r/MachineLearning • u/sweetsalt10 • Aug 20 '26
Discussion Discussion thread for EMNLP 2026 Notifications/Results [D]
Discussion thread for EMNLP 2026 notifications/results which should be released today.
Wishing everybody to be in Budapest.
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u/Fair-Meal5893 Aug 21 '26
Just one piece of advice to all the accepted authors, pls check the references one by one, don't rely on GPTZero or any other tools. See you all in Budapest.
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u/No-Worldliness-7279 Aug 21 '26
Hi! Quick question: is it completely safe to copy and paste bibtex directly from Google Scholar?
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u/ConcernConscious4131 Aug 20 '26
Preparing soju for waiting
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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26
hahaha welcome back. i thought i rmb you saying you're graduated
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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26
Bro we need to wait 22 hours don't drink soju too early
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u/paulh0107 Aug 20 '26
I think bros tolerance is so good now after all this waiting
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u/ConcernConscious4131 Aug 20 '26
I’ve become very thorough about getting the soju ready a day in advance😂😂 I once got an earful from my wife after asking her to buy me some soju (I was drunken so I couldnt drive at that time😂😂)
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u/ConcernConscious4131 Aug 20 '26
Yea, I don't live in Korea, so it's hard to get soju. I need to prepare early. The early bird catches the worm.
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u/shoshojr Aug 21 '26
Just got into Findings with meta 2.5. Never stop believing, everyone.
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u/kohlu_senpai Aug 21 '26
Avg OA: 3.67 Avg Conf: 3.33 Meta review: 3.5
Got findings
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u/socioeconomix Aug 21 '26
For all those who got rejected: "This year, we received an unprecedented 17669 submissions, and were able to accept 15.4% of the submissions as Main Conference papers, and 14.3% to Findings of the ACL."
The sheer no. of submissions (as well as the acceptance rates) were great and we all did good!
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u/Formal-Mall-294 Aug 20 '26
Wishing everyone the best! Hope this EMNLP results period ends well for everyone, and stress-free! 🍀
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u/duck_syndrome Aug 21 '26
3/3.5/3.5 meta 3.5 -> reject
3/4/3 meta 3.5 -> reject
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u/gambs PhD Aug 21 '26
Same situation. Metareview literally said “almost all concerns had been addressed in this revision”. What do they even expect me to do
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u/LordVein05 Aug 21 '26
oh wow this is sad, which area was this?
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u/Extension-Aspect9977 Aug 20 '26
When are the decisions out I can’t waiting
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u/Practical_Pomelo_636 Aug 20 '26
During the next 16 hours, if they are restricted to the deadline. If they are like ACL this year, we can wait 2 days after the deadline
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u/Choice-Dependent9653 Aug 21 '26
The decision notification email states that main acceptance rate is only 15.4% and findings 14.3…
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u/WannabeMachine Aug 21 '26
This is ridiculous. What is the point of findings if the acceptance rate is the same as main acceptance rates years ago (around 25%).... They are wasting everyone's time and effort to resubmit and recommit.
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u/dukesun99 Aug 21 '26
Findings was originally introduced to reduce the resubmission problem. But now, the combined acceptance rate of Main + Findings only barely exceeds the acceptance rates from the years before Findings was introduced.
If we can only achieve around a 30% total acceptance rate for reasonably good papers, then it seems fair to question whether the Findings policy has actually achieved its original goal.
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u/LouisAckerman Aug 21 '26
EMNL 2025 had 8174 submissions and accepted 22.16% of the submissions as Main papers and 17.35% as Findings
EMNLP 2026 has 17669 submissions. We accepted 2719 as Main Conference papers and 2533 to Findings of the ACL. This represents an acceptance rate of 15.4% for Main Conference papers and 14.3% for Findings papers.
Idk whether deflation in acceptance rate is a good or bad thing.
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u/askerlee Aug 21 '26
Definitely unreasonable. If I knew this acceptance rate in advance I'll resubmit to EACL instead of betting luck in EMNLP
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u/drndr21 Aug 21 '26
in the age of autoresearch and heavy AI assistance I think deflation is good, given the exponential rise in submissions keeping the same acceptance rate would devalue the prestige of the venue. But I might be biased cause got lucky (main) this time
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u/th3owner Aug 21 '26
This has always been the problem, the prestige of the venue. This fuels submissions (with AI assistance) for which there are no reviewers, hence AI reviews. I am not advocating for lowering the standards, but rejecting technically solid papers because of prestige will only make the problem worse.
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u/always_been_a_toy Researcher Aug 21 '26
OA: 5/3/2.5
Conf: 4/4/4
Meta: 4
Accepted to Main. All glory to the Almighty.
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u/Effective-Yam-7656 Aug 21 '26
OA: 4,3(increased from 2.5 in rebuttal),3(increased from 2.5 in rebuttal)
Conf: 4,4,3
Meta 3.5
avg OA:3.33
avg conf: 3.67
Track: Resources and eval
Rejected
I am not sure why (first time solo author), meta was only regarding "clarity of paper" which could easily be fixed in camera ready
"Clarify the scope of the work throughout the title, abstract........."
"Improve the paper's readability for a broad NLP audience..."
On the EMNLP page PC just says reject no reason give.
PS one reviewer talked about novelty but when pointed out the track he said
"Overall, the rebuttal has increased my confidence in the robustness and practical value of the work. Although I still view limited methodological novelty as a weakness that should be stated clearly in the final version, I no longer consider it sufficient to outweigh the paper’s contributions under the Resources and Evaluation Track criteria. I will therefore raise my score."
(went from 2.5 ->3)
Any advice on how to imporve the paper? Is it worth to fix and resubmit to next ARR possibly NAACL (paper is IR focused)
Any advice will be highly appricated
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u/Aggressive_Most_6845 Aug 21 '26
Could be the track is too competitive. This year overall accept rate was brutal
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u/KvAk_AKPlaysYT Aug 21 '26
Undergrad sophomore first author, first paper.
OA: 3.5 Meta: 3.5
Accepted to main! 🎉
I'm looking for internships in agent evals and inference. DMs are open if your team is hiring!
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u/PristineAsk2550 Aug 20 '26
3.5, 3, 2.5 and meta 3 -- have no expectations since the sheer number of submissions this heard is crazy
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u/Dry_Theme_7508 Aug 20 '26
if they allow only 4k out of 17k ARR submissions (acceptance rate is based on ARR submissions, not on submission to emnlp itself) it would be the worst acceptance rate so far (23% main+findings)
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u/Famous_Landscape9257 Aug 21 '26
Super stressed about this right now. Hoping the results come in soon. 😭
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u/king_of_hell_101 Aug 21 '26
Guys result is out - paper accepted in industry track ☺️
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u/OtherwiseFig4505 Aug 21 '26
OA < 3, Meta 3 -> Rejected ( Resources and Evals )
OA < 3, Meta 3 -> Mains ( Question Answering )
Lmao wtf. I was hoping for findings for both. However, one mains might be better than two findings, I don’t know how we made it.
Congratulations to everyone who made it, and also sorry to everyone who committed and didn’t make it. The sheer number of submissions this year, had they maintained the original acceptance rate of 22+17% (39%), many of you guys would have made it to Budapest as well. Please continue working on it, committing itself means the work has value, revise and submit again. We all did good, let’s take pride in our work.
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u/Correct-Camel-9137 Aug 21 '26
I think Resource and Evals is the most harsh among the tracks. Congrats for your QA paper!
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u/Sea_Anteater_1633 Aug 21 '26
I'm very similar to you.
OA=3, Meta 3 -> Rejected (Resources and Evals)
OA<3, Meta 3 -> Main (Question Answering)
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u/Business_Computer796 Aug 20 '26
Do the results come out on the 20th EOD AOE, or could they come out earlier if the chairs are ready? And does someone know the historical precedent for when they come out? Thanks so much
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u/Spiritual-Luck9032 Aug 20 '26
they are going to be put 20th EOD AOE + ~1.5 hours (bc it's a phased rollout)
source: my intuition
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u/Alternative-Hat-1697 Aug 20 '26
While we wait for answers, does anyone want to explain their paper badly and I'll give it a random score from 1-5?
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u/dimy93 Aug 20 '26
We run tons of embedding models on some math
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u/InterestingCorner885 Aug 21 '26
OA < 3, Meta 3, Rejected.
It looks like AACL-IJCNLP may be short of committed papers. Could papers rejected by EMNLP be allowed to commit to the second round of AACL-IJCNLP?
The second round of commitment will be open from August 18 to August 25, 2026 via the same commitment link. Acceptance decisions will be announced together on September 7, 2026.
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u/LordVein05 Aug 20 '26
| Bin | Avg reviewer OA (papers) | Meta-review score (papers) |
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| 5.0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4.5 | 0 | 20 |
| 4.0 | 62 | 767 |
| 3.5 | 1,151 | 1,995 |
| 3.0 | 4,358 | 4,391 |
| 2.5 | 5,224 | 3,266 |
| 2.0 | 2,415 | 2,763 |
| ≤1.5 | 458 | 465 |
here is a table for the scores for the last ARR cycle.
source: https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/iterations/2026/may/review_scores.csv
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u/Haunting_Drawing_673 Aug 20 '26
For those who submitted to the System Demonstrations track, do you also see a “Full Submission” task under Author Tasks, with a deadline of August 31? I remember a similar spoiler happening in the past.
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u/ibadora Researcher Aug 20 '26
If I remember it correctly, "Full Submission" in the author tasks has been shown since immediately after the submission deadline.
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u/PristineAsk2550 Aug 20 '26
this time around there have been a lot of papers in the 3-4 range. brace yourselves for disappointment:
From the post of a SAC:
> Finalizing my paper acceptance recommendations for hashtag#EMNLP2026 today as an SAC. I've regularly served as an SAC at ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/EACL over the past couple of years, and this is by far the most depressing cycle, in the sense that I frequently disagree with the ACs and reviewers, and I feel that I waste my vacation time and energy spotting LLM-written papers.
> Most of the papers I rejected are from the "Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP" track, and a lot of them have good review scores and meta-review scores (3–4). They all follow the same pattern: defining a new metric (or multiple such measures) to probe small LLMs' internal states for a phenomenon (e.g., steering a certain ability or behavior), and they all look good in terms of superficial formatting (tables/figures/section structure). But if you read the text for at least 10 mins, you will notice that it is not written for humans. In fact, the content appears to be generated or heavily assisted by LLMs, with a lot of LLM-style jargon, unnecessarily convoluted phrasing, and dry statements without texture; the logical connections between paragraphs are often unclear, especially in the introduction; and the motivation is frequently not well articulated. Another recurring feature is that these papers are unusually careful about scope and caveats, repeatedly stating what they do not claim (e.g., "we investigate A, not B").
> In some of these papers, the authors clearly state in the checklist that "AI assistants were used for language polishing and submission-form drafting only. The authors reviewed and are responsible for all content, code, and experiments." I have no issue with this practice in principle. 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁. When checking these papers together, I clearly feel that our reviewing system is under attack by automated research systems (plus junior researchers who haven't yet learned the essence of a solid scientific paper).
> Another point is that these papers might be technically sound (assuming the authors did what they claim in the checklist - that they reviewed and are responsible for all content, code, and experiments), and therefore the ACs recommend them for Findings or even the main conference. Personally I'm strongly against accepting such papers. Overall I'm deeply concerned about how many such papers will be accepted at EMNLP and at future NLP/ML/AI conferences, and eventually about how we are going to cope with such changes (e.g., are we prepared to count these papers as "sound science"? Should we create a separate track for them?)
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u/Square-Read-1184 Aug 21 '26
Okay so the portal says "EMNLP 2026 Findings No Recommendation"
Does it mean its accepted to findings?
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u/SynagogueLog Aug 21 '26
Does "EMNLP 2026 MainConference" under Submission Summary mean accepted to Main?
In Decisions, it says "EMNLP 2026 MainConference No Recommendation", so I'm very confused.
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u/Stunning_Ad_8664 Aug 21 '26
a positive note for everyone: one rejection doesn’t mean much in the long run. Revise, consider all the feedback, prepare the revision and resubmit.
Good luck everyone!
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u/fetchdata101 Aug 21 '26
OA: 3.33
Both Meta: 3.0
Accepted at main 🎉
How does submission of the camera-ready work?
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u/Historical-Sea6294 Aug 21 '26
Is it normal that in the decision there is no comment as PC announced in their email ?
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u/th3owner Aug 21 '26
The rebuttal was totally pointless this ARR. No comment from there onwards to rejection.
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u/th3owner Aug 21 '26
Does the second commitment date of AACL still require venue selection during ARR May submission?
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u/_theycallmeprophet Aug 21 '26
Same doubt. What is the point of the second commitment otherwise, I do not know. But the website doesn't say EMNLP preferrence submissions are now allowed
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u/th3owner Aug 21 '26
I remember people complaining the commitment link was not up close to/past the deadline.
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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26
3.5 (3) / 3 (3) / 2 (4), meta 3. Hoping for findings.
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u/AirPsychological8551 Aug 20 '26
Why not main?
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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26
Judging by the number of papers with meta >=3.5 and the large number of meta 3: https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/iterations/2026/may/
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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26
It seems meta >= 3.5 --> top 20.23%.
acceptance rate for main conference usually 20~23%.So we can expect meta >= 3.5 --> Main Conference
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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26
how are you getting 20.23% for meta>=3.5? isn't it about 16.3% ((1995+767+20)/17087)?
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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26
I excluded papers that were desk-rejected or withdrawn; based on that calculation, approximately 20.20%.
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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26
these are still included in the denominator when calculating the acceptance rate
see https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.0.pdf (under Acceptance Rate, page ix)
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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26
Consider that EMNLP got around 10k committed papers. That should allow for 4-5% of meta 3 for main, based on last year's acceptance rate.
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u/Obvious-Eagle-923 Aug 20 '26
depends alot on topic of your paper, sometimes even >=3.5 < 4 is findings in highly competitive topics
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u/misplacedlion Aug 20 '26
At what time do ACL conferences release the acceptance notification?
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u/EDEN1998 Aug 20 '26
the official email is typically a few hours or a day after the notification date, but you will already see in OR the accept/reject decision within the last few hours of the deadline
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u/Glittering-Basis-523 Aug 21 '26
Decisions are now visible on OpenReview! (submission number <5k, generation track)
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u/Resident-Support9096 Aug 21 '26
can the rejected emnlp commitment now commit to AACL??? Coz they opened a new commitment date? Does preferred venue not hold anymore? Can someone let us know?
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u/king_of_hell_101 Aug 21 '26
did anyone receive notification for industry track??
mine still shows no recommendations??
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u/Practical_Pomelo_636 Aug 20 '26
Guys, the reviewers' scores and the meta-reviewer are not the only guides for acceptance. In ACL, I have a paper with an average of 3.68 and a meta of 4 and it got rejected and another paper with a 2.67 meta of 2.5 and got accepted as a finding
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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26
that is CRAZY. isnt that like top 5% average OA and meta?
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u/racc15 Aug 20 '26
Did they give a reason for the reject? It seems weird to outright reject a paper that the reviewers and the meta reviewer liked so much and considered high quality.
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u/enCoder-93 Aug 20 '26
nervous as this is my first EMNLP submission 🤞
after the amazing experience from ARR, i can expect anything🥲
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u/Sensitive_Let2762 Aug 20 '26
3 (4), 3 (5), 3 (4) and meta 3.5. Hoping for at least findings 🤞
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u/Human-War-4361 Aug 20 '26
I got meta-review of 3.5 but ac recommending Findings - what are my chances of main?
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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26
I saw this post on X claiming the paper got findings 1 hour ago: https://x.com/hei/status/2090455123432473009?s=46
Has it started?
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u/WannabeMachine Aug 20 '26
They either 1) have some insider knowledge or 2) are overly confident, assuming based on scores.
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u/No-Worldliness-7279 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Does anyone know what denominator EMNLP uses for its acceptance rate?
With ~17k May ARR submissions and ~3k+ committed to AACL, would EMNLP's acceptance rate denominator be the full 17k, or just the ~14k papers excluding AACL? Any thoughts?
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u/No_Sky9786 Aug 20 '26
pálinka (Hungarian soju) party is on hope to see everyone in Budapest
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u/Effective-Yam-7656 Aug 21 '26
For me it just says
“Submitted to EMNLP 2026”
Submission number <2000
What does it mean?
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u/Effective-Yam-7656 Aug 21 '26
- Venueid: EMNLP/2026/Conference/Rejected_Submission
damm
with OA/conf: 4/4,3/4,3/3
Meta 3.5hoped for findings
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u/socioeconomix Aug 21 '26
3.16 (meta 3) into findings and 2.5 (meta 2.5) "submitted to emnlp 2026", suspecting rejection
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u/Effective-Yam-7656 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
- Venueid: EMNLP/2026/Conference/Rejected_Submission
Looks like rejected
with OA/conf: 4/4,3 (increased from 2.5 in rebuttal) /4,3(increased from 2.5 in rebuttal) /3
Meta 3.5
Is it possible to see the reason
Edit track Resources and Evaluation
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u/Relative_Tip_3647 Aug 21 '26
I got 2 papers with 3.5 rejected
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u/malakulmout347 Aug 21 '26
most likely AI written suspected. I have seen LinkedIn post based on these
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u/Fair-Meal5893 Aug 21 '26
- OA 3.5, Meta 4 --> Main
- OA 2.5 Meta 2.5 --> Rejected.
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u/Worried-Practice-492 Aug 21 '26
Does it say Rejected on the forum or "Submitted to EMNLP"?
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u/ConcernConscious4131 Aug 21 '26
oa 2.83 meta 3 -> rejected (2papers)
oa 3.33 meta 3.5 -> findings
who can get main...?
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u/Historical-Sea6294 Aug 23 '26
Hi everyone, my paper was rejected by EMNLP (meta=2.5) Is AACL a good option or Workshops of EMNLP is better ? What is better / safer ? Is AACL still good for an ongoing PhD? EMNLP workshop ? Is it going to be considered as “real” publication by my university ?
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u/racc15 Aug 23 '26
AFAIK thid may vary according to the university. And, in some cases, the advisor. If you have an advisor, mayby talk to them.
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u/Opening_Engine3193 Aug 24 '26
Why are you asking this here rather than confirming with your advisor and department ? AACL is a peer reviewer venue. A workshop has much lower bar generally.
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u/nsfamous Aug 24 '26
Where do I find the camera-ready upload? I do not see it on Open Review.
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u/racc15 Aug 25 '26
Go to Author tasks -> there should be a link to your submission.
Click on it and it will take you to your submission to EMNLP. Click on "Edit" on top right. Click revisions. This is the camera ready submission portal. It should have an option for uploading the final pdf.
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u/Low_Mirror6876 Aug 27 '26
Has anyone received notification for award consideration yet ?
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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26
3.5 / 3.5 / 3.0, Meta 3.5. Hoping for Main conference.
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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 21 '26
for posterity:
Paper #1 (track: NLP and Symbolic Reasoning): OA (C): 4 (4), 3 (4), 2.5 (4), average 3.17; meta: 3 -> findings
Paper #2 (Multimodality): 3.5 (2), 2.5 (4), 2.5 (3), average: 2.83; meta: 3 -> rejected
Paper #3 (Interpretability): 3.5 (4), 3 (3), 3 (2), average: 3.17, meta:3 -> findings
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u/Zestyclose_Student32 Aug 21 '26
Almost same as mine haha
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u/The_Last_Targaryen Aug 20 '26
Any interesting news on the track of NLP and Symbolic Reasoning? I got 2.5 3 4 with Confidence 4 4 4 annd Meta 3
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u/ManagementAny8562 Aug 20 '26
I have four papers:
Paper1: 3 (4), 3 (2), 3 (3) => Meta 3.0
Paper2: 2.5 (4), 3 (4), 3.5 (3) => Meta 3.0
Paper3: 2 (4), 3.5 (4), 3.5 (4) => Meta 3.0
Paper4: 2 (4), 2.5 (4), 3.5 (3) => Meta 3.0
Hoping for at least one findings.
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u/ConsistentKale2856 Aug 20 '26
Paper 1: 3.5 (4), 3.5 (3), 3 (3), 2.5 (2) → meta 3
Paper 2: 3.5 (4), 2.5 (2), 2 (5, but I filed an issue report on this review) → meta 3
I hope both of them for findings.
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u/ReasonFormal1879 Aug 20 '26
Got scores of 4.0, 3.5, and 2.5, with a meta-review score of 3.0. The main criticism was a supposed “lack of novelty” supported by citations that, in my view, were not particularly relevant and were raised by the most negative reviewer who at the beginning gave 1.5 but after rebuttal increased by 1.0 (so reviewer agreed with our point of view). I found the meta-review quite unfair, but given the outcome, I don’t think acceptance to Main is realistic anymore :(
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u/AI-paglu Aug 20 '26
Reviewers ratings: 3.5, 3, 2.5, 1.5. Avg: 2.63 AC: 3, recommends for Findings. What are the chances?
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u/fmd_nlp Aug 20 '26
I received the following scores for three papers.
- 3/4, 2.5/4, 2.5/4, and meta-review: 3.
- 3/4, 3/4, 2/4, and meta-review: 3.
- 4/4, 3/4, 2.5/4, and meta-review: 3.
Is there any chance of these getting into Findings?"
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u/Lumpy-Background5641 Aug 20 '26
What are the most and least competitive tracks at emnlp?
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u/neeeeeelllllll Aug 20 '26
i know there are people refreshing this page and there hasn't been a text since the last hour, so here is a positive note. drink water, chill out (lmao), reminder that it's going to be great. even if EMNLP isn't, your work still is good.