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<P class=style19 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 14pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">First
Call for Papers</SPAN></B><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P class=style19 style="MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Student Research
Workshop<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=style19 style="MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">associated with the International Conference
RANLP-2009<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=style19 style="MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">/RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING/<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=style19 style="MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/stud-ranlp09">http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/stud-ranlp09</A></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=style19
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The International
Conference RANLP 2009 would like to invite students at all levels (Bachelor-,
Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing work at the Student Research
Workshop. This will provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss your
work in progress or completed projects to an international research audience and
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">receive feedback
from</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
</SPAN>senior researchers<SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">. The research
being presented can come from any topic area within natural language processing
and computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic
areas: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Anaphora Resolution, Complexity, Corpus
Linguistics, Discourse, Evaluation, Finite-State Technology, Formal Grammars and
Languages, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Lexical Knowledge
Acquisition, Lexicography, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Morphology,
Natural Language Generation, Natural Language in Multimodal and Multimedia
Systems, Natural Language Interraction, Natural Language Processing in
Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Natural Language Processing for Biomedical
Texts, Ontologies, Opinion Mining, Parsing, Part-of-Speech Tagging, Phonology,
Post-Editing, Pragmatics and Dialogue, Question Answering, Semantics, Speech
Recognition, Statistical Methods, Sublanguages and Controlled Languages, Syntax,
Temporal Processing, Term Extraction and Automatic Indexing, Text Data Mining,
Text Segmentation,<SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> Text
Simplification,</SPAN> Text Summari<SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">s</SPAN>ation, Text-to-Speech Synthesis,
Translation Technology, Tree-Adjoining Grammars, Word Sense Disambiguation.<SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=style19
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">All accepted papers will be presented at the
Student Workshop sessions during the main conference days: 14-16 September 2009.
The articles will be issued in special Student Session electronic
proceedings.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=style19 style="MARGIN: 14pt 0cm"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Submission deadline: 25 July<BR>Acceptance notification:
20 August<BR>Camera-ready deadline: 1
September<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></SPAN></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Submission
Requirements<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=style19
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>All papers must be submitted in .doc or .pdf format and must be 4-8 pages
long (including references). For format requirements please refer to the main
RANLP website at </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009</FONT></A><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, Submission Info Section. Each submission will be
reviewed by 3 reviewers from the Programme Committee, who will feature both
experienced researchers and PhD students nearing the completion of their PhD
studies. The final decisions will be made based on these reviews. The
submissions will have to specify the student's level (Bachelor-, Master-, or
PhD).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
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</SPAN>Programme Committee<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=style19
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 14pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">To be announced in the Second Call for
Papers.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Organising Committee<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Irina Temnikova
(</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">University of
Wolverhampton</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">UK</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Ivelina Nikolova (Bulgarian
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Academy of Sciences</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Bulgaria</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Natalia Konstantinova
(</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">University of
Wolverhampton</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">UK</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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