PROCEEDINGS

Prof. Ruslan Mitkov. 2026. “Natural Language Processing in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: The Wind of Change is Blowing.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 11–12. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Prof. Preslav Nakov. 2026. “Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), p. 13. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Irina Temnikova, Devora Kotseva, Ruslana Margova, Todor Kiriakov, Yolina Petrova, Nevena Grigorova, Alexander Komarov, Bogomil Katanov, Boryana Kostadinova and Stefan Minkov. 2026. “PROPer-BG: A New Publicly Accessible Package of Resources for Propaganda Detection in Bulgarian.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 14–27. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Jordan Kralev. 2026. “Direct Projection of Visual Features into Linguistic Embeddings for Domain-Adapted Multimodal Learning.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 28–33. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Öner Aytaş, Mehmet Ali Bayram, Tuğçe Şen, Banu Diri and Göksel Biricik. 2026. “Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Large Language Models via a Supervisor Agent Architecture.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 34–41. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Svetla Boytcheva, Sylvia Vassileva and Pavel Boytchev. 2026. “BGSynthMedic: Synthetic Parallel English-Bulgarian Discharge Summary Corpus with Automatic Annotations.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 42–54. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

George Pashev and Silvia Gaftandzhieva. 2026. “SymLang: A Structured Symbolic Intermediate Representation for Optimized Human-AI Communication in Assistive Clinical Technologies.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 55–62. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Yolina Petrova and Nikola Blajev. 2026. “Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Bulgarian Text via Binoculars Framework.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 63–67. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Mehmet Ali Bayram, Öner Aytaş and Tuğçe Şen. 2026. “Morphology-Aware Tokenization Improves Turkish Sentence Embeddings under Controlled Training Conditions.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 68–71. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Amina Laggoun, Youness Moukafih, Ouassim Karrakchou and Kamel Smaili. 2026. “Towards Frugal BERT Models for Maghrebi Dialects: Pruning and Distillation Approaches.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 72–84. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ján Mačutek, Michaela Koščová, Michaela Nogolová and Radek Čech. 2026. “What to Take as the Basic Verb Form? A Pilot Study in Czech.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 85–96. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Radu Ion, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Elena Irimia, Maria Mitrofan and Vasile Păiș. 2026. “Benchmarking Language Models on Romanian Eighth-Grade National Exams.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 97–105. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Silvie Cinková, Ivana Kvapilíková and Jan Černý. 2026. “Lexical Surprisal from Large Language Models: Cautionary Notes for Legal Discourse.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 106–118. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Natalia Dankova. 2026. “Analysing French Narrative Texts Generated by ChatGPT-5.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 119–127. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Mullosharaf Arabov. 2026. “A Systematic Benchmark of Machine Transliteration Models for the Tajik-Farsi Language Pair: A Comparative Study from Rule-Based to Transformer Architectures.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 128–136. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Mullosharaf Arabov, Karomatullo Habibullozoda and Nurali Shirinov. 2026. “TajikNLP: An Open-Source Toolkit for Comprehensive Text Processing of Tajik (Cyrillic Script).” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 137–145. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Abdelouahab Baflah. 2026. “A Qualitative Error Analysis of Whisper-Based Sentiment Recognition in Algerian Spoken Arabic: Prosodic and Pragmatic Failures in a Low-Resource Dialect.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 146–151. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Brandon Caillahua Mendoza. 2026. “Genetic Algorithms with Normalized Fitness Functions for Low-Resource Language Identification: A Case Study on Archaic Romanian and Medieval Slavonic Liturgical Manuscripts.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 152–162. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Elena Irimia, Simina Popa, Mihaela Cristescu, Catalin Mihaila, Lea Radu and Ioana Bucsa. 2026. “The Romanian Component of the Parallel ELEXIS Corpus: ELEXIS-Ro.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 163–172. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Atanas Atanasov. 2026. “A Dual-Interface Syntax Tree Editor with Automated Assessment for Learning Management Systems.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 173–179. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Maria Sampedro Mella. 2026. “Developing a Pragmatic Annotation Scheme for a Spoken Corpus.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 180–188. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Tsvetelina Stefanova and Petya Osenova. 2026. “Evaluating the Linguistic Properties of AI-Generated Bulgarian News Texts.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 189–197. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Svetla Koeva. 2026. “Towards a New Grammar Checker for Bulgarian.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 198–208. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Karla Csuros, Madalina Chitez, Roxana Rogobete and Petya Osenova. 2026. “Building a Cross-lingual Corpus of BA Theses: Rationale and Preliminary Observations.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 209–216. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Maria Todorova, Valentina Stefanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Mihaela Moskova, Hristina Kukova, Svetlozara Leseva, Ivelina Stoyanova, Dimitar Georgiev and Svetla Koeva. 2026. “Reasoning-BG: A Hybrid Benchmark for Long-Text Understanding and Reasoning in Bulgarian.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 217–227. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ruslana Margova. 2026. “Detecting Pseudoscientific Narratives in Bulgarian Science Communication: Nationalistic Mystification, Pseudo-Expertise and Cultural Blind Spots in AI-Assisted Analysis.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 228–237. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Mila Marcheva-Nash and Weiwei Sun. 2026. “PS-CHILDES-BG: A Constituency Treebank of Bulgarian Morphemically Tokenised Child-directed Speech.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 238–247. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Marina Bagi, Aleksandra Marković and Ranka Stanković. 2026. “Toward a Serbian FrameNet: Resource Construction, Methodology, and Initial Annotation Results.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 248–258. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Stanislav Penkov. 2026. “A WordNet-Aligned Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies for Low-Resource NLP.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 259–267. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ranka Stanković, Cvetana Krstev, Milica Ikonić Nešić and Miloš Utvić. 2026. “Relation Extraction from Text of Various Domains: A Serbian Case Study.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 268–277. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Maria Khokhlova. 2026. “A Comparative Study of Synonym Generation in Russian with Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models in a Zero-Shot Setting.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 278–285. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Andrea Nadalini, Claudia Marzi, Marcello Ferro, Vito Pirrelli, Maria Todorova, Valentina Stefanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Hristina Kukova and Svetla Koeva. 2026. “Assessing Reading Development through Finger-Voice Span: a Comparative Study of Bulgarian and Italian.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 286–295. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ruslana Margova and Irina Temnikova. 2026. “Experiment Design of a Balanced Eye-Tracking Study for Measuring the Cognitive Impact of the Stimulus Word “Disinformation”.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 296–303. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Tatiana Sherstinova, Irina Petrova, Aleksei Melnik, Sofiia Chepovetskaia, Karina Azarevich and Viktoria Deborina. 2026. “Everyday Speech of Russian Students: From Field Recordings to the ESC Speech Corpus (Data Processing and Representation).” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 304–312. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Mikus Grasmanis and Ilze Lokmane. 2026. “Multi-word Expressions in the Electronic Dictionary Tēzaurs: Integrating Data from Different Sources.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 313–318. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Dobromir Tsolyov, Keith Kiely, Georgi Goranov, Iglika Ivanova and Stanimir Dimitrov. 2026. “Optimizing LLM-based Discourse Analysis in Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study of Bulgarian Euro Adoption Narratives.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 319–332. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Gaël Lejeune and Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix. 2026. “Quantifying Literary Style: A Corpus-Based Study.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 333–346. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Iryna Karamysheva and Jakob Horsch. 2026. “Imploring You to Investigate More Languages: A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Ukrainian and English Causative Constructions.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 347–356. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ekaterina Tarpomanova. 2026. “Balkan Focus Particles in Bulgarian: ‘bash’ and ‘taman’.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 357–365. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ivan Derzhanski and Olena Siruk. 2026. “When Bulgarian ‘Still’ Meets Ukrainian ‘Already’.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 366–375. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Ruslana Margova. 2026. “Detecting Pseudoscientific Narratives in Bulgarian Science Communication: Nationalistic Mystification, Pseudo-Expertise and Cultural Blind Spots in AI-Assisted Analysis.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 376–385. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Nevena Grigorova, Stanislav Penkov, Keith Kiely, Dobromir Tsolyov and Iglika Ivanova. 2026. “Syntactic Patterns in Political Speech: Dependency-Based Ad Hominem Detection in Bulgarian Social Media.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 386–395. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Maria Khokhlova and Mikhail Koryshev. 2026. “Thematic Dominants of German-Language Catholic Hymns: Automatic Analysis using Word Embeddings.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 396–403. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.

Junya Morita. 2026. “Corpus-based Study of Word Formation: Anti-agentive Nominals in English and Japanese.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2026), pp. 404–414. Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2367-5675.