This special number of the BULAG contains research papers of special merit written by students of the 1st intake (2008) of the European Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology. The papers have been written as a requirement of the students' research projects which they presented at the 1st international Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, Universidade do Algarve, June 16-17, 2010. Research themes: machine translation (5 papers), disambiguation (3). computer-assisted language learning (1), information extraction (2) : these with associated linguistic analyses, including comparative, of several languages : Amarhic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.