RECENT  ADVANCES  IN  NATURAL  LANGUAGE  PROCESSING

Varna, Bulgaria
http://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)

The biennial RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) conference 
is one of the most competitive and influential NLP conferences. The event grew 
out of the International Summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational 
Linguistics" which were organised for many years as international training 
events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 
2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023) featured keynote talks by leading 
experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously 
reviewed by Programme Committee experts. Since 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 Proceedings has its own Scopus 
SJR, in 2023 it is 0,299. The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on 
Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) for Natural Language Processing 
(NLP) as well as tutorials on current topics of particular interest and cutting 
edge technologies. RANLP-2025 will be followed by specialised workshops as well 
as shared tasks covering timely NLP topics. A Student Research Workshop will be 
held in parallel with the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now 
the 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers.



TOPICS

We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language 
Processing and particularly encourage submissions related to (and the 
employment of) the latest NLP methods including Large Language 
Models/Generative AI. Contributions from a broad range of areas will be welcome 
including, but not limited to, the following topics: phonetics, phonology, 
morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon; 
complexity; mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning 
models; language resources and corpora; crowdsourcing for creation of 
linguistic resources; electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies; 
sublanguages and controlled languages; linked data; POS tagging; parsing; 
semantic role labelling; word-sense disambiguation; multiword expressions and 
computational phraseology; textual entailment; anaphora resolution; temporal 
processing; 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; fact checking and fake news; 
stance recognition; hate speech and aggression detection; author profiling; 
dialogue systems; chatbots and conversational agents; irony and sarcasm 
detection; negation and speculation detection; computer-aided language 
learning; multimodal systems; language and vision; NLP for biomedical texts; 
NLP for educational applications; NLP for healthcare; NLP for financial 
purposes; NLP for legal texts; for the Semantic web; theoretical and 
application-orientated papers related to NLP.


CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Lancaster)

CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The Programme Committee (PC) 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.

Keynote speakers, tutorial presenters, and summer school lecturers and tutors 
will be announced in the upcoming calls for papers.


WORKSHOPS and SHARED TASKS:

The RANLP 2025 workshops and shared tasks will be held on 11-13 September 2025. 
Calls for Proposals of Workshop and Shared Tasks have been already published.


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: early/mid May 2025 (please check exact 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 organise an excursion to Provadia, 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 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)


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