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Second Call for Papers
RANLP 2023 Student Research Workshop 4-6 September 2023 Varna, Bulgaria https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2023/
The International Conference RANLP 2023 (http://ranlp.org/) would like to invite students at all levels (undergraduate, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2023/).
SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of student submissions: Full Papers must describe original unpublished work of the student in any topic area of the workshop. Full papers are limited to 8 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references. Short Papers may describe either work in progress or a research proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must include clear directions for future research. Submissions of this type are limited to 6 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references.
All papers must be submitted in .pdf format through the START system (https://softconf.com/ranlp23/ranlp20t23stud/) . The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at the RANLP website (http://ranlp.org/), Submissions page. All papers must have only student authors. Submissions with non-student authors will not be considered for review. After eventual acceptance of the paper, the authors could add their supervisor(s) in the Acknowledgments Section. The submissions must specify the student’s level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD) and the type of submission (Full or Short).
Double submission Authors may submit the same paper at several conferences. In this case, they must notify the organizers by filling in the corresponding information in the submission form, as well as notifying the contact organizer by email.
TOPICS OF INTEREST The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from an international research community. The research to be presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the following:
Computational Social Science and Social Media; Computer-aided Language Learning; Dialogue and Interactive Systems; Discourse and Pragmatics; Ethics and NLP; Information Extraction; Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Intent Recognition and Detection; Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Language and Vision; Language Generation; Language Resources and Corpora; Linguistic Theories; Machine Translation and Computer-aided Translation Tools; Multilingual NLP; Multimodal Systems; NLP Applications – Biomedical, Educational, Healthcare, Financial, Legal, Semantic Web, etc.; Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis; Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology; Question Answering; Semantics; Stylistic Analysis; Sublanguages and Controlled languages; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing; Temporal Processing; Text Categorization; Text Simplification and Readability Estimation; Text Summarisation; Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition; Textual Entailment.
All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions (oral or poster) during the main conference days: 4-6 September 2023. The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings and uploaded to the ACL Anthology.
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 3 July 2023 Acceptance notification: 4 August 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2023 Workshop: 4 - 6 September 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth")
ORGANISERS Momchil Hardalov (AWS AI Labs, Spain) Zara Kancheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Sirma AI, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)