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<DIV><FONT size=2> <SPAN lang=EN-US
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Participation</FONT></SPAN>
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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'"><FONT face="Courier New"><A
href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007">http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007</A></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">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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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><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New"><o:p>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">PROGRAMME<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">9:15 - 9:30
Opening<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">9:30 - 10:00 Dan Tufis and
Alexandru Ceausu<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Diacritics Restoration in Romanian Texts <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">10:00 - 10:30 Adrian Iftene
and Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Improving a Question Answering System for Romanian Using <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> Textual
Entailment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">10:30 - 11:00 Darja
Fiser<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
A Multilingual Approach to Building Slovene Wordnet <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
break<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">11:30 - 12:00 Kiril Simov and
Petya Osenova<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Bulgarian Language Resources for Ontology-Based Semantic
Search<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">12:00 - 12:30<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Aristides Vagelatos, Elena Mantzari, Giorgos
Orphanos, </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Christos Tsalidis, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">Chryssoula Kalamara and Christos
Diolis<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> Implementing
the NLP Infrastructure for Greek Biomedical </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> Data
Mining <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
break<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">14:00 - 14:30 Elena
Paskaleva<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Balkan - South East Corpora Aligned to English<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">14:30 - 15:00<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Preslav Nakov, Veno Pacovski and Elena
Paskaleva<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Extracting Translation Lexicons from Bilingual </SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Corpora: Application to </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">South Slavonic
Languages<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">15:00 - 15:30<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Dusko Vitas, Cvetana Krstev and Svetla
Koeva<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Towards a Complex Model for Morpho-Syntactic Annotation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">15:30 - 16:00<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Coffee break<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">16:00 - 16:30 Cvetana Krstev,
Sandra Gucul, Dusko Vitas and Vanja Radulovic<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Can We Make the Bell Ring?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">16:30 - 17:00 Ivelina
Nikolova<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Supporting
the Development of Multiple-Choice Tests by </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">
Language Technologies<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">17:00 - 18:00<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Discussion<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">18:00 - 18:15<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Closing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT
face="Courier New">Organisers<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<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)</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"></FONT></SPAN> </P><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">
<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>
<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></FONT></DIV><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Milena Slavcheva</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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></BODY></HTML>