<div dir="ltr">Apologies for multiple postings<br>---------<br><br>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>RANLP-2013 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING<br>Augusta SPA Hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria <a href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013" target="_blank">http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013</a><br>
Tutorials: September 7-8, 2013 (Saturday-Sunday) <br>Main Conference: September 9-11, 2013 (Monday-Wednesday) <br>Workshops: September 12-13, 2013 (Thursday-Friday)<br><br>RANLP
(Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) has established itself
over the years as one of the most influential and competitive NLP
conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the
International summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational
Linguistics", which were organised for many years as training events.
The 9th RANLP conference will be held on 9-11 September 2013. The
conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers
plus presentations of peer-reviewed individual papers. There will also
be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will
be preceded by two days of tutorials (7-8 September 2013). Six
post-conference workshops will be held on 12-13 September 2013. A
Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference.<br>
<br>TOPICS <br>We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all
aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the
representation of a broad range of areas including, but not limited to,
the following: <br>
phonetics, phonology, and morphology; syntax, semantics, discourse,
pragmatics, dialogue, and lexicon; mathematical and statistical models
and complexity; language resources and corpora; electronic dictionaries,
terminologies and ontologies; POS tagging; parsing; semantic role
labelling; word-sense disambiguation; textual entailment; anaphora
resolution; generation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis;
multilingual NLP; machine translation, translation memory systems and
computer-aided translation tools, text simplification and readability
estimation; knowledge acquisition; information retrieval; text
categorisation; information extraction; text summarisation; term
extraction; question answering; opinion mining; dialogue systems;
computer-aided language learning; NLP for biomedical texts; NLP for the
Semantic web; and theoretical and application-orientated papers related
to NLP.<br>
<br>The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all
over the world. The final list of current PC members is uploaded on the
conference website.<br><br>RANLP-2013 will feature six KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:<br>- Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute of Computational Linguistics "Antonio Zampolli", Pisa)<br>
- Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt) <br>- Horacio Saggion (University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) <br>- Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva) <br>- Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield)<br>- Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)<br>
<br>Four pre-conference tutorials will be given on 7-8 September 2013 by the following TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:<br>- Iryna Gurevych & Judith Eckle-Kohler (Technical University Darmstadt)<br>-
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation)
& Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) & Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
(Cambridge University) & Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa)<br>
- Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva)<br>- Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)<br><br>Six post-conference WORKSHOPS will be organised on 12-13 September:<br>-
Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013), organised
by Desislava Zhekova and Sandra Kübler (Indiana University) <br>
- Biomedical Information Extraction Workshop, organised by Guergana
Savova (Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School) &
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine) &
Galia Angelova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<br>
- Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE 2013), organised by
Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield) & Marieke van Erp (VU
University) & Brian Davis (National University of Ireland) <br>-
Scalable Natural Language Processing (ScaNLP 2013), organised by Leon
Derczynski (University of Sheffield) & Bin Yang (Aarhus University)
& Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield) & Valentin Tablan
(University of Sheffield) & Arno Scharl (MODUL University Vienna)
& Thierry Declerck (DFKI) <br>
- Adaptation of language resources and tools for closely related
languages and language variants, organised by Cristina Vertan
(University of Hamburg) & Milena Slavcheva (IICT, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences) & Petya Osenova (Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”
and IICT Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) <br>
- Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data (NLP&LOD),
organised by Petya Osenova (Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” and IICT
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) & Kiril Simov (IICT, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences) & Georgi Georgiev (Ontotext AD) & Preslav
Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)<br>
<br>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS <br>The information about submission requirements is available at the submission guidelines page of the conference website (<a href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013/submissions.php" target="_blank">http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013/submissions.php</a>).<br>
<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>Conference abstract submission: 13 May 2013 <br>Conference paper submission: 17 May 2013 **No extension will be given** <br>Conference paper acceptance notification: 1 July 2013 <br>Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2013<br>
Workshop paper submission deadlines (suggested, check every specific workshop's webpage): 03 July 2013 <br>Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested, check every specific workshop's webpage): 02 August 2013 <br>
Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested, check every specific workshop's webpage): 16 August 2013<br>RANLP-2013 tutorials: 7-8 September 2013 (Saturday -Sunday) <br>RANLP-2013 conference: 9-11 September 2013 (Monday -Wednesday) <br>
RANLP-2013 workshops: 12-13 September 2013 (Thursday-Friday)<br><br>LOCATION <br>RANLP-2013, like RANLP-11, will be held in AUGUSTA SPA hotel, Hissar. Hissar or Hisarya (<a href="http://www.augustaspa.com/" target="_blank">http://www.augustaspa.com</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria</a>)
is a well-known resort since ancient times; it boasts 22 mineral
springs with water temperatures between 37-52 degree Celsius.
Archaeological research has revealed that a town existed near the
springs 5000 years BC. Many years later Thracians, and after them
Romans, settled around the warm springs. The Roman emperor Diocletian
visited the town in 293 and built a fortified wall around it. The town
was named Diocletianopol. Famous archaeological monuments such as: - the
Thracian Tomb of Kazanluk (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak</a>), and the Tomb at Starosel (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel</a>) are located within 20-50 km from Hissar.<br>
<br>TRAVEL <br>Hissar is situated in the centre of Bulgaria, 40 km north
of the second largest Bulgarian city, Plovdiv, and 160 km east of the
capital, Sofia. Both the international airports of Sofia and Plovdiv can
be used as arrival/departure points for RANLP-2013. Ryanair is now
operating flights between London Stansted and Frankfurt/Hahn to Plovdiv
two times per week. Sofia Airport is connected to Plovdiv via a motorway
and it takes only 1 hour and 45 minutes to reach Hissar from Sofia. In
addition to the regular public transport (trains and buses), the
organisers will provide shuttle minibuses from/to Sofia and Plovdiv
airports at an inexpensive rate.<br>
<br>THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2013 <br>Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) <br>Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK <br>Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair) <br>Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Qatar <br>
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria <br>Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria <br>Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator) <br>Irina Temnikova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria<br>
Natalia Konstantinova, University of Wolverhampton, UK<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font style="color:rgb(0,102,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10pt" dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:13px"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Irina Temnikova, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.</b></span></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
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PC Coordinator of the International Conference RANLP 2013 <br>Postdoc at the EU-funded project AComIn,<br>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<br>Sofia, Bulgaria</span></font><span><font><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></span></span></font></span></font></font></span><br>
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