Final Call for Papers - RANLP 2025

The 15th biennial International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2025) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria.

Event Schedule:

• Summer School “Deep Learning and Large Language Models 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)

About RANLP 2025

The conference program will include competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on recent advances in a wide range of NLP topics, keynote talks by leading experts, poster and demo sessions. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference.

The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. All accepted papers have DOI numbers (after 2017).

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.

Submission Deadlines:

• Submissions of indicative abstracts (by 11 May 2025, not compulsory)

• Conference papers submission: 25 May 2025

• Conference papers acceptance notification: 4 July 2025

• Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2025

• Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 15 July 2025

• Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 31 July 2025

• Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 30 August 2025

Submissions

Submissions can be made through the conference website: https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/

The Final Call for Papers can be downloaded here.

Organizers and Chairs:

• Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University, UK and University of Alicante, Spain)

• Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG)

• Organisers: Lancaster University, UK; University of Alicante, Spain; Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, BAS, Bulgaria; Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria.