Chairs:
Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University, UK)
Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG)
Organisers:
Lancaster University, UK
University of Alicante, Spain
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, BAS, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria
RANLP 2025
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Varna, Bulgaria
Summer School ‘Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP’: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday)
Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops and shared tasks: 11-12 September 2025 (Thursday-Friday)
RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is 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 international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known researchers. After 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops have been included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The Proceedings has its own Scopus SJR, in 2023 it is 0,299. The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models in NLP as well as 4-6 tutorials on current topics of particular interest and cutting edge technologies. RANLP 2025 will be followed by selected workshops on specialised NLP topics as well as shared tasks. A Student Research Workshop will be held in parallel with the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now 9th edition) have become active discussion fora for young researchers.
Expected conference submission deadline: end of April/beginning of May 2025 (please regularly check http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ for updated information)
Call for shared tasks proposals: September 2024
Call for workshop proposals: December 2024
Venue: RANLP 2025 will be held in Cherno More Hotel, Varna, Bulgaria. The event venue offers excellent conference facilities. The International airport of Varna conveniently connects Varna to major airports in Central Europe, Sofia, Istanbul and many others.
The team behind RANLP 2025:
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair)
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (PC Chair)
Maria Kunilovskaya, Saarland University, Germany (Publication Chair)
Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Shared tasks Co-Chair)
Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair)
RANLP SJR Rank:
The RANLP Proceedings are indexed by Scopus. The SJR-rank can be checked here.