The 8th conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL 2019) invites everyone 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We invite the submission of papers that present original previously unpublished research.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 (6–8 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 formulæ. The papers must be written in English.

All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. We use a double-blind review scheme. Please anonymize your papers when submitting for initial review.

At least one author of accepted long and short papers must register for the conference and present the paper.

The authors should use the EasyChair system to submit their papers: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ainl2019.

# Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 17, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2019
Camera-ready version deadline: August 30, 2019
Conference dates: November 20–22, 2019

# Program Committee

Mikhail Alexandrov, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Svetlana Alexeeva, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Artur Azarov, Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia
Amir Bakarov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Erind Bedalli, University of Elbasan “Aleksandër Xhuvani”, Albania
Anton Belyy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, RCC Institute of Information Technology, India
Chris Biemann, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Elena Bolshakova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Pavel Braslavski, Ural Federal University, Russia
Maxim Buzdalov, ITMO University, Russia
John Cardiff, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Mikhail Chernoskutov, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia
Boris Dobrov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Ekaterina Enikeeva, Yandex, Russia
Vera Evdokimova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Andrey Filchenkov, ITMO University, Russia
Mark Fishel, University of Tartu, Estonia
Tommaso Fornaciari, Bocconi University, Italy
Dmitry Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Vladimir Ivanov, Innopolis University, Russia
Nikolay Karpov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Denis Kirjanov, Sberbank of Russia
Pavel Klinov, Stardog Union, USA
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Mikhail Korobov, ScrapingHub Inc., Russia
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Dmitry Kravchenko, Accenture Labs & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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
Alexey Malafeev, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Tristan Miller, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
Kirill Nikolaev, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Allan Payne, SORC, UK
Georgios Petasis, National Centre of Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece
Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki, Finland
Vladimir Pleshko, RCO, Russia
Alexey Romanov, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Yuliya Rubtsova, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Russia
Eugen Ruppert, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Andrey Savchenko, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Aleksandr Tarelkin, EPAM, Russia
Irina Temnikova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Elena Tutubalina, Kazan Federal University, Russia
Dmitry Ustalov, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia
Elior Vila, University of Elbasan “Aleksandër Xhuvani”, Albania
Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Marcos Zampieri, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Alexey Zobnin, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Nikolai Zolotykh, Lobachevsky University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

# Organizing Committee

Local Chair: Mark Fishel, University of Tartu, Estonia
Program Chair: Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki, Finland
Publication Chair: Dmitry Ustalov, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia
Anastasia Bodrova, Botfuel, France
Aleksandr Bugrovsky, ITMO University, Russia
Kseniya Buraya, ITMO University, Russia
Andrey Filchenkov, ITMO University, Russia
Talgat Galimzhanov, ITMO University, Russia
Natalia Khanzhina, ITMO University, Russia
Irina Krylova, Yandex, Russia
Lisa Yankovskaya, University of Tartu, Estonia

# Publication

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 University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia.

# Contact

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