C O N T E N T S

• Editorial by Jan Borgman, Chairman of the European Science and Technology Assembly, ESTA
  

• ERCIM Views on the 5th Framework Programme by Jean-Michel Chassériaux
• Czech Consortium joins ERCIM by Jiri Wiedermann and Michal Haindl
• Mediterranean Workshop by Jean-Michel Chassériaux
• ERCIM participated at the Conference on Information Society and Development by Jacques Ducloy
• Cor Baayen Fellowship'96
• Executive Committee Meeting
  
  

• Introduction by Antonio Zampolli
• In Favour of Multilinguism by Bernard Quemada
• 1994-1995 Activity Report of the Language Engineering Sector by Roberto Cencioni
• Human-Centered Information Systems by Gary W. Strong, Yi-Tzuu Chien, John Hestenes
• and Steve M. Griffin
• The European Language Resources Association by Khalid Choukri
• Optimizing Analysis and Generation in Natural Language Processing by Christer Samuelsson
• The Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards by Nicoletta Calzolari, John McNaught and Antonio Zampolli
• Access to Lexical Knowledge in Interpersonal Communication Aids by Constantine Stephanidis and Margherita Antona
• Language Processing in Document Engineering by Afzal Ballim, Christine Vanoirbeek and Giovanni Coray
• Knowledge-based Production of Synthetic Multimodal Documents by Melina Alexa, John Bateman, Renate Henschel, and Elke Teich
• Non-Topic Information Retrieval using Computational Stylistics by Jussi Karlgren
• Analysing Information from Large Documentary Bases - The ILC Project by Yannick Toussaint and Jean Royaute
• Man-Machine Dialogues and Language by Jean-Marie Pierrel and Laurent Romary
• Natural Language Processing at INESC by Luzia Wittmann
• Data driven Linguistics by Marc Moens
• Multilinguality in Information Systems by Aarno Lehtola
• Computational Linguistics at CWI - the Logic of Ambiguity by Jan van Eijck
• Natural Language Processing at the Artificial Intelligence Group in Szeged by Tibor Gyimóthy
• Activities at the Institute for Computational Linguistics of CNR by Nicoletta Calzolari
• Computational Linguistics is needed to check Typographic Conventions by Jacques André and Hélène Richy
• INESC's Speech Processing Group by Isabel Trancoso
• MorphoLogic - A Language Engineering Company from Hungary by Gábor Prószéky
• Twelve Languages - one Translation Method by Maria Theresia Rolland

• ERCIM Institutes work together to industrialise a Tool from a Research Prototype by Michael Wilson and Dick Bulterman
• Reasoning in Symbolic Computation Systems by Gianna Cioni and Attilio Colagrossi
• Application of Control Systems to the Electricity Production Sector by João Miranda Lemos
• TANGRAM - A Framework for Multimedia Telecommunication Applications by Klaus-Peter Eckert
• Using Remote Memory to Avoid Disk Thrashing by Evangelos P. Markatos and George Dramitinos
• A Market-Based Control in Distributed Manufacturing by András Márkus, József Váncza and Tamás Kis
• Numerical Grid Generation as a Basic Step in Computational Field Simulation by Rosa Maria Spitaleri
• The UK Collaborative Computational Projects by Paul Durham

• Bull and INRIA - Mediators of the Information Super-highways by Armel Guillet
• Factoring Record through WWW by Henk Nieland
• Remote Monitoring of Water Levels by Alexandra Sá Carvalho
• New Methods for Colour Analysis and Reproduction by Anna Della Ventura and Raimondo Schettini
• INESC transfers Production Technology to European Manufacturer by Paulo Freitas

• Fifth International World Wide Web Conference by Martin Prime
• Paris Workshop looks at Digital Library Activities by Tom Baker
• IDMS'96 - European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services by Eckhard Moeller
• Formal Methods of Industrial Critical Systems by Diego Latella
• Workshop on Parallel Numerical Algorithms and Applications by Herman te Riele
• CWI celebrates 50th Anniversary by Henk Nieland
• ERCIM endorses Warwick Metadata Workshop by Thomas Baker
• See also the events calendar

• In Brief