RANLP 2015
5-11 September
Hissar, Bulgaria
ranlp2015@lml.bas.bg
RANLP 2015 Final Call for Papers
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015
Augusta SPA hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria
Tutorials: September 5-6, 2015 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference:
September 7-9, 2015 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops:
September 10-11, 2015 (Thursday-Friday)
RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) has established itself over the years as one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics", which were organised for many years as training events. Selected papers from most RANLP conferences have been regularly published in a volume as part of John Benjamins’ series “Current Trends of Linguistic Research”. The papers accepted at RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011, RANLP-2013 and the associated workshops, were included in the ACL Anthology. After 2009, all RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS.
We are pleased to announce that the 10th RANLP conference is to be convened in September 2015. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus presentations of peer-reviewed individual papers. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials (5-6 September 2015). Post-conference workshops will be held on 10-11 September 2015. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The RANLP Student Research Workshops have become active discussion fora for young researchers.
TOPICS
We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage contributions from a broad range of areas including, but not limited to, the following: phonetics, phonology, and morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, and lexicon; mathematical and statistical models and complexity; language resources and corpora; electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies; POS tagging; parsing; semantic role labelling; word-sense disambiguation; textual entailment; anaphora resolution; 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; dialogue systems; computer-aided language learning; NLP for biomedical texts; NLP for the Semantic web; and theoretical and application-orientated papers related to NLP.
CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all over the world among which are the names of:
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
Wilker Aziz (University of Amsterdam)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
Jerome Bellegarda (Apple Inc.)
Chris Biemann (Technical University Darmstadt)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield)
Svetla Boytcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
António Branco (University of Lisbon)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute of Computational Linguistics "Antonio Zampolli", Pisa)
Kevin Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine)
Gloria Corpas (University of Malaga)
Dan Cristea ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi)
Estelle Delpech (Nomao)
Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton)
Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez (University of Alicante)
Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi)
Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt)
Veronique Hoste (Ghent University)
Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Alma Kharrat (Microsoft)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex)
Hristo Krushkov (University of Plovdiv)
Sandra Kübler (University of Indiana)
Qun Liu (Dublin City University)
Bernardo Magnini (Foundation Bruno Kеssler)
Suresh Manandhar (University of York)
Johanna Monti (University of Sassari)
Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante)
Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute and University of Trento)
Rafael Muñoz-Guillena (University of Alicante)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews)
Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)
Michael Oakes (University of Wolverhampton)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Pavel Pecina (Charles University in Prague)
Stelios Piperidis (Athena RC/ILSP)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex)
Gábor Prószéky (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester)
Horacio Rodriguez (UPC)
Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València)
Vasile Rus (The University of Memphis)
Fatiha Sadat (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Horacio Saggion (University Pompeu Fabra)
Doaa Samy (Autónoma University of Madrid and Cairo University)
Satoshi Sekine (New York University)
Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Jan Šnajder (University of Zagreb)
Lucia Specia (University of Sheffield)
Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield)
Keh-Yih Su (Academia Sinica)
Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa)
Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb)
Dan Tufis ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi)
L. Alfonso Urena Lopez (University of Jaen)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University)
Paola Velardi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Suzan Verberne (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Karin Verspoor (The University of Melbourne)
Piek Vossen (VU University Amsterdam)
Andy Way (Dublin City University)
Yorick Wilks (Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition)
Dekai Wu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Min Zhang (SooChow University)
Michael Zock (CNRS-LIF)
KEYNOTE TALKS will be given by
Khalil Simaan (University of Amsterdam)
Piek Vossen (VU University Amsterdam)
Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University)
and more will be announced soon.
The following TUTORIALS will be delivered before the main conference:
"Author profiling in social media"
by Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia)
"Automatic Text Simplification Techniques and Applications"
by Horacio Saggion (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
and more will be announced soon.
Finally, the following WORKSHOPS will take place on 10 and 11 September 2015 NLPMedBio 2015: NLP for Medicine and Biology Svetla Boytcheva, Kevin B. Cohen, Guergana Savova 10 September 2015 LT4VarDial: Joint Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages, Varieties and Dialects (LT4CloseLang 2 - VarDial 2) Preslav Nakov, Marcos Zampieri, Petya Osenova, Liling Tan, Cristina Vertan, Nikola Ljubešić, Jörg Tiedemann 10 September 2015 NLP4TM: Natural Language Processing for Translation Memories Constantin Orasan, Rohit Gupta 11 September 2015 BSNLP 2015: The 5th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing Jakub Piskorski, Jan Šnajder, Hristo Tanev, Roman Yangarber 10-11 September 2015 LST4LD: Language and Semantics Technology for Legal Domain Livio Robaldo, Kornél Markó, Hristo Konstantinov 10 September 2015 NLP&LOD2: Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data Piek Vossen, German Rigau, Petya Osenova, Kiril Simov 11 September 2015
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS The submissions will be maintained by conference management software. For further instructions please follow the submission information at the conference website at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015. The reviewing process will be anonymous. Double submission is allowed, but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. A printed version, whose estimated price would be between 35 and 45 euro, will be made available at the conference if ordered in advance.
IMPORTANT DATES Conference abstract submission: 11 May 2015 *Extended* Conference paper submission: 15 May 2015 24:00 Pacific Time *Extended* Conference paper acceptance notification: 22 June 2015 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2015 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 26 June 2015 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 25 July 2015 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 9 August 2015 Workshop camera-ready Proceedings ready (suggested): 16 August 2015 RANLP-2015 tutorials: 5-6 September 2015 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP-2015 conference: 7-9 September 2015 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP-2015 workshops: 10-11 September 2015 (Thursday-Friday)
LOCATION RANLP-2015, like RANLP-2011 and RANLP-2013, will be held in AUGUSTA SPA hotel, Hissar (http://www.augustaspa.com). Hissar or Hisarya is a well-known resort since ancient times; it boasts 22 mineral springs with water temperatures between 37-52 degrees Celsius. Archaeological research has revealed that a town existed near the springs 5000 years BC. Many years later Thracians, and after them Romans, settled around the warm springs. The Roman emperor Diocletian visited the town in 293 and built a fortified wall around it. The town was named Diocletianopol. More information about Hissar can be found at the following address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria Famous archaeological monuments such as the following: - the Thracian Tomb of Kazanluk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak - the Tomb of Starosel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel) are located within 20-50 km from Hissar.
TRAVEL Hissar is situated in the centre of Bulgaria, 40 km north of the second largest Bulgarian city, Plovdiv, and 160 km east of the capital, Sofia. Both the international airports of Sofia and Plovdiv can be used as arrival/departure points for RANLP-2015. Ryanair operates flights between London Stansted and Frankfurt/Hahn to Plovdiv two times per week. Sofia Airport is connected to Plovdiv via a motorway and it takes only 1 hour and 45 minutes to reach Hissar from Sofia. In addition to the regular public transport (trains and buses), the organisers will provide shuttle minibuses from/to Sofia and Plovdiv airports at an inexpensive rate.
THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2015
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair)
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (workshop coordinator)
Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Qatar