RANLP 2013 - RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

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) is one of the most established 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. Selected papers from most RANLP conferences are traditionally published in a volume as part of John Benjamins’ series “Current Trends of Linguistic Research”. The papers accepted at RANLP-09, RANLP-11, and the associated workshops, were included in the ACL Anthology.
We are pleased to announce the 9th RANLP conference to be held in 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). Post-conference workshops will be held on 12-13 September 2013. A Student Research Workshop will be run in parallel to the main conference. The RANLP Student Research Workshops have become active discussion forums for young researchers.
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: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation (MT), machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation aids and tools, MT quality estimation; text simplification and readability estimation; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; terminology recognition and extraction; text categorisation; question answering; textual entailment; visualisation; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; NLP for the Semantic web; theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP.
CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced in the Second Call for Papers.
WORKSHOPS 12-13 September 2013
Several workshops will be organised on 12-13 September 2013. A Call for Workshop proposals will be published in December 2012.
SUBMISSION of PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
The submission will be maintained by conference management software. For further instructions please follow the submission information at the conference website at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013. The review process will be anonymous. Double submission is allowed, but authors will be asked to send explicit notification about it. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three 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 and a printed version will be available at the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for workshop proposals: 30 December 2012
Deadline for workshop proposals: 28 February 2013
Workshop selection: 15 March 2013
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 (http://www.augustaspa.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria) is a famous 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 archeological monuments such as:
- the Thracian Tomb of Kazanluk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kaza...
- and the Tomb at Starosel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel)
are located within 20-50 km from Hissar.
TRAVEL
Hissar is situated in the centre of Bulgaria, 40 km north of the city of Plovdiv and 160 km east of the Bulgarian 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 highway 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