--- title: "Venues — journals, conferences and workshops, ranked" description: "The journals, conferences and workshops where the papers of this library were published — 298 with two works or more here: 90 journals, 67 conference…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / venues # Venues The journals, conferences and workshops where the papers of this library were published — 298 with two works or more here: 90 journals, 67 conference series, 138 workshop series, 3 book series. Yearly proceedings count as one series, so every ACL meeting stands on the page of ACL. Each venue has a page with its works, its years, its topics and its most frequent authors and institutions; the list goes by the citations of their works here (OpenAlex plus our library). 298 venues · ranked by the citations of their works here · see also the [publishers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/) 1. **[Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*1,021 works · 442,552 citations* 2. **[Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*703 works · 322,185 citations* 3. **[Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*324 works · 155,213 citations* 4. **[Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Journal · [The MIT Press](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/the-mit-press/)*176 works · 93,825 citations* 5. **[IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)**Conference series · [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/institute-of-electrical-and-electronics-engineers/)*23 works · 80,983 citations* 6. **[Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/)**Journal · [Nature Portfolio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/nature-portfolio/)*9 works · 78,775 citations* 7. **[IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence/)**Journal · [IEEE Computer Society](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/ieee-computer-society/)*2 works · 65,022 citations* 8. **[Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Conference series · [European Language Resources Association (ELRA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/european-language-resources-association-elra/)*811 works · 55,449 citations* 9. **[Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Journal · [The MIT Press](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/the-mit-press/)*132 works · 51,716 citations* 10. **[IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/)**Conference series*7 works · 45,978 citations* 11. **[Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Conference series · [Cornell University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/cornell-university/)*101 works · 41,383 citations* 12. **[Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*233 works · 37,840 citations* 13. **[International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Conference series · [International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/international-committee-on-computational-linguistics-iccl/)*235 works · 36,682 citations* 14. **[Lecture notes in computer science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/)**Book series · [Springer Science+Business Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/springer-science-business-media/)*21 works · 35,938 citations* 15. **[Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/)**Journal · [AI Access Foundation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/ai-access-foundation/)*4 works · 33,256 citations* 16. **[International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Workshop series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*76 works · 27,303 citations* 17. **[Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*123 works · 25,505 citations* 18. **[Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*100 works · 25,067 citations* 19. **[Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Conference series · [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)*132 works · 25,038 citations* 20. **[ACM Computing Surveys](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-computing-surveys/)**Journal · [Association for Computing Machinery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computing-machinery/)*9 works · 23,329 citations* 21. **[Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/machine-learning/)**Journal · [Springer Science+Business Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/springer-science-business-media/)*2 works · 21,741 citations* 22. **[Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/)**Conference series · [Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-the-advancement-of-artificial-intelligence/)*26 works · 13,511 citations* 23. **[International Journal of Computer Vision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-journal-of-computer-vision/)**Journal · [Springer Science+Business Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/springer-science-business-media/)*3 works · 13,243 citations* 24. **[International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-conference-on-machine-learning/)**Conference series · [Cornell University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/cornell-university/)*7 works · 13,174 citations* 25. **[Nature Machine Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature-machine-intelligence/)**Journal · [Nature Portfolio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/nature-portfolio/)*3 works · 11,992 citations* [See all 298 venues, ranked →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/all/) ## The leading venues - [🎤](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · Conference series, published by Association for Computational Linguistics. Its works here centre on English, Machine translation and Language models & pretraining. Its works here span 1979 to 2026. The most cited of them: Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation. · 1,021 works · 442,552 citations - [🎤](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · Conference series, published by Association for Computational Linguistics. Its works here centre on Coreference resolution, English and Machine translation. Its works here span 1996 to 2025. The most cited of them: Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification. · 703 works · 322,185 citations - [🎤](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) — Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) · Conference series, published by Association for Computational Linguistics. Its works here centre on Machine translation, Coreference resolution and English. Its works here span 2001 to 2025. The most cited of them: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding. · 324 works · 155,213 citations - [📰](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) — Computational Linguistics · Journal, published by The MIT Press. Its works here centre on English, Machine translation and Coreference resolution. Its works here span 1975 to 2026. The most cited of them: Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography. · 176 works · 93,825 citations - [🎤](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) — IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Conference series, published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Its works here centre on Vision & language, Language models & pretraining and Evaluation & benchmarks. Its works here span 2013 to 2024. The most cited of them: Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation. · 23 works · 80,983 citations - [📰](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) — Nature · Journal, published by Nature Portfolio. Its works here centre on Reasoning and Language models & pretraining. Its works here span 2020 to 2025. The most cited of them: Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. · 9 works · 78,775 citations - [📰](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence/) — IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · Journal, published by IEEE Computer Society. Its works here centre on Language models & pretraining and Vision & language. Its works here span 2015 to 2023. The most cited of them: Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks. · 2 works · 65,022 citations - [🎤](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) — Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) · Conference series, published by European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Its works here centre on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining and English. Its works here span 2000 to 2026. The most cited of them: SentiWordNet 3.0: An Enhanced Lexical Resource for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. · 811 works · 55,449 citations - [📰](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) — Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) · Journal, published by The MIT Press. Its works here centre on Machine translation, Language models & pretraining and English. Its works here span 2013 to 2026. The most cited of them: Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research. · 132 works · 51,716 citations - [🎤](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/) — IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · Conference series. Its works here centre on Language models & pretraining and Reasoning. Its works here span 2019 to 2023. The most cited of them: Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows. · 7 works · 45,978 citations A guide · about 11 minutes to read **In this article** 1. [What a venue is](#a-what-a-venue-is) 2. [A short history of the venues](#a-a-short-history-of-the-venues) 3. [How venues shaped the fields](#a-how-venues-shaped-the-fields) 4. [The leading venues](#a-the-leading-venues) 5. [Topics and fields](#a-topics-and-fields) 6. [Trends over time](#a-trends-over-time) 7. [How to use this page](#a-how-to-use-this-page) A venue is where a scientific paper first appears in public: a journal, the proceedings of a conference, or the volume of a workshop. The venue decides who reviews the paper, when it comes out, which readers find it and, to a large degree, how the work is remembered. In computational linguistics and artificial intelligence the venue is unusually important, because these fields publish their main results at conferences rather than in journals, and because a few series of meetings have set the agenda of the whole discipline for decades. This page gathers the venues where the works of this library were published. Most of them belong to the family of meetings run by the Association for Computational Linguistics: the [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/), the [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/), the [North American chapter conference (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) and the journal [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/). Around them stand resource conferences such as [LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/), evaluation series such as [SemEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/) and [WMT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/), and the large machine learning and computer vision meetings whose papers the language fields now read as closely as their own. The page is a companion to the indexes of the institutions behind the works — [universities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/), [labs and research institutes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/), [companies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/) and [all institutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) — and to the geographic indexes of [countries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/) and [agglomerations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/). Those pages answer who wrote a work and where; this one answers where the work was put before its readers. ## What a venue is The word covers several kinds of outlet that differ in rhythm, review and prestige. ### Journals A journal publishes articles continuously or in issues, usually after one or more rounds of review in which the authors revise and resubmit. There is no fixed deadline and no meeting; the article is the end product. The field's own journal is [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/), which has carried long, carefully reviewed articles since the 1970s. The [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) is a newer hybrid: a journal with fast review whose accepted papers are also presented in person at the association's conferences. General science journals such as [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/), [Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/science/) and the [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-national-academy-of-sciences/) appear here only rarely, for results that reach beyond the field. Survey journals such as [ACM Computing Surveys](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-computing-surveys/) collect overviews of a whole area. ### Conferences and their proceedings A conference series meets on a regular schedule, sets a submission deadline, reviews the submissions in a few weeks and publishes the accepted papers as proceedings. In most sciences proceedings are minor; in computational linguistics and machine learning they are the main record. A paper at [ACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/), [EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) or [Neural Information Processing Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/) counts for as much as, or more than, a journal article, and many careers are built on such papers alone. The reasons are speed — a fast-moving field cannot wait a year for a journal — and the meeting itself, where results are discussed, contested and taken up within months. ### Workshops and shared tasks Workshops are smaller meetings, usually one or two days attached to a main conference, devoted to one problem or community: the [Workshop on Abusive Language Online](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-abusive-language-online/), the [Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/), the [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/) or the [BlackboxNLP workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/) on analysing neural networks. Some workshops grew into permanent series with their own identity, such as [SemEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/), the [Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/) and its successor the [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/), or the [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/). Many of them organise shared tasks, where teams solve the same problem on the same data and report in short system papers. ### Peer review and the ACL Anthology Almost all of these venues use peer review: submissions are read by other researchers, usually without seeing the authors' names, and accepted or rejected on their advice. The association's conferences have long used double-blind review and, since the early 2020s, a shared rolling review cycle that feeds several conferences at once. The [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/), introduced in 2020, publishes sound papers that did not get a slot in the main programme. Nearly every paper of these meetings, together with the journal, is freely available in the ACL Anthology, an open archive maintained by the association and its volunteers since the early 2000s. It is one reason why the field's literature is unusually easy to read, cite and mine, and why the works of this library lean so heavily on its venues. ## A short history of the venues The oldest venues here are tied to machine translation. The Association for Computational Linguistics was founded in 1962 as an association for machine translation and computational linguistics, and took its present name in 1968; its annual meeting has run ever since. The [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/) began in the mid-1960s as a biennial international meeting and remains one of the field's oldest series. The journal now called [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) started in the 1970s and took its current name in the 1980s. The [European chapter (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) held its first conference in 1983, and the [Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/anlp/) gave practical systems a venue of their own from the late 1980s to 2000. Translation kept specialised outlets too, such as the [TMI conference series](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tmi/), the [Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/) and the [European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eamt/). In the late 1980s and the 1990s American funding agencies shaped a second family. The [Message Understanding Conferences (MUC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/muc/) measured information extraction systems against common tasks, and the [DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/darpa-workshop-on-speech-and-natural-language-hlt/) and the [Human Language Technology workshops](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/human-language-technology-proceedings-of-a-workshop-held-at-plainsboro-new/) brought speech and text researchers together. Their successor, the [Human Language Technology Conference (HLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hlt/), later merged with NAACL. The statistical turn of the 1990s produced its own meetings. Workshops on very large corpora led to the [Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods and Very Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) and then to [EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/), first held in 1996. The [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/) followed in 1997, and [LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/), first held in Granada in 1998, gave corpora, lexicons and annotation a home of their own. Word sense evaluations of the late 1990s grew into [SemEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/). The [North American chapter (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) held its first conference in 2000. The 2010s added journal-speed publishing with [TACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) in 2013, regional chapters such as the [Asia-Pacific chapter (AACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/), and many new workshops on ethics, social media and interpretability. They also pulled the language fields towards general machine learning: neural models made [Neural Information Processing Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/), the [International Conference on Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-conference-on-machine-learning/) and the [AAAI conference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/) natural outlets for language research, and vision–language work brought in [CVPR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) and [ICCV](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/). ## How venues shaped the fields ### Shared tasks and common evaluation Shared tasks are perhaps the venues' largest contribution. MUC defined named entities as a task; CoNLL's yearly challenges fixed standard settings for named entity recognition and parsing, as in the [CoNLL-X Shared Task on Multilingual Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/buchholz-2006-conll-x-shared-task-multilingual/). The translation workshops ran yearly competitions whose overview papers, such as [Findings of the 2014 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2014-findings-2014-workshop-statistical-machine/) and [Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2019-findings-2019-conference-machine-translation/), became the reference record of progress. SemEval did the same for meaning and opinion, with tasks such as [SemEval-2014 Task 4: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pontiki-2014-semeval-2014-task-4-aspect/) and [SemEval-2019 Task 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/basile-2019-semeval-2019-task-5-multilingual/) on hate speech. ### Metrics Because shared tasks need scores, the venues also became the place where metrics were proposed and argued over. [Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/) appeared at ACL; [METEOR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banerjee-2005-meteor-automatic-metric-mt-evaluation/) at a dedicated [ACL workshop on evaluation measures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-workshop-on-intrinsic-and-extrinsic-evaluation-measures-for-machine/); [chrF](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popovic-2015-chrf-character-n-gram-f/) and [chrF++](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popovic-2017-chrf-words-helping-character-n/) at the translation workshops; [Translation Edit Rate](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/snover-2006-study-translation-edit-rate-targeted/) at AMTA. Critical papers such as [A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/post-2018-call-clarity-reporting-bleu-scores/) were published at the [WMT research track](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-research-papers/). ### Benchmarks and resources Benchmarks travel through venues too. [SQuAD](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rajpurkar-2016-squad-100-000-questions-machine/) came out at EMNLP, [GLUE](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-glue-multi-task-benchmark-analysis/) at a workshop, and [Natural Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwiatkowski-2019-natural-questions-benchmark-question-answering/) in TACL. Resource papers have their own natural home at LREC, which published [SentiWordNet 3.0](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baccianella-2010-sentiwordnet-3-0-enhanced-lexical/) and the conversion of phrase structure into [typed dependency parses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marneffe-2006-generating-typed-dependency-parses-phrase/). The journal carried [The Proposition Bank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/palmer-2005-proposition-bank-annotated-corpus-semantic/), while toolkits such as [Stanford CoreNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manning-2014-stanford-corenlp-natural-language-processing/), [fairseq](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ott-2019-fairseq-fast-extensible-toolkit-sequence/) and [Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wolf-2020-transformers-state-art-natural-language/) were presented in system demonstration tracks. ### The best-paper canon Finally, the venues decide which papers the field treats as landmarks. Each conference awards best papers and, more lastingly, test-of-time prizes to older papers whose influence proved durable. The resulting canon is visible in the works here: [BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/devlin-2019-bert-pre-training-deep-bidirectional/) at NAACL, [BART](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2020-bart-denoising-sequence-sequence-pre/) at ACL, [Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2014-convolutional-neural-networks-sentence-classification/) at EMNLP, or [Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/church-1990-word-association-norms-mutual-information/) in the journal. ## The leading venues The cards above this guide and the figure below show the venues in the order of the site's ranking, which weighs each work by its citations. The first 20 venues of the ranking In the order of the ranking, which weighs every paper by its citations and shares it among its institutions; the bar is the citations of their works here. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) comes first. **The numbers** | Rank | Works · citations here | | --- | --- | | [1. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) | 1,021 works · 442,552 citations | | [2. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) | 703 works · 322,185 citations | | [3. Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) | 324 works · 155,213 citations | | [4. Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) | 176 works · 93,825 citations | | [5. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) | 23 works · 80,983 citations | | [6. Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) | 9 works · 78,775 citations | | [7. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence/) | 2 works · 65,022 citations | | [8. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) | 811 works · 55,449 citations | | [9. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) | 132 works · 51,716 citations | | [10. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/) | 7 works · 45,978 citations | | [11. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/) | 101 works · 41,383 citations | | [12. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) | 233 works · 37,840 citations | | [13. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/) | 235 works · 36,682 citations | | [14. Lecture notes in computer science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/) | 21 works · 35,938 citations | | [15. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/) | 4 works · 33,256 citations | | [16. International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/) | 76 works · 27,303 citations | | [17. Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/) | 123 works · 25,505 citations | | [18. Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/) | 100 works · 25,067 citations | | [19. Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) | 132 works · 25,038 citations | | [20. ACM Computing Surveys](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-computing-surveys/) | 9 works · 23,329 citations | **[Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/).** The flagship of the field and the leading venue here, with works stretching from the late 1970s to today. Its most cited works here include BLEU, BART and Stanford CoreNLP, and its topics run from [language models and pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) and [machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) to [coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) and [sentiment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/). **[EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/).** Born from the statistical movement of the 1990s, EMNLP is now as large as ACL itself. Its works here include [Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2002-thumbs-up-sentiment-classification-machine/), SQuAD, the Transformers library and Kim's convolutional sentence classifier. **[NAACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/).** The North American chapter's conference published BERT, [Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2016-hierarchical-attention-networks-document-classification/) and earlier statistical work such as [feature-rich part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2003-feature-rich-part-speech-tagging/). **[Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/).** The field's journal favours long articles that consolidate a method or resource: [A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/berger-1996-maximum-entropy-approach-natural-language/), [Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/taboada-2011-lexicon-based-methods-sentiment-analysis/) and PropBank are among its most cited works here. **[CVPR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) and [ICCV](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/).** The two main computer vision conferences enter the list through a small number of highly cited works that language research builds on, such as [Momentum Contrast](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2019-momentum-contrast-unsupervised-visual-representation/), the [Swin Transformer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-swin-transformer-hierarchical-vision-transformer/) and [Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhai-2023-sigmoid-loss-language-image-pre/). **[Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/).** A general science journal with a handful of works here, including [AlphaFold](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jumper-2021-highly-accurate-protein-structure-prediction/), [NumPy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/harris-2020-array-programming-numpy/) and [DeepSeek-R1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deepseek-ai-2025-deepseek-r1-incentivizing-reasoning-capability/). **[LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/).** The conference of the European Language Resources Association is the home of corpora, lexicons and evaluation data, and one of the largest venues here by the number of works. It leans strongly on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [multilingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) and [evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/). **[TACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/).** The association's open-access journal published Natural Questions, [SpanBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/joshi-2019-spanbert-improving-pre-training-representing/) and [Lost in the Middle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-lost-middle-language-models-use/), a study of how language models use long contexts. **[Findings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/).** The youngest of the association's series, focused on [language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) and [reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); its works here include [CodeBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2020-codebert-pre-trained-model-programming/) and [RealToxicityPrompts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gehman-2020-realtoxicityprompts-evaluating-neural-toxic-degeneration/). **[COLING](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/).** The international biennial conference, strong on [discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) and coreference, with works such as [Determining the Sentiment of Opinions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2004-determining-sentiment-opinions/) and [Contextual String Embeddings for Sequence Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akbik-2018-contextual-string-embeddings-sequence-labeling/). **[Neural Information Processing Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/).** The main machine learning conference appears here through the recent wave of language model research: [Large language models are zero-shot reasoners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kojima-2022-large-language-models-zero-shot/), [Toolformer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schick-2023-toolformer-language-models-can-teach/) and [wav2vec 2.0](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baevski-2020-wav2vec-2-0-framework-self/). **[SemEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/), [EACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) and [CoNLL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/).** Three long-running series of the association's family: SemEval for shared evaluation tasks, above all on sentiment; EACL for European work, including [Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schick-2021-exploiting-cloze-questions-few-shot/) and the [brat annotation tool](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stenetorp-2012-brat-web-based-tool-nlp/); CoNLL for learning-based methods, [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) and [dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/), with works such as [Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bowman-2016-generating-sentences-continuous-space/). Outside the association's family, journals such as the [Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/), [Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/machine-learning/) and [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence/) appear through a few classic papers such as [Bagging Predictors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/breiman-1996-bagging-predictors/) and [SMOTE](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chawla-2002-smote-synthetic-minority-over-sampling/). Speech research comes in through [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/) and the [IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-acm-transactions-on-audio-speech-and-language-processing/), and retrieval through [SIGIR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/). ## Topics and fields What the venues publish here reflects both the field and the shape of this library. Taken together, their works lean most on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) and [Hebrew and Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/), much of it from resource venues such as LREC, then on [machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [language models and pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [coreference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) and [evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/). Further down come [sentiment and emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [vision and language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) and [bias, fairness and safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/). Topics of the venues' works here English leads, then Semitic languages and Machine translation; a work counts once per topic, whatever number of these venues wrote it. **The numbers** | Topic | Works | | --- | --- | | [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) | 812 works | | [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) | 780 works | | [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) | 771 works | | [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) | 617 works | | [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) | 503 works | | [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) | 495 works | | [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) | 399 works | | [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) | 342 works | | [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) | 333 works | | [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) | 324 works | | [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) | 248 works | | [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) | 230 works | The venues also divide clearly by field. The association's conferences and journal sit mostly on the [natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) shelf, with a solid share on [linguistics and languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) and a smaller one on [machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/). LREC, by contrast, falls almost entirely on the linguistics shelf, as befits a venue of corpora and lexicons. The vision conferences and the general science journals lie on the [AI and machine learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/), [mathematics and statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) and [vision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) shelves, or on none of the language shelves at all. The full list of fields is on the [shelves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/) page, and the full list of themes on the [topics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/) page. The first venues × fields: the share of each one's works on each field Each column adds up its works here (a work can stand on several fields); the stronger the colour, the larger the share; the number is the per cent. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) stands out most on Arts and Humanities (95%). **The numbers** | Field | Share of the works | | --- | --- | | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Arts and Humanities | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 95% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 94% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 95% · Computational Linguistics 96% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 26% · Nature 44% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 91% | | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 1% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 1% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 1% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 11% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2% | | Business, Management and Accounting | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Computer Science | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 98% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 98% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 98% · Computational Linguistics 97% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 100% · Nature 89% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 100% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 88% | | Decision Sciences | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 1% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 1% · Computational Linguistics 1% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 11% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2% | | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Engineering | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 9% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 1% | | Environmental Science | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Materials Science | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 22% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Mathematics | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Medicine | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 22% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2% | | Neuroscience | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 1% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 1% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 1% | | Nursing | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Physics and Astronomy | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | | Psychology | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 4% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 4% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 3% · Computational Linguistics 5% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 11% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 12% | | Social Sciences | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 7% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 6% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 6% · Computational Linguistics 3% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 11% | | Health Professions | Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 0% · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 0% · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 0% · Computational Linguistics 0% · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0% · Nature 0% · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 0% · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 0% | Specialised venues show the same pattern on a smaller scale. Translation series such as WMT, the [WMT shared task papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/) and AMTA publish almost only on translation and its evaluation; the [SIGDIAL meeting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/) and [Dialogue & Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/dnd/) on conversation; the [Linguistic Annotation Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/law/) on annotation; [VarDial](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/) and the [Arabic NLP workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) on dialects and particular languages. ## Trends over time The yearly figure follows the first venues of the ranking on one common scale. Works by year: the first 6 venues One panel per venue, all on one scale, 1997–2026; the tallest column is Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2020, with 131 works. **The numbers** | Venue | Recent years: works | | --- | --- | | [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) | 2019: 107 · 2020: 131 · 2021: 49 · 2022: 51 · 2023: 57 · 2024: 43 · 2025: 17 · 2026: 22 | | [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) | 2018: 69 · 2019: 69 · 2020: 89 · 2021: 47 · 2022: 36 · 2023: 54 · 2024: 19 · 2025: 17 | | [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) | 2016: 33 · 2018: 51 · 2019: 50 · 2020: 2 · 2021: 49 · 2022: 26 · 2024: 14 · 2025: 1 | | [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) | 2019: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2021: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2026: 1 | | [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) | 2013: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 8 · 2024: 3 | | [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) | 2020: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2025: 3 | The works here from ACL, EMNLP and NAACL concentrate in the late 2010s and the early 2020s, the years when neural models and pretraining transformed the field and the conferences grew to many times their earlier size. ACL's tallest year here falls around 2020; EMNLP peaks at about the same time. NAACL shows gaps in some years, because the chapter conference is not held every year and in some years merges with other meetings. After the early 2020s, output here from these conferences becomes smaller year by year, partly because part of the field's work moved to Findings, TACL and the machine learning conferences, and partly because the most recent years of any library are still filling in. The journal Computational Linguistics contributes a small, steady stream across the decade. The vision conferences and Nature appear only in scattered years, each time with individual papers of wide reach rather than a steady flow. ## How to use this page - **The cards** at the top show the ten leading venues; each card opens the venue's own page. - **The figures** show the leading venues, the topics of their works, the shares of each venue's works by field, and their yearly output. Each figure has a «The numbers» section with the exact figures behind it. - **The slices by field** below divide the venues by shelf, so that, for instance, the venues of [machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) or of [natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) can be compared on their own. - **The ranked list** shows the venues in the site's order; its full version continues well past the first entries, into specialised series such as the [Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mrqa/), the [International Natural Language Generation Conference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/), the [Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/), [RANLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/) or the [Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clicit/). - **Each venue's page** gathers its works here, its most cited papers and its topics, with links to the papers and on to their authors and institutions. The publishers behind these journals and proceedings have an index of their own. For the institutions that wrote the works, see the [universities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/), [labs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/), [companies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/), [nonprofits](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/), [government research bodies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/) and [hospitals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/) pages; for individual researchers, the [Paper Stars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/) page. ## By field [🎭**Arts and Humanities** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 287 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [🖥️**Computer Science** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 264 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [💭**Psychology** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 96 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [🤝**Social Sciences** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 85 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [🧬**Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 26 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [🎯**Decision Sciences** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 18 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [🧠**Neuroscience** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 18 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [🩺**Medicine** Led by Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) and Nature 12 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [⚙️**Engineering** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 9 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [➗**Mathematics** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 6 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [🏥**Health Professions** Led by Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) and Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 5 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) · [⚛️**Physics and Astronomy** Led by Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 5 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) **All 20 fields** [🌾**Agricultural and Biological Sciences** Led by Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) and International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 2 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/) · [💼**Business, Management and Accounting** Led by Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) and Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/business-management-and-accounting/) · [🌋**Earth and Planetary Sciences** Led by Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) and PLoS ONE 2 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/earth-and-planetary-sciences/) · [🌿**Environmental Science** Led by Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) and International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 2 venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/environmental-science/) · [🔋**Energy** Led by International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 1 venue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/energy/) · [🧱**Materials Science** Led by Nature 1 venue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/) · [🩹**Nursing** Led by Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 1 venue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nursing/) · [💊**Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics** Led by Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 1 venue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutics/)