International workshop
Sofia, 24–27 October 2005
 

AZBUKY.NET are being organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (the Institute of Bulgarian Language, the Institute of Literature, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, the Central Library of BAS).

The Program Committee consists of Prof. Vassil Raynov, Assoc. Prof. Dincho Krastev, Assoc. Prof. Maria Nisheva, Assoc. Prof. Svetla Koeva, Assoc. Prof. Nikola Ikonomov, Assoc. Prof. Anissava Miltenova (secretary).

It will be held immediately before the Annual Meeting of Text Encoding Initiative consortium (Sofia, 28–30 October).

The meeting will have two parts, implemented simultaneously – the conference and workshop. The program of the conference will be with reports and presentations of scholars.
Themes of the conference include applications of information technologies in the humanities; computer processing of old and modern Slavic languages and texts; description, analysis, and edition of Slavic sources with computer tools; Unicode and electronic publishing.
A workshop for specialists and researchers on computational linguistics and on the application of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to electronic publishing is included in the framework of the conference. We expect participants from more than fifteen countries in the workshop, with lecturers from the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Bulgaria, and elsewhere.