36.3670, Confs: 7th International Computational Linguistics Conference (Bulgaria)

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Date: 25-Nov-2025
From: Svetlozara Leseva [zarka at dcl.bas.bg]
Subject: 7th International Computational Linguistics Conference


7th International Computational Linguistics Conference
Short Title: CLIB 2026

Date: 08-Sep-2026 - 09-Sep-2026
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Contact Email: clib2026 at dcl.bas.bg
Meeting URL: https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2026

CLIB is an international conference aiming to explore novel approaches
and methods in computational linguistics and natural language
processing (NLP), particularly their application to small and
less-resourced languages SUCH AS (but not limited to) Bulgarian, and
to bridge the gap between large and small languages in language
technologies. The Conference is dedicated to fostering the NLP
community and promoting cooperation between Bulgarian and
international researchers and teams worldwide by sharing high-quality
scientific results in all areas of computational linguistics and NLP.
Important Dates:
Tutorial/Workshop submission deadline: 15 February 2026
Tutorial/Workshop notification deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2026
Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2026
Author notification deadline: 22 May 2026
Camera-ready PDF due: 15 June 2026
Official proceedings publication date: 7 September 2026
Tutorials/Workshops: 7 September 2026
Conference: 8–9 September 2026
Topics of Interest:
CLIB invites contributions on original research, including, but not
limited to:
Theories and models:
– morphology, word segmentation;
– tagging, chunking, syntactic parsing;
– semantics, semantic role labelling, textual inference, etc.;
– discourse and pragmatics;
– NLP evaluation methodologies;
– large language models;
– retrieval-augmented language models;
– safety and alignment in LLMs;
– ethics, bias, and fairness;
– language grounding for computer vision and robotics;
– low-resource methods for NLP;
– multilinguality and language diversity.
NLP applications:
– domain-specific applications (BioNLP, social media, journalism,
etc.);
– document classification, topic modelling, information retrieval;
– information extraction, text mining, knowledge graph derivation;
– machine translation for spoken/written/sign languages and
translation aids;
– sentiment, stylistic, opinion, and argument analysis;
– speech recognition, synthesis, and spoken language understanding;
– natural language generation, summarisation, and simplification;
– question answering;
– offensive speech detection and analysis;
– computer-aided learning, training, and education;
– AI / LLM agents;
– human-AI interaction/cooperation.
Natural language resources – design, creation, and use:
– standards, methodologies, and tools for LR construction and
annotation;
– corpora, treebanks, semantic nets, wordnets, framenets;
– ontologies, terminology, and knowledge representation;
– LRs in various fields of application;
– LRs in the era of deep neural networks;
– open, linked, and shared data and tools; open and collaborative
architectures.
CLIB 2026 also solicits submissions presenting project reports, new
data resources, system demonstrations, position papers.
Special Session on Wordnets, Framenets and Ontologiestopics of
Interest:
The Special Session on Wordnets, Framenets and Ontologies brings
together researchers interested in the principles, theory, practice
and applications of wordnets, ontologies, related linguistic resources
and their interoperability and seeks to establish a dedicated
community and to foster joint initiatives in this particular field.
Paper Types and Format:
Long papers must present substantial, original, completed, and
unpublished work. Submissions may contain up to eight (8) pages of
content.
Short papers must present original and unpublished work with a small,
focused contribution. Short papers may contain up to four (4) pages of
content.
Both types of submissions may contain an unlimited number of pages for
references and appendices.
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
Additional information and the CLIB 2026 style guidelines and
templates are available in the Instructions for Authors section at the
Conference website.
Paper Submission:
Papers must be submitted anonymously in English.
Reviewing will be double-blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at
least two anonymous reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit a provisional title and a brief abstract
of approximately 150 words in PDF format by 15 March 2026. The
abstract must be anonymous.
Submission of papers and abstracts will be managed online via the
EasyChair conference management system through the CLIB 2026 EasyChair
account.
Best Student Paper Award:
To encourage talented young researchers, the best paper presented by a
Master’s or PhD student at the Conference will receive a prize and a
certificate.
Call for Tutorials and Workshops:
CLIB 2026 invites proposals for tutorials and workshops in all areas
of computational linguistics, natural language processing and related
fields, which will be held in conjunction with the Conference.
Both tutorial and workshop proposals should not exceed 4 pages of
content (plus unlimited pages for references) using CLIB paper
templates. Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents through the
CLIB 2026 EasyChair account using the CLIB 2026 style guidelines and
templates, available in the Instructions for Authors section.
Tutorial and workshop proposals are not anonymous.
Guidelines for the proposals for tutorials are available in the Call
for Tutorials and Workshops section at the Conference website.
The CLIB 2026 style guidelines and templates are available in the
Instructions for Authors section published at the Conference website.
CLIB Proceedings Indexing:
The Proceedings from CLIB 2016, CLIB 2018, CLIB 2020, CLIB 2022, CLIB
2024 are indexed in ISI Web of Science.
As of November 2020, the Proceedings are indexed in Scopus.
All CLIB Proceedings are included in the ACL Anthology.



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