9 Best NLP Communities (Updated Apr 2026)

9 Online Communities for NLP Developers

Updated 4/28/2026

#1
Hugging Face Discuss
on discourse
Official community for discussion of Hugging Face transformers, datasets, and NLP models
Forum
Events
Jobs
7 views / month
#2
OneAI
on discord
OneAI provides APIs to apply AI to text. Summarize conversations, categorize articles and detect user emotions. Join the AI dev community on discord!
170 members
Chat
Tools
10 views / month
#3
r/LanguageTechnology
on reddit
This sub will focus on theory, careers, and applications of NLP (Natural Language Processing), which includes anything from Regex & Text Analytics to Transformers & LLMs. Language learning & copy/pasted ChatGPT conversations are outside the scope of the sub - please read the rules for more clarification.
64K members
Forum
5 views / month
#4
r/LocalLLM
on reddit
Subreddit to discuss locally run large language models.
176K members
Forum
7 views / month
#5
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
Professional association for computational linguistics and NLP researchers
Forum
Events
Jobs
4 views / month
#6
fast.ai Forum
on discourse
Community for fast.ai courses, practical deep learning, and NLP applications
Forum
Events
#7
Kaggle NLP Community
on github
Kaggle competitions and datasets for natural language processing
Forum
Events
3 views / month
#8
Merlinn Community
on slack
Merlinn Community is a Slack community that exists around our open-source product, Merlinn. The project is an AI on-call developer helping to investigate production incidents.
Chat
4 views / month
#9
r/NLP
on reddit
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
27K members
Forum
2 views / month

FAQ

: Join NLP communities online to discuss and learn about the latest developments in language learning technology. You'll be able to chat with like-minded engineers and data scientists about the newest machine learning methods, from NLP to neural networks.
: Hive Index lists 9 NLP communities on this page. Most listings with size data are huge (22%) or medium (11%). We only have a handful of listings so far, so treat these numbers as directional.
: Reddit (3), Discourse (2), and Discord (1) are the most common here. Click a platform icon above the list to open a filtered view.
: Forum is the most common (78%). Others that show up often include online/offline events and job board. Use the feature filters above the list to narrow results.
: All 9 listings on this page are free to join (no paid membership or application gate listed). Access rules can still change on the community side.
: On Hive Index, the default Popular sort surfaces Hugging Face Discuss, OneAI, r/LanguageTechnology, and r/LocalLLM first. Popularity reflects visitor interest in communities on the site, not a universal quality score. Use the sort menu for Ratings, Largest, or Newest.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for topic relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available. Member counts are approximate. Popular reflects visitor interest in communities on the site, with richer profiles breaking ties. Ratings, Largest, and Newest use review scores, reported member counts, and listing age instead.
: This page was last updated 4/28/2026, based on the most recent change to the topic or its listings. We refresh entries when communities are submitted, claimed, or reviewed, and we update member counts, features, and traffic data on an ongoing basis.