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Kumar Abhinav, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, carried out his summer internship with the NIL group, from May to July 2006.

NIL researchers Pablo Gervás and Federico Peinado participate in iEntertain, an event organised by the Creative Systems Lab, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, within the framework of Spanish-Portuguese Integrated Action HP2003-0068, from 6th to 8th April 2006.

Francisco Cámara Pereira, from the Creative Systems Lab of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, visited the Facultad de Informática as guest of the NIL team, within the framework of Spanish-Portuguese Integrated Action HP2003-0068.

Ing. Rodrigo García Sánchez, from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, visited Madrid for a research colaboration with the NIL group from February to July 2006.

NIL researcher Raquel Hervás carried out a research visit at the Creative Systems Lab, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal , within the framework of Spanish-Portuguese Integrated Action HP2003-0068, from 11th January to 11th February.

NIL researchers Raquel Hervás and Pablo Gervás from UCM visit the Creative Systems Lab, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal , within the framework of Spanish-Portuguese Integrated Action HP2003-0068, from 5th to 8th December 2005.

Charles Callaway, from the University of Edimburgh, to give a talk at UCM on "Dialogue, Discourse Markers, and other Linguistic Elements that Improve Narrative Generation", Sala de Grados, Facultad de Informática, 11:30.

NIL kick-off workshop to present ongoing research. The following NIL members described their current work:

• Jesús Herrera de la Cruz: recognising textual entailment
• Jose Ramón Pérez Agüera: automatic construction of thesaurus for information retrieval
• Raquel Hervás Ballesteros: flexible implementation of NLG modules
• Federico Peinado Gil: generating stories using ontologies

NIL researchers Federico Peinado and Pablo Gervás from UCM visit the Creative Systems Lab, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal , within the framework of Spanish-Portuguese Integrated Action HP2003-0068, from 7th-13th October 2005.

The Second Joint workshop on Computational Creativity takes place as part of the workshop programme of IJCAI 2005. This workshop is organised by Pablo Gervás (NIL, UCM), Alison Pease (University of Edimburgh), and Tony Veale (University College Dublin).