Which conferences and journals are included in the ACL Anthology?

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The ACL Anthology hosts papers from the official venues of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and other organizations, covering computational linguistics, speech, and natural language processing. According to the site, it currently contains 131,151 papers, 134,285 authors, 3,500 volumes, and 534 venues spanning 75 years. That means it is not limited to a single conference — it aggregates a broad set of conferences, journals, and workshops, so you can usually check whether a specific venue is covered before searching for a paper.

Flagship ACL conferences

These are the main annual meetings run by ACL and its chapters, and they appear with long backfiles:

  • ACL – Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (listed from 1979 onward)
  • EMNLP – Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (listed from 1996 onward)
  • NAACL – North American Chapter of the ACL (referenced among flagship venues)
  • AACL – Asian Chapter of the ACL (2020, 2022, 2023, 2025)
  • EACL – European Chapter of the ACL (1983 onward)

Other conferences and workshops

Beyond the flagship meetings, the Anthology indexes related conferences and co-located events:

  • COLING – International Conference on Computational Linguistics (1965 onward)
  • AMTA – Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (1994 onward)
  • EAMT – Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (1993 onward)
  • Plus numerous workshops and Findings volumes associated with the main conferences

Journals

The Anthology also hosts journal publications, including:

  • Computational Linguistics (CL) – listed from 1974 onward
  • TACL – Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2013 onward)
  • Dialogue & Discourse (DND) – listed from 2010 onward

How to check coverage

  1. Go to aclanthology.org.
  2. Browse the venue list on the homepage, which groups entries by type (flagship venues, other conferences, journals).
  3. Use the year links under each venue to confirm whether a specific year is included.
  4. If you need programmatic access, the site offers an Authors API and data downloads.

Because the Anthology is a library rather than a single conference site, the practical answer is: if your target venue is an ACL venue or a closely related NLP/CL conference or journal, it is likely included. For anything outside that scope, check the venue list directly before assuming coverage.