The 7th conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL 2018) invites everybody interested in intellectual technologies, both from academic institutes and innovative companies. The conference aimed to bring together experts in the areas of text mining, speech technologies, dialogue systems, information retrieval, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics; to create a platform for sharing experience, extending contacts and searching for possible collaboration.

# Submission Guidelines

We invite the submission of papers that present original previously unpublished research. We accept full papers (12+ pages) and short papers (6+ pages) formatted accordingly to the Springer LNCS style. Although Springer offers both LaTeX style files and Word templates, we highly encourage the authors to use LaTeX, especially for texts containing several formulae. The papers must be written in English.

Please use the EasyChair system to submit a paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ainl2018.

# Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 3, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2018
Camera-ready version deadline: July 20, 2018
Conference dates: October 17–19, 2018

# Program Committee

Mikhail Alexandrov, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
Svetlana Alexeeva, Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
Artem Andreev, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Artur Azarov, Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (Russia)
Rohit Babbar, Aalto University (Finland)
Amir Bakarov, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Oleg Basov, Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev (Russia)
Erind Bedalli, University of Elbasan "Aleksandër Xhuvani" (Albania)
Anton Belyy, ITMO University (Russia)
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, RCC Institute of Information Technology (India)
Chris Biemann, Universität Hamburg (Germany)
Elena Bolshakova, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Pavel Braslavski, Ural Federal University (Russia)
Maxim Buzdalov, ITMO University (Russia)
John Cardiff, ITT Dublin (Ireland)
Dmitry Chalyy, Yaroslavl State University (Russia)
Mikhail Chernoskutov, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics (Russia)
Bonaventura Coppola, University of Trento (Italy)
Frantisek Darena, Mendel University Brno (Czech Republic)
Boris Dobrov, Research Computing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Ekaterina Enikeeva, Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
Vera Evdokimova, Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
Elena Filatova, City University of New York (USA)
Andrey Filchenkov, ITMO University (Russia)
Tommaso Fornaciari, Bocconi University in Milan (Italy)
Natalia Grabar, CNRS, Université de Lille (France)
Jiri Hroza, GAUSS Algorithmic (Czech Republic)
Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Vladimir Ivanov, Innopolis University (Russia)
Alexander Jung, Aalto University (Finland)
Nikolay Karpov, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Egor Kashkin, V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (Russia)
Denis Kirjanov, Sberbank of Russia (Russia)
Pavel Klinov, Stardog Union (USA)
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
Yury Kochetov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Russia)
Maxim Kolchin, ITMO University (Russia)
Mikhail Korobov, ScrapingHub Inc. (Russia)
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University (Russia)
Tomas Krilavicius, Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology (Lithuania) and Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo (Norway)
Natalia Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Artem Lukanin, European Patent Office (The Netherlands)
Alexey Malafeev, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Roman Meshcheryakov, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (Russia)
George Mikros, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Tristan Miller, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
Alexander Molchanov, PROMT (Russia)
Kirill Nikolaev, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Allan Payne, SORC (UK)
Georgios Petasis, National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" (Greece)
Stefan Pickl, Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany)
Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Vladimir Pleshko, RCO (Russia)
Alexey Romanov, University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA)
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Yuliya Rubtsova, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems (Russia)
Eugen Ruppert, Universität Hamburg (Germany)
Ivan Samborskii, ITMO University (Russia)
Andrey Savchenko, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Christin Seifert, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Alexander Semenov, University of Jyvaskyla (Finland)
Alexey Sorokin, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and Moscow Institute of Science and Technology (Russia)
Aleksandr Tarelkin, EPAM (Russia)
Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar)
Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton (UK)
Elena Tutubalina, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (Russia)
Dmitry Ustalov, University of Mannheim (Germany)
Elior Vila, University of Elbasan "Aleksandër Xhuvani" (Albania)
Roman Yangarber, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar)
Marcos Zampieri, University of Wolverhampton (UK)
Alexey Zobnin, Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Nikolai Zolotykh, University of Nizhni Novgorod (Russia)
Jan Žižka, Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic)

# Organizing Committee

Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki
Anastasia Bodrova, Just AI
Aleksandr Bugrovsky, ITMO University
Kseniya Buraya, ITMO University
Andrey Filchenkov, ITMO University
Talgat Galimzhanov, ITMO University
Natalia Khanzhina, ITMO University
Irina Krylova, Yandex
Dmitry Ustalov, University of Mannheim

# Proceedings

Our proceedings will be published in the Springer CCIS series indexed by Scopus and Web of Science.

# Venue

The conference will be held at the ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

# Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ainlevent@gmail.com.