RANLP 2025 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/

Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and shared tasks: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) We are pleased to announce that the 15th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2025 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 keynote talks by leading experts in NLP. 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 and LLMs for NLP (3-5 September 2025) and two days of tutorials (6-7 September 2025). Post-conference specialised workshops as well as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics will be held on 11-13 September 2025. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora 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 0,299 (2023). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers.

CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Lancaster, UK)

CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

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 2025 as well as tutorial lecturers and summer school lecturers and tutors includes:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

* Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

* Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

* Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

TUTORIAL LECTURERS:

* Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TUTORS:

* Burcu Can (University of Sterling, UK) * Maram Alharbi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Isuri Nanomi Arachchige (University of Lancaster, UK) * Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante, Spain) * Hansi Hettiarachchi (University of Lancaster, UK) * Damith Dola Mullage (University of Lancaster, UK) * Henry Oldroyd (University of Lancaster, UK) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster, UK)

WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS:

The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. Calls for Proposals of Workshops has been already published. The following SHARED TASKS are accepted:

* PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages, organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi * Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organised by Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi * Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark, organised by Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov and Saad Ezzini * Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT), organised by Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS

The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/. The reviewing process will be anonymous. 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. All RANLP papers have DOI numbers assigned. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology.

RANLP-2025 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 as from 1 April 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Call for Shared Tasks proposals: September 2024 Shared Tasks selection notification: 4 November 2024 Shared Tasks sample data and task website ready: 15 November 2024 Shared Tasks training data ready: 15 December 2024

Call for workshop proposals: 24 December 2024 Deadline for submission of workshop proposals: 15 March 2025 Workshop selection: 22 March 2025

Conference abstracts submission: April 2025 Conference papers submission: 11 May 2025 (please check dates on RANLP 2025 website) Conference papers acceptance notification: 28 June 2025 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025

Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2025 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2025 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2025

RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 3-5 September 2025 RANLP tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops and Shared Tasks presentations: 11-13 September 2025 (Thursday-Saturday) VENUE RANLP 2025 will be held at the conference facilities of Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com ) in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. 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 conference organisers plan to arrange a visit to Provadia-Solnitsata, the oldest salt-production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC, https://provadia-solnitsata.com/en/ ) which is located 50 km from Varna. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Committee) Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)