28.1454, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1454. Thu Mar 23 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1454, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:55:11
From: Petya Osenova [petya at bultreebank.org]
Subject: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

Full Title: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: RANLP-17 

Date: 02-Sep-2017 - 08-Sep-2017
Location: Varna, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Irina Temnikova
Meeting Email: irina.temnikova at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most
competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and 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, and 2015) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP, as
well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by a
Programme Committee of well-known scientists. The papers accepted at RANLP-09,
RANLP-11, RANLP-13, RANLP-2015, and the associated workshops were included in
the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The
conference will be preceded by 4 tutorials on current hot topics and will be
followed by specialized workshops in advanced subfields of NLP. A Student
Research Workshop will be held in parallel to the main conference. The Student
Research Workshops (now in their fifth edition) have become active discussion
forums for young researchers.

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

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

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)

Workshops:

Four Workshops will be held on 7-8 September, 2017. A Call for Workshop
Proposals was published in December 2016.

- Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, organised by Mireille
Makary and Michael Oakes (University of Wolverhampton)
- Knowledge Resources for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities
(KnowRSH), organised by Dan Cristea (University of Iasi), Petya Osenova
(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Eveline Wandl-Vogt (Austrian Academy of
Sciences) and Kalliopi A. Zervanou (University of Utrecht)
- Biomedical Natural Language Processing, organised by Galia Angelova and
Svetla Boytcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
(University of Colorado School of Medicine) and Guergana Savova (Children's
Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School)
- Language Technologies for Digital Humanities in Central and (South-)Eastern
Europe, organised by Anca Dinu (University of Bucharest), Petya Osenova
(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), and Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)

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

RANLP SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) can be checked at
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100216911&tip=sid&clean=0

Chair of the Programme Committee:
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

Chair of the Organising Committee:
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

2nd Call for Papers:

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 labeling
- 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.

Submission of Papers, Posters, Demos:

All submission will be handled in the START system. For further instructions,
please follow the submission information at 
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2017/cfp.htm . The full conference proceedings will be
uploaded on the ACL Anthology. A printed version will be available at the
conference upon request (approximate price 35-40 euro).

Important Dates:

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

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