Call for Workshop Proposals

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RANLP-2025: 15th Conference on

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

Summer School DLinNLP 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)

Varna, Bulgaria

https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/

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Following the workshops held in conjunction with the Conferences "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" RANLP-2005, RANLP-2007, RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011, RANLP-2013, RANLP-2015, RANLP-2017, RANLP-2019, RANLP-2021 and RANLP-2023, we are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for RANLP-2025.

RANLP-2025 invites workshop proposals on any topic of interest to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, ranging from fundamental research issues to more applied industrial or commercial aspects. We encourage workshops related to (or discussing the employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language Models/Generative AI. Workshops can vary in length from a half day to full 1-2 days and can also feature demo sessions. The format of each workshop (face-to-face or hybrid) can be determined by its organisers the condition being that onsite sessions are held in Varna for the whole workshop duration so that other RANLP participants can take part in the event. Accepted workshops will receive one free registration to RANLP-2025 (full registration including the summer school, tutorials, all workshops, main conference, reception, conference dinner).

VENUE

The workshops will take place in Hotel "Cherno More", Varna, the main RANLP-2025 conference venue. If more than 5 workshops are selected, the RANLP-2025 organisers will provide conference halls in some of the neighbouring hotels or universities in downtown Varna.

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop proposals due: 15 March 2025

Workshop selection: 22 March 2025

Workshop website due: 5 April 2025

Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2025, immediately after RANLP notification

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

Workshops: 11-13 September 2025

REQUIREMENTS

Proposals should be no longer than five pages and should contain the following:

1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that it will focus on;

2. Brief description of the target audience, including estimates of the numbers of submissions and attendees (a tentative list of potential contributors would be useful);

3. List of related workshops/events held in the last three years or to be held in 2025;

4. Tentative workshop program committee;

5. Names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organising committee;

6. Description of the experience of the proposed organisers in the workshop topics and in organising workshops or related events.

The workshop Organising Committee is responsible for the following:

Setting up and maintaining the workshop website;
Disseminating call for papers/participation;
Organising paper submission, review process, authors notification, and collecting audio/visual presentation requirements;
Verifying the camera-ready copies, providing electronic conference proceedings which are to be generated with the conference management system START;
In case of hybrid workshops, organising an onsite workshop component and chairing the live sessions in Varna.

Workshop invited speakers: If the workshop organisers intend to host an invited talk, it is recommended that they invite somebody from the main conference keynote speakers or participants. If the workshop organisers decide to invite another speaker, it is very likely that the workshop organisers will have to secure financial support for this speaker.

The RANLP-2025 Organising Committee is responsible for the following:

Providing a link to the workshop web page;
Publishing the workshop proceedings with ISBN numbers, and registering DOI numbers for all accepted papers;
Providing the workshop venue;
Organising registration, audio/visual support, coffee breaks, registration facilities, Internet access.

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

Workshop proposals in PDF format should be e-mailed to Tharindu Ranasinghe <t.ranasinghe[at]lancaster[dot]ac[dot]uk>, Kiril Simov <kivs[at]bultreebank[dot]org>, Petya Osenova <petya[at]bultreebank[dot]org> and cc'ed to <workshops2025@ranlp.org>

EVALUATION

Submitted proposals will be reviewed with respect to the following criteria:

* Relevance, importance, and timeliness of the topics;

* Completeness, clarity, and quality of the workshop proposal;

* Experience of the organisers in the proposed topics;

* Viability of the workshop.

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25

Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair Organising Committee)

Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (Chair Programme Commitee)

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)