RANLP-2003 belongs to a sequence of events with similar name and continues the tradition of the following successful events:

Summer school "Current topics in Computational Linguistics", Vassil Kolarov Lake, Bulgaria, August 1989

Summer school "Current topics in Computational Linguistics", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1990

Summer school "Current topics in Computational Linguistics", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1991

Summer school "Current topics in Computational Linguistics", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, August 1992

Summer school "Current topics in Computational Linguistics", Vassil Kolarov Lake, Bulgaria, August 1993

Summer school "Current topics in Computational Linguistics", Tuzlata, Bulgaria, August 1994

Summer school and International Conferences "Recent Advances in NLP", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1995 and September 1997

EuroConference "Recent Advances in NLP", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 2001

The Summer schools "Current topics in Computational Linguistics" and the RANLP-events has always been a meeting venue of scientists coming from all parts of the world, facilitating contacts between researchers from Central and Eastern Europe with their colleagues from West Europe and America. Both sides greatly benefit from talks and exchange of ideas and experience. The selection rate of RANLP-97 was about 1/3, so the scientific level of RANLP-events is internationally recognised as very high. The EuroConference RANLP-2001 was substantially supported by the European Commission as a High Level Scientific Conferences, Contract number HPCF-2000-00329.