NEWS:

• Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants (organised together with Preslav Nakov and Petya Osenova) to be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2014, 26-28 October 2014, Doha/Qatar

• Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities - LATECH 2014 (organised together with Kalliopi Zervanou, Antal van den Bosch and Caroline Sporleder) to be held in conjunction with EACL 2014, 26 April 2014, Göteborg/Sweden

• Workshop on Language resources and technologies for processing and linking historical documents and archives- Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage (LRT4HDA) (organised together with KristÃin Bjarnadøttir,Matthew Driscoll, Stelios Piperidis, Martin Wyne) to be held in conjunction with LREC 2014, 26 May 2014, Reykjawik/Iceland

• Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2014)- Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing (organised together with Christian Chiarcos,John McCrae, Elena Montiel, Kiril Simov, Antonio Branco, Nicoletta Calzolari, Petya Osenova and Milena Slavcheva) to be held in conjunction with LREC 2014, 27 May 2014, Reykjawik/Iceland

• Workshop on Automatic Text Simplification – Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society (ATS-MA) (organised together with Constantin Orășan and Petya Osenova ) to be held in conjunction with Coling 2014, 23 or 24 August 2014, Dublin / Ireland

• Paper on "Das Balkanbild in Deutschland während der letzten 300 Jahre - Eine digitale Plattform zu Analyse und Erschließung multilingualer Dokumente über die Balkanländer und das Osmanische Reich -" (The image of Balcan countries in Germany - A digittal platform for the anlysis and recording of documents about balcan countriees during the ottoman empire era, C. Vertan, W. v. Hahn ) - was accepted at the Digital Humanties Germany Conference, to be held in Passau / Germany, 25-28 March 2014

• Paper on "Digital preservation of cultural heritage objects and multimodal knowledge", accepted to be presented at the "ENCOMPASSING THE MULTIMODALITY OF KNOWLEDGE." Conference , to be held in Aarhus/Denmark, 8-10 May 2014

• Paper on "Less explored multilingual issues in the automatic processing of historical texts – a case study" was accepted at the Digital Humanites 2014 Conference, to be held in Lausanne / Switzerland, 8 - 11 July, 2014

• Invitation for an Survey article on "Language Technology and Linked Open Data", to be written together with Christian Chiarcos, Elena Montiel, Horracio Saggion, Jin-Dong Kim and Petya Osenova, was received from JNLE -Journal for Natural Language Engineering

• Workshop on Multilinguality in historical documents (organised together with Stefanie Dipper, Laurent Romary and Noah Bubbenhoffer) to be held in conjunction with Digital Humanities 2014, 7-8 July 2014, Lausanne / Switzerland