This is a mailing list for the employees of the CNTS research group and related researchers. CNTS is the Center for Dutch Language and Speech at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). The aim of this mailing list is to provide a platform for current employees, as well as past, present and future visiting researchers. http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be The Center for Dutch Language and Speech was founded in 1993 as a research center of the University of Antwerp, within the linguistics department. Topics researhed at CNTS include Dutch linguistics, (computational) psycholinguistics, and corpus linguistics. A strong research focus is on language technology. Within the field of computational linguistics and language technology, CNTS members are involved in graduate and post-graduate education. The major areas of research expertise include: + computational phonology, morphology and lexicography + shallow parsing, part-of-speech tagging, and named-entity recognition + word sense disambiguation + applications of text mining (document classication, information extraction, topic detection and tracking) + machine learning applied to language technology + tools and techniques for corpus collection and annotation + computational models of human language acquisition and processing Currently CNTS consists of 20 researchers. Permanent members of staff are Walter Daelemans and Steven Gillis. Research activities of CNTS are funded by the University of Antwerp, the Flemish Fund for Scientic Research (FWO Vlaanderen), the Flemish Institute for Innovation through Science and Technology (IWT), the Dutch Language Union, and occasional industrial contract research. CNTS has initiated CLIF and coordinates it from the start in 1995, is a member of several European research networks in computational linguistics and machine learning.