Contents: Preface. Lars BORIN: … and never the twain shall meet? I. Parallel and comparable corpus projects. Stig JOHANSSON: Towards a multilingual corpus for contrastive analysis and translation studies. Anna S?GVALL HEIN: The PLUG project: parallel corpora in Link?ping, Uppsala, G?teborg: aims and achievements. Margareta WESTERGREN AXELSSON and Ylva BERGLUND: The Uppsala Student English Corpus (USE): A MULTI-FACETED RESOURCE FOR RESEARCH AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT. II. Linguistic applications of parallel corpora. Raphael SALKIE: How can linguists profit from parallel corpora? Trond TROSTERUD: Parallel corpora as tools for investigating and developing minority languages. Christer GEISLER: Reversing a Swedish-English dictionary for the Internet. III. Computational tools for parallel corpus linguistics. Gregory GREFENSTETTE: Multilingual corpus-based extraction and the Very Large Lexicon. Magnus MERKEL, Mikael ANDERSSON and Lars AHRENBERG: The PLUG Link Annotator – interactive construction of data from parallel corpora. Peter STAHL: Building and processing a multilingual corpus of parallel texts. J?rg TIEDEMANN: Uplug – a modular corpus tool for parallel corpora. IV. Issues in parallel corpus annotation. Klas PR?TZ: Part-of-speech tagging for Swedish. Lars BORIN: Alignment and tagging. List of contributors.