This special number of the BULAG contains 14 research papers of special merit written by students of the 2nd intake (2009) 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 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, Universidade do Algarve, 8-9 June, 2011. Research themes : language change (1 paper), linguistic adequacy evaluation (1), multilinguism, translation and machine translation (7), disambiguation (3), normalisation (2) ; these with associated linguistic analyses, including comparative, of several languages : English, Finnish, French, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.