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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="BG" style="font-size:20pt;color:black">RANLP-2015</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">RECENT ADVANCES IN
NATURAL LANGUAGE </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="BG" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">PROCESSING</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Augusta SPA Hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015">http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015</a></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Tutorials: September 5-6, 2015</span></b><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> (Saturday-Sunday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Main Conference:</span></b><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> <b>September
7-9, 2015</b> (Monday-Wednesday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Workshops:</span></b><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> <b>September 10-11,
2015</b> (Thursday-Friday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">RANLP
(Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">has</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> established </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">itself over the years as one of the most influential
and competitive </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">NLP conferences. The
event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools
"Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics"</span><span style="color:black">,</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> which were organised for many years as training events.
Selected papers from most RANLP conferences </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">have been regularly</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">published
in a volume as part of John Benjamins’ series “Current Trends of Linguistic
Research”. The papers accepted at RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011, RANLP-2013 and the
associated workshops, </span><span style="color:black">we</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">re included in the ACL Anthology.</span><span style="color:black"> After 2009, all RANLP proceedings
are indexed by SCOPUS.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">We</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> are pleased to announce </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">that </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">the 10</span><sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">th</span></sup><span lang="BG" style="color:black">
RANLP conference </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">is </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">be convened</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">in September 20</span><span style="color:black">15</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">.</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">The conference will take the
form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus </span><span style="color:black">presentations of </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">peer-reviewed individual papers. There will also be
an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials
(5-6 September 20</span><span style="color:black">15</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">). Post-conference workshops will be held </span><span style="color:black">on </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">1</span><span style="color:black">0</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">-1</span><span style="color:black">1</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> September 20</span><span style="color:black">15</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the
main conference. The RANLP Student Research Workshops have become active
discussion </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">fora</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">for
young researchers.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">TOPICS</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">We invite papers reporting recent advances in all aspects
of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage contributions from a broad
range of areas including</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">,</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> but not limited</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> to, </span><span style="color:black">the following</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">: phonetics, phonology, and morphology; syntax</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">, </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">semantics</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">, </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">discourse</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">pragmatics,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">dialogue</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">, and lexicon; mathematical</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> and statistical</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> models and complexity; language resources</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> and corpora; </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">electronic dictionarie</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">s, terminologies and ontologies</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">; POS tagging; parsing; </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">semantic role labelling; </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">word-sense disambiguation; textual entailment;</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">anaphora resolution; generation; speech </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis; </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">multilingual
NLP; machine translation, translation memory systems</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> and</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">computer-aided translation</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">
tools, text simplification and readability estimation; knowledge acquisition;
information retrieval; text categorisation; information extraction; text
summarisation; </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">terminology extraction</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">;
question answering;</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> opinion mining;</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> dialogue
systems; computer-aided language learning; </span><span lang="BG">NLP for
biomedical texts</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">; </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">NLP for the Semantic web; </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">and </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">theoretical and application-orient</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">at</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">ed papers related to NLP.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span class=""><span lang="BG" style="color:black">CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</span></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span class=""><span lang="BG" style="color:black">CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE</span></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">The <span class="">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</span>
members are distinguished experts from all over</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">the world. The list of PC members will be announced in the
Second Call for Papers.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span class=""><span lang="BG" style="color:black">WORKSHOPS: 10-11 September 2015</span></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Several workshops will be organised on <span class="">10-11 September 2015</span>. A Call for Workshop </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">P</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">roposals </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">is</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> published
in December 2014.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span class=""><span lang="BG" style="color:black">SUBMISSION </span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">OF</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">PAPERS,
POSTERS, DEMOS</span></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">The submissions will be maintained by conference
management software. For further instructions please follow the submission
information at the conference </span><span style="color:black">web</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">site at <a href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015">http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015</a>.</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">The reviewing process will be anonymous. </span><span style="color:black">Double submission is allowed, but
authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Submissions will be reviewed by </span><span style="color:black">at least three</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted
papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions
of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. The full conference
proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology</span><span style="color:black">.</span><span style="color:black"> </span>A<span lang="BG"> printed version, whose
estimated price would be between 35 and 4</span>5<span lang="BG"> euro, will be made available at the conference </span>if ordered in advance<span lang="BG">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Call for workshop
proposals: </span><span style="color:black">15</span><span style="color:black"> <span lang="BG">December </span></span><span style="color:black">2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Deadline </span>for <span lang="BG">workshop proposals: </span>28<span lang="BG"> February </span>2015</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Workshop
selection: </span>15<span lang="BG"> March </span>2015</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Conference abstract submission: </span>27 April
<span lang="BG">20</span>15 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Conference paper submission: </span>4 May<span lang="BG"> 20</span>15</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Conference paper acceptance notification: </span>22<span lang="BG"> Ju</span>ne <span lang="BG">20</span>15</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-ready <span lang="BG">versions of </span>the <span lang="BG">conference papers: </span>31<span lang="BG"> July 20</span>15</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Workshop
paper submission deadline (suggested): </span>26 June <span lang="BG">20</span>15</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Workshop
paper acceptance notification (suggested): </span>25<span lang="BG"> July 20</span>15 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop paper camera-ready <span lang="BG">versions (suggested): </span>9 <span lang="BG">August 20</span>15</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop camera-ready Proceedings ready <span lang="BG">(suggested): </span>16<span lang="BG"> August 20</span>15</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">RANLP-2015 tutorials: 5-6
September 20</span><span style="color:black">15</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> (Saturday-Sunday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">RANLP-2015 conference: 7-9
September 20</span><span style="color:black">15</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> (Monday-Wednesday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG" style="color:black">RANLP-2015 workshops: 1</span><span style="color:black">0</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">-1</span><span style="color:black">1</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> September 20</span><span style="color:black">15</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">
(Thursday-Friday)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">LOCATION </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">RANLP-2015, like RANLP-2011 and RANLP-2013, will be
held in AUGUSTA SPA hotel, Hissar (</span><span lang="BG"><a href="http://www.augustaspa.com">http://www.augustaspa.com</a></span>)<span style="color:black">. </span><span class=""><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Hissar</span></span><span class=""><span style="color:black"> or</span></span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Hisarya
is a well-known resort since ancient times; it </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">boasts 22 mineral springs with water temperatures between
37</span><span style="color:black">-</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">52</span><span style="color:black"> degrees Celsius</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">.</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Archaeological research has revealed <span class="">that
a town existed near the springs 5000 years BC</span>. 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 </span><span style="color:black">a</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">round it.</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">The town was
named Diocletianopol.</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">More
information about Hissar can be found at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="BG"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria</a><span style="color:black"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Famous archaeological monuments such as:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">- the Thracian Tomb of Kazanluk </span><span lang="BG"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">- the Tomb of Starosel (</span><span lang="BG"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel</a></span><span style="color:black">) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">are located within 20-50 km from Hissar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">TRAVEL</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class=""><span lang="BG" style="color:black">Hissar is situated in the centre of Bulgaria, 40 km north
of the </span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">second largest Bulgarian </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">city</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">,</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> Plovdiv</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">,</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> and 1</span></span><span class=""><span style="color:black">6</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">0 km east of the capital</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">,</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> Sofia. </span></span><span style="color:black">Both the international airports of Sofia and Plovdiv can be used as
arrival/departure points for RANLP-2015. Ryanair operates 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. </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">In
addition to </span><span style="color:black">the </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">regular public transport</span><span style="color:black"> (trains and buses)</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">, the organi</span><span style="color:black">s</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">ers will
provide shuttle </span><span style="color:black">mini</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">buses from</span><span style="color:black">/to</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> Sofia </span><span style="color:black">and Plovdiv </span><span lang="BG" style="color:black">airport</span><span style="color:black">s</span><span lang="BG" style="color:black"> at an inexpensive rate. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria (OC Chair)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
(PC Chair)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Preslav Nakov, </span>Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Qatar</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen,
Bulgaria </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, Bulgaria</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria</span> (Workshop coordinator)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BG">Irina Temnikova, </span>Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Foundation, Qatar<span lang="BG"></span></p>
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