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EUROLAN, which has been held biennially since 1993, is one of the most significant European summer schools in the area of natural language processing. Each of the EUROLAN sessions has focused on an area of timely interest to researchers in the field; this year's EU-ROLAN involved students in tutorials and hands-on sessions concerned with semantic web technologies as applied to language processing, ontology creation and use, and consideration of the semantic web's potential and limitations. This year's school was organized by the Faculty of Computer Science at the A. I. Cuza University of Iasi, the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, and the Department of Computer Science at Vassar College. It was the most successful in its 10-year history, with 119 registered participants from 23 countries. Hosted by the Romanian Academy, the most prestigious cultural and scientific institution in the country, the event was given significant attention in the media.