RANLP 2023

RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/

Summer school ‘Deep Learning in NLP’: 30 August – 1 September 2023 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 2-3 September 2023 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 4-6 September 2023 (Monday-Wednesday)

Workshops: 7-8 September 2023 (Thursday-Friday)

We are pleased to announce that the 14th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2023 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of NLP topics, the RANLP conference features 5 keynote speeches. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning in NLP (30 August - 1 September 2023) and two days of tutorials (2-3 September 2023). Post-conference workshops will be held on 7-8 September 2023. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshop (now in its 8th edition) is a vibrant discussion forum for young researchers.

As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,316 (2021). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers.

CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference website in due time.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2023, tutorial presenters as well as summer school lecturers and tutors includes: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

* Isabelle Augenstein (Copenhagen University, Denmark) * Sandra Kübler (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) * Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Greece)

TUTORIAL PRESENTERS:

* Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Aston, UK) * Sanja Stajner (Karlsruhe, Germany) * Oana-Maria Camburu (UCL, UK) * Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands)

SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TUTORS:

* Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Aston, UK) * Oana-Maria Camburu (UCL, UK) * Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands) * Isuri Anuradha (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Damith Premasiri (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Anthony Huges (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Laurence Dyer (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

WORKSHOPS:

Nine workshops will be organised on 7-8 September 2023:

* LT-EDI 2023 – Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion * DravidianLangTech 2023 – Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages * TSAR 2023 – Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability * ALP 2023 – Workshop on Ancient Language Processing * HumEval 2023 – Third Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems * BUCC 2023 – 16th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora * ASE 2023 – 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text * ConTeNTS 2023 – Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies * NLP4TIA 2023 – NLP tools and resources for translation and interpreting applications

Further details are available at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/post-conference-events/ .

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS

RANLP invites submission of papers containing original research results that has not been published elsewhere. The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/.

The reviewing process will be anonymous, except for the demo submissions. Double submission is acceptable but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. Every accepted paper will have a DOI number.

RANLP-2023 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available on 1 April 2023.

IMPORTANT DATES Conference abstracts submission: after 1 April 2023 Conference papers submission: 6 May 2023

Conference papers acceptance notification: 26 June 2023 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2023

Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 10 July 2023

Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 5 August 2023 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 25 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2023

RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 30 August - 1 September 2023 RANLP tutorials: 2-3 September 2023 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 4-6 September 2023 (Monday-Wednesday)

RANLP workshops: 7-8 September 2023 (Thursday-Friday)

LOCATION and TRAVEL RANLP 2023 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com/home). The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis).

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2023 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair) Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator)