International Conference RANLP - 2009 /Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing/ September 14-16, 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria 136 papers were submitted and reviewed. The accepted papers are as follows: - 13 regular papers (7 pages in the full Conference proceedings) were presented at RANLP-2009 oral sessions. The selection rate of the regular papers was 10%, - 34 papers were published as short