First Call for Papers "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" International Conference RANLP-2007 September 27-29, 2007 Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 Supported by the European Commission through project BIS-21++, INCO grant 016639/2005 Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP), we are pleased to announce the sixth RANLP conference to be held in September 2007. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus peer-reviewed individual papers. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, volumes of RANLP selected papers are traditionally published by John Benjamins Publishers; currently the volume of Selected RANLP-05 papers is under print. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by tutorials (23-25 September 2007) and workshops (26 September 2007). 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: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question answering; textual entailment; visualisation; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The list of conference keynote speakers includes: Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) 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. TUTORIALS 23-25 September 2007 The list of tutorial lecturers includes: Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP Athens) Frederique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Grenoble) WORKSHOPS 26 September 2007 Several one-day workshops will be organised on 26 September 2007. A Call for Workshop proposals will be published in December 2006. SUBMISSION of PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS For the first time, the submission will be maintained by conference management software. Further instructions will be published at the conference web site at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 in January 2007. Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format. For free conversions to PDF see https://createpdf.adobe.com/index.pl?BP=NS Submissions will be reviewed by 3 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. Guidelines for producing camera-ready versions and demo text will be also available at the conference web site at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007. The full conference proceedings will be distributed at the event. IMPORTANT DATES Call for Workshop proposals: December 2006; Deadline of workshop proposals: 31 January 2007; Workshop selection: early March 2007; Conference paper submission deadline: 31 March 2007 Conference paper acceptance notification: 10 June 2007; Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 June 2007 Workshop paper acceptance notification in July 2007; RANLP-07 tutorials, workshops and conference: 23-29 September 2007 LOCATION The picturesque resort of Borovets is located in the Rila mountains and is one of the best known winter resorts in South-East Europe, a frequent meeting place for the elite in world skiing. The resort is 1350 m above sea level, at the foot of the highest peak on the Balkan Peninsula - Moussala (2925 m). The resort of Borovets is 73 km from Sofia and the International airport of Sofia can serve as arrival/departure point. In addition to regular public transport, the organisers will provide daily shuttle buses from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. A taxi from Sofia to Borovets is relatively cheap; it is also possible to take a taxi from the international airport in Sofia to the conference venue. ORGANISERS and SPONSORS The main local organizer is the Linguistic Modelling Department, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (www.lml.bas.bg). The conference will be partially supported by the European Commission via the project BIS-21++ "Bulgarian IST Centre of Competence in 21 Century" http://bis-21pp.acad.bg/, INCO grant 016639/2005 awarded to the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-07 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair of the Org. Committee) Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (Chair of the Programme Committee) Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA (Editor of volume with selected papers) Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop Coordinator)