Papers were arranged in topical sections on: lexical resources, corpus-based acquisition of knowledge, morphology and parts of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, treatment of temporal expressions, word segmentation, sentence separation, chunking, and syntactic grammar formalisms, the meaning of the word disambiguation and discrimination, semantic, humor and emotion analysis, machine translation, natural language generation, intelligent tutoring systems, information retrieval, question answering, text summarization and information extraction, text categorization and clustering, and check the spelling.