Language processing is now a major field in Computer science, with large scale applications, which are still under intense research, such as question-answering, machine translation, automatic summarization, etc. most of them in a multilingual setting. Language processing technology requires knowledge from a large variety of disciplines: applied linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, ergonomics and the science of interaction, psychology, etc.

     The goal of this summer school, in a short period of time, is to present the foundations and the most recent advances of the different topics of interest to any language processing practitioner, with in view the development of well targeted applications. This summer school is more application oriented than most western summer schools such as ESSLII, most notably.