RANLP-2005 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 Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 1995

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

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

International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2003

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. All participants greatly benefit from talks and exchange of ideas and experience. The selection rate of the full RANLP papers is about 1/3, so the scientific level of RANLP-events is internationally recognised as very high. Selected papers from RANLP-95, RANLP-97 and RANLP-2003 were published by John Benjamins in the series "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory".

The EuroConference RANLP-2001 was supported by the European Commission as a High Level Scientific Conference, Contract number HPCF-2000-00329. The International Conference RANLP-2003 was supported by the European Commission under an IST FP5 conference grant.