International Conference
RANLP - 2007

/Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing/
September 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 

Eneko Agirre (Basque Country University, Spain)
Elisabeth Andre (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany)
Laura Alonso i Alemany (Univ. de la República,
    Uruguay & Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
Galia Angelova (BAS, Bulgaria)
Amit Bagga (IAC Search & Media, USA)
Marco De Boni (Unilever, UK)
Branimir Boguraev (IBM, USA)
Kalina Bontcheva (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Antonio Branco (Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal)
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Univ. of Colorado, USA)
Sylviane Cardey (Univ. of Franche-Comté, France)
Dan Cristea (Al.I.Cuza Univ. of Iasi, Romania)
Hamish Cunningham (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
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Walter Daelemans (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium)
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel)
Robert Dale (Macquarie Univ., Australia)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong Univ. S&T, Hong Kong)
Rodolfo Delmonte (Ca' Foscari Univ., Italy)
Gael Dias (Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Robert Gaizauskas (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Alexander Gelbukh (Nat. Polytechnic Inst., Mexico)
Gregory Grefenstette (LIC2M, CEA-LIST, France)
Johann Haller (IAI, Saarbrücken, Germany)
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Catalina Hallett (The Open Univ., UK)
Patrick Hanks (Masaryk Univ., Czech Republic)
Michael Hess (Univ. of Zürich, Switzerland)
Erhard Hinrichs (Eberhard Karls Univ., Germany)
Veronique Hoste (Univ. College Ghent, Belgium)
Gerhard van Huyssteen (North-West Univ., S. Africa)
Diana Inkpen (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)
Hitoshi Isahara (NICT, Japan)
Graeme Hirst (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Frances Johnson (Manchester Metrop. Univ., UK)
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Mijail A. Kabadjov (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
Asanee Kawtrakul (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
Dimitar Kazakov (University of York, UK)
Alma Kharrat (Microsoft, USA)
Richard Kittredge (CoGenTex, USA)
Steven Krauwer (Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Hristo Krushkov (Plovdiv Univ., Bulgaria)
Udo Kruschwitz (Univ. of Essex, UK)
Sandra Kuebler (Indiana Univ., USA )
Lori Lamel (LIMSI - CNRS, France)
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Mirella Lapata (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK)
Anke Ludeling (Humboldt Univ., Germany)
Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst, Italy)
Inderjeet Mani (Georgetown Univ., USA)
Montserrat M. Anglada (Basque Country Univ., Spain)
Patricio Martinez-Barco (Univ. of Alicante, Spain)
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan)
Wolfgang Menzel (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany)
Rada Mihalcea (Univ. of North Texas, USA)
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Andrei Mikheev (Infogistics Ltd &Daxtra Technol. Ltd, UK)
Leonel Miyares (Centre for Applied Linguistics, Cuba)
Dunja Mladenic (Josef Stefan Inst., Slovenia)
Andres Montoyo (Univ. of Alicante, Spain)
Rafael Munoz Guillena (Univ. of Alicante, Spain)
Masaki Murata (NICT, Japan)
Makoto Nagao (National Diet Library, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (Univ. of California, USA)
Vivi Nastase (EML Research, Germany)
Roberto Navigli (Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
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Ani Nenkova (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Nicolas Nicolov (Umbria Inc., USA)
Michael Oakes (Univ. of Sunderland, UK)
Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci Univ., Turkey)
Constantin Orasan (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Petya Osenova (BAS, Bulgaria)
Manuel Palomar (Univ. of Alicante, Spain)
Viktor Pekar (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
Aurora Pons (Univ. de Oriente, Cuba)
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Oana Postolache (Univ. Southern California, USA)
John Prager (IBM, USA)
Gabor Proszeky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)
Stephen Pulman (Oxford Univ., UK)
Allan Ramsay (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
Ellen Riloff (Univ. of Utah, USA)
Horacio Rodriguez (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain)
Anne De Roeck (The Open Univ., UK)
Horacio Saggion (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Christer Samuelsson (Umbria Inc., USA)
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Frederique Segond (Xerox Research Centre, France)
Khaled Shaalan (British Univ. in Dubai, U. Arab Emirates)
Kiril Simov (BAS, Bulgaria)
Ralf Steinberger (EC Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan)
Jana Sukkarieh (ETS, USA)
John Tait (Univ. of Sunderland, UK)
Mike Thelwall (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Kristina Toutanova (Microsoft, USA)
Harald Trost (Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria)
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Dan Tufis (Research Institute for AI, Romania)
L. Alfonso Urena Lopez (Univ. of Jaen, Spain)
Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Lab., USA)
Manuel Vilares Ferro (Univ. of Corunna, Spain)
Aline Villavicencio (Fed. Univ.of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Yorick Wilks (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies BV, The Netherlands)
Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS, France)

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REVIEWERS

In addition to the members of the Programme Committee,
the following colleagues were involved in the reviewing process:

Naveed Afzal (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Hanady Ahmed (Univ. of Alexandria, Egypt)
Amparo Alcina (Univ. Jaume I, Spain)
Yafa Al-Raheb (Dublin City Univ., Ireland)
Rania Al-Sabbagh (Ain Shams Univ., Egypt)
Elsa Alves (Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Todor Arnaudov (Plovdiv Univ., Bulgaria)
Svetla Boycheva (Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria)
Boryana Bratanova (Univ. of V. Turnovo, Bulgaria)
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Iria da Cunha Fanego (Pompeu Fabra Univ., Spain)
Maarten de Rijke (U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Rachel Dugdale (GCHQ, UK)
Richard Evans (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Lisette Garcia Moya (Univ. de Oriente, Cuba)
Laura Hasler (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Milen Kouylekov (FBK-irst, Italy)
Zornitsa Kozareva (Univ. of Alicante, Spain)
Le An Ha (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Yaoyong Li (Sheffield Univ., UK)
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Irina Matveeva (Univ. of Chicago, USA)
Diana Maynard (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Dalila Mekhaldi (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Paul Morarescu (Univ. of Texas, USA)
Andrea Mulloni (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Shiyan Ou (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Paul Piwek (The Open Univ., UK)
Georgiana Puscasu (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Yamile Ramirez-Safar (Saarland Univ., Germany)
Doaa Samy (Cairo University, Egypt)
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Miriam Seghiri (Univ. of Malaga, Spain)
Violeta Seretan (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
Smriti Singh Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Mariona Taule (Univ. of Barcelona, Spain)
Irina Temnikova (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)
Sandra Williams (The Open Univ., UK)
Alistair Willis (The Open Univ., UK)
Imed Zitouni (IBM Research, USA)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE COORDINATOR

Ivelina Nikolova (Sofia University”St. Kl. Ohridski” and Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Bulgaria
)

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