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International Conference “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”

8-10 September 2025 The 15th international conference RANLP-2025 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) started in Varna on 8 September and would continue until 10 September. It is part of the RANLP series of scientific events, always held in Bulgaria in September in odd-numbered years, and is the most renowned event in computational linguistics in Eastern Europe. They are organized by Bulgarians - on the initiative of Prof. Ruslan Mitkov from the University of Lancaster, UK, who is the chairman of the Programme Committee. Since 2001, the Bulgarian co-organizer is the “Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology” Section of IICT-BAS, with Prof. Galia Angelova as the Chair of the Organizing Committee. RANLP events address central scientific challenges in information and communication technologies - automatic natural language [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-09-09T16:18:45+03:00Tuesday, 9 September 2025|Categories: General news, Selected|

Conference on the occasion of the 140th Anniversary of the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria with Eastern Rumelia with the participation of historians from BAS

With a solemn scientific session, the Institute for Historical Studies and the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Geology and Geography of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", the “G. S. Rakovski” Military Academy and other nationally significant scientific and museum institutions are commemorating 140 years since the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. The official opening has taken place at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". The event is held under the patronage of the President of the National Assembly, Assoc. Prof. Nataliya Kiselova, and the Rector of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Prof. Georgi Valchev. "Unification is, in many ways, a historic example of important [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-09-09T09:52:44+03:00Thursday, 4 September 2025|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity|

3D models and virtual reality revive the most ancient urban centre in Europe Provadia-Solnitsata

A large-scale project related to the cultural and historical heritage of the archaeological complex Provadia-Solnitsata - one of the largest prehistoric sites in Bulgaria and the most ancient saltworks and urban center in Europe, has been launched on the initiative of the archaeological team led by Acad. Vassil Nikolov. The project is called "The Salt of Provadia: Innovative Approaches to the History of the Most Ancient Specialised Salt Production" and aims to "revive" the history of the most ancient urban centre on our continent which developed in the period around 4700-4350 BC before it perished due to drastic climatic changes. A modern movable dome - an interactive space that will "animate" the antiquity before the eyes of the modern visitor will be erected at the [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-09-03T09:15:25+03:00Tuesday, 2 September 2025|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity, Selected|

Worthy participation of BAS at a congress in the Sorbonne

The 17th International Congress of Slavists is taking place between 25 and 30 August 2025 at the Sorbonne, Paris. Scientists from different units of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are participating in the programme of this important scientific event. The names of doyens of medieval studies such as professors Svetlina Nikolova (Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre-CMRC), Anissava Miltenova (Institute for Literature-IL), Lora Taseva (Institute of Balkan Studies & Center of Thracology), Elissaveta Mousakova (Institute of Art Studies) and others stand out among them. Another generation of researchers such as Prof. Maria Kitanova (Institute for Bulgarian Language-IBL), Prof. Rumyana Damyanova (IL), Prof. Luchia Antonova-Vasileva (IBL), Prof. Vladimir Penchev (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum) are also represented. The participation of younger scholars from BAS, such [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-08-29T13:39:10+03:00Friday, 29 August 2025|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity|

Donation of books from the personal library of Eng. Ivan Ivanov

Books from the personal library of the former mayor of Sofia Eng. Ivan Ivanov were donated today to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Vice-President Prof. Emanuel Moutafov received the valuable editions at a meeting with the relative of Eng. Ivanov, Assoc. Prof. Snezha Rakova. The books are dedicated to art and among them are: “Bulgarian ktetors. Mount Athos” (Български ктитори. Света гора) by Mikhail Kovachev with a dedication to the Sofia city governor as well as first editions of “Old Bulgarian Painting” (Старобългарската живопис) by Nikola Mavrodinov, “Old Bulgarian Art. The Art of the First Bulgarian Kingdom” (Старобългарското изкуство. Изкуството на първото българско царство), “The National Shrine” (Народната светиня) by Asen Kermekchiev, etc. Eng. Ivan Ivanov was a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-08-27T10:08:14+03:00Friday, 22 August 2025|Categories: General news|

Max Planck Institute for Anthropology in Leipzig funds NMNHS-BAS research

The excavations of the palaeontological team of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNHS-BAS) in the Late Miocene Azmaka trove (Chirpan region), led by Prof. Nikolai Spassov, have aroused particular international interest in connection with the discovery of a hominid femur bone (a fossil member of the human family) dated 7.2 million years ago. After the publication in 2012 of a hominid tooth found in the same trove, this is the second find discovered by the team. The femur, presumably attributed to the hominid Graecopithecus described by a mandible found during World War II near Athens, has important implications for palaeoanthropology. It provides an opportunity to study the mode of locomotion of this latest European pre-human hominid. The now completed study (in print) shows [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-08-21T11:59:13+03:00Thursday, 21 August 2025|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology|