Тhe third edition of the Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018) (http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/) will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 28 and 29 May, 2018.

It is organised by the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Bulgarian Language, and is envisaged as a day-and-a-half event with a special session on wordnets and ontologies which will take place on 29 May.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton): With a Little Help from NLP: My Language Technology Applications with Impact on Society
Dr. Zornitsa Kozareva (Amazon): Building Conversational Assistants using Deep Learning
Dr. Sujith Ravi (Google): Neural Graph Learning


CLIB covers a broad spectrum of areas related to natural language processing and computational linguistics focused on but not limited to Bulgarian.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
CLIB invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to the following topics:
semantics, syntax, grammar and the lexicon;
cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing;
lexical semantics and ontologies;
linguistic annotation – POS tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing, etc.;
word sense disambiguation;
MWE recognition;
information extraction;
text analysis and summarisation;
NLP methods and applications;
corpus linguistics;
multilingual processing and applications, machiene translation and translation aids.

There will be two categories of research papers: oral and poster presentations. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Papers shall be submitted in English.
On submission, please indicate whether you submit a paper for the main conference or for the special session on wordnets and ontologies.

Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.

The CLIB 2016 Proceedings is indexed in ISI Web of Science.

Additional information and CLIB 2018 style guidelines are available at the conference site: http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/instructions-for-authors/

The schedule is as follows:
13 Oct 2017: Opening of the submission website
20 Jan 2018: Paper submission deadline
3 March 2018: Notification to authors
20 March 2018: Camera-ready PDF due
15 May 2018: Proceedings publication date
28 - 29 May 2018: Conference

CONTACT DETAILS
You can contact us via the Conference e-mail: clib2018@dcl.bas.bg
Conference website: http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/

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