RANLP-27 16th Conference RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/2027/

Summer school ‘Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP’: 1-3 September 2027 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 4-5 September 2027 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 6-8 September 2027 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and Shared Tasks: 9-10 September 2027 (Thursday-Friday)

RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools ‘Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics’ which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995-2025) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known scientists. The Student Research Workshops (now in their 10th edition) have become active discussion forums for young researchers. After 2009, the papers accepted at the RANLP conferences and the associated workshops аre included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. The conference will be preceded by a summer school ‘Deep learning ad Large Language Models for NLP’, tutorials on current hot topics and will be followed by specialised workshops and shared tasks in advanced subfields of NLP.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Barbara Plank (LMU Munich), Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University Roma), Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI Abu Dhabi), Kristina Toutanova (Google, Seattle), Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University), Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg)

Expected conference submission deadline(s): TBC soon

Call for workshop and shared tasks proposals: November 2026

Venue: RANLP-27 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel ‘Cherno Morhttp://www.chernomorebg.com/e’. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. Varna is a major tourist destination with numerous flights to/from the Varna International Airport.

Team behind RANLP 2027:

* Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) * Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (PC Chair) * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops and Shared tasks Co-Chair, Summer School Co-Director) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Summer School Co-Director) * Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) * Marie Escribe, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (Publication Co-Chair and OC Team Co-Leader) * Ernesto Estevanell, University of Alicante, Spain (Publication Co-Chair) * Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (OC Team Co-Leader) * Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria * Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE * Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)