1. 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technologies Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal June 16-17, 2010 http://www.wordle.net/ ALENCAR DE RESENDE, Natalia Carolina (UAlg, PT/UW, UK): Testing the Validity of Translation Universals for Brazilian Portuguese by Employing Comparable Corpora and NLP Techniques BURGA, Alicia (UAB, ES/UW, UK): Creating a disambiguation tool for a Spanish Treebank. The case of the verb HACER CORNALLY, Tessa (UFC, FR/UAB, ES): Achieving a better machine translation via a controlled language for the oenology domain ERSHOVA, Ekaterina (UFC, FR/UW, UK/UAB, ES): Syntactic Problems in French- Russian Machine Translation : "de" syntagms in Translation of Periodicals GEBRE, Binyam Gebrekidan (UFC, FR/ UW, UK): Part-of-Speech Tagging for Amharic HERNANDEZ CASTRO, Gisela (UW, UK/UAB, ES ): Semantic Search Engine for a specific domain HO Hsin (UW, UK/UAB, ES): An Initial Exploration on Machine Translation of English and Chinese LE THI Sinh (UFC, FR/UW, UK): French Base Noun phrase translation into Vietnamese & Classifier Generation in Vietnamese LEI Ying (UW, UK/UFC, FR): Extracting multi-word verbs from a parallel corpus for computer-aided translation LESHCHEVA, Anastasia (UAB, ES/UFC, FR): NooJ as a tool for analysis of Federico García Lorca's poetic corpus LI Fang (UW, UK/UFC, FR): Generating Collocation Exercises for Chinese Learners LVOVA, Tatiana (UAB, ES/UFC, FR): A descriptive study of compound adverbs in Russian PEREIRA, Simone Cristina (UAlg, PT/UW, UK): Linguistic Parameters for Zero Anaphora Resolution PHAN THI THANH Thao (UW, UK/UFC, FR): Proper Name Errors in Online Translation Texts from English into Vietnamese: An Analysis and Some Proposed Solutions QADIR, Ashequl (UW, UK/UFC, FR): Term frequency for extraction of explicit and implicit features from subjective sentences of customer reviews RELLO SÁNCHEZ, Luz (UW, UK/UAB, ES): Spanish pronoun ellipsis: distribution and identification of zero pronouns REYES CAREAGA, Teresita Adriana (UAB, ES/UW, UK/UAlg, PT): The rhotics of Mexican Spanish: an analysis towards the improvement of speech recognition RUDAS, Zuzanna (UFC, FR/UAB, ES): Polish Controlled Language and Its Machine Translation into French RUMENOVSKI, Tomo (UW, UK/UFC, FR/UAB, ES): Evaluation of Translation Memory Systems and how they handle Macedonian language SALGADO, Jorge (UFC, FR/UAB, ES): Towards a Question Answering System based upon the Systemic Linguistic Analysis Principles and focused on Meaning Extraction SOUMANA, Ibrahim (UFC, FR/UW, UK): A Natural Languague Interface for SPARQL by Hierarchical Categorisation TSAI Yi-Jung (UFC, FR/UW, UK): Machine Translation in civil status documents from French to Chinese VALENZUELA CORREA, Carla Patricia (UAB, ES/UAlg, PT): Phonetic characterization of the Portuguese Dialect Spoken in Belém do Pará in view of a Text-to-Speech System ZAMPIERI de Marco, Marcos Eduardo (UAlg, PT/UW, UK): Supervised Machine Learning Method for Word Sense Disambiguation of Portuguese Nouns Program Info: gefchs@ualg.pt;jbaptis@ualg.pt