RANLP 2027
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Varna, Bulgaria
Summer School “Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP“:
1-3 September 2027 (Wednesday-Friday)
Tutorials: 4-5 September 2027 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: 6-8 September 2027 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops and Shared tasks: 9-10 September 2027 (Thursday-Friday)
RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most competitive NLP conferences. Held biennially, it grew out of the international summer schools ‘Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics’, which ran for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995–2025) have featured keynote talks by leading NLP experts and high-quality papers, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known scientists. The Student Research Workshop, held as part of the main conference and now in its 10th edition, has become an active forum for discussion among young researchers. Since 2009, papers accepted at RANLP and its associated workshops have been included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by Scopus and DBLP, and since 2017 all accepted papers have been assigned DOIs. The conference will be preceded by a summer school, ‘Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP’, and tutorials on current hot topics, and followed by specialised workshops and shared tasks in advanced subfields of NLP.
RANLP 2027 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel ‘Cherno More’. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. Varna is a major tourist destination with numerous flights to/from the Varna International Airport.
Topics
We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and particularly encourage submissions related to (and the employment of) the latest NLP models including Large Language Models/Generative AI/Explainable AI. Contributions from a broad range of areas will be welcome including, but not limited to, the following topics: phonetics, phonology, morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon; complexity; mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning models; reasoning in LLMs; efficient NLP, including model compression and small language 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; low-resource and under-represented languages; linguistic diversity, dialects and language variation; 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; evaluation and benchmarking, including LLM-as-a-judge; safety, alignment and trustworthiness of LLMs; code generation and NLP for software engineering; computational social science; NLP for Social Good; Responsible NLP; 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.
Confirmed keynote speakers
- Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)
- Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University Roma)
- Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
- Kristina Toutanova (Google, Seattle)
- Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI Abu Dhabi, UAE)
- Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)
- Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg)
Team Behind RANLP 2027
- Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (General Chair, Programme Committee Chair)
- Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (General Chair, Organising Committee Chair)
- Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Programme Committee Co-Chair, Workshops Chair, Shared tasks Co-Chair, Summer School Co-Director)
- Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Programme Committee Co-Chair, Summer School Co-Director, Publicity Co-Chair, Social Media)
- Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair, Shared tasks Co-Chair)
- Ernesto Estevanell, University of Alicante, Spain (Publication Co-Chair)
- Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Chair)
- Grazina Korvel, Vilnius University, Lithuania (Publicity Co-Chair, Social Media)
- Aria Nourbakhsh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publicity Co-Chair, Social Media)
- Marie Escribe, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (Publicity Co-Chair, OC Team Co-Leader, Social Media)
- Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (OC Team Co-Leader; Publicity Co-Chair)
- Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria
- Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Organisers:
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, BAS, Bulgaria
University of Alicante, Spain
Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria
RANLP SJR Rank:
The RANLP Proceedings are indexed by Scopus. The SJR-rank can be checked here.