RANLP-2013
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Augusta SPA Hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013

Tutorials: September 7-8, 2013 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: September 9-11, 2013 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops: September 12-13, 2013 (Thursday-Friday)

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.

TOPICS
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: 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.

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts
from all over the world. The list of current PC members is
uploaded on the conference website.

RANLP-2013 will feature six KEYNOTE SPEAKERS including:

- Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt)
- Horacio Saggion (University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
- Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva)
- Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

Four pre-conference tutorials will be given on 7-8 September
2013 by the following TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:

- Iryna Gurevych & Judith Eckle-Kohler (Technical University
Darmstadt),
- Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Foundation) & Vivi Nastase (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) &
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Cambridge University) & Stan Szpakowicz
(University of Ottawa),
- Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva),
- Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

Six post-conference WORKSHOPS will be organised on 12-13
September:

- Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR
2013), organised by Desislava Zhekova and Sandra Kübler
(Indiana University),
- 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),
- 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),
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
The information about submission requirements is available
on the HYPERLINK
"http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php" submission
guidelines page of the conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference abstract submission: 13 May 2013
Conference paper submission: 17 May 2013 **No extension
will be given**
Conference paper acceptance notification: 1 July 2013
Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2013

Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 03 July 2013
Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 02
August 2013
Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 16 August
2013

RANLP-2013 tutorials: 7-8 September 2013 (Saturday -Sunday)
RANLP-2013 conference: 9-11 September 2013 (Monday -
Wednesday)
RANLP-2013 workshops: 12-13 September 2013 (Thursday-Friday)

LOCATION
RANLP-2013, like RANLP-11, will be held in AUGUSTA SPA
hotel, Hissar. Hissar or Hisarya (HYPERLINK
"http://www.augustaspa.com/"http://www.augustaspa.com,
HYPERLINK
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kipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria) 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 HYPERLINK
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak
- and the Tomb at Starosel (HYPERLINK
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel"http://en.wikipedia.o
rg/wiki/Starosel)
are located within 20-50 km from Hissar.

TRAVEL
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.

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2013
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC
Chair)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair)
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Foundation, Qatar
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
(Workshop coordinator)
Irina Temnikova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Natalia Konstantinova, University of Wolverhampton, UK