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DEALINE: 25 JUNE 2007</FONT></SPAN></P>
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Papers</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
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face="Courier New">International Workshop<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">A COMMON
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING PARADIGM<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">FOR BALKAN
LANGUAGES<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">In
conjunction with RANLP-2007<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><A
href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007"><FONT
face="Courier New">http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007</FONT></A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">September
26, 2007 <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Borovets,
Bulgaria <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">The
workshop is partially supported by the European Commission via the project
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">BIS-21++,
FP6 contract no. INCO-CT-2005-016639<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Many
things have changed at the Balkans for two years, since the previous workshop
"Language and Speech Infrastructure for Information Access in the Balkan
Countries" was held in conjunction with RANLP'05. The languages spoken in this
unique region attract more attention, due to the rapidly developing field of
communication and translation, and the interest to language technologies for
these languages is increasing. New markets appear, together with newly
established collaboration and new opportunities to extend the application areas
of natural language processing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">In the
last decade, numerous activities aimed at incorporating the Balkan NLP research
into the widely applied models of other European languages in the form of joint
projects like MulText East, BALRIC-LING, BalkaNet, INTERA and others. Language
resources and grammatical knowledge for different Balkan languages have been
incorporated and processed within the international NLP standards like MTE,
XCES, WordNet, INTERA. As a result of joint bilateral projects, the linguistic
knowledge for some Balkan languages has been processed according to well-known
systems and models - INTEX, GATE, etc.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">The
unified NLP paradigm for Balkan languages ensures the development of a common
idea for creation of a Balkan multilingual pool for NLP in monolingual or
multilingual - parallel or contrastive - perspective. Not all Balkan languages
are at the same distance from the achievement of that goal. That is why the main
task of this workshop is, along with the overview of present achievements
related to the development of a common NLP paradigm of the Balkan languages, to
suggest a roadmap for the multilingual research and development carried out in
joint activities of the members of the traditional Balkan language
union.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Specific
topics of interest for the proposed workshop are:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">*
NLP-driven models of large language data sets, for instance, grammatical
dictionaries, syntactic collections, text categories, ontologies;
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">*
collection and representation of large lexical resources conforming to
international standards; <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">*
compilation of large multilingual collections where a given Balkan language is
paired to a wide-spread European language, or another Balkan language;
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">*
evaluation of the results of using wide-spread NLP tools for the Balkan
languages; <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">*
investigation/evaluation of the results of mapping the well-known and widely
used NLP-driven models of the different Balkan languages.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New">Organisers<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Elena
Paskaleva and Milena Slavcheva <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">(Institute
for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Programme
committee<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Tanja
Avgustinova (DFKI and University of Saarland, Germany)<BR>Dan Cristea
(University of Iasi, Romania)<BR>Damica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield,
UK)<BR>Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)<BR>Maria Gavrilidou
(ILSP, Greece)<BR>Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht, the
Netherlands)<BR>Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)<BR>Kemal Oflazer
(Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)<BR>Petya Osenova (University of Sofia,
Bulgaria)<BR>Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)<BR>Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Bulgaria)<BR>Maria Stambolieva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria)<BR>Ralf Steinberger (EC - Joint Research Centre,
Italy)</FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Marko
Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy of
Sciences)<BR>Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Important
dates<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">* 25 June
2007 - extended abstract, between 800 and 1000 words;
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">* 10 July
2007 - notification of acceptance; <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">* 20
August 2007 - final submission of the full paper, up to 7 pages in the format of
RANLP-2007 (see the main conference site). The authors will be contacted if
small corrections are needed, between 20 and 30 August 2007;
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">* 26
September 2007 - workshop with published proceedings of full papers.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New">Submissions should be sent to </FONT><A
href="mailto:milena@lml.bas.bg"><FONT
face="Courier New">milena@lml.bas.bg</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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face="Courier New"></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><o:p><FONT
face="Courier New"></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><o:p><FONT
face="Courier New"></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Milena Slavcheva</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Linguistic Modeling Laboratory<BR>Institute for Parallel
Processing<BR>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<BR>25A, Acad. G. Bonchev St.<BR>1113
Sofia, Bulgaria</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Phone: (+359 2) 979 2812<BR>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:milena@lml.bas.bg">milena@lml.bas.bg</A><BR>URL:
<A
href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/~milena">www.lml.bas.bg/~milena</A></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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