The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10–12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing for four decades. Since 1987, PACLIC has served as a vital forum for advancing language science across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Dates: December 10–12, 2026
Venue: National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
Our Official Website: https://paclic2026.github.io
Full Call for Papers (CFP): https://paclic2026.github.io/cfp.html

Important Deadlines:
- Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2026 (AoE, UTC-12)
- Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2026

Key Metrics & Publication:
- All submissions undergo a rigorous, double-blind peer review process.
- Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be indexed in Scopus and included in the ACL Anthology.

Submission Guidelines
- Submissions must be anonymous for double-blind review.
- Papers must follow the ACL 2026 two-column format.
- Full papers should be up to 8 pages (excluding references).

Topics of Interest: PACLIC 40 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

Language Studies:
- Computer-mediated communication
- Corpus linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Language acquisition
- Language documentation
- Language learning
- Language, mind, and culture
- Language theory
- Lexicography
- Morphology
- Multilingualism
- Phonology
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
- Semantics
- Sociolinguistics and linguistic variation
- Spoken language processing
- Syntax
- Typology

Information Processing and Computational Applications:
- Artificial intelligence
- Cognitive modeling of language
- Dialogue and interactive systems
- Digital humanities
- Information retrieval/extraction
- Language resources
- Machine learning/Data mining
- Machine translation
- Multilinguality in NLP
- NLP applications
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Social media
- Text classification/summarization
- Word segmentation

We warmly welcome researchers from all over the world to submit their work and join us in celebrating this milestone 40th anniversary of PACLIC in Taipei!

Contact Email: paclic2026@gmail.com