The First International Workshop on UNL, other Interlinguas and their Applications * Aims and Motivations This workshop is devoted to the presentation and discussion of novel approaches addressing the multilinguality issue using Interlinguas. Among these, the Universal Networking Language (UNL) is the base of the current UNL system promoted by the United Nations University to eliminate the linguistic barriers in Internet. It will be explicitly considered, given its novelty and scarce dissemination in the academic circles. The language UNL can support multilingual services in Internet. The UNL System, as other Interlinguas, has an indubitable application to all the existing systems in the activities of E-Business. The introduction of multilingüality in any other system is almost a model case of added value services. UNL is a concept of support system for multilingual applications in Internet. In this moment the UNL system has the main components already developed. However, many questions arise from the actual state of the applications that involve many theoretical issues about interlinguas, methodologies, evaluation of these systems, multilingual lexicons, language generation, semantic knowledge representation, and many others that we estimate can be of interest for the scientific community but also because the current UNL organisation needs the critics, opinions, and criteria from the researchers in this field out of the UNL organisation. This will be also the first time where the interested people will discuss the UNL openly. Our intention promoting this workshop is to enrich our background and also to disseminate the deep knowledge of the UNL. * Topics of interest The workshop will be open to: · Classical issues involving Interlinguas, such us multilingual generation, interlingua-based MT systems. · New issues related to novel applications (other than classical MT), of the interlingua information dissemination, retrieval and extraction based on interlingua representations, creation of multilingual documents and their integration into Internet-based dissemination systems. · Exploitation issues considering the interlingua representations and interlingua lexicons as linguistic resources that can be integrated into NLP systems. Conversely, existing resources can be incorporated into interlingua systems. The Workshop seeks original papers in all aspects of the Interlinguas, but specially in UNL. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to classical issues and novel applications as: Experiences about the "Universal Networking Language" Interlingua, and others. Multilingual applications and services Interlingua-based MT approaches and systems Multilingual generation Internet-based multilingual information dissemination Applications of NLP systems Applications of interlinguas, other than MT Multilingual Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Multilingual documents Interlingual Linguistic Resources * Scientific Committee - Jesús CardeñosaUNL-Spanish Language Centre; Validation and Business Applications Group Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. E-mail: carde@fi.upm.es - Igor BoguslavskyInstitute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. E-mail: bogus@iitp.ru - Christian Boitet, Universite' Joseph Fourier, GETA- CLIPS, Grenoble, France. Email: Christian.Boitet@imag.fr - Irina Prodanof, Institute of Computational Linguistics Consorzio Pisa Riserche-Settore Linguistica, Italy. E-mail: irina@ilc.pi.cnr.it * Workshop Organizers - Edmundo Tovar, UNL-Spanish Language Centre; Validation and Business Applications Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. E-mail: etovar@fi.upm.es - Carolina GallardoUNL-Spanish Language Centre; Validation and Business Applications Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. E-mail: carolina@opera.dia.fi.upm.es * Submissions Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed 800 words and more than 600 words. Each submission should include: title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submission is to be sent by email in ASCII file format to Edmundo Tovar. The Scientific Committee will review abstracts. The final version of the accepted papers should be no longer than 4,000 words. Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be sent to authors after notification of acceptance. All the papers accepted will be published on the workshop proceedings by the LREC Local Organising Committee. A selection of the accepted papers will be invited to an oral presentation in the workshop program. * Preliminary agenda Workshop would held as a half-day session on 1st June 2002 and it will take place where the main conference. The program consists of morning and afternoon panel sessions and an invited conference according to the following agenda: 9,00-9,30 Invited Conference; Keynote speaker: Tarcisio della Senta, UNLD Foundation President (pending to be confirmed) 9,30-11,00 Session 1: 3 presentations 11,00-11,15 Break 11,15-12,45 Session 2: 3 presentations 12,45-13,30 Debate * Important dates: 8th February: Deadline for abstract submissions 22th February: Notification of abstracts accepted 5th April: Deadline for full paper submission (final camera-ready paper) 19th April: Notification of final acceptance of papers accepted for final publishing on the Proceedings and for oral presentation 1st June: Workshop (morning session) * Workshop Registration Fees The registration fees for the workshop are: If you are not attending LREC: 70 EURO If you are attending LREC: 45 EURO All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings. Details regarding the conference may be found on the LREC Conference site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/