GENERAL INFORMATION
Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB) is an international conference that aims at exploring novel approaches and methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), especially with a view to their application to small and less-resourced languages such as Bulgarian and the bridging of the discrepancies between big and small languages with respect to language technologies.

IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial submission deadline: 15 February 2024
Tutorial notification deadline: 15 March 2024
Paper abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024
Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2024 (23:59 UTC/GMT+2)
Author notification deadline: 15 May 2024
Camera-ready PDF due: 15 June 2024
Official proceedings publication date: 7 September 2024
Conference: 9 – 10 September 2024

TOPICS OF INTEREST
CLIB invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to:
computer-aided learning, training and education
dialogue and interactive systems
information retrieval, information extraction, text mining and knowledge graph derivation
language grounding for computer vision and robotics
language modelling
language theories and cognitive modelling for NLP
large language models and NLP evaluation methodologies
language resources and benchmarking for large language models
language resources construction and annotation
machine learning for NLP
machine translation, multilingualism, translation aids
morphology and segmentation
natural language generation, understanding, summarisation and simplification
ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, opinion and argument mining
speech recognition, synthesis and spoken language understanding
tagging, chunking, syntax and parsing

CLIB 2024 also solicits submissions presenting project reports, new data resources, system demonstrations, position papers.


SPECIAL SESSION ON WORDNETS, FRAMENETS AND ONTOLOGIES
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Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content.
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work dealing with a small, focused contribution. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages.
Both types of submissions allow for an unlimited number of pages of references and appendices.
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
Additional information and the CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the Instructions for Authors section at the Conference website.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must be submitted in English and should be anonymous.
Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.
We invite authors to submit a provisional title along with a brief abstract (approx. 150 words) by 15 March 2024 in pdf format. Abstract should be anonymous.
Submission of papers and abstracts will be managed online by the EasyChair conference management system through the CLIB 2024 EasyChair page.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
In order to encourage talented young researchers, the best paper with a Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the conference will be awarded a small prize and a diploma.

CALL FOR TUTORIALS
CLIB 2024 invites proposals for tutorials which will be held before the Conference (on September 8).
Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references) using CLIB paper templates, and they should be submitted as pdf documents through the CLIB 2024 EasyChair page. Tutorial proposals are not anonymous.
Guidelines for the proposals for tutorials are available in the Call for Tutorials section at the Conference website.
The CLIB 2024 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 are indexed in ISI Web of Science. As of November 2020 the Proceedings are indexed in Scopus. CLIB Proceedings published since 2020 are also included in the ACL Anthology.

You can contact us via the Conference e-mail: clib2024@dcl.bas.bg