This special number of the BULAG contains research papers

of special merit written by students of the 1st intake (2008) of

the European Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International

Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language

Technology. The papers have been written as a requirement of

the students' research projects which they presented at the 1st

International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and

Human Language Technology, Universidade do Algarve, June

16-17, 2010. Research themes: machine translation (5 papers),

disambiguation (3), computer-assisted language learning (1),

information extraction (2) ; these with associated linguistic

analyses, including comparative, of several languages:

Amarhic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian,

Spanish and Vietnamese.