PorTAL Portugal for Natural Language Processing follows two previous c- ferences: FracTAL, held at the Universite de Franche-Comte, Besan, con (France), in December 1997, and VexTAL, held at Venice International University, CaF- cari (Italy), in November 1999. The main goals of theses conferences have been: (i) to bring together the NLP community in Europe; (ii) to strengthen the po- tion of local NLP research in the international NLP community; (iii) to provide a friendly forumfor discussion of new research and applications. PorTAL has recon?rmed this year the goals and the high...