RANLP 2017
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Hotel “Cherno More”, Varna, Bulgaria
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2017 [1]

Tutorials: September 2-3, 2017 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: September 4-6, 2017 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops: September 7-8, 2017 (Thursday-Friday)

We are pleased to announce that the 11th biennial RANLP conference will take
place in September 2017 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
6 keynote speeches. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference
exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials
(2-3 September 2017). Post-conference workshops will be held on 7-8 September
2017. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main
conference. The Student Research Workshop (now in its fifth 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.

TOPICS
We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language
Processing (NLP). We encourage contributions from a broad range of areas
including, but not limited to, the following topics: phonetics, phonology,
and morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, and
lexicon; mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning models
and complexity; language resources and corpora; electronic dictionaries,
terminologies and ontologies; POS tagging; parsing; semantic role labelling;
word-sense disambiguation; multiword expressions; textual entailment;
anaphora resolution; language generation; speech recognition; text-to-speech
synthesis; multilingual NLP; machine translation, translation memory systems
and computer-aided translation tools, text simplification and readability
estimation; knowledge acquisition; information retrieval; text
categorisation; information extraction; text summarisation; terminology
extraction; question answering; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; author
profiling; dialogue systems; computer-aided language learning; NLP for
biomedical texts; NLP for the Semantic web; theoretical and
application-orientated papers related to NLP.

CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

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

INVITED SPEAKERS
The list of keynote speeches at RANLP 2017 includes presentations from:
• Robert Dale (Macquarie University)
• Josef van Genabith (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
• Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent)
• Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)
• Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)

The list of RANLP 2017 tutorial lecturers includes:
• Noa Cruz (Virgen del Rocio Hospital, Seville)
• Veronique Hoste and Orphee De Clercq (University College Ghent)
• Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)

The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over
the world. The list of PC members will be announced in the Second Call for
Papers.

WORKSHOPS:
Several workshops will be organised on 7-8 September 2017. A Call for
Workshop Proposals was published in December 2016.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
The submissions will be maintained by conference management software. For
further instructions please follow the submission information at the
conference website at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2017 [2]. 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. The full
conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. A printed
version, whose estimated price would be between 35 and 45 euro, will be made
available at the conference if ordered in advance.

IMPORTANT DATES
Call for workshop proposals: 31 December 2016
Deadline for workshop proposals: 28 February 2017
Workshops selection: 15 March 2017

Conference abstracts submission: 28 April 2017
Conference papers submission: 5 May 2017
Conference papers acceptance notification: 26 June 2017
Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2017

Workshops papers submission deadline (suggested): 30 June 2017
Workshops papers acceptance notification (suggested): 28 July 2017
Workshops papers camera-ready versions (suggested): 20 August 2017
Workshops camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 25 August 2017

RANLP 2017 tutorials: 2-3 September 2017 (Saturday-Sunday)
RANLP 2017 conference: 4-6 September 2017 (Monday-Wednesday)
RANLP 2017 workshops: 7-8 September 2017 (Thursday-Friday)

LOCATION and TRAVEL
RANLP 2017 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea
Coast, in Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com/home [3]). 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 [4]).

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP 2017
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair)
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator)
Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

Read more:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/recent-advances-natural-language-processing-2017-0

[1] http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2017
[2] http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2017
[3] http://www.chernomorebg.com/home
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis