BSNLP 2015 - 5th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing

The languages from the Balto-Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage and widespread use ? with over 400 million speakers. The recent political and economic developments in Central and Eastern Europe have brought Balto-Slavic societies and their languages into focus in terms of rapid technological advancement and rapidly expanding consumer markets.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Balto-Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include, but are not limited to:
morphological analysis and generation,
syntactic and semantic tagging,
named-entity recognition,
information extraction,
sentiment analysis,
co-reference resolution,
question-answering,
information retrieval,
text summarization,
machine translation.
Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of many Balto-Slavic languages is still in its early stages. The linguistic phenomena specific to Balto-Slavic languages ? such as rich morphological inflection and free word order ? make the construction of NLP tools for these languages a challenging and intriguing task.
The goal of this Workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners working on NLP for Balto-Slavic languages. In particular, the Workshop will serve as an instrument to further stimulate the research on NLP techniques for Balto-Slavic languages, and to foster the creation of tools for these languages. The Workshop will provide an forum for exchanging ideas and experience, discussing difficult-to-tackle problems in this field of research, and making the available resources more widely-known. One fascinating aspect of this sub-family of languages is the striking structural similarity, as well as an easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning the entire group of languages ? despite a lack of mutual intelligibility ? which creates a special environment in which researchers can fully appreciate the shared problems and solutions and communicate naturally.
This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the previous BSNLP Workshops:
BSNLP 2013: the 4th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, co-located with ACL 2013. Sofia, Bulgaria, 8-9 August 2013.
the Third BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with TSD 2011, 14th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue in Plzeň, Czech Republic.
the Second BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with IIS 2009: Intelligent Information Systems, in Kraków, Poland; and
the First BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with ACL 2007 Conference in Prague;