PROVISIONAL ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Please bear in mind that in order to streamline the reviewing procedure, we would like 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. Abstract submission must be made via the  CLIB 2024 login page.

CLIB will cover a broad spectrum of areas related to natural language processing, with a special focus on Bulgarian.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

CLIB 2024 invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to the following topics:

Theories and models

  • word-, phrase and sentence-level phonology, prosody
  • morphology, word segmentation
  • tagging, chunking, syntactic parsing
  • lexical semantics, sentence-level semantics, syntax-semantics interface, semantic role labelling, textual inference, etc.
  • discourse, pragmatics
  • linguistic theories and cognitive modelling
  • large language models
  • NLP evaluation methodologies

NLP applications

  • applications for different domains (BioNLP, NLP for legal purposes, social media, journalism, etc.)
  • dialogue and interactive systems
  • document classification, topic modelling, information retrieval and cross-lingual retrieval
  • information extraction, text mining, and knowledge graph derivation
  • machine translation for spoken/written/sign languages and translation aids
  • sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, opinion and argument mining
  • speech recognition and synthesis and spoken language understanding
  • natural language generation, summarisation and simplification
  • machine learning
  • question answering
  • offensive speech detection and analysis
  • language grounding for computer vision, robotics, etc.
  • computer-aided learning, training and education

Natural language resource design, creation and use in single or multimodal data

  • guidelines, standards, methodologies and tools for LRs construction, annotation, and acquisition
  • guidelines, standards, methodologies and tools for LRs construction, annotation, and acquisition
  • corpora, treebanks
  • semantic nets, wordnets, framenets
  • оntologies, terminology and knowledge representation
  • language resources and Semantic Web
  • language resources in various fields of application
  • LRs in the age of deep neural networks
  • open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures

PAPER TYPES AND FORMAT

Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Where appropriate, authors should include concrete evaluation and analysis, analysis of the impact of theories on technologies, and/or contributions of technologies to the advancement of theory. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references and appendices in the accepted format. Final versions will be given one additional page of content (up to nine (9) pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

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 of content, plus unlimited pages of references and appendices. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to five (5) pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

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

A Special Session on wordnets, framenets and ontologies will take place at CLIB 2024. The Special Session aims at bringing 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.

There will be two categories of research papers: oral and poster presentations. The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4) of content, plus two extra pages for references. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

At the time of submission authors will be required to mark the type of paper (long or short) and the preferred form of presentation (oral or poster). Note that the Programme Committee will have the final decision on the form of presentation. Authors will also have to mark in the required field if the paper is submitted to the Special Session on wordnets, framenets and ontologies.

All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted in English anonymously.

Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.

Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the EasyChair conference management system through the CLIB 2024 login page. Submission deadline is 15 April 2024 (23:59 UTC/GMT+2)