RANLP-2019 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
• International Conference "Recent Advances in NLP", Varna, Bulgaria, September 2017

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, 12% for RANLP-2013, 22% for RANLP-2015 and 14% for RANLP-2017. 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". After 2009, all papers accepted at the main conference, the student research workshop and the associated workshops, are available at the ACL Anthology. After 2017, all papers at the RANLP events have DOI numbers and all Proceedings have ISBN-numbers. The SJR rank of RANLP, calculated by Scimago Journal & Country Rank, is shown here

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. After 2009, all RANLP events are supported by OntoText, Bulgaria. In addition 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. RANLP-2017 was also supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund via Grant DPMNF 01/23 as well as by Identrics.