RANLP-2017 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
• Marie Curie Large Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2005
• International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007
• International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2009
• International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2011
• International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2013
• International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2015

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 regular RANLP papers is very high: 14% for RANLP-2005, 11% for RANLP-2007, 10% for RANLP-2009, 17% for RANLP-2011 and 22% for RANLP-2015. Selected papers from RANLP-95, RANLP-97, RANLP-2003, RANLP-2005 and RANLP-2007 were published by John Benjamins in the series "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory". All papers accepted at RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011 and RANLP-2013 and the associated workshops are available at the ACL Anthology.

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. The International Conference RANLP-2005 was supported by the European Commission as a Marie Curie Large Conference, contract MLCF-CT-2004-013233. The International Conference RANLP-2007 was partially supported by the European Commission via the project BIS-21++, FP6 contract no. INCO-CT-2005-016639 and Xerox Research Centre Europe. RANLP-2009, RANLP-2011 and RANLP-2013 were supported by OntoText, Bulgaria. And in addition to that RANLP-2013 and RANLP-2015 were supported by the AComIn Project, contract number FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, FP7 Capacity Programme, Research Potential of Convergence Regions.