First Call for Papers

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RANLPStud 2025

Student Research Workshop
associated with
the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
(RANLP 2025)

8-10 September 2025
Varna, Bulgaria

Further to the previous successful and highly competitive Student Research Workshops associated with the conference 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP, in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023), we are pleased to announce the ninth edition of the workshop which will be held during the main RANLP 2025 conference days on 8-10 September 2025. The conference and the workshop will take place again at the Black Sea city of Varna, Bulgaria.

The International Conference RANLP 2025 would like to invite students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop. We invite two types of student submissions:

Full Papers – unpublished original research of the student.
Short Papers – either a work in progress or a research proposal.

The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress or completed projects to an international research audience and receive feedback from senior researchers.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite two types of student submissions:

Full Papers must describe original unpublished work of the student in any topic area of the workshop. Full papers are limited to 8 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references.
Short Papers may describe either work in progress or a research proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must include clear directions for future research. Submissions of this type are limited to 6 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references.

All papers must be submitted in .pdf format through the START system. The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at the RANLP website,

All papers must have only student authors. Submissions with non-student authors will not be considered for review. After eventual acceptance of the paper, the authors could add their supervisor(s) in the Acknowledgments Section. The submissions must specify the student’s level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD) and the type of submission (Full or Short).

Double submission Authors may submit the same paper at several conferences. In this case, they must notify the organizers by filling in the corresponding information in the submission form, as well as notifying the contact organizer by email.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from an international research community. The research to be presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the following:

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.

All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions (oral or poster) during the main conference days: 8-10 September 2025. The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings associated with RANLP and uploaded to the ACL Anthology.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 05 July 2025

Acceptance notification: 06 August 2025

Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2025

Workshop: 8 - 10 September 2025

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth")

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and SUMMIT Project, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria)

Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Graphwise, Bulgaria)

Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

Contacts: 2025-stud@ranlp.org