is there a page limit?
8 pages (long) / 4 pages (short). As recorded in Lumina's venue data on 9 September 2026; confirm on the venue's site.
When is the deadline?
ARR commitment deadline: 15 February 2027 (tentative). As recorded in Lumina's venue data on 9 September 2026; confirm on the venue's site.
Does Lumina submit for me?
No. You submit through ACL's own system; Lumina prepares and checks the paper.
Lumina is not affiliated with Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; submission decisions are the venue's alone.
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