This special number of the BULAG contains 9 research papers of special merit written by students of the 3rd intake (2010) of the European Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Masters in Natural Language Processing and lluman Language Technology. The papers have been written as a requirement of the students' research projects which they presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, Universite de Franche-Comte, France, 12-13 June, 2012. Research themes : multilinguism, translation and machine translation (4 papers) ; text applications (3) : generation, simplification and classification ; automatic speech recognition (1) ; these with associated linguistic analyses, including comparative, of several languages : Catalan, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
USE OF DISCOURSE KNOWLEDGE TO IMPROVE LEXICON-BASED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS
LINGUISTIC INDICATORS FOR QUALITY ESTIMATION OF MACHINE TRANSLATION
A NEW TASK FOR LEXICAL SIMPLIFICATION
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND CONTROLLED LANGUAGES : ACHIEVING AUTOMATED ENGLISH AND SPANISH TRANSLATIONS OF PASSENGER PROTOCOLS IN FRENCH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
TOWARDS A FRENCH-RUSSIAN MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM IN CONTROLLED SPECIALITY LANGUAGE
AN EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION IN THE SPANISH VERSION OF WINDOWS SEVEN / EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE VARIETY, SPEAKING STYLE AND GENDER
PT-EN COLLOCATIONEQUIVALENTS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION EVALUATION
COMPANSION SYSTEM FOR A PICTOGRAM-BASED AAC APPLICATION IN CATALAN
CONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION IN AN ONTOLOGY-TO-TEXT GENERATOR FOR THE AIR QUALITY DOMAIN