Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP) held in Borovets, Bulgaria, 27–29 September 2007.

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