Publikation
Proceedings of the Conference – Volume 6: Industry Track
Yunyao Li; Georg Rehm; Mei Tu
In: The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) (Hrsg.). The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026). Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2026), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2006.
Zusammenfassung
We are happy and excited to welcome you to the Industry Track, held under the umbrella of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in San Diego, California, USA on 02-07 July 2026.
Like the main research track, the industry track attracted an unprecedented number of submissions: 532 papers! In total, 419 reviewers and 28 area chairs participated in the evaluation of these papers. After a thorough, double-blind peer-review evaluation with three reviews for each submission followed by reviewer discussions and additional deliberations, 153 papers were selected for the ACL 2026 Industry Track, which will be presented as 61 oral talks and 92 posters.
Topic-wise, large language models were once again front and center of almost all submissions with 1. RAG systems and enterprise knowledge AI, 2. agentic systems and workflows, 3. model development, adaptation, optimization, 4. evaluation, benchmarking, LLM assessment, 5. safety, trustworthiness, re- sponsible AI and 6. multimodal, speech and rich content processing being popular topics.
NLP research in academia and NLP research in industry have always been very close in our fields. Our keynote speaker, Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome and Babelscape, Rome, Italy), will share his insights with regard to this intersection including synergies and fruitful collaborations.
Further insights can be gained through our “Careers in NLP” panel with esteemed participants who have decades of experience with NLP research in academia and industry.
We would like to thank the authors of all Industry Track submissions as well as the reviewers and area chairs for their hard and dedicated work under very tight deadlines. We would also like to thank the General Chair, the Publication Chairs, who supported us in the production of this volume, and all other ACL 2026 committees we interacted with between the summer of 2025, when this endeavour started, and the summer of 2026, when we finally have been able to have the Industry Track at the ACL 2026 conference in San Diego. Finally, we would also like to thank the whole ACL team, especially Jennifer Rachford, as well as the Underline team, especially Damira Mrsic.
Yunyao Li, Georg Rehm, Mei Tu Program Co-Chairs