From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence

In this volume we publish some papers presented at the Exploratory Workshop on Natural Language Computation (EWNLC 2008), entitled ”From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence”, during May 15-17, 2008, Baile Felix, Oradea, Romania. This workshop was financed by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth/ National Authority for Scientific Research, based a project directed by Prof. dr. Dan Tufis, corresponding member of Romanian Academy, Code of project: PO-01-Ed1-R0-F37, contract no. 8/ 2008. EWNLC 2008 was organized as satellite-event of conference ICCCC 2008a (General Chair: Prof. dr. Ioan Dziţac). aInternational Conference on Computers, Communications & Control, founded by I. Dziţac, F.G. Filip & M.-J. Manolescu, http://www.iccc.univagora.ro