COLING 2027: Dates, ARR Deadline & My Honest Read
May 9-14, 2027
COLING 2027, the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, runs May 9-14, 2027 in Macau, China. Papers route through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), not a COLING-specific portal, with the relevant cycle...
COLING 2027, the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, runs May 9-14, 2027 in Macau, China. Papers route through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), not a COLING-specific portal, with the relevant cycle closing October 12, 2026 (checked 2026-08-24, 2027.coling-iccl.org). General chairs Katrin Erk and Chengqing Zong lead the program. No keynote speakers, venue, or registration prices are published yet. That is honesty, not a red flag.
I track AI and NLP events the same way I test AI tools at StackVerdict: by hitting the primary source, not an aggregator blurb recycling last year’s numbers. That matters more here because the official COLING 2027 site is genuinely half-built right now, and I have already spotted third-party listicles quoting keynote names and ticket prices for a conference ten months out. That is fabrication, not journalism.
What follows sticks to what is confirmed on the ACL Member Portal and the official conference site, and flags what is not.
COLING 2027 dates, location, and format
COLING 2027 runs May 9-14, 2027 in Macau, China. Macau sits an hour by ferry from Hong Kong and connects through both Hong Kong International Airport and Macau International Airport. The specific hotel or convention center has not been named. Do not book a room block until the venue page updates from “more details will be announced soon”. That page is your countdown clock.
The six-day span is typical for COLING and usually front-loads workshops and tutorials before the main paper program.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Event | COLING 2027 (32nd edition) |
| Dates | May 9-14, 2027 |
| Location | Macau, China |
| Venue | Not announced |
| Submission route | ACL Rolling Review, October 2026 cycle |
| ARR paper deadline | October 12, 2026 |
| Tutorial EoI deadline | July 24, 2026 |
| General chairs | Katrin Erk, Chengqing Zong |
| Official site | 2027.coling-iccl.org |
| Verified | 2026-08-24 |
The October 12, 2026 ARR deadline is the only date that forces a decision now
COLING 2027 has no submission portal of its own. Every paper routes through the ACL Rolling Review October 2026 cycle, closing October 12, 2026 (checked 2026-08-24, aclrollingreview.org/cfp). NAACL 2027 shares the same ARR cycle, so you submit once and commit the reviewed paper to either COLING 2027 or NAACL 2027, not both.
Long papers get up to eight pages of content, short papers up to four. Both allow unlimited references and require a “Limitations” section that does not count toward the page limit. Skip the Limitations section and the paper is desk-rejected before review. Everything uses the official ACL style template from acl-org/acl-style-files. Borrowed templates from other conferences get rejected without review.
If you already hold reviews and a meta-review from an earlier ARR cycle, you can commit that paper to COLING 2027 without resubmitting from scratch. That is the least-appreciated route into the conference for teams whose work is already ARR-reviewed but not yet committed.
The reviewing rule that quietly sinks first-time submitters
ARR uses two-way anonymized review: no author names, no affiliations, no identity-revealing self-references, and any linked code repository must be anonymized (Dropbox and Google Drive links that track downloads are not allowed). Every author is expected to serve as a reviewer since May 2025, and teams that neglect their review duties can have their own paper desk-rejected. All authors must complete a registration form within 48 hours of the submission deadline and keep an updated OpenReview profile.
My honest read: the October 12 deadline is the obvious gate, but the reviewing requirement is the one that sinks people. If your co-authors ignore their review assignments, your submission dies before a chair reads it. Treat the ARR responsible-NLP checklist and the Limitations section as non-negotiable, not busywork.
Who is running COLING 2027
General chairs are Katrin Erk (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Chengqing Zong (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Program chairs are Minlie Huang (Tsinghua), Joakim Nivre (Uppsala), Alexis Palmer (Colorado Boulder), and Sina Zarrieß (Bielefeld).
Tutorial proposals route separately through tutorial chairs Michael Roth and Leonie Weissweiler, collecting expressions of interest through July 24, 2026. Proposals should “represent a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only from the teachers of the tutorial.”
No keynote speakers have been announced. Program questions route to [email protected].
What is not confirmed yet
I am not handing you a registration price. None exists on the official site, and any guide quoting a specific COLING 2027 fee right now is inventing one. A reasonable planning baseline, drawn from how COLING and other ACL-affiliated conferences have historically priced, is tiered pricing by student and non-student status with proof of enrollment required for the student rate. That matched the pattern at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, which drew 1,500-plus attendees and accepted 853 of 2,530 papers, according to MBZUAI’s recap. Treat it as a baseline, not a confirmation.
There is no StackVerdict discount code, partner promotion, or group rate tied to this guide. If one appears once registration opens, I will update the page.
Submit or skip: my buy-or-skip framing
I would commit to the October 12, 2026 ARR deadline right now if I had research worth submitting. That date does not move regardless of what else is unconfirmed on the conference site. If your paper is already ARR-reviewed from a previous cycle, commit it to COLING 2027 through OpenReview and be done. Hold off on booking flights or a hotel until venue and registration details land.
Skip COLING 2027 if your work sits outside computational linguistics or NLP. A general AI or machine learning audience will find better-fit venues at NeurIPS or EMNLP instead. COLING is peer-reviewed and paper-driven: the papers, tutorials, and workshops are the product.
The right move for COLING 2027 lands on the ARR calendar, not the conference calendar. Bookmark the official site, plan around October 12, 2026, and watch for venue and registration updates. For ongoing coverage of other AI research and industry events, the AI events hub tracks the same primary-source discipline.