1. Introduction to the Special Inaugural Issue

   • Nancy Ide
   • Nicoletta Calzolari

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 7

2. ELRA – European Language Resources Association-Background, Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

   • Bente Maegaard
   • Khalid Choukri
   • Jan Odijk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 23

3. Some of my Best Friends are Linguists

   • Frederick Jelinek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 34

4. Developing Language Technologies with the Support of Language Resources and Evaluation Programs

   • Joseph Mariani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 44

5. Accuracy and Suitability: New Challenges for Evaluation

   • Margaret King

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 64

6. Can We Talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue Systems

   • Marilyn A. Walker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 75

7. Thesaurus or Logical Ontology, Which One Do We Need for Text Mining?

   • Junichi Tsujii
   • Sophia Ananiadou

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 90

8. Hybrid Architectures for Machine Translation Systems

   • Gregor Thurmair

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 108

9. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Speech as the Expression of Affect; Rather than Just Text or Language

   • Nick Campbell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 118