Jean Anderson  [j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk] Jean Anderson is Computing Officer for the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature and teaching Laboratories Co-ordinator for the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, where she has worked since 1987. She lectures in Literary and Linguistic Computing and in Humanities Computing. Jean is Manager and Programmer of the STELLA project (Software for Teaching English and Scottish Language and Literature), which produces teaching packages for English Studies. She manages several other projects in this area, including: STARN, the Scots Teaching and Research Network; 'The Sounds of Scots' project which will provide digitized readings of Scots poetry by Scots poets, through the Scots Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN); and 'A Guide to Scottish Literature from 1350'. Jean is a member of the Organising Committee of the Digital Resources for the Humanities Conferences, the most recent of which was hosted by the University of Glasgow in September 1998, and she is the joint chair of the Local Organising Committee for ALLC/ACH 2000, which will be in Glasgow.
	Alejandro Bia  [abia[at]umh.es ] Alejandro G. Bia has a BS and a MS degree in Computer Sciences from ORT University, a Diploma in Computing and Information Systems from Oxford University. Currently he is a full time lecturer at the Miguel Hernández University (Spain), where he teaches Software Engineering at the Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics. From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante (Spain). Previously, he has worked as Special-Projects Manager at NetGate (1996), and Documentation Editor of the GeneXus project at Advanced Research and Technology (ARTech) (1991-1994). He has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Languages and Information Systems of the University of Alicante (2002-2004), at the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis of the same university (2002), and has lectured on Operating Systems, Computer Organization, Computer Networks and English for Computer Sciences at ORT University (1990-1996). His current interests are the application of software engineering methods and techniques for developing digital libraries and to enhance document structure design, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, digitisation metrics and cost estimates. Apart from being a member of the ALLC, he is a member of the TEI Consortium and of the ACH (Association for Computing and the Humanities).
	Elisabeth Burr  [Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de]  Elisabeth Burr, Professor of Romance Linguistics at Duisburg University, is based in the Italian department. Her research, teaching and main publications focus on corpora and corpus linguistics, language varieties, language and gender, language policy, normalisation and digital philology. She participated in the project proposal EUROSYNCH, represented her university in the Thematic Network ACO*HUM, proposed the project "Humanities and Information Technologies (HUM*IT)" in the framework of the European Year of Languages 2001, organised SILFI 2000 and CLiP 2001 and is a prominent member of the Network of Excellence "Computing & Humanities in Multilingual Europe" (CHiME). In 2001 the Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, offered her a Distinguished Visiting Scholarship. For more details, see her web page.
	Marilyn Deegan  [marilyn.deegan@queen-elizabeth-house.oxford.ac.uk] Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing  Marilyn Deegan studied English Language and Literature at the University of Manchester, obtaining a first class honours degree. She was awarded a PhD at Manchester in 1989 for a study of Anglo-Saxon and medieval medical texts and herbals. She taught Old and Middle English at Manchester and at the University of Lancaster, before taking an MSc in Computation at UMIST (1989). She has been Manager for Computing in the Arts at the University of Oxford and Professor of Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University, and is now Director of Forced Migration Online at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her main research interests are: medieval literatures and cultures, in particular in areas related to health and disease; the use of new technologies in humanities subjects; and digital library development. Since joining the RSC, these interests have broadened to include the historical aspects of forced migration and cultural change. Her recent publications include 'The Politics of the Electronic Text' (with Warren Chernaik and Caroline Davis) and 'Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture, and the Politics of Cyberspace' (with Warren Chernaik and Andrew Gibson).
	Paul Fortier  [fortier@cc.umanitoba.ca] Paul Fortier holds degrees from the Universities of Toronto, Strasbourg and Wisconsin ( Madison). A founder member of the ALLC, he has been active in the computer-aided analysis of French literature since the early 1970s. His publications include books on the French novelists Camus, Céline, Gide and Robbe-Grillet. He has also published articles on these authors, as well as Beckett and Malraux, on computer Braille production, on statistical and computer-aided techniques for the study of literature, and on literary theory. His current project is analysis of the social construction of aging, and of senile dementia, in France over the period 1789-1964 as reflected in the holdings of the Trésor de la Langue Française. More information on current and past projects can be found on his personal website. Paul Fortier is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) with appointments in the Department of French, Spanish and Italian, and in the Centre on Aging.
	Liliane Gallet-Blanchard [liliane.gallet@wanadoo.fr] Prof. Liliane Gallet-Blanchard is co-director of the Research Centre ‘Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’ Information’ (CATI) at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, which supports the introduction of IT into humanities disciplines and authors digital documents. She was project leader for CATI cd rom on 18th century cities (2000), and is now directing the centre current project, a VR model of Montmartre in the jazz age. She is head of the Electronic Communication Unit at the Sorbonne, and is conducting an experiment in distance-learning with a course management unit. Her research seminar concerns humanities computing. Internationally, she has presented her work at several DRH and ALLC conferences, and written extensively on the subject. A full biographical note may be found here.
	Simon Horobin [s.horobin@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk]
	Lorna M. Hughes  [Lorna.Hughes@nyu.edu] Lorna's academic background is in history - she has an MA in medieval history and an MPhil in history and computing from the University of Glasgow (her home town). Her research interests are primarily in late medieval and early modern Scottish social/economic history. Lorna is Assistant Director for Humanities Computing at the NYU Humanities Computing Group. Her responsibilities in this capacity are to manage the humanities computing group at NYU and to work with faculty and students in the humanities disciplines who would like to use computers in their teaching and research. Lorna also teaches courses on Humanities Computing topics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU: "Computers and Literary Studies" for the Department of English and "Museums and Interactive Technologies" for the Museum Studies Program. Lorna previously worked in Humanities Computing at Arizona State University, Oxford University and Glasgow University. Her special areas of interest within Humanities and Cultural Heritage Computing are electronic texts, text analysis, hypertext and digital libraries, and historical computing. She is the author and editor of several articles and monographs on humanities computing, and is presently working on a book on digitization for libraries.
	Laszlo Hunyadi  [hunyadi@ling.arts.klte.hu] Laszlo Hunyadi studied English and Russian philology at the University of Debrecen and received his university diploma in 1971. Since then he has been working at the university, currently as chairman of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. His main theoretical interest has been lexicology, syntax/semantics and syntax/prosody (Hungarian Sentence Prosody and Universal Grammar; Habilitation Dissertation). In the field of applied linguistics his main interest is computational linguistics (machine translation, experimental phonetics) and multimedia. Between 1992 and 1996, as manager of a World Bank project he initiated the introduction of computational approaches across several humanities disciplines, establishing laboratories of computational linguistics, language teaching and multimedia design at the Faculty of Humanities. He organized the first Hungarian national conference 'Computers and the Humanities' and was the local organizer of the 1998 joint ALLC-ACH Conference held at Debrecen. At present, as vice dean of research and international relations, he is working on the establishment of proper local conditions for the joining of Hungary to the European Union, with humanities computing as one of the priorities.
	Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen  [lisa.lena.opas-hanninen@oulu.fi]
	Espen Ore  [Espen.Ore@nb.no] Espen S. Ore works in the IT-department of the National Library of Norway, Oslo Division, where he works with computerising among other things the manuscript collection and parts of the so called special collections. He was been employed at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (NCCH) at the University of Bergen since from 1984 to 2001. From 1980-83 he worked with software development for various projects in the humanities at the University of Oslo, and in 1995 he served as a temporary director for the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB). He has worked in papyrology and has directed a project in runology which had as one of its result a WWW-accessible database of runic inscriptions from Bergen. He has also worked with multimedia and hypertext and is at the present directing NCCH's part in the publication of electronic transcriptions and facsimiles of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Nachlass, a collaboration project between WAB, NCCH, and Oxford University Press. He has published numerous articles in national and international books and journals, and with Anne Haavaldsen at the NCCH he has published a catalogue of runic inscriptions found in Bergen. He was the local organizer of the 1996 joint ALLC-ACH conference in Bergen, and was area coordinator for the 'Textual Scholarship' area in the European project ACO*Hum (Advanced Computing in the Humanities).
	John Nerbonne  [nerbonne@let.rug.nl]
	David Robey  [d.j.b.robey@reading.ac.uk] David Robey is Professor of Italian in the Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading, former Professor of Italian at Manchester University, and an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published on 15th-century humanism (educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of literature, and modern critical theory. He has just finished writing a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's 'Divine Comedy', to be published by Oxford University Press, and is currently extending the same approach to the main narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. He is also joint editor of the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.
	Thomas Rommel  [t.rommel@iu-bremen.de] Dr Thomas Rommel is Professor of Literature in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at IUB. He has published widely in the field of computer-assisted literary analysis.   His books include a stylistic analysis of Byron's poetry, and a survey on Anglistik im Internet (with Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann and Doris Feldmann). Together with Lisa Lena Opas he was guest editor of a special section in Literary and Linguistic Computing 'New Approaches to Computer Applications in Literary Studies' (LLC 10:4 (1995). He is co-editor of two electronic projects: EESE, the 'Erfurt Electronic Studies in English' PROLEPSIS, the 'Tuebingen Review of English Studies' For more details, see his web page.
	Harold Short  [harold.short@kcl.ac.uk] Chair Harold Short is Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, where he has worked since 1988. He is involved in a number of major projects based at King's, including the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE), the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE), the Clergy of the Church of England Database project (CCED) - all funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), the EPIDOC Project: Aphrodisias Pilot Project (EPAPP) - funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Corpus of Contemporary Spanish, and the Thesaurus of Old English. He is also involved in two AHRB-funded projects based at the Courtauld Institute of Art: the Corpus of Romanesque Scultpure in Britain and Ireland and the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. He is Co-Director of the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC), and a member of the Organising Committee of the Digital Resources for the Humanities Conferences.  He was co-author, with Lou Burnard of Oxford University, of the feasibility study which led to the setting up of the UK's Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). He was on the steering committee of the ACO*Hum Project, a Europe-wide project on the development of humanities computing components in undergraduate and taught Masters programmes, and is involved in proposals to set up an EU Network of Excellence 'Computing and Humanities in a Multilingual Europe' (CHiME). He is a member of the Management Committee of the English Subject Centre of the UK's Learning and Teaching Support Network.
	Michael Sperberg-McQueen  [cmsmcq@acm.org] C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of the technical staff at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he works on the development of specifications related to the Extensible Markup Language (XML). In his professional life, he has been diverted first from Germanic philology to the application of computers to humanistic research, and then to the problems involved in the electronic representation of textual and other complex material. He is currently attempting to avoid a further diversion into the problems of standardization and standards development. He is co-chair (with David M. Hollander) of the W3C's XML Schema Working Group, which is developing an XML-based method of defining XML-based markup languages, and of the XML Coordination Group, which manages the work of all the W3C working groups in the XML Activity. He is a co-coordinator (with David Chesnutt, and formerly also with Susan M. Hockey) of the Model Editions Partnership, a project which is creating prototypes of documentary historical editions in electronic form. With B. Tommie Usdin, he is a founding editor of the journal Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, published by MIT Press. And he is a co-chair of the Extreme Markup Languages conference sponsored by the Graphic Communications Association, which brings together academics and industrial developers to discuss the theory and practice of markup-based systems. Prior to joining W3C, Michael worked in the computer centers of Princeton University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1988 to 1999, he served (with Lou Burnard) as editor of the Text Encoding Initiative, a cooperative international project sponsored by ALLC and other organizations to develop methods of encoding electronic texts for use in literary, linguistic, historical, or other textual research. With Tim Bray and Jean Paoli, he co-edited the W3C recommendation which defines XML 1.0. He lives in northern New Mexico with his wife and an undisclosed number of cats and dogs, overlooking the Rio Grande between the Sangre de Christo and the Jemez mountains.
	Melissa Terras   [m.terras@ucl.ac.uk] Melissa Terras is a Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London, teaching Internet Technologies, Web Publishing, and Digital Resources in the Humanities in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Her research interests include Humanities Computing, Digitisation and Digital Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Palaeography, Knowledge Elicitation, Internet Technologies, and Virtual Reality. Prior to joining UCL in August 2003, she was the Assistant Manager of the Engineering Policy department at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Melissa was awarded a DPhil from The University of Oxford in 2002, her doctoral work being a joint project between the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, which looked at how to build cognitive systems to aid historians in the reading of damaged and deteriorated texts. Melissa has published various articles on virtual reality and archaeology, and the use of image processing in the study of ancient documents. She is involved in various research projects, and collaborations with other universities and institutions.
	Edward Vanhoutte   [edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be] Edward Vanhoutte is coordinator of the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies, a research institute of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature - Ghent, Belgium. He is an independent SGML/XML consultant in different academic projects in Belgium and The Netherlands, and publishes widely on textual and genetic criticism and electronic scholarly editing. He teaches graduate courses on genetic editing and humanities computing at the University of Antwerp, and is Associate Editor of Literary & Linguistic Computing . He runs the occasional series Seminars in Electronic Editing . He serves as a member of several boards and councils such as the TEI Council (2004-2006). His research interests include text-encoding and markup of modern manuscript material, electronic scholarly editing, genetic editing, and the history of electronic scholarly editing. He is currentlyfinishing a doctorate in that field. Together with Espen S. Ore and Mats Dahlstr�m he edited /Electronic Scholarly Editing - Some Northern European Approaches./ A Special Issue of /Literary and Linguistic Computing/, 19/1 (2004). Amongst his most recent publications are several text-critical reading editions and electronic editions as well as several edited collections of essays. Edward is also a passionate food writer , mainly reviews cookery books, and runs culinary workshops and courses as well as a catering service. A complete resume can be found here.
	Antonio Zampolli (1937 - 2003) ALLC President, 1983 - 2003 Biographical Notes Antonio Zampolli was Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Pisa, where he was responsible for the foundation, in 1968, and directorship of the Linguistic Division of CNUCE, later to become the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, an institute of the University of Pisa, within the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). His main research interests lay in literary and linguistic text analysis, mathematical methods in humanities, digital language resources, multimodality, standards for literary and linguistic data processing, computational lexicology and lexicography, modalities and strategies for international co-operation. Professor Zampolli's enormous contribution to computational linguistics and the larger field of humanities computing is well attested by the enormous scope of his involvement in key organisations. He was one of the founders of the ALLC and served on its committee from its founding in 1973; he was President from 1983 until the time of his death. In addition, Antonio Zampolli served as vice-president of the Association for Humanities Computing (ACH) and l'Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA); was a past president of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX); was the founder of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the chair of the ELRA Board and of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC); was director of the Pisa International Summer School for Literary and Linguistic Computing; was a member of the Steering Committee of TEI; member of the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (ELSNET) Management Board and of several committees of experts for the EU; was a past subject representative for literary and linguistic computing of the Permanent Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation; co-ordinator of several European projects for the production of language resources, including the current standardisation International Standards for Language Engineering (ISLE) extension of the Experts Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES) jointly funded by the NSF and the EU; responsible for software development of the national project for La Biblioteca Italiana Telematica (CIBIT) and co-ordinator of two Italian national projects: "National infrastructure for the linguistic resources in the field of automatic processing of written and oral natural language" and "Computational Linguistics: mono and multilingual researches". A personal memoir and tribute by Michael Sperberg-McQueen can be seen here.
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