EsTAL Espana for Natural Language Processing continued on from the three previous conferences: FracTAL, held at the Universit e de Franch-Comt e, Besan, con (France) in December 1997, VexTAL, held at Venice International University, Ca Foscari (Italy), in November 1999, and PorTAL, held at the U- versidade do Algarve, Faro (Portugal), in June 2002. The main goals of these conferences have been: (i) to bring together the international NLP community; (ii) to strengthen the position of local NLP research in the international NLP community; and (iii) to provide a forum for discussion of new...