1. Welcome to the 2nd CoLogNET-ElsNET Symposium Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

2. 2003 Hans Uszkoreit What is CoLogNet? A European Network of Excellence in Computational Logic Successor of CompulogNet Conferences Summer Schools Teaching Material Portal A European Network of Excellence in Computational Logic Successor of CompulogNet Conferences Summer Schools Teaching Material Portal

3. 2003 Hans Uszkoreit What is ELSNET? ELSNET is the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies founded in 1991 Summer Schools, PR, Community Building, Portal, Roadmapping strong industrial component 135 Nodes 60 % academic, 40 % industrial ELSNET is the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies founded in 1991 Summer Schools, PR, Community Building, Portal, Roadmapping strong industrial component 135 Nodes 60 % academic, 40 % industrial

4. 2003 Hans Uszkoreit Why Questions and Answers?

5. 2003 Hans Uszkoreit What is the Program?

6. 2003 Hans Uszkoreit Who is Karen Spärck Jones? Professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge Pioneering work on document retrieval, database query, user and agent modelling, summarisation, multimedia document retrieval and technology evaluation. Fellow of the British Academy AAAI Fellow ECCAI Fellow Past President of ACL Member of the DARPA/NIST TREC Programme Committee Professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge Pioneering work on document retrieval, database query, user and agent modelling, summarisation, multimedia document retrieval and technology evaluation. Fellow of the British Academy AAAI Fellow ECCAI Fellow Past President of ACL Member of the DARPA/NIST TREC Programme Committee