This proceedings contains papers from the first European seminar of the Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) include: "Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe in Language Engineering" (Poul Andersen); "Language Technology and Language Resources in China" (Feng Zhiwei); "Public Domain Generic Tools: An Overview" (Tomaz Erjavec); "The 'Terminology Market'" (Christian Galinski); "Lexical Resources and Their Application" (Martin Gellerstam); "Encoding Standards for Linguistic Corpora" (Nancy Ide); "Machine Translation: State of the Art, Trends and the User Perspective" (Steven Krauwer); "MULTEXT-EAST: Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora for Central and Eastern European Languages" (Erjavec, Ide, Vladimir Petkevic, Jean Veronis); "Speech Recognition: A General Overview" (Luis de Sopena); "Language Resources: The Foundations of a Pan-European Information Society" (Wolfgang Teubert); "Rail-Lex Slovenia--A Modern Railway Dictionary" (Primoz Jakopin); "A New Dutch Spelling Guide" (J. G. Kruyt, P. G. J. van Sterkenburg); "European Language Resources and the Treasury of the Computerised Russian Language Fund" (Elena Paskaleva); "HUMOR--A Morphological System for Corpus Analysis" (Gabor Proszeky); "CORDON--A Joint Venture Case Study" (Norbert Volz); "EVA--A Textual Data Processing Tool" (Jakopin); "On-line Access to Linguistically Annotated Text Corpora" (Kruyt, S. A. Raaijmakers, P. H. J. van der Kamp, R. J. van Strien); "Tagging a Highly Inflected Language" (Paskaleva, Bojanka Zaharieva); and "A Simple Czech and English Probabilistic Tagger: A Comparison" (Barbora Hladka, Jan Hajic). (MSE)