EACL 2006 Shuly Wintner April 3-7, 2006 Trento, Italy The main conference for EACL 2006 had a 46% increase in submitted papers compared to the 10th EACL which was held in 2003. This year we had 264 papers submitted from 35 countries in five continents. The large number of papers submitted, and the broad geographical basis, demonstrate the growth in our field and considerable interest in EACL as a truly international conference. All papers were read by a minimum of three people, with discussions where there were differences of opinion. The final selections were made at a one and a half-day program committee meeting in Brighton. Of the 264 submissions, 52 papers were accepted giving an acceptance rate of 19.7%. The conference also contained tutorials, workshops, posters, demos and a student workshop. Keynote addresses were delivered by Kevin Knight, of the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, and Alfonso Caramazza, of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Harvard University. We would like to thank the invited speakers, the 240 reviewers, the 10 area chairs and all authors and participants for helping to make this conference a great success.