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All EMNLP 2026 topics

All 5,534 papers in 16 areas and 100 topics. Each box is an area, sized by its number of papers. The colour shows how its share of the papers changed since 2025: red grew, blue shrank. Select an area to see its topics, and select the bar at the top to go back. Hover over or tap a topic for its numbers.

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All areas

From the area whose share of the papers grew most to the one whose share fell most: papers in 2026, then the share of all papers in 2025 and 2026. Select a name to open it in the chart.

1. LLM Agents594 · 4.7% → 10.7%
2. Long-Term Agent Memory96 · 0.2% → 1.7%
3. Code, Optimization & Chemistry199 · 2.5% → 3.6%
4. Medical & Clinical NLP180 · 2.4% → 3.3%
5. Efficient LLMs & Decoding422 · 6.8% → 7.6%
6. Speech & Audio Models176 · 2.7% → 3.2%
7. Reasoning & Reinforcement Learning452 · 8.0% → 8.2%
8. Sequence Model Architectures80 · 1.3% → 1.4%
9. Vision-Language Models592 · 10.8% → 10.7%
10. LLM Safety & Security386 · 7.1% → 7.0%
11. Text Generation, Style & Detection180 · 4.1% → 3.3%
12. Social Behavior, Bias & Culture550 · 11.3% → 9.9%
13. Factuality, Evaluation & Expert Domains602 · 12.5% → 10.9%
14. Fine-Tuning & Preference Alignment152 · 4.5% → 2.7%
15. Retrieval & Structured Knowledge483 · 11.2% → 8.7%
16. Linguistics, Multilinguality & Translation390 · 9.8% → 7.0%