Invited Speaker Gregory Grefenstette: Very Large Lexicons Regular Papers Julie Carson-Berndsen, Gina Joue and Michael Walsh: Phonotactic Constraint Ranking for Speech Recognition Lars Borin and Klas Prütz: Through a glass darkly: Part-of-speech distribution in original and translated text Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord, and Robert Malouf: Alpino: Wide-coverage Computational Analysis of Dutch Pius ten Hacken: Revolution in Computational Linguistics: Towards a Genuinely Applied Science Heleen Hoekstra, Michael Moortgat, Ineke Schuurman, and Ton van der Wouden: Syntactic Annotation for the Spoken Dutch Corpus Project (CGN) Andre Kempe: Part-of-Speech Tagging with Two Sequential Transducers Wessel Kraaij and Renee Pohlmann: Different approaches to Cross Language Information Retrieval S. Marcus, C. Martin-Vide, V. Mitrana, Gh. Paun: A New-Old Class of Linguistically Motivated Regulated Grammars Michael Moortgat and Richard Moot: CGN to Grail: Extracting a Type-logical Lexicon from the CGN Annotation Thierry Poibeau and Leila Kosseim: Proper Name Extraction from Non-Journalistic Texts Ielka van der Sluis and Emiel Krahmer: Generating Referring Expressions in a Multimodal Context: An empirically oriented approach Erik F. Tjong Kirn Sang: Transforming a Chunker to a Parser Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts: Automatic Detection of Problematic Turns in Human-Machine Interactions List of Contributors

”contains a good snapshot of natural language processing and computational linguistics in Europe at the beginning of the decade”… All in all, the book makes for an interesting reading, covering a variety of topics.” in: The Linguist List Mon. June 10, 2002