Note publique d'information : CICLing 2004 was the 5th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational
Linguistics; see www.CICLing.org. CICLing conferences are intended to provide a balanced
view of the cutting-edge developments in both theoretical foundations of computational
linguistics and the practice of natural language text processing with its numerous
applications. A feature of CICLing conferences is their wide scope that covers nearly
all areas of computational linguistics and all aspects of natural language processing
applications. These conferences are a forum for dialogue between the specialists working
in the two areas. This year we were honored by the presence of our invited speakers
Martin KayofStanfordUniversity,PhilipResnikoftheUniversityofMaryland,Ricardo Baeza-Yates
of the University of Chile, and Nick Campbell of the ATR Spoken Language Translation
Research Laboratories. They delivered excellent extended lectures and organized vivid
discussions. Of129submissionsreceived(74fullpapersand44shortpapers),aftercareful international
reviewing 74 papers were selected for presentation (40 full papers and35shortpapers),writtenby176authorsfrom21countries:Korea(37),Spain
(34), Japan (22), Mexico (15), China (11), Germany (10), Ireland (10), UK (10), Singapore
(6), Canada (3), Czech Rep. (3), France (3), Brazil (2), Sweden (2), Taiwan (2), Turkey
(2), USA (2), Chile (1), Romania (1), Thailand (1), and The Netherlands (1); the ?gures
in parentheses stand for the number of authors from the corresponding country.