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 Spoken Dialogues. 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.