The Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria aims to foster the NLP community working on Bulgarian through establishing a forum for sharing high-quality scientific work in all areas of computational linguistics and NLP.

CLIB will cover a broad spectrum of areas related to natural language processing, with a special focus on Bulgarian.

The First CLIB Conference (CLIB-2014) to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on September 4, 2014, is organised by the team of the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Bulgarian Language in conjunction with the Faculty of Slavic Studies and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the Sofia University.

CLIB-2014 invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to the following topics:
- semantics, syntax, grammar and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing;
- discourse and pragmatics;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- syntactic and semantic parsing;
- generation and summarisation;
- resource-light language processing;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- NLP applications, tools and language resources;
- multilingual processing and applications, machine translation and translation aids.

There will be two categories of research papers: oral and poster presentations. All of the papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Papers shall be submitted in English.
Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.

Additional information and CLIB-2014 style guidelines are available at the conference site: http://dcl.bas.bg/clib

IMPORTANT DATES
End of March 2014: Opening of the submission website – SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN!
June 15, 2014, 23.59, UTC/GMT: Paper submission deadline
July 10, 2014: Reviews due
July 15, 2014: Author notification
July 31, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due
August 31, 2014: Official paper publication date
September 4, 2014: Conference


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Тsvetana Dimitrova (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Department of Computational Linguistics)
Ekaterina Tarpomanova (Sofia University, Faculty of Slavic Studies)
Rositsa Dekova (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Department of Computational Linguistics)
Bilyana Radeva (Sofia University, Faculty of Slavic Studies)
Vladislav Nenchev (Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics)
Andrey Sariev (Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics)
Stefan Vatev (Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics)
Svetlozara Leseva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Department of Computational Linguistics)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Agata Savary (University of Tours)
Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade)
Dan Cristea (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi)
Dan Tufiş (RACAI, Romanian Academy)
Denis Maurel (University of Tours)
Duško Vitas (University of Belgrade)
Eric Laporte (University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
Galia Angelova (IICT – BAS)
Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra)
Ivan Derzhanski (IMI – BAS)
Ivelina Stoyanova (IBL – BAS)
Jan Šnajder (University of Zagreb)
Karel Oliva (Institute of the Czech Language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Kjetil Rå Hauge (University of Oslo)
Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Maciej Piasecki (Wroclaw University of Technology)
Mariana Damova (Mozaika, Bulgaria)
Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Radovan Garabík (Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics)
Stoyan Mihov (IICT – BAS)
Svetla Koeva (IBL – BAS)
Tinko Tinchev (Sofia Universityi)
Verginica Mititelu (RACAI, Romanian Academy)