Preface -- Michael Zock: A Life of Interdisciplinary Research and International Engagement. Mark T. Maybury -- Part I.Michael Zock and Cognitive Natural Language Processing -- Towards a Cognitive Natural Language Processing Perspective. Bernadette Sharp -- Cognitive Systems as Explanatory Artificial Intelligence. Sergei Nirenburg -- Part II.Lexicon and Lexical Analysis -- Lexical Contextualism: the Abélard Syndrome. Alain Polguère -- Predicative Lexical Units in Terminology. Marie Claude L'Homme -- TOTAKI: a Help for Lexical Access on the tip-of-the-tongue Problem. Mathieu Lafourcade and Alain Joubert -- Typing Relations in Distributional Thesauri. Olivier Ferret -- Multilingual Conceptual Access to Lexicon based on Shared Orthography: An ontology-driven study of Chinese and Japanese. Chu-Ren Huang, Ya-Min Chou -- Proportional Analogy in Written Language Data. Yves Lepage -- Multilingual Projections. Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Part III.Semantics -- Personal Semantics. Gregory Grefenstette -- Accessing Words in a Speaker's Lexicon: Comparisons of Relatedness Measures through a Word Sense Disambiguation Task. Didier Schwab, Jérôme Goulian, Gilles Sérasset & Andon Tchechmedjiev -- Can Metaphors be Interpreted Cross-linguistically and Cross-culturally? Yorick Wilks -- Recursion and Ambiguity: a Linguistic and Computational Perspective. Rodolfo Delmonte -- Part IV.Language and Speech Analysis and Generation -- Consonants as Skeleton of Language. Statistical Evidences through Text Production. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii -- How Natural are Artificial Languages? Rebecca Smaha & Christiane Fellbaum -- Handling Defaults and their Exceptions in Controlled Natural Language. Rolf Schwitter -- Ontology in Coq for a Guided Message Composition. Line Jakubiec-Jamet -- Bridging Gaps between Planning and Open-domain SpokenDialogues. Kristiina Jokinen -- JSREAL: A Text Realizer for Web Programming. Nicolas Daoust and Guy Lapalme -- Part V.Reading and Writing Technologies -- Simple or not, Simple... A Readability Question? Sanja Stajner, Ruslan Mitkov, Gloria Corpas Pastor -- An Approach to Improve a Language Quality of Requirements. Juyeon Kang, Patrick Saint-Dizier -- Learning from Errors. Systematic Analysis of Complex Writing Errors for Improving Writing Technology. Cerstin Mahlow -- Part VI.Language Resources and Language Engineering -- Language Matrices and the Language Resource Impact Factor. Joseph Mariani, Gil Francopoulo -- The Fips Multilingual Parser. Eric Wehrli,  Luka Nerima -- The Lexical Ontology for Romanian. Dan Tufis and Verginica Barbu-Mititelu -- Quo Vadis: A Corpus of Entities and Relations. Dan Cristea, Daniela Gîfu, Mihaela Colhon, Paul Diac, Anca Bibiri, Cătălina Mărănduc, Liviu-Andreai Scutelnicu -- AusTalk and the HCS vLab: an Australian Corpus and Human Communication Science Collaboration Down Under. Dominique Estival -- Knowledge Services Innovation: When Language Engineering Marries Knowledge Engineering. Asanee Kawtrakul.