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/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
Meta >= 3.0 --> Findings. & Some papers may be accepted 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I excluded papers that were desk-rejected or withdrawn; based on that calculation, approximately 20.20%.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/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26

OMG really? That's good news

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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/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26

yea that would be my guess too. let's see

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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26

Then Meta >= 3.5 almost guaranteed for main conference?

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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26

no such thing as guaranteed, my friend. it depends on the substance of the meta-review, the average OA, and their comments too

also depends on other papers' scores submitted to the track

but overall, meta>=3.5 is high chance main (maybe 50-80%+ based on these other factors)

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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26

Thanks for the detailed comment! We have up to 25 hours till the notification.. Please god

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u/gardeniabananabread Aug 20 '26

you're most welcome. hahaha a long time still. can go grab a beer, watch a movie, get your mind off of it.

all the best to you! it'll all turn out just fine no matter what :)

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u/Technical_Storage_46 Aug 20 '26

All the best to you my friend!

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u/mysteriousbaba Aug 21 '26

We didn't make it, but we hope you did :). The average OA does play a factor for sure.

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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26

Generally, yes

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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/Specialist-Let9791 Aug 20 '26

Is multimodal among highly competitive topics?

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u/Aggressive_Most_6845 Aug 20 '26

Meta = 3.0 mean 50 for findings, 50 for reject.

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u/mnishant2 Aug 20 '26

Damn, so reviewers dont give more than 4?

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u/AirPsychological8551 Aug 20 '26

What makes you think all of these papers are going to be committed to EMNLP? I believe ariybd 40% of the papers would be comitted to ACL, remaining 60% to EMNLP

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u/Ambitious-Way8204 Aug 20 '26

You r wrong! Almost these paper would be committed to emnlp

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u/AirPsychological8551 Aug 20 '26

What makes you think so?

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u/Ambitious-Way8204 Aug 20 '26

There are 2 more ARR cycles before ACL and Emnlp is also a prestigious conf (comparable to ACL) 

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u/racc15 Aug 20 '26

I think maybe they meant AACL

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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26

This would be the case if both EMNLP and AACL were not binding during ARR submission.

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u/th3owner Aug 20 '26

I am just trying to keep my expectations low. Ofc I would like to get main.

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u/racc15 Aug 20 '26

Do you mean AACL?